We're sharing some posts from the last week, which I shared in the most recent Digest.
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(This post is (still) an experiment. Let us know what you think!)
We recommend:
- Scoring forecasts from the 2016 “Expert Survey on Progress in AI (PatrickL, 10 min)
- How are Charity Entrepreneurship charities progressing? (Ula Zarosa, 7 min) — and you can also suggest new charity ideas for CE (weeatquince, 4 min)
- Advice on communicating in and around the biosecurity policy community (ES, 8 min)
- Counterproductive Altruism: The Other Heavy Tail (Vasco Grilo, 8 min)
- Evidence on how cash transfers empower women in poverty (GiveDirectly, 2 min)
- Predictive Performance on Metaculus vs. Manifold Markets (nikos, 6 min)
- Anthropic: Core Views on AI Safety: When, Why, What, and How (jonmenaster, 27 min)
- Comments on OpenAI's "Planning for AGI and beyond" (So8res, 16 min) (see also Questions about Conjecure's CoEm proposal)
- The Benefits of Distillation in Research (Jonas Hallgren, 6 min)
- 3 Basic Steps to Reduce Personal Liability as an Org Leader (Deena Englander, 2 min)
- Community & lifestyle
- Not all "EA" things are good (Chana Messinger, shortform) (see also: Against EA-Community-Received-Wisdom on Practical Sociological Questions)
- More Centralisation? (DavidNash, 2 min)
- On the First Anniversary of my Best Friend’s Death (Rockwell, 4 min)
- Abuse in LessWrong and rationalist communities in Bloomberg News (whistleblower67, 8 min)
- Veg*ns, what supplements do you take? (Stephen Clare, 1 min)
Updates and announcements:
- Opportunities & resources
- EA Infosec: skill up in or make a transition to infosec via this book club (Jason Clinton, Wim van der Schoot)
- Congressional Internships: Why and How to Apply (US Policy Careers)
- Call for AI Governance Cruxes by Rhyme, a History Consultancy (Lara_TH)
- Flourish: Deadline Extended + Prizes (Flourish Journal, Jemima)
- Updates & news
- Winners of the Squiggle Experimentation and 80,000 Hours Quantification Challenges (NunoSempere)
- Global catastrophic risks law approved in the United States (many authors)
- 80,000 Hours two-year review: 2021–2022 (80,000 Hours)
- What Has EAGxLatAm 2023 Taught Us : Retrospective & Thoughts on Measuring the Impact of EA Conferences (many authors)
- Misalignment Museum opens in San Francisco: ‘Sorry for killing most of humanity’ (Michael Huang)
- Introducing the new Riesgos Catastróficos Globales team (many authors)
Classic Forum post:
Thanks! This somewhat reduces my FOMO 🙃