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30:17

“Rethink Priorities’ Moral Parliament Tool” by Derek...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/07/19

Link to tool: https://parliament.rethinkpriorities.org (1 min) Introductory Video (6 min) Basic Features Video Executive Summary This post introduces Rethink Priorities’ Moral Parliament Tool, which models ways an agent can make decisions about how to allocate goods in light of normative uncertainty. We treat normative uncertainty as uncertainty over worldviews. A worldview encompasses a set of normative commitments, including first-order moral theories, values, and attitudes toward risk. We

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14:14

“Detecting Genetically Engineered Viruses With...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/06/30

This is a link post. This represents work from several people at the NAO. Thanks especially to Dan Rice for implementing the duplicate junction detection, and to @Will Bradshaw and @mike_mclaren for editorial feedback. Summary If someone were to intentionally cause a stealth pandemic today, one of the ways they might do it is by modifying an existing virus. Over the past few months we’ve been working on building a computational pipeline that could flag evidence of this kind of genetic engineering,

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37:17

“Summary of Situational Awareness - The Decade Ahead”...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/06/12

Original by Leopold Aschenbrenner, this summary is not commissioned or endorsed by him. Short Summary Extrapolating existing trends in compute, spending, algorithmic progress, and energy needs implies AGI (remote jobs being completely automatable) by ~2027. AGI will greatly accelerate AI research itself, leading to vastly superhuman intelligences being created ~1 year after AGI. Superintelligence will confer a decisive strategic advantage militarily by massively accelerating all spheres of science

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11:24

“Against a Happiness Ceiling: Replicating...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/05/30

Epistemic Status: somewhat confident: I may have made coding mistakes. R code is here if you feel like checking. Introduction: In their 2022 article, Matthew Killingsworth and Daniel Kahneman looked to reconcile the results from two of their papers. Kahneman (2010) had reported that above a certain income level ($75,000 USD), extra income had no association with increases in individual happiness. Killingsworth (2021) suggested that it did. Kahneman and Killingsworth (henceforth KK) claimed they

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8:09

“AI companies aren’t really using external...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/05/30

From my new blog: AI Lab Watch. All posts will be crossposted to LessWrong. Subscribe on Substack. Many AI safety folks think that METR is close to the labs, with ongoing relationships that grant it access to models before they are deployed. This is incorrect. METR (then called ARC Evals) did pre-deployment evaluation for GPT-4 and Claude 2 in the first half of 2023, but it seems to have had no special access since then.[1] Other model evaluators also seem to have little access before deployment

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2:40

“Quick Update on Leaving the Board of EV” by Rebecca...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/04/03

A brief and belated update: When I resigned from the board of EV US last year, I was planning on writing about that decision. But I ultimately decided against doing that for a variety of reasons, including that it was very costly to me, and I believed it wouldn’t make a difference. However, I want to make it clear that I resigned last year due to significant disagreements with the board of EV and EA leadership, particularly concerning their actions leading up to and after the FTX crisis. While I

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1:17

“Announcing Mandatory Draft Amnesty Day (April 2nd)”...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/04/02

Following the success of Draft Amnesty Week, the Forum team have decided to take things a bit further. April 2nd 2024 will be Mandatory Amnesty Day (aka MAD). At 09:00 UTC, all draft posts on your Forum account will be posted live on the Forum.All the posts in this section on your profile page deserve to be seen. If you have used our Google Docs import feature, all posts we detect on your Google account will also be posted.Shrek is now the de facto mascot of Draft Amnesty. If, for some reason, you

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42:10

“AI things that are perhaps as important as...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/03/06

Topic of the post: I list potential things to work on other than keeping AI under human control. Motivation The EA community has long been worried about AI safety. Most of the efforts going into AI safety are focused on making sure humans are able to control AI. Regardless of whether we succeed at this, I think there's a lot of additional value on the line. First of all, if we succeed at keeping AI under human control, there are still a lot of things that can go wrong. My perception is that this

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25:07

“How we started our own EA charity (and why we...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/02/26

This post shares our journey in starting an Effective Altruism (EA) charity/project focused on Mediterranean fish welfare, the challenges we faced, our key learnings, and the reasons behind our decision to conclude the project. Actual research results are published in a Literature review and article. Key points The key points of this post are summarized as follows: We launched a project with the goal of enhancing fish welfare in Mediterranean aquaculture. We chose to limit our project to

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26:30

“How we started our own EA charity (and why we...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/02/26

This post shares our journey in starting an Effective Altruism (EA) charity/project focused on Mediterranean fish welfare, the challenges we faced, our key learnings, and the reasons behind our decision to conclude the project. Actual research results are published in a Literature review and article. Key points The key points of this post are summarized as follows: We launched a project with the goal of enhancing fish welfare in Mediterranean aquaculture. We chose to limit our project to

