“Giving up on EA after 13 years” by Jackson Wagner
Donating my shares to Lightcone Infrastructure, the Good Food Institute, and the Long-Term Future Fund, because EA refuses to make Mirror's Edge 3Leaning into EA disillusionment: Why I no longer belie...
1 Apr 14min
“80,000 Hours is coming to bookstores in May” by Bella, 80000_Hours
Summary We’re publishing our book, 80,000 Hours, with Penguin on 26 May. It's an update of the 80,000 Hours career guide, with a full round of edits, new design, and new content discussing the effect...
31 Mar 11min
“The joys of cash benchmarking” by ozymandias
I. Imagine you run a charity which gives cows to people in the developing world. Your new boyfriend is a statistician and you want to impress him, so you’ve decided to look into this Monitoring and Ev...
27 Mar 17min
“Broad Timelines” by Toby_Ord
No-one knows when AI will begin having transformative impacts upon the world. People aren’t sure and shouldn’t be sure: there just isn’t enough evidence to pin it down. But we don’t need to wait for ...
21 Mar 30min
“What I didn’t expect about being a funder” by JamesÖz 🔸
Crossposted from my blog I am very fortunate to have my job in many ways – I get to talk to, learn from, and give money to amazing people and nonprofits all around the world. I get to allocate a modes...
18 Mar 20min
“GHD discussion here is slowly dying” by NickLaing
Epistemic status: A bit sad (I know that's not an epistemic status) The best development Forum on the internet? 3 years ago a headline “FTX SBF blah blah blah” triggered my memory “oh that's right, th...
17 Mar 7min
“Feelings about the end of the world” by Michelle_Hutchinson
Many of us in this community are in the shocking position of thinking there's a real chance of humanity being wiped out over the next decade or two. Most of the time, we discuss that in rational terms...
15 Mar 9min
“The case for AI safety capacity-building work” by abergal
I work on the capacity-building team on the Global Catastrophic Risks-half of Coefficient Giving (formerly known as Open Philanthropy). Our remit is, roughly, to increase the amount of talent aiming t...
15 Mar 41min
