Will Aldred

Nov 19, 2023 | forum.effectivealtruism.org | Ariel Simnegar |Emily Oehlsen |Will Aldred |Vasco Grilo

The evidence that animal welfare dominates in neartermism is strong. Open Philanthropy (OP) should scale up its animal welfare allocation over several years to approach a majority of OP's neartermist grantmaking. If OP disagrees, they should practice reasoning transparency by clarifying their views:How much weight does OP's theory of welfare place on pleasure and pain, as opposed to nonhedonic goods?

Jul 5, 2023 | forum.effectivealtruism.org | Geoffrey Miller |Oleg Alexandrov |Roman Leventov |Will Aldred

The post is ~900 words so I would recommend reading it, but the key takeaways are:OpenAI are starting a new “superintelligence alignment” team, led by Ilya Sutskever (Chief Scientist at OpenAI) and Jan Leike (Alignment team lead at OpenAI). Ilya Sutskever will be making this his core research focus.