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Audio narrations from the Effective Altruism Forum, including curated posts and posts with 125 karma. If you"d like more episodes, subscribe to the "EA Forum (All audio)" podcast instead.

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14:58

“Munk AI debate: confusions and possible cruxes” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/27

There was a debate on the statement “AI research and development poses an existential threat” (“x-risk” for short), with Max Tegmark and Yoshua Bengio arguing in favor, and Yann LeCun and Melanie Mitchell arguing against. The YouTube link is here, and a previous discussion on this forum is here.The first part of this blog post is a list of five ways that I think the two sides were talking past each other. The second part is some apparent key underlying beliefs of Yann and Melanie, and how I might

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47:00

“Decision-making and decentralisation in EA” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/26

This post is a slightly belated contribution to the Strategy Fortnight. It represents my personal takes only; I’m not speaking on behalf of any organisation I’m involved with. For some context on how I’m now thinking about talking in public, I’ve made a shortform post here [link]. Thanks to the many people who provided comments on a draft of this post. Intro and OverviewHow does decision-making in EA work? How should it work? In particular: to what extent is decision-making in EA centralised, and

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21:37

“Downsides of Small Organizations in EA” by Ozzie Gooen

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/24

Epistemic Status: This is a subject I've been casually thinking about for a while, but I wrote this document fairly quickly. Take this with a big grain of salt. This is written in a personal capacity.A lot of EA, especially in meta and longtermism, is made up of small organizations and independent researchers. This provides some benefits, but I think the downsides are substantial and often unappreciated. More clearly:EA funding mostly comes from a very few funders, but it goes to a mass of small

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17:18

“EA’s success no one cares about” by Jakub Stencel

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/24

StatusWhile this is part of EA Strategy Fortnight, my intention is to focus more on what effective altruism did well, rather than what it should do. At the same time, my hope would be that the post provides the community with at least some valuable context to the discussions about the path forward.This post will be very subjective and a lot less thought-through than what I am usually comfortable sharing, although built on ~13 years of experience in the field. Some details may be off, for example by

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14:34

“On focusing resources more on particular fields vs....

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/24

Epistemic status: This post is an edited version of an informal memo I wrote several months ago. I adapted it for the forum at the prompting of EA strategy fortnight. At the time of writing I conceived of its value as mostly in laying out considerations / trying to structure a conversation that felt a bit messy to me at the time, though I do give some of my personal takes too.I went back and forth a decent amount about whether to post this - I'm not sure about a lot of it. But some people I showed

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14:21

“Four claims about the role of effective giving in...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/23

I’m sharing the below as part of the EA Strategy Fortnight. I think there’s value in discussing what the role of effective giving in the EA community should be, as (1) I expect people have quite different views on this, and (2) I think there are concrete things we should do differently based on our views here (I share some suggestions at the bottom of this post).These claims or similar ones have been made by others in various places (e.g. here, here, and here), but I thought it'd be useful to put

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15:55

“The flow of funding in EA movement building” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/23

This post is part of EA Strategy Fortnight. You can see other Strategy Fortnight posts here.I’ve been reflecting on the role of funding in the EA movement & community over time. Specifically I wanted to improve common knowledge around funding flows in the EA movement building space. It seems that many people may not be aware of it. Funders (and the main organizations they have supported) have shaped the EA community in many ways - the rate & speed at which EA has grown (example), the people that

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[Linkpost] “Lab-grown meat is cleared for sale in the...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/22

Upside Foods and Good Meat, two companies that make what they call “cultivated chicken,” said Wednesday that they have gotten approval from the US Department of Agriculture to start producing their cell-based proteins.Good Meat, which is owned by plant-based egg substitute maker Eat Just, said that production is starting immediately. --- First published: June 22nd, 2023 Source:

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22:16

“Five Years of Rethink Priorities: What We’ve...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/21

The post contains a reflection on our journey as co-founders of Rethink Priorities. We are Peter Wildeford and Marcus A. Davis. In 2017, we were at a crossroads.We had been working on creating new global health and development interventions, co-founding an organization that used text message reminders to encourage new parents in India to get their children vaccinated.However, we felt there was potentially more value in creating an organization that would help tackle important questions within cause

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4:41

“Rethink Priorities’ Worldview Investigation Team:...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/21

Some months ago, Rethink Priorities announced its interdisciplinary Worldview Investigation Team (WIT). Now, we’re pleased to introduce the team’s members:Bob Fischer is a Senior Research Manager at Rethink Priorities, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University, and the Director of the Society for the Study of Ethics & Animals. Before leading WIT, he ran RP’s Moral Weight Project.Laura Duffy is an Executive Research Coordinator for Co-CEO Marcus Davis and works on the Worldview

