EA Forum Podcast (All audio)

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EA North was a one-day conference in Sheffield (UK) aimed at people in the North of England (Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Leeds, etc.). The event had 35 attendees on the day.[1] The cost …

I put on a small one-day conference. The cost per attendee was £50 (vs £1.2k for EAGs) and the cost per new connection was £11 (vs £130 for EAGs).

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EA North was a one-day event for the North o…

I’m ironically not a very prolific writer. I’ve preferred to stay behind the scenes here and leave the writing to my colleagues who have more of a knack for it. But a goodbye post is something I mus…

The Meta Coordination Forum (MCF) is a place where EA leaders are polled on matters of EA community strategy. I thought it could be fun (and interesting) to run these same polls on EAs at large.[1]

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Arkose is an AI safety fieldbuilding organisation that supports experienced machine learning professionals — such as professors and research engineers — to engage with the field. We focus on those n…

Audio note: this article contains 54 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in the episode description.

1. Introduction

'Should we…

There is a growing movement to ban or discourage the use of AI art, citing ethical concerns over unethical data scraping, environmental cost, and harm to the incomes of real artists. This sentiment …

I recently read a blog post that concluded with:

Longview Philanthropy is launching a new request for proposals on hardware-enabled mechanisms (HEMs).

We think HEMs are a promising method to enforce export controls, secure model weights, and veri…

Observatorio de Riesgos Catastróficos Globales (ORCG) is at a critical juncture. We have secured funds for AI governance projects, but we are at risk of discontinuing all projects in other GCR areas…

Caleb is Project Lead of EA Funds. Zach is CEO of the Centre for Effective Altruism, and Oscar is CEA's Chief of Staff.

EA Funds and CEA are currently separate projects within Effective Ventures. EV…

Hi everyone,

I am a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Reading and currently trying to set-up at a lab focused on animal and AI sentience and welfare. Since many EAs are doing research in t…

This is post 2 of a sequence on my framework for doing and thinking about research. Start here.

Before I get into what exactly to do at each stage of the research process, it's worth reflecting on t…

Introduction

In this post, I present what I believe to be an important yet underexplored argument that fundamentally challenges the promise of cultivated meat. In essence, there are compelling reason…

My upvotes/downvotes are worth 2 points each and my supervotes are worth 6. A person with between 10 and 100 karma on the forum has an upvote worth 1 and a supervote worth 2 (the scaling system is d…

This post is for university group student organizers. We start with the big reason you should run a social, three tips we’re highly certain of, and some additional thoughts.

We think ~40% of the va…

The Guardian reported yesterday on 'The Lunar Hatch' project, which is aiming to send fertilised sea bass eggs into space, so they can farm fish for astronauts.

Lunar Hatch's ultimate aim is to crea…

TLDR: RP's best interventions barely qualify as Health Systems Strengthening - they focus directly on the Health worker and their implementation. Not only these, but almost all HSS interventions ar…

I'm writing this on behalf of the mod team. They've reviewed and commented on this post, but mistakes are mine.

We want and value criticism on the EA Forum. EA organisations often make their decisi…

At the request of @Vasco Grilo🔸 in a post that I can't get out of drafts, here's the full linkpost.

Original post is below:

So this post is an argument that multi-decade timelines are reasonable, an…