Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“Middle Powers and Transformative AI: A request for proposals” by OscarD🔸
Today, we are launching a request for proposals on AI policy in middle powers, with 10 million dollars (and potentially more) of funding available. …
6 hours ago
“The vegan trap: are we making animal advocacy harder than it needs to be?” by tobiasleenaert
note: crosspost from my substack
As a vegan for almost thirty years, I’ve long had second thoughts about how effective veganism is for helping anim…
8 hours ago
“Targeting High-Risk Pregnancies: A Cost-Effectiveness Case for Low-Dose Aspirin” by Marshall
A century-old pill, given to the right people, could cost-effectively save many lives.
Summary
Targeting low-cost prevention toward people at eleva…1 day, 17 hours ago
“Why I’m scared of RL” by Owen Cotton-Barratt
Summary:
First, I give several different angles on how I feel about reinforcement learning:
Theoretical case: RL is a black-box source of agency — …1 day, 22 hours ago
“Community Health: A Call for Transparency” by LauraC
In early 2024, I brought an employment claim against a former employer concerning unpaid work.
Following information provided by my former employer,…
2 days, 12 hours ago
“Swarm Scaling” by Toby_Ord
Audio note: this article contains 36 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in the…
3 days, 5 hours ago
“Advice for prospective incubators” by Aidan Alexander, Ambitious Impact, Jacintha Baas, SamanthaK
Often folks hit us up because they are thinking of starting an incubator and want advice.
Typically their motivation is that they have a list of spe…
3 days, 13 hours ago
“What even is an incubator?” by Aidan Alexander, Ambitious Impact, Jacintha Baas, SamanthaK
This is part one of a two-part series. Part two (the six questions we ask people trying to incubate new organizations) is coming out on Monday.
“Incub…
4 days, 14 hours ago
“Pacing the Frontier: A Framework & Research Agenda” by Charles Dillon 🔸, Raymond D, technicalities
Below is the executive summary from our new paper at pacing.tech. The full paper is available on the site and as a PDF. The full author list is Raym…
4 days, 23 hours ago
“You can’t join the secret inner circle of cool effective altruists” by ozymandias
I, and a lot of other people I know, seem to believe something like this:
Somewhere out there, there are the cool, high-impact effective altruists w…
5 days, 3 hours ago