Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“The Schmotte-and-Bailey Fallacy” by Richard Y Chappell🔸
Subtitle: Sometimes the easily defended view is the one you really want
The most striking thing about effective altruism, dialectically, is that it'…
5 days, 18 hours ago
“About The Altruists: the Netflix series on FTX” by Tess Newton-Palmer
Hi everyone. I lead marketing and communications at CEA. Given the amount of attention we expect The Altruists series to generate, I'm posting a hig…
6 days, 6 hours ago
“You can now afford to work at AIM: our new salary policy, program stipends, and founder salary advice” by Aidan Alexander, Jacintha Baas, SamanthaK
Public service announcement
Applications are now open for our first ever round of the Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program dedicated exclusiv…6 days, 7 hours ago
“The AI Windfall” by LewisBollard
Note: This post was crossposted from the Coefficient Giving Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission.…
1 week ago
“Reaching Out to Formerly Engaged EAs” by Sam Anschell
As a community builder, it doesn’t get much better than receiving a message like this:
Others who work on movement growth have reported similar succ…
1 week ago
“AMA with GiveWell’s Chief Operations Officer” by GiveWell
GiveWell's Operations department is growing! We have roles open across multiple Ops functions: Grants Administration, People Operations, Talent Acqu…
1 week ago
“The animal welfare movement could scale fast. Have you made a plan?” by Neil_Dullaghan🔹
Summary
The animal welfare movement has already seen an influx in funding and should prepare for the possibility of more. The EA Animal Welfare Fun…1 week ago
“General capability - and capabilities generally - have no good y-axis” by Gregory Lewis🔸
BLUF:
To determine whether AI is ‘improving exponentially’, ‘hitting the wall’, or any other claim which involves a quantity or magnitude (e.g. ‘Th…1 week, 1 day ago
“EAs Should Use Less Bayesian Reasoning” by James Brobin
This is a crosspost from my blog post.
Many EAs use extensive “bayesian reasoning.” The basic idea behind it is that you should do the following:
B…1 week, 1 day ago
“Community Polls on Alignment Controversies II” by Jasmine Brazilek, Miles Tidmarsh, Jonah Woodward
Please spend
1 week, 2 days ago