Podcast Episodes
Back to Search“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
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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🔸
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[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
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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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“Salary Sacrifices Are Donations. Let’s Treat Them as Such.” by Christoph Hartmann 🔸
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NGOs pay less than for-profits. Employees accept this because they have impact. This makes employees implicit donors to the NGOs NGOs should a…1 month, 1 week 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…
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