“How Well Does RL Scale?” by Toby_Ord
This is the latest in a series of essays on AI Scaling. You can find the others on my site. Summary: RL-training for LLMs scales surprisingly poorly. Most of its gains are from allowing LLMs to produ...
3 Nov 202515min
“Recommitting to Giving: A Personal Update” by frankieaw
TL;DR: I took the 🔸10% Pledge in 2016 and haven’t kept to it consistently. I’ve decided not to pay the backlog donations, and instead to recommit fresh from today, with simple systems to keep me on t...
1 Nov 20253min
“Why Many EAs May Have More Impact Outside of Nonprofits in Animal Welfare” by lauren_mee 🔸, Animal Advocacy Careers
Many thanks to @Felix_Werdermann 🔸 @Engin Arıkan and @Ana Barreiro for your feedback and comments on this, and for the encouragement from many people to finally write this up into an EA forum post. F...
30 Okt 202515min
“Framing EA: ‘Doing Good Better’ Did Worse” by Rethink Priorities, David_Moss
Summary As part of our ongoing work to study how to best frame EA, we experimentally tested different phrases and sentences that CEA were considering using on effectivealtruism.org. Doing Good Better...
29 Okt 20259min
[Linkpost] “The Charity Trap: Brain Misallocation” by DavidNash
This is a link post. In Ugandan villages where non-governmental organisations (NGOs) hired away the existing government health worker, infant mortality went up. This happened in 39%[1] of villages tha...
29 Okt 202510min
[Linkpost] “The Four Pillars: A Hypothesis for Countering Catastrophic Biological Risk” by ASB
This is a link post. Biological risks are more severe than has been widely appreciated. Recent discussions of mirror bacteria highlight an extreme scenario: a single organism that could infect and kil...
28 Okt 202517min
“Entertainment for EAs” by Toby Tremlett🔹
I’ve used the phrase “entertainment for EAs” a bunch to describe a failure mode that I’m trying to avoid with my career. Maybe it’d be useful for other people working in meta-EA, so I’m sharing it her...
24 Okt 20252min
“Canva to donate $100M over 4 years to GiveDirectly” by MartinBerlin
All quotes are from their blog post "Why we chose to invest another $100 million in cash transfers", highlights are my own: Today, we’re announcing a new $100 million USD commitment over the next fou...
24 Okt 20252min
