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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH1ZQOF1yAo
A key & peele video that is effectively EA dark humor. Enjoy!
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TLDR: Take the population ethics quiz here: https://mdickens.me/pop-ethics/
Population ethics is an oft-overlooked subfield within ethics. Many people hold views that they don't realize contradict each other, or that have strange implications that they wouldn't endorse if they thought about it more.
Not just that—population ethics is a BIG DEAL. A lot of ethical decisions hinge on how you think about changes in future populations....
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I’ve been feeling pretty shaken since the METR report about the Hugging Face incident came out last week. Over the weekend, I wrote up some thoughts on how lonely the AI situation sometimes feels to me. It’s more personal than what I’d usually share publicly, but I thought I’d post it here in case it resonates with anyone else.
I’m very grateful to the man...
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TL;DR: Kairos has raised $50 million from Coefficient Giving for two years of funding, one of the largest commitments they’ve made towards AI safety fieldbuilding to date. We’re using this to make an ambitious push for growing Kairos, broadening our portfolio of talent infrastructure projects and incubating new organizations. We’ve doubled in size in the last six mon...
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Idea: The coronavirus' timing is an opportunity for biorisk to become a major political issue. If we can frame a discussion in the coming post-primary months around what each candidate will do in their next 4 year term to improve pandemic response and prevention, it is likely that pandemic response could become a big discussion point in august-november pre-election discussions and hopefully translate to significant policy moves in the next 4 year presidential cycle.
Would love your thoughts!
Certainly a good topic to be thinking about now!
This falls into a common category for me: "Would be great if it happened, not sure who would make it happen."
As far as I'm aware, most EA-funded biosecurity work currently happens in Europe (e.g. CSER/FHI). I don't know of existing policy organizations in the U.S. that we are linked to, and that are sufficiently large/influential to exert pressure on "discussion points" in the upcoming election cycle.
Did you have a particular "we" in mind when you used the phrase "we can frame a discussion"?
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Blue Ribbon Panel on BiodefenseBipartisan Commission on Biodefense is funded by OpenPhil and works in the US FWIW.OTOH, I think if it became a talking point in debates it could wind up with more funding, but would also risk becoming politicized, which could be bad for the efficacy of the approaches that end up being used.