“The Unparalleled Awesomeness of Effective Altruism Conferences” by Bentham’s Bulldog
Crosspost from my blog. I just got back from Effective Altruism Global London—a conference that brought together lots of different people trying to do good with their money and careers. It was an ins...
11 Juni 202511min
“Estimating the Substitutability between Compute and Cognitive Labor in AI Research” by Parker_Whitfill, CherylWu
Audio note: this article contains 127 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in the episode description. Confidence: Medium, underlyi...
7 Juni 202520min
“The Importance of Blasting Good Ideas Into The Ether” by Bentham’s Bulldog
Crossposted from my blog. When I started this blog in high school, I did not imagine that I would cause The Daily Show to do an episode about shrimp, containing the following dialogue: Andres: I was ...
5 Juni 202511min
“Positive effects of EA on mental health” by Julia_Wise🔸, Catherine Low🔸, Charlotte Darnell
Mental illness (including struggles that don’t meet a specific diagnosis) is a serious public health burden that affects a large proportion of people. This is true within EA as well as in the general ...
5 Juni 20258min
“Rescaling and The Easterlin Paradox (2.0)” by Charlie Harrison
Around 1 month ago, I wrote a similar Forum post on the Easterlin Paradox. I decided to take it down because: 1) after useful comments, the method looked a little half-baked; 2) I got in touch with tw...
4 Juni 202514min
“Revamped effectivealtruism.org” by Agnes Hasselblad 🔸
We’ve redesigned effectivealtruism.org to improve understanding and perception of effective altruism, and make it easier to take action. View the new site → I led the redesign and will be writing in t...
28 Maj 20255min
“Don’t update too much from EA community involvement” by Catherine Low🔸
Summary While many people and organisations in the EA community can be great connections, don't assume that just because a person has been in the EA community for a long time, they'll be a good fit f...
25 Maj 20255min
″“Most painful condition known to mankind”: A retrospective of the first-ever international research symposium on cluster headache” by Alfredo Parra 🔸
Article 5 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights states: "Obviously, no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." OK, it doesn’t actually...
24 Maj 202520min