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13:16

“My tentative best guess on how EAs and Rationalists...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/21

Epistemic status: This is a pretty detailed hypothesis that I think overall doesn’t add up to more than 50% of my probability mass on explaining datapoints like FTX, Leverage Research, the Zizians etc. I might also be really confused about the whole topic.Since the FTX explosion, I’ve been thinking a lot about what caused FTX and, relatedly, what caused other similarly crazy- or immoral-seeming groups of people in connection with the EA/Rationality/X-risk communities. I think there is a common

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13:10

“Why Altruists Can’t Have Nice Things” by lincolnq

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/21

Gesturing at a thing to mostly avoid. My personal opinion. This topic has been discussed on the EA Forum before, e.g. Free-spending EA might be a big problem (2022) and The biggest risk of free-spending EA is grift (2022). I also wrote What's Your Hourly Rate? in 2013, and Value of time as an employee in 2019. This piece mostly stands on its own. There's a temptation, when solving the world's toughest and most-important problems, to throw money around. Lattes on tap! Full-time massage team! Business

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4:26

“Longtermists are perceived as power-seeking” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/21

A short and arguably unfinished blog post that I'm sharing as part of EA strategy fortnight. There's probably a lot more to say about this, but I've sat on this draft for a few months and don't expect to have time to develop the argument much further. -I understand longtermism to be the claim that positively shaping the long-term future is a moral priority. The argument for longtermism goes:The future could be extremely large;The beings who will inhabit that future matter, morally;There are things

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24:19

“Principles for AI Welfare Research” by jeffsebo

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/19

Tl;dr: This post, which is part of the EA Strategy Fortnight series, summarizes some of my current views about the importance of AI welfare, research priorities for AI welfare research, and principles for AI welfare research.1. IntroductionAs humans start to take seriously the prospect of AI consciousness, sentience, and sapience, we also need to take seriously the prospect of AI welfare. That is, we need to take seriously the prospect that AI systems can have positive or negative states like

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21:09

“We can all help solve funding constraints. What...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/18

This post is a personal reflection that follows my journey to effective altruism, my experiences within it, the concerns I've developed along the way and my hopes for addressing them. It culminates in my views on funding constraints — the role we can all play in solving them and a key question I have for you all: What stops us?My journeyWhile this starts with a reflection on my personal journey, I suspect it might feel familiar, it might strike a chord, at times it might rhyme with yours.I was about

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3:33

“Third Wave Effective Altruism” by Ben_West

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/17

This is a frame that I have found useful and I'm sharing in case others find it useful. EA has arguably gone through several waves:Waves of EA (highly simplified model — see caveats below) First waveSecond waveThird waveTime period2010[1]-2017[2]2017-20232023-??Primary constraintMoneyTalent???Primary call to actionDonations to effective charitiesCareer changePrimary target audienceMiddle-upper-class peopleUniversity students and early career professionalsFlagship cause areaGlobal health and

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5:22

“EA organizations should have a transparent scope” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/14

Executive summaryOne of the biggest challenges of being in a community that really cares about counterfactuals is knowing where the most important gaps are and which areas are already effectively covered. This can be even more complex with meta organizations and funders that often have broad scopes that change over time. However, I think it is really important for every meta organization to clearly establish what they cover and thus where these gaps are; there is a substantial negative flowthrough

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18:57

“Some talent needs in AI governance” by Sam Clarke

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/13

I carried out a short project to better understand talent needs in AI governance. This post reports on my findings.How this post could be helpful:If you’re trying to upskill in AI governance, this post could help you to understand the kinds of work and skills that are in demand.If you’re a field-builder trying to find or upskill people to work in AI governance, this post could help you to understand what talent search/development efforts are especially valuable.Key takeawaysI talked with a small

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12:34

“Improving EA Communication Surrounding Disability”...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/13

Epistemic Status: Low-to-medium confidence, informed by my experience with having a disability as an EA. I think the included recommendations are reasonable best practices, but I’m uncertain as to whether they would make a tangible change to perceptions of the EA movement. SummaryThe EA movement has historically faced criticism from disability rights advocates, potentially reducing support for EA and limiting its ability to do good. This tension between EA and disability advocacy may be as much a

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73:24

“Why I spoke to TIME magazine, and My Experience as a...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/11

Crossposted on Medium here.Twitter: @lucreti_aFrom Lore Olympus.Thank you to the supportive EA members who encouraged me to publicly share this difficult experience, to my friends and research collaborators for your kindness, and to the courageous women who helped me in writing this post, who I hope can someday speak publicly.To those who know me, please call me Lucretia.This is a megapost. Each section has a distinct purpose and may evolve into its own standalone post. For the full picture, I

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