“Epistemic security as infrastructure” by David Ritter
Hey folks -- At EA Forum next week, I'd like to engage with people who are interested in epistemic security -- the ability of a society to reliably avert threats to the processes that produce reliable...
9 Loka 1min
“Why you should run a rationality group at your university” by Carolanne Jiang, Noah Birnbaum
This post was cross posted from LessWrong TL;DR: If you enjoy LessWrong (and/or do EA/AI safety field building), you should consider starting a rationality reading group at your university. It's fun...
9 Loka 8min
“Proof of useful work for verifying AI treaties” by Ondřej_Kubů 🔸
Audio note: this post contains a lot of mathematical notation. We narrate the simpler formulas and flag the complex ones, so you may want the original text to hand. Cross-posted from my website and ...
9 Loka 41min
“Technical people: actually consider comms” by meemi
For years I had a blindspot in my thinking. I dismissed policy and advocacy work as “in another [lower-status] category” because I’m obviously a technical person! Even when I felt super pessimistic ab...
9 Loka 2min
“AI Scaling vs Human Scaling” by Toby_Ord
Audio note: this post contains a lot of mathematical notation. We narrate the simpler formulas and flag the complex ones, so you may want the original text to hand. Do AI models scale as well with m...
9 Loka 13min
“I’m leaving the Center for Reducing Suffering to pursue independent research” by Magnus Vinding
I have recently decided to leave the Center for Reducing Suffering (CRS) to pursue independent research on the possible implications of UAP and quiet expansionist hypotheses for reducing suffering. I ...
9 Loka 4min
“The strategic implications of staff opportunity costs” by brentonmayer
Our ecosystem is bottlenecked by people who have deep context and relevant skills. This means that the time of people with context and relevant skills is very valuable: usually more valuable than thei...
9 Loka 6min
“Population ethics is a big deal, which is why I made this population ethics quiz” by MichaelDickens
TLDR: Take the population ethics quiz here: https://mdickens.me/pop-ethics/ Population ethics is an oft-overlooked subfield within ethics. Many people hold views that they don't realize contradict ea...
9 Loka 8min
