“Too many people in EA underprice the cost of a bad reputation” by GraceAdams🔸
Summary: Good work helps build a good reputation, but it's not the only factor. Reputation also requires making your work legible, building relationships with stakeholders, and communicating with them...
17 Syys 7min
“EA Should Invest in Animal Liberation and Diet Change Advocacy” by Bruce Friedrich 🔸
I want to start by noting that I am enthusiastic about everything that the EA animal welfare movement has accomplished. I am enthusiastically supportive of all of the campaigns that make living and dy...
16 Syys 9min
“Do AI safety talent programmes work? Nobody has run the study that would tell us.” by Laura Thomas-Walters
Headline finding: I audited 17 AI Safety Talent programmes. Zero of 17 have published any comparison group, rejected-applicant follow-up, matched control or randomisation. Not one. Every programme tha...
14 Syys 12min
“Beware Silver Bullets: Are we making “welfare tech” into the next animal advocacy bubble?” by Rockwell, Tom Billington
Epistemic status: Speculation from two decently informed advocates armed with anecdata. Note on process: After having some version of this conversation several times and saying, “we should probably wr...
14 Syys 15min
“Alone again: facing the possibility of AI takeover as the world sleepwalks on” by George Rosenfeld
I’ve been feeling pretty shaken since the METR report about the Hugging Face incident came out last week. Over the weekend, I wrote up some thoughts on how lonely the AI situation sometimes feels to m...
9 Syys 8min
“Moral Imagination & Effective Altruism” by Toby_Ord
Michael Nielsen has a beautiful new essay on moral imagination: the ability humans have to 'develop and transmit new notions of good action, indeed, even new kinds of good'. As examples, he gives: Ha...
28 Elo 11min
“What would make us scale or stop? NOVAH’s pre-commitment before seeing the RCT results” by I.J.J., AlexisAt
TL;DR NOVAH (No Violence At Home) was incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship (now Ambitious Impact) in 2024 to test a promising idea: preventing intimate partner violence through edutainment, in our ca...
17 Elo 15min
