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76x cash transfers: too good to be true or a (missed) opportunity? An invitation for dialogue on a recent Rethink Priorities Report
Niek Versteegde, founder GOAL 3
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Swarm Scaling
Toby_Ord
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Do AI safety talent programmes work? Nobody has run the study that would tell us.
Laura Thomas-Walters
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Beware Silver Bullets: Are we making “welfare tech” into the next animal advocacy bubble?
Rockwell
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Population ethics is a big deal, which is why I made this population ethics quiz
MichaelDickens
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Is mild lifelong acne really worse than stunted growth?
Kasey Markel
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New Research: Climate Mitigation is Overlooked by EA
Dan Stein
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What would make us scale or stop? NOVAH's pre-commitment before seeing the RCT results
I.J.J.
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General capability - and capabilities generally - have no good y-axis
Gregory Lewis🔸
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Never born, then maybe died twice
NickLaing
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Hard-to-reverse decisions destroy option value
Stefan_Schubert
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Counting animals: Stable population size is not equivalent to priority level
abrahamrowe
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Efficient charity: do unto others...
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