SMBC by Zach Weinersmith is doing a great job of conveying AI Safety memes more widely.

Relevant comics: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/speech https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/safe https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ai-17 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ai-15

I would love to see his take on illustrated AI Safety book, like 'Open Borders' meets 'If anyone builds it, everyone dies'.

In very broad strokes, 20% GiveWell & 80% AI Safety. About half of the AI Safety funds are to 501c4s.

Prior years were about 95% GiveWell or GiveWell top charities.

Feel free to DM me and I can share a CSV of my donations (sharing it publicly still feels kinda weird).

Over 40% of my lifetime donations happened this month. I expect to never be able to make that statement again. These are weird times.

For context on why it is extra weird, I've been donating since 2015 and have always donated 10% of my salary each year (or more).

I think you're selling yourself short at 300-500 USD. Gemini estimates 1600-4200 USD (for 3 reviewers total), Opus 400-1000 USD (for a single reviewer spending only 4-6 hours). I endorse those estimates.

Prompt for those curious: If academic peer reviews were compensated at market rate (ie, relative to industry pay for someone with the relevant expertise), how much would it cost to have a typical academic paper reviewed?

I would have found this much more persuasive if you'd tried these services yourself and found them valuable. Without that, my median expectation is that they will do a worse job than Claude Opus 4.7.

Upvoted for recognizing a problem & responding thoughtfully.

This level of aggression towards well-intentioned funders & NGO founders is a net negative. If this kind of discourse were normalized, I think it would reduce engagement with effective charity.

In response to "I hope [the big funders are not] fucking sleeping at night":

I hope the big funders are sleeping well, getting rest, and engaged with their hobbies. Perpetual terror is not a good mindset for making high stakes decisions.

IMO add it, especially if it bothers you for a given post. Cases are often egregious even when Pangram misses it. I personally feel like these posts end up long winded & eloquent (but empty of surprising insights). I am sad to read what looks to be an effort-post, only to realize it is little more than a prompt.

Alternatively, we should get an emoji react that is just 'LLM?'

I strongly agree.

Note that even the 'highly paid' COO position at CEA is arguably substantially below market rate. A COO in industry would likely get paid double or more.

S risks are a thing. There exist fates worse than death.