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In my previous post in this series, I estimated that we have 3 researchers for every advocate working on US AI governance, and I argued that this ratio is backwards. When allocating staff, you almos…

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I’m excited to announce a “Digital Sentience Consortium” hosted by Longview Philanthropy, in collaboration with The Navigation Fund and Macroscopic Ventures, to support research and applied …

This is a memo I wrote for the 2025 Animal Advocacy Strategy Forum, which were encouraged to be highly opinionated to generate discussion on animal advocacy strategy.

Genetically Improved Farmed Til…

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(Crosspost of my blog article).

Humans affect staggering numbers of wild animals. There are likely quadrillions fewer insects presently walking the face of the earth because of our ac…

TL;DR – Individuals with technical backgrounds are well-positioned to advance AI safety policy in numerous ways. Opportunities include both A) technical research directions, including evals, compute…

From Effective Altruism, Lagos State University, we have this message for our fellow muslims:

1. Islam teaches that animals are sentient communities created by Allah, deserving compassion and mercy a…

From a vlogbrothers video by Hank Green comes the most EA-flavored framing from a non-EA I've ever seen. In the following quote from the video he's referencing the work done by P…

We’ve redesigned effectivealtruism.org to improve understanding and perception of effective altruism, and make it easier to take action.

I led the redesign and will be writing in t…

The full post is long, but you can 80/20 the value with the 700 word summary! Over half the post is eight optional case studies. Thanks to Jemima Jones, Claude 4 Opus and Gemini 2.5 Pro for help cop…

Around 1 month ago, I wrote a similar Forum post on the Easterlin Paradox. I decided to take it down because: 1) after useful comments, the method looked a little half-baked; 2) I got in touch with …

I hosted Meri Beckwith, CEO of Lindus Health, on my podcast Development & Research. Meri founded Lindus after being a clinical trial patient—because he was astounded at how badly…

Thanks to Max Taylor, Irina Gueorguiev, Robert Praas, Albert Didriksen, Mark Rogers and Justis Mills (EA Forum) for feedback on this post. All mistakes are my own. This post does not necessarily ref…

I recently had a thought-provoking conversation about progress studies in the Nigerian context. One core question we kept returning to was this: What actually drives progress in Nigeria?

From my e…

The company released a model it classified as risky — without meeting requirements it previously promised

This is the full text of a post first published on Obsolete, a Substack …

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While many people and organisations in the EA community can be great connections, don't assume that just because a person has been in the EA community for a long time, they'll be a good fit…

A while back (as I've just been reminded by a discussion on another thread), David Thorstad wrote a bunch of posts critiquing the idea that small reductions in extinction risk have very high value, …

This is a brushed up memo from a CEA retreat, aimed at orienting staff to the current state of the EA Newsletter, in preparation for a marketing push.

If you want to subscribe to the EA Newsletter,…

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1. Introduction

Currently, most people treat AIs like tools. We act like AIs d…

Confidence notes: I am a physicist working on computational material science, so I have some familiarity with the field, but don't know much about R&D firms or economics. Some of the links in this a…