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Back to Search“In Development: Discussion Thread” by Toby Tremlett🔹, Lauren Gilbert, ncoca, Enlli McAleese, Charles Kenny
In Development is "a new magazine dedicated to exploring how progress happens — or doesn’t happen — in the developing world".
This week (May 11-17)…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
“Salary Sacrifices Are Donations. Let’s Treat Them as Such.” by Christoph Hartmann 🔸
TLDR
NGOs pay less than for-profits. Employees accept this because they have impact. This makes employees implicit donors to the NGOs NGOs should a…2 months, 3 weeks ago
[Linkpost] “How I think about catastrophic biological risk (part I)” by ASB
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Our mission is to protect humanity against biological catastrophes, including those that could lead to human extinction or cause…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
“Review: The Dying Trade” by Bentham’s Bulldog
Crosspost.
I first watched the YouTube videos of Jack Hancock in high school, and they might be where I first heard the case for the moral signific…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
“Talent Constraints in AI Safety: What We Know and What We Don’t” by Weronika Żurek 🔸
Summary
AI safety is constrained on talent in many ways, but the reasons behind the constraints vary between types of talent. This post is based on a…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
“My Dad Worked in a Slaughterhouse. I Made a Documentary About It.” by Jack Hancock-Fairs
I’m an EA who has been trying to find ways to make animal suffering more salient. I’ve been working on a feature-length documentary called ‘The Dyin…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
[Linkpost] “How to Actually Spend Billions on AI Safety” by Sophie Kim
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Cross-posted from The Counterfactual by the Forum Team.
Subtitle: A concrete strategy for deploying the largest wave of philanth…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
“AI safety is extremely bottlenecked on grantmakers” by lukeprog
Last month, Anthropic announced Mythos Preview, the most powerful cyberweapon in history, capable of finding and exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
[Linkpost] “Alpha-Gal is Bad, Especially for Farmed Animals” by Jonathan Bostock
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Disclaimer: I’m not vegan. I’m not even vegetarian. I eat meat all the time. I’ve been a firm critic of efforts to objectively q…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
[Linkpost] “We don’t know why Malawi is poor — and what that means for AI-and-growth forecasts” by Deena Mousa
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I had a conversation with someone who claimed offhandedly that AI will dramatically raise agricultural productivity (via agritec…
2 months, 4 weeks ago