“Responsible Scaling Policy v3” by Holden Karnofsky
All views are my own, not Anthropic's. This post assumes Anthropic's announcement of RSP v3.0 as background. Today, Anthropic released its Responsible Scaling Policy 3.0. The official announcement dis...
5 Maalis 1h 2min
“Why isn’t anti-fascism a bigger topic at EAG events (or on this forum)?” by Alex_Z
TL;DR: Define your line that if crossed, you would consider this issue one of (if not the most) pressing issues, or at least pressing enough to warrant some of your time. I want to start with a clari...
4 Maalis 14min
“Here’s to the Polypropylene Makers” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸
Six years ago, as covid-19 was rapidly spreading through the US, my sister was working as a medical resident. One day she was handed an N95 and told to "guard it with her life", because there weren't ...
1 Maalis 4min
“You’re not burning out because you’re tired” by stefan.torges
I burned out badly a few years ago. I've since had several conversations with people in the EA community who are heading toward burnout themselves, and I noticed they were sometimes thinking about it ...
28 Helmi 13min
“CEA’s response to sexual harassment” by Fran
In this piece, I discuss the sexual harassment I experienced at the Centre for Effective Altruism, the organisation's response, the outcomes of two independent legal reviews, and the final settlement....
27 Helmi 35min
“500k mid-career professionals want to do more good with their careers. Can we help them?” by Dom Jackman
I'm Dom Jackman. I founded Escape the City in 2010 to help people leave corporate jobs and find work that matters. 16 years later, 500k+ professionals have used the platform - mostly people 5-15 years...
22 Helmi 5min
“Our Levels of Ambition Should Match The Problems We’re Solving” by Matt Beard
[I am a career advisor at 80,000 Hours. I've been thinking about something Will MacAskill said recently in an interview with my shrimp-friend Matt: "should people be more ambitious? I genuinely think ...
19 Helmi 26min
[Linkpost] “The best cause will disappoint you: An intro to the optimisers curse” by titotal
This is a link post. I would like to thank David Thorstadt for looking over this. If you spot a factual error in this article please message me. The code used to generate the graphs in the article is ...
19 Helmi 27min
