A preliminary estimate, and a request for better ones.
Summary
I believe the standard literature estimates for the number of DALYs attributable to a case of stunting are too low, largely because they don’t account for the long term effects. This means that childhood nutritional interventions that reduce the prevalence of stunting may be substantially more cost-effective than previously believed.
Epistemic status
Exploratory and back-o...
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...
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...
(For context I work on EA Global at the Centre for Effective Altruism.)
If helpful, we've put together this list of potential accommodation spaces in the area.
Also just to note, we aren’t currently planning to do room/hotel blocks for attendees for this conference (i.e., booking hotel rooms on behalf of attendees) — mostly because there historically hasn’t been much demand for this (though a version of this was done for EAGxBoston 2022). We also got around to thinking about hotel blocks/bookings quite late and you need a fair bit of planning and warning to do this well. That said, it’s very possible we do this in the future (and slight chance we do this for EA Global: Washington, D.C.).
Hope this is helpful!