“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
“What is Love ft. Claude & VascoBot” by AgentMa🔸
What is the highest form of love? According to the VascoBot Claude programmed for me: “Thanks for the great question, AgentMa🔸. I strongly upvoted it. I think the highest form of love is expected tot...
18 Helmi 6min
“The reality of long-term EA community building: Lessons from 3 years of EA Barcelona” by Melanie Brennan 🔹, Anthony L
We are Melanie and Anthony, the two community builders at EA Barcelona. In this post, we share where the group stands today and reflect on key learnings from nearly three years of grant-funded communi...
17 Helmi 23min
“Preparing for a flush future: work, giving, and conduct” by Sam Anschell
Note: opinions are all my own. Following Jeff Kaufman's Front-Load Giving Because of Anthropic Donors and Jenn's Funding Conversation We Left Unfinished, I think there is a real likelihood that impa...
17 Helmi 7min
“EA Grants Database - a new website” by Brian Foerster
The EA Grants Database is a new site that neatly aggregates grant data from major EA funders who publish individual or total grant information. It is intended to be easy to maintain long term, entirel...
17 Helmi 1min
“Long-term risks from ideological fanaticism” by David_Althaus, Jamie_Harris, vanessa16, Clare_Diane, Will Aldred
Cross-posted to LessWrong.Summary History's most destructive ideologies—like Nazism, totalitarian communism, and religious fundamentalism—exhibited remarkably similar characteristics: epistemic and ...
16 Helmi 2h 42min
“More EAs should consider working for the EU” by EU Policy Careers
Context: The authors are a few EAs who currently work or have previously worked at the European Commission. In this post, we make the case that more people[1] aiming for a high impact career should c...
2 Helmi 11min
