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Research Engineer; ex-legal industry/research
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pretraining data safety; responsible AI/ML

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Where are all the deepfakes?
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Some example of large scale deepfakes that is pretty messed up: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/in-south-korea-rise-of-explicit-deepfakes-wrecks-womens-lives-and-deepens-gender-divide

Other examples on top of my head is the fake Linkedin profiles.

Not sure how to address the question otherwise; a thought is there might be deepfakes that we cannot detect/tell being deepfakes yet.

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The catastrophic situation with USAID just got worse - why the EA community should care
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It is so sad to see the "humans are creating suffering for humans" amplified right now

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EAs forgot what “marginal” means
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It also worries me, in the context of marginal contributions, when some people (not all) start to think of "marginal" as a "sentiment" rather than actual measurements (getting to know those areas, the actual resources, and the amount of spending, and what the actual needs/problems may be) as reasoning for cause prioritization and donations. A sentiment towards a cause area, does not always mean the cause area got the actual attention/resources it was asking for.

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Expected value of rejecting a job offer when there are other ongoing applications
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Interested in the human welfare intervention program! Could I reach out by DM to ask for the name? Also totally understand if you are hesitant to provide name as well. Thanks!

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Draft Amnesty Week (2025)
This is a Draft Amnesty Week draft. It may not be polished, up to my usual standards, fully thought through, or fully fact-checked. 

Commenting and feedback guidelines: 
Keep one and delete the rest (or write your own):

  1. I'm posting this to get it out there. I'd love to see comments that take the ideas forward, but criticism of my argument won't be as useful at this time.
  2. This draft lacks the polish of a full post, but the content is almost there. The kind of constructive feedback you would normally put on a Forum post is very welcome.
  3. This is a Forum post that I wouldn't have posted without the nudge of Draft Amnesty Week. Fire away! (But be nice, as usual)

I find it surprising when people (people in general, not EA specific) do not seem to understand the moral perspective of "do no harm to other people".  This is confusing to me, and I wonder what aspects/experiences contributed to people being able to understand this vs people not being able to understand this.

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Announcing: Draft Amnesty Week (Feb 24 - March 2)
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Great initiative; thanks! Would"This is a Draft Amnesty Week draft." also apply to quick notes as well? 

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SWE vs AIS
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I think that is a reasonable path; SWE/ML will give you a good foundation anyways  in early career if you want to switch to AI safety later as you build experience. Additionally, something in security is a good idea as well.

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From some expressions on extinction risks as I have observed - extinction risks might actually be suffering risks. It could be the expectation of death is torturing.  All risks might be suffering risks.

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FIRE and doing good
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Read some other comments, and career coaching from 80k sounds like a good suggestion!

Some other thoughts:

  • if you have an area that you care about already, you could do active work in this area
  • if you have not identified an area yet, AND it does not matter to you to work on things you care less about,  maybe find something interesting and relatively high paying for financial purposes and make monetary donations, or volunteering if you have time
  • I believe there are all kinds of combinations of the above!
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