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* GOAL 3 is a social enterprise that created IMPALA, a patient monitoring and digital platform system for low-resource settings. There is also a GOAL 3 foundation that raises funds to ensure underserved communities will be reached.
* A recently completed report from Rethink Priorities calculated IMPALA to have a cost per DALY averted of $7–17 in paediatr...
This month effective altruism has gotten lots of attention, including a cover story in The Economist. It feels pretty surreal to be on the receiving end of it. But I feel grateful these ideas have caught on, and even more grateful for the drive, earnestness, and compassion of so many people who took strange but well-argued ideas seriously and then actually acted on them....
Cross-posted from my Substack.
Epistemic status: I’ve puzzled over this for a long time but I’m not sure I came to the right answers. I'm sharing this partly because it might help others work on resource allocation, but mostly because some smarter reader might tell me how to do it better.
TL;DR:
* I he...
Notes on transformative Ai and Alignment:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/zqRDNChFburJMmpqK/announcing-epoch-a-research-organization-investigating-the
The best way to prove transformative AI is to create it.
“By "transformative AI," I mean "AI powerful enough to bring us into a new, qualitatively different future." The Industrial Revolution is the most recent example of a transformative event; others would include the Agricultural Revolution and the emergence of humans.”
https://www.cold-takes.com/transformative-ai-timelines-part-1-of-4-what-kind-of-ai/
Jasper $125m Raise
Dave Rogenmoser ⛳️🤖🦄 on Twitter: "Welp, Jasper just raised a $125 million Series A at a $1.5 billion valuation.From launch to unicorn in 18 months. 🦄We're one of the fastest-growing startups of all time, but our journey to this point was FAR bumpier than you may think. A thread... 🧵 pic.twitter.com/SWIFAt3zVq / Twitter"
If you had to guess who has the highest chance to create AGI, many would vote for Deepmind or OpenAI right? So why are we not trying to build companies that compete with these that we have more control over, or increase our chance of aligning ai before a totalitarian government with less regard for safety figures it out?