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Tomorrow (February 8) the Forum will be commemorating Benjamin Lay; consider writing something to reflect on moral progress, beliefs and tactics that go against societal norms, or anything related to his life.
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This week, there is also an experimental shorter version of the Forum Digest. To see it, click here.
— Toby (for the Forum team)
We recommend:
- An Intergovernmental Panel On Global Catastrophic Risks (IPGCR) (DannyBressler, 22 min)
- Intervention report: Slowing down factory farming in Sub Saharan Africa (Aashish Khimasia, 52 min)
- My model of how different AI risks fit together (Stephen Clare, 8 min)
- UK AI Bill Analysis & Opinion (AI Law, 18 min)
- Summary: Maximal cluelessness (Nicholas Kruus, Andreas_Mogensen, 5 min)
- A framework for using money as a proxy for impact estimation (Christoph Hartmann, 19 min)
- A discussion of the assumptions behind anti-AI-accelerationism (Matthew_Barnett, quick take)
- Veg*n diet discussions:
- Vegan vitamin supplement spreadsheet (Sam Celarek, quick take)
- Lower-suffering egg brands available in the SF Bay Area (mayleaf, 8 min)
- Years in review:
- Animal Advocacy Africa’s 2023 Review and Plans for 2024 (AnimalAdvocacyAfrica, 20 min)
- Fish Welfare Initiative's 2023 in Review (haven, TomBill, 9 min)
Announcements:
- Updates and news
- Introducing the Animal Advocacy Forum (David van Beveren)
- Announcing the London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) (JamesFox)
- Niel Bowerman will be the next CEO of 80,000 Hours (80000_Hours, Robert_Wiblin)
- LTFF plans to raise the bar for mechanistic interpretability grants (Linch, quick take)
- Opportunities for action
- GiveWell is hiring for senior roles: Head of People Operations and Head of Communications (GiveWell, 3 min)
- Help with work on breakthrough treatments for addiction and overdose (mincho, 2 min)
- Upcoming job deadlines in the Who’s hiring thread
- Program Associate at CellAg UK (Remote, £40k (pro-rata) | 7 Feb)
- Research/Executive Assistant for the Director at the Forethought Foundation (Oxford, £40k-£70k | 11 Feb)
- Budapest AI Safety Technical Lead (Budapest, Hungary or remote, USD$9-12 per hour (pre-tax) | 12 Feb)
- EA Hungary Head of Communications/Operations (Budapest, Hungary, USD$9-12 per hour (pre-tax)| 12 Feb)
- Researcher at GWWC (Remote| 18 Feb)
Classic Forum post | The decline of footbinding as a case study of moral progress (rosehadshar, 15 min)
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