“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 Sep 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 Aug 11min
“What if the third wave is a puddle?” by Morgan Fairless
The world of private philanthropy may be in for a period of large growth. News of Coefficient Giving increasing their funding for GiveWell to one billion in the near-term, and the general growth of th...
18 Aug 9min
“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 Aug 15min
“General capability - and capabilities generally - have no good y-axis” by Gregory Lewis🔸
BLUF: To determine whether AI is ‘improving exponentially’, ‘hitting the wall’, or any other claim which involves a quantity or magnitude (e.g. ‘This model was a big leap/small increment’). We need a...
8 Aug 1h 7min
“Never born, then maybe died twice” by NickLaing
“Your balls are baked aren’t they, mate”. He would not have been bornThanks Lyndon, that describes the situation. Like almost 1 in 10 modern men, my sperm weren’t up to the task - at least not the old...
1 Aug 10min
“Announcing: Cluelessness Critiques Competition” by Toby Tremlett🔹, Will Aldred
TL;DR We’re hosting an essay competition to elicit responses to Anthony DiGiovanni's sequence, ‘The challenge of unawareness for impartial altruist action guidance’—submit your entries by August 14th...
30 Jul 13min
“Spiro: an update 2.5 years on and a fundraising ask for expansion” by Habiba Banu
Summary Back in November 2023 I posted here to launch Spiro and raise our first 198 thousand dollars. Two and a half years later this is an update and a fundraiser for the next step. The short version...
26 Jul 17min
