“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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 41min
“Some good news: Ahold Delhaize to go cage-free” by ElliotTep
For those not working in the space this probably isn't on your radar, but the animal advocacy movement just secured a huge win with Ahold Delhaize, convincing the fourth-largest supermarket company in...
13 Mars 2min
[Linkpost] “Effective Altruism Will Be Great Again” by Mjreard
This is a link post. Forum note: this post embodies the spirit of a new project I—Matt Reardon—am starting to reinvigorate in-person EA communities. I'm hiring a co-founder and I'm interested in meeti...
8 Mars 13min