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15:01

[Linkpost] “‘No-one in my org puts money in their...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/02/16

Epistemic status: the stories here are all as true as possible from memory, but my memory is so so.An AI made this This is going to be big It's late Summer 2017. I am on a walk in the Mendip Hills. It's warm and sunny and the air feels fresh. With me are around 20 other people from the Effective Altruism London community. We’ve travelled west for a retreat to discuss how to help others more effectively with our donations and careers. As we cross cow field after cow field, I get talking to one of

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33:29

[Linkpost] “Social science research we’d like to see...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/02/15

Open Philanthropy strives to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. To find the best opportunities to help others, we rely heavily on scientific and social scientific research. In some cases, we would find it helpful to have more research in order to evaluate a particular grant or cause area. Below, we’ve listed a set of social scientific questions for which we are actively seeking more evidence.[1] We believe the answers to these questions have the potential to impact

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35:28

[Linkpost] “Social science research we’d like to see...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/02/15

This is a link post. Open Philanthropy strives to help others as much as we can with the resources available to us. To find the best opportunities to help others, we rely heavily on scientific and social scientific research. In some cases, we would find it helpful to have more research in order to evaluate a particular grant or cause area. Below, we’ve listed a set of social scientific questions for which we are actively seeking more evidence.[1] We believe the answers to these questions have the

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10:42

[Linkpost] “My cover story in Jacobin on AI...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/02/12

Google cofounder Larry Page thinks superintelligent AI is “just the next step in evolution.” In fact, Page, who's worth about $120 billion, has reportedly argued that efforts to prevent AI-driven extinction and protect human consciousness are “speciesist” and “sentimental nonsense.” In July, former Google DeepMind senior scientist Richard Sutton — one of the pioneers of reinforcement learning, a major subfield of AI — said that the technology “could displace us from existence,” and that “we should

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9:21

“On being an EA for decades” by Michelle_Hutchinson

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/02/12

A friend sent me on a lovely trip down memory lane last week. She forwarded me an email chain from 12 years ago in which we all pretended we left the EA community, and explained why. We were partly thinking through what might cause us to drift in order that we could do something to make that less likely, and partly joking around. It was a really nice reminder of how uncertain things felt back then, and how far we’ve come. Although the emails hadn’t led us to take any specific actions, almost

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14:48

“Things to check about a job or internship” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/02/12

A lot of great projects have started in informal ways: a startup in someone's garage, or a scrappy project run by volunteers. Sometimes people jump into these and are happy they did so. But I’ve also seen people caught off-guard by arrangements that weren’t what they expected, especially early in their careers. I’ve been there, when I was a new graduate interning at a religious center that came with room, board, and $200 a month. I remember my horror when my dentist checkup cost most of a month's

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8:44

“My Donations 2023 - Marcus Abramovitch” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/02/11

Summary $8003.98 Charity Entrepreneurship $5000 Insect Institute $5000 Shrimp Welfare Project $5000 Rethink Priorities $5000 Animal Ethics $1000 Wild Animal Initiative Background I think it's good to keep track of and explain donations. It creates a record to get better over time and gives others insights into how you donate. I officially made $45000 in 2023. I earned some investment income from some other sources though this is hard to quantify. I also had some savings from previous years so

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6:41

[Linkpost] “Sam Altman’s Chip Ambitions Undercut...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/02/10

If you enjoy this, please consider subscribing to my Substack. Sam Altman has said he thinks that developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) could lead to human extinction, but OpenAI is trying to build it ASAP. Why? The common story for how AI could overpower humanity involves an “intelligence explosion,” where an AI system becomes smart enough to further improve its capabilities, bootstrapping its way to superintelligence. Even without any kind of recursive self-improvement, some AI safety

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2:04

“Mathilde Danès (1994-2024)” by Elisa Autric, update

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/02/08

It is with great sadness that we share with you the passing of our fellow community member and beloved friend Mathilde Danès, at age 29. A dedicated EA, animal advocate, and children's rights supporter, Mathilde had discovered the effective altruism community in 2016-2017, and the farm animal advocacy movement not long after. In 2018, she co-founded a local EA chapter in Lille, where she then lived. Other notable accomplishments of hers, among the many altruistic actions she took, include catering

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9:11

“Tragic Beliefs” by Toby Tremlett🔹

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2024/02/08

I'm posting this as part of the Forum's Benjamin Lay Day celebration — consider writing a reflection of your own! The “official dates” for this reflection are February 8 - 15 (but you can write about this topic whenever you want). I've cross-posted this to my substack, Raising Dust, where I sometimes write less EA Forum-y content. TL;DR: Tragic beliefs are beliefs that make the world seem worse, and give us partial responsibility for it. These are beliefs such as: “insect suffering matters” or

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