If you’ve been considering joining, now’s the time to secure your spot. This will be the first EA event of this scale in Vancouver, bringing together community members from across the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
At the Summit, you’ll:
Hear talks on high-impact topics like AI safety, global health and development, animal welfare, and global catastrophic risks
Join workshops to sharpen your skills and brainstorm impactful projects
Connect with like-minded people through 1:1s, networking sessions, and socials
Enjoy vegan meals and a welcoming, thoughtful community atmosphere
Disclaimer: This blog post focuses on a new piece of research from Rethink Priorities. I was not involved with the funding or execution of this research, and therefore write this piece merely as a consumer. However, I am the Executive Director of Giving Green and a board member of Rethink Priorities, and acknowledge that these affiliations may bias my...
Epistemic status: Speculation from two decently informed advocates armed with anecdata.
Note on process: After having some version of this conversation several times and saying, “we should probably write about this publicly,” we took the less heroic route: we recorded one of our conversations, fed the transcript into an LLM, and then substantially revised the structure, substance, and framing ourselves. We will not be sharing the transcript, as it is in...
Michael Nielsen has a beautiful new essay on moral imagination: the ability humans have to 'develop and transmit new notions of good action, indeed, even new kinds of good'.
As examples, he gives:
* Hammurabi's creation of a code of laws (in 1754 BCE) and his justification of his rule not in terms of divine or hereditary right, but by the delivery of justice to his citizens.
* St Gregory of Nyssa's...
Hi Everyone,
Tickets close at midnight tonight! If you've been on the fence, this is your very last chance:
https://www.effectivealtruism.org/ea-global/events/ea-summit-vancouver