“Teaching AI to reason: this year’s most important story” by Benjamin_Todd
This is a link post. I wrote this to try to explain the key thing going on with AI right now to a broader audience. Feedback welcome. Most people think of AI as a pattern-matching chatbot – good at wr...
22 Feb 202523min
“Using a diet offset calculator to encourage effective giving for farmed animals” by Aidan Alexander, ThomNorman
When we built a calculator to help meat-eaters offset the animal welfare impact of their diet through donations (like carbon offsets), we didn't expect it to become one of our most effective tools for...
13 Feb 20259min
“Why Did Elon Musk Just Offer to Buy Control of OpenAI for $100 Billion?” by Garrison
This is a link post. This is the full text of a post from "The Obsolete Newsletter," a Substack that I write about the intersection of capitalism, geopolitics, and artificial intelligence. I’m a freel...
13 Feb 202511min
“Leadership change at the Center on Long-Term Risk” by JesseClifton, Tristan Cook, Mia_Taylor
The Center on Long-Term Risk (CLR) does research and community building aimed at reducing s-risk. Jesse Clifton is stepping down as CLR's Executive Director. He’ll be succeeded by Tristan Cook as Man...
4 Feb 20255min
“Climate Change Is Worse Than Factory Farming” by EA Forum Team
This is a link post. Note: This post was crossposted from the United States of Exception Substack by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on this...
4 Feb 20259min
“The Game Board has been Flipped: Now is a good time to rethink what you’re doing” by LintzA
Introduction Several developments over the past few months should cause you to re-evaluate what you are doing. These include: Updates toward short timelines The Trump presidency The o1 (inference-tim...
29 Jan 202526min
“The Upcoming PEPFAR Cut Will Kill Millions, Many of Them Children” by Omnizoid
Edit 1/29: Funding is back, baby! Crossposted from my blog. (This could end up being the most important thing I’ve ever written. Please like and restack it—if you have a big blog, please write about...
28 Jan 20258min
“GiveWell raised less than its 10th percentile forecast in 2023” by Rasool
In 2023[1] GiveWell raised $355 million - $100 million from Open Philanthropy, and $255 million from other donors. In their post on 10th April 2023, GiveWell forecast the amount they expected to raise...
28 Jan 20251min
