I run the non-engineering side of the EA Forum (this platform), run the EA Newsletter, and work on some other content-related tasks at CEA. Please feel free to reach out! You can email me. [More about my job.]
Some of my favorite of my own posts:
I finished my undergraduate studies with a double major in mathematics and comparative literature in 2021. I was a research fellow at Rethink Priorities in the summer of 2021 and was then hired by the Events Team at CEA. I've since switched to the Online Team. In the past, I've also done some (math) research and worked at Canada/USA Mathcamp.
Some links I think people should see more frequently:
Thanks for these corrections! You're right. I'll make a few quick edits for now, and try to update it properly later (digging into the CSET report again).
I'm sorry to hear this (and grateful that you're reporting them). We have systems for flagging when a user's DM pattern is suspicious, but it's imperfect (I'm not sure if it's too permissive right now).
In case it's useful for you to have a better picture of what's going on, I think you get more of the DM spam because you're very high up in the user list.
This is just a quick comment to flag that I changed "CLOSING SOON" to "closing soon" in the title of this post (to avoid slipping into ~clickbaity titles).
Also, in case someone's interested, the original post notes the specific deadline:
The deadline for applications is September 30, 2023. Slots are limited and applications will be considered on a rolling basis, so please apply early!
Thanks for editing your post.
I've moved the post back to Frontpage (although I don't think this changes much) — see this comment. We don't generally move posts to Frontpage if the authors mark them as Personal Blog themselves. Do you want us to move this post back?
Thanks for the pushback. Writing some notes, and speaking only for myself (I don’t know what the other moderators think).
(I’m still swamped and traveling, so might continue to be slow to respond.)
“The moderators have decided to move the post to Personal Blog — the connection to EA and doing good better is not that clear”
I think I agree, but also want to flag this list in case you (or others) haven't seen it: List of AI safety newsletters and other resources
I'm curating this post.
I'm extremely unsure of how I should think about whether shrimp are sentient (or what matters to them, or whether farming them is bad for them) or similar questions, but numbers like these seem like a flashing warning sign spelling out something like "there might be a moral catastrophe over here, we can't afford to casually dismiss this."
I also find myself unable to really comprehend numbers or statements like "230 billion (90% SCI: 150 billion - 370 billion) shrimp are alive on farms at any moment, which surpasses any farmed animal estimate known to date, including farmed insect numbers."
And as always, I really appreciated the diagrams:
If you could pick research directions, do you have an idea for what might be most pressing to study?