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“How economists got Africa’s AIDS epidemic wrong” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/10

In the 2000s, cost-effectiveness analysis said it was a bad use of money to send antiretroviral drugs to low-income countries—drugs that ended up saving millions of lives.Twenty years ago, in the same State of the Union speech in which he made the case for invading Iraq, George W. Bush asked Congress for $15 billion over five years for an ambitious new plan to pay for antiretroviral drugs for two million AIDS patients in Africa and the Caribbean.The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or

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"Cause area report: Antimicrobial Resistance" by Akhil

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/08

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“EA Strategy Fortnight (June 12-24)” by Ben_West

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/07

Tl;dr: I’m kicking off a push for public discussions about EA strategy that will be happening June 12-24. You’ll see new posts under this tag, and you can find details about people who’ve committed to participating and more below. Motivation and what this is(n’t)I feel (and, from conversations in person and seeing discussions on the Forum, think that I am not alone in feeling) like there’s been a dearth of public discussion about EA strategy recently, particularly from people in leadership positions

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“I made a news site based on prediction markets” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/07

Introduction“News through prediction markets”The Base Rate Times is a nascent news site that incorporates prediction markets prominently into its coverage.Please see current iteration: www.baseratetimes.comTwitter: www.twitter.com/base_rate_timesWhat problem does it solve?Forecasts are underutilized by the mediaPrediction markets are more accurate than pundits, yet the media has made limited use of their forecasts. This is a big problem: one of the most rigorous information sources is being omitted

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“Cause area report: Antimicrobial Resistance” by Akhil

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/07

This post is a summary of some of my work as a field strategy consultant at Schmidt Futures' Act 2 program, where I spoke with over a hundred experts and did a deep dive into antimicrobial resistance to find impactful investment opportunities within the cause area. The full report can be accessed here.AMR is a global health priorityAntimicrobials, the medicines we use to fight infections, have played a foundational role in improving the length and quality of human life since penicillin and other

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“A note of caution about recent AI risk coverage” by...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/07

Epistemic status: some thoughts I wanted to get out quicklyA lot of fantastic work has been done by people in the AI existential risk research community and related communities over the last several months in raising awareness about risks from advanced AI. However, I have some cause for unease that I’d like to share.These efforts may have been too successful too soon.Or, more specifically, this level of outreach success this far ahead of the development of AI capable of posing existential risk may

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“EA and Longtermism: not a crux for saving the world”...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/04

This is partly based on my experiences working as a Program Officer leading Open Phil’s Longtermist EA Community Growth team, but it’s a hypothesis I have about how some longtermists could have more of an impact by their lights, not an official Open Phil position.Context: I originally wrote this in July 2022 as a memo for folks attending a retreat I was going to. I find that I refer to it pretty frequently and it seems relevant to ongoing discussions about how much meta effort done by EAs should

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“Things I Learned by Spending Five Thousand Hours In...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/02

From late 2020 to last month, I worked at grassroots-level non-profits in operational roles. Over that time, I’ve seen surprisingly effective deployments of strategies that were counter-intuitive to my EA and rationalist sensibilities.I spent 6 months being the on-shift operations manager at one of the five largest food banks in Toronto (~50 staff/volunteers), and 2 years doing logistics work at Samaritans (fake name), a long-lived charity that was so multi-armed that it was basically operating as a

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“Obstacles to the Implementation of Indoor Air...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/06/01

1. Tl;drMany reports indicate that indoor air quality (IAQ) interventions are likely to be effective at reducing respiratory disease transmission. However, to date there’s been very little focus on the workforce that will implement these interventions. I suggest that the US Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) and building maintenance workforces have already posed a significant obstacle to these interventions, and broad uptake of IAQ measures will be significantly hindered by them in the

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“Announcing Apollo Research” by mariushobbhahn

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/05/31

TL;DRWe are a new AI evals research organization called Apollo Research based in London. We think that strategic AI deception – where a model outwardly seems aligned but is in fact misaligned – is a crucial step in many major catastrophic AI risk scenarios and that detecting deception in real-world models is the most important and tractable step to addressing this problem.Our agenda is split into interpretability and behavioral evals:On the interpretability side, we are currently working on two main

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“Statement on AI Extinction - Signed by AGI Labs, Top...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/05/30

Today, the AI Extinction Statement was released by the Center for AI Safety, a one-sentence statement jointly signed by a historic coalition of AI experts, professors, and tech leaders.Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio have signed, as have the CEOs of the major AGI labs–Sam Altman, Demis Hassabis, and Dario Amodei–as well as executives from Microsoft and Google (but notably not Meta).The statement reads: “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other

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“KFC Supplier Sued for Cruelty” by alene

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/05/29

Dear EA Forum readers, The EA charity, Legal Impact for Chickens (LIC), just filed our second lawsuit! As many of you know, LIC is a litigation nonprofit dedicated to making factory-farm cruelty a liability. We focus on chickens because of the huge numbers in which they suffer and the extreme severity of that suffering. Today, we sued one of the country’s largest poultry producers and a KFC supplier, Case Farms, for animal cruelty. The complaint comes on the heels of a 2021 undercover

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"Tips for people considering starting new incubators"...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/05/26

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“EAG talks are underrated IMO” by Chi

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/05/25

Underrated is relative.[1] My position is something like "most people should consider going to >1 EAG talk" and not "most people should spend most of their EAG in talks." This probably most applies to people who are kind of like me. (Been involved for a while, already have a strong network, don't need to do 1-1s for their job.) There's a meme that 1-1s are clearly the most valuable part of EAG(x) and that you should not really go to talks. (See e.g. this, this, this, they don't say exactly this but

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“If you find EA conferences emotionally difficult,...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/05/25

I went to EAG London this weekend. I had some interesting chats, wrote some cryptic squiggles in my notebook (“Clockify” “the Easterlin paradox”, “functionalist eudaimonic theories”), and gave and received some hopefully-useful advice. Overall, the conference was fun and worthwhile for me. But at times, I also found the conference emotionally difficult. I think this is pretty common. After last year’s EAG, Alastair Fraser-Urquhart wrote about how he burnt out at the conference and had to miss a

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EA Forum Weekly Summaries – Episode 25 (May 1-7, 2023)

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/05/10

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"Predictable updating about AI risk" by Joe Carlsmith

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/05/09

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EA Forum Weekly Summaries – Episode 24 (April 24-30,...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/05/08

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"AGI safety career advice" by Richard Ngo

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/05/04

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EA Forum Weekly Summaries – Episode 23 (April 17-23,...

EA Forum Podcast (Curated & popular) ·

2023/05/02

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