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2024
Frontpage Posts
156
AI stocks could crash. And that could have implications for AI safety
Benjamin_Todd
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Priors and Prejudice
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GDP per capita in 2050
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Can we help individual people cost-effectively? Our trial with three sick kids
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NickLaing
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226
Killing the moths
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Bella
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2mo
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Things to check about a job or internship
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Julia_Wise
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Conferences are great for scientific entrepreneurs
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JP Addison
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184
Tragic Beliefs
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Social science research we'd like to see on global health and wellbeing [Open Philanthropy]
Aaron Gertler
Aaron Gertler
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Open Philanthropy
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AI things that are perhaps as important as human-controlled AI (Chi version)
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3mo
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What are the biggest misconceptions about biosecurity and pandemic risk?
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Economic Growth - Donation suggestions and ideas
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5 possibly impactful career paths for researchers
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Joey
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Report on the Desirability of Science Given New Biotech Risks
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On the abolition of man
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2023
Frontpage Posts
636
10 years of Earning to Give
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AGB
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6mo
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347
EA Wins 2023
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9
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272
How Long Do Policy Changes Matter? New Paper
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7mo
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543
On Living Without Idols
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Rockwell
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1y
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247
Clean Water - the incredible 30% mortality reducer we can’t explain
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NickLaing
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46
222
GWWC's evaluations of evaluators
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Sjir Hoeijmakers
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Giving What We Can
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Michael Townsend
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Alana HF
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6mo
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Attention on AI X-Risk Likely Hasn't Distracted from Current Harms from AI
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171
A year of wins for farmed animals
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Rethink Priorities’ Cross-Cause Cost-Effectiveness Model: Introduction and Overview
Derek Shiller
Derek Shiller
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Bernardo Baron
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Chase Carter
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Agustín Covarrubias
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Marcus_A_Davis
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MichaelDickens
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Laura Duffy
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Peter Wildeford
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202
Alvea’s Story, Wins, and Challenges [Unofficial]
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What do we really know about growth in LMICs? (Part 1: sectoral transformation)
Karthik Tadepalli
Karthik Tadepalli
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Price-, Taste-, and Convenience-Competitive Plant-Based Meat Would Not Currently Replace Meat
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Preliminary Analysis of Intervention to Reduce Lead Exposure from Adulterated Turmeric in Bangladesh Shows Cost Benefit of About US$1 per DALY
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Kate Porterfield
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177
Thoughts on responsible scaling policies and regulation
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325
Nobody’s on the ball on AGI alignment
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Shrimp: The animals most commonly used and killed for food production
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Rethink Priorities
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Daniela R. Waldhorn
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Elisa Autric
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Some observations from an EA-adjacent (?) charitable effort
patio11
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1y
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355
Why Anima International suspended the campaign to end live fish sales in Poland
Jakub Stencel
Jakub Stencel
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Weronika Zurek
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Anima International
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StrongMinds should not be a top-rated charity (yet)
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Let’s think about slowing down AI
Katja_Grace
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358
The Welfare Range Table
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My take on What We Owe the Future
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What happens on the average day?
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280
Good things that happened in EA this year
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288
Why Neuron Counts Shouldn't Be Used as Proxies for Moral Weight
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280
Counterarguments to the basic AI risk case
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Does Economic Growth Meaningfully Improve Well-being? An Optimistic Re-Analysis of Easterlin’s Research: Founders Pledge
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2y
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What matters to shrimps? Factors affecting shrimp welfare in aquaculture
Lucas Lewit-Mendes
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Aaron Boddy
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2y
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Measuring Good Better
MichaelPlant
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GiveWell
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Jason Schukraft
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Matt_Lerner
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Innovations for Poverty Action
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2y
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247
Case for emergency response teams
Gavin
Gavin
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Jan_Kulveit
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2y
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162
How might we align transformative AI if it’s developed very soon?
Holden Karnofsky
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2y
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137
AGI and Lock-In
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Lukas Finnveden
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Jess_Riedel
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CarlShulman
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2y
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