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Back to Search“Announcing the Rethink Priorities Cross-Cause Fund” by Rethink Priorities
TL;DR
Today, based on our multi-year prioritization research, we launch the Rethink Priorities Cross-Cause Fund (CCF). The fund pools donors’ contrib…
1 month ago
“After making sure we don’t all die, this should be the first priority” by Yaqi Grover
A new article went viral on Twitter today: Nan Ransohoff's "The Third Wave of American Philanthropy" (link). Worth reading first.
Nan is right about…
1 month ago
“Can AI be Conscious? Biological Naturalism as a Research Program” by Bob Fischer, Rethink Priorities
This report was written by Christian de Weerd for Rethink Priorities. It was primarily meant to inform our own thinking about the merits of biologic…
1 month ago
“Request for Proposals: Effective Giving” by Melanie Basnak🔸, Kearney Capuano 🔸
We are excited to announce a new Request for Proposals (RFP) for effective giving organizations, defined as initiatives that raise funds for highly …
1 month ago
“Why are longtermists so much less focused on human extinction than they used to be?” by Michelle_Hutchinson
Tldr;
EAs seem more focused on non-extinction risks from AI than they used to be I haven’t seen much discussion of why, making reference to the ver…1 month ago
[Linkpost] “The Goodhart Singularity” by Vasco Grilo🔸
This is a link post.
[Subtitle.] Automating R&D is not sufficient for superintelligence
This is a crosspost for The Goodhart Singularity by Tom Reed,…
1 month ago
[Linkpost] “Coordinal: A Postmortem.” by Ronak Mehta
This is a link post.
cart;horse: Most startups fail, this one did too. Tried too much with too little, with a little too much ego.
Coordinal Research…
1 month ago
“California’s largest poultry producer sued for cruelty” by alene
Hello Effective Altruists!
I write to let you know that Legal Impact for Chickens is suing California's largest poultry producer, Foster Farms, for …
1 month ago
“Global Health Charity Founders on GiveWell, Evidence Action, and M+E” by anonfounder
The following is a lightly edited and anonymized transcript of a discussion among charity founders, researchers, and funders in Ambitious Impact's S…
1 month ago
“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)…
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