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[Linkpost] “How Unofficial Work Gets You Hired: Building Your Surface Area for Serendipity” by SofiaBalderson
This is a link post. Tl;dr: In this post, I introduce a concept I call surface area for serendipity — the informal, behind-the-scenes work that makes it easier for others to notice, trust, and collabo...
24 Juli 202514min
“Is EA still ‘talent-constrained’?” by SiobhanBall
Since January I’ve applied to ~25 EA-aligned roles. Every listing attracted hundreds of candidates (one passed 1,200). It seems we already have a very deep bench of motivated, values-aligned people, y...
21 Juli 20253min
[Linkpost] “My kidney donation” by Molly Hickman
This is a link post. I donated my left kidney to a stranger on April 9, 2024, inspired by my dear friend @Quinn Dougherty (who was inspired by @Scott Alexander, who was inspired by @Dylan Matthews). B...
15 Juli 202518min
“Gaslit by humanity” by tobiasleenaert
Hi all, This is a one time cross-post from my substack. If you like it, you can subscribe to the substack at tobiasleenaert.substack.com. Thanks Gaslit by humanity After twenty-five years in the ani...
12 Juli 20256min
“We should be more uncertain about cause prioritization based on philosophical arguments” by Rethink Priorities, Marcus_A_Davis
Summary In this article, I argue most of the interesting cross-cause prioritization decisions and conclusions rest on philosophical evidence that isn’t robust enough to justify high degrees of certain...
11 Juli 202545min
“80,000 Hours is producing AI in Context — a new YouTube channel. Our first video, about the AI 2027 scenario, is up!” by ChanaMessinger, Aric Floyd
About the program Hi! We’re Chana and Aric, from the new 80,000 Hours video program. For over a decade, 80,000 Hours has been talking about the world's most pressing problems in newsletters, articles ...
10 Juli 20255min
“A shallow review of what transformative AI means for animal welfare” by Lizka, Ben_West🔸
Epistemic status: This post — the result of a loosely timeboxed ~2-day sprint[1] — is more like “research notes with rough takes” than “report with solid answers.” You should interpret the things we s...
10 Juli 202538min
“Road to AnimalHarmBench” by Artūrs Kaņepājs, Constance Li
TL;DR: We developed an empirical benchmark to assess risk of harm to nonhuman animals from LLMs. Influenced by EU legal frameworks and pre-existing taxonomies of potential AI harm to animals, our work...
10 Juli 202511min
