“Time Sensitive Urgent Animal Welfare Action” by Bentham’s Bulldog
The EATS act—now called the save our bacon act—would make it illegal for states to pass animal welfare laws that apply to products produced out of state. This would gut most state level animal protect...
29 Huhti 1min
“Forecasting is Way Overrated, and We Should Stop Funding It” by Marcus Abramovitch 🔸
Summary EA and rationalists got enamoured with forecasting and prediction markets and made them part of the culture, but this hasn’t proven very useful, yet it continues to receive substantial EA fun...
26 Huhti 8min
“My lover, effective altruism” by Natalie_Cargill
Crossposted from Substack. This post is part of a 30-posts-in-30-days ordeal at Inkhaven. All suboptimalities are the result of that. This is part 2, here is part 1 in my EA mini series! On my way to ...
26 Huhti 8min
“A Database of Near-Term Interventions for Wild Animals” by Bob Fischer
The Animal Welfare Department (AWD) at Rethink Priorities supports high-impact strategies to help animals, especially where suffering is vast and largely neglected. Therefore, one of our focus areas i...
24 Huhti 17min
“The AI people have been right a lot” by Dylan Matthews
This post was crossposted from Dylan Matthew's blog by the EA Forum team. The author may not see or reply to comments. Subtitle: Try to keep an open mind as the world gets increasingly wild.The crowd ...
20 Huhti 10min
[Linkpost] “The Anthropic IPO Is Coming. We Aren’t Ready for It.” by Sophie Kim
This is a link post. More money is coming than AI safety has ever seen. The capacity to deploy it doesn't exist yet.Image Source: Fortune.com This week, Anthropic announced Claude Mythos Preview– a mo...
17 Huhti 15min
“AI Safety’s Biggest Talent Gap Isn’t Researchers. It’s Generalists.” by Topaz, Agustín Covarrubias 🔸, Alexandra Bates, Parv Mahajan, Kairos
This post was cross posted to LessWrong TL;DR: One of the largest talent gaps in AI safety is competent generalists: program managers, fieldbuilders, operators, org leaders, chiefs of staff, founders....
16 Huhti 13min
