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Oct 19, 2024 | 
forum.effectivealtruism.org | Gavriel Kleinwaks
Crossposting this essay by my friend Gavriel Kleinwaks, who is approximately the world expert in Far UV deployment. [Edit: Austin is very kind--I am not close to being the world expert in far UV deployment; there are people who run/used to run companies trying to do that, and researchers who work with them very closely, who know more about far-UV deployment, and I'm largely consolidating information from them.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
forum.effectivealtruism.org | Karthik Tadepalli |Ben Millwood |Joseph Miller |Devin Lam
Imagine you were walking past a drowning child. The child kicks, screams, and cries, as they drown, and are about to be resigned to a watery grave, w…
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
forum.effectivealtruism.org | Vasco Grilo |James Ozden |John Salter
78 % of my donations so far have gone to the Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF), which mainly supports AI safety interventions. However, I have become increasingly sceptical about the value of existential risk mitigation, and currently think the best interventions are in the area of animal welfare. As a result, I realised it made sense for me to arrange a bet with someone very worried about AI in order to increase my donations to animal welfare interventions.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
forum.effectivealtruism.org | Lawrence Phillips |Peter Mühlbacher |Seth Herd |Abby Hoskin
Thanks to Eli Lifland, Molly Hickman, Değer Turan, and Evan Miyazono for reviewing drafts of this post. The opinions expressed here are my own.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
forum.effectivealtruism.org | Ulrik Horn |Robi Rahman |Nathan Young |Linda Linsefors
The base rate seems tricky to interpret without a real comparison. 3 out of 5 points in the summary say that the rate is high, but it doesn't seem like the evidence exists to support that claim. The implied reference class is "non EA super-rich people", but that class isn't actually examined in the data. The rates do seem subjectively very high.
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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?
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
forum.effectivealtruism.org | Nathan Young |Sjir Hoeijmakers |JP Addison |Henri Thunberg
It has been almost a year since FTX went bankrupt on November 11, 2022. Some of the ways that has impacted EA have been obvious, like the shuttering of the FTX Foundation, expected to be one of the biggest EA funders. But recent discussions show that the broader impact of the FTX scandal on EA isn’t well understood, and that there is a desire for more empirical evidence on this topic. To that end, I have aggregated a variety of publicly available EA metrics to improve the evidence base.
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Sep 10, 2023 | 
forum.effectivealtruism.org | Sophie Thomson |James Ozden |James Herbert |Vaidehi Agarwalla
Thanks for sharing this post, this is a really positive step forward in transparency, I especially appreciated the list of attendees and description of the structure of the Forum. I like that there will be assigned owners of different projects, and I hope that outcomes of the Forum and information on initiatives that came out of it will also be shared with the community.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
forum.effectivealtruism.org | Aaron Gertler |Vaidehi Agarwalla |Peter Wildeford |Holden Karnofsky
Discussions about impact-oriented careers will be featured on the EA Forum this week (September 8 - 15, 2023) — it's “Career Conversations Week.” This sequence kicks off the event and collects some classic posts on the topic. If you want to explore posts written for the event, go to this tag (you can also subscribe by clicking on the bell icon).
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Aug 30, 2023 | 
forum.effectivealtruism.org | Ariel Simnegar |Sjir Hoeijmakers |Michael Townsend |Alana HF
Giving portalIt's Giving season on the EA Forum. We're hosting a Donation Election, weekly themes, and more throughout November and December 2023. TimelineDonation election 2023Contribute to the Donation Election Fund to encourage more discussion about donation choice and effective giving. The fund will be designated for the top 3 winners in the Donation Election. Learn more. DonateThe fund will be designated for the top 3 candidates, based on Forum users' votes.