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[Linkpost] “Starfish” by Aaron Gertler 🔸
This is a link post. By Alexander Wales Thousands of starfish had washed up on the beach, and a little girl was diligently throwing them back into the water, one at a time. A man came up to the girl a...
1 Mai 4min
“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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 10min
“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 Apr 13min
