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Executive summary: Advanced AI digital agents will fundamentally change how people consume news in the next 5-10 years, leading to a fragmented, polarized, and decentralized media landscape.
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Executive summary: Partisanship has been detrimental to the environmental movement, leading to decreased public support, difficulty passing legislation, and inconsistent executive actions.
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Executive summary: The number of farmed animals, especially small animals like fish, shrimp, and insect larvae, is extremely large and raises questions about the scale of animal welfare considerations in agriculture.
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Executive summary: The number of farmed animals, especially small animals like fish, shrimp, and insect larvae, is extremely large and raises questions about the scale of animal welfare considerations in agriculture.
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Executive summary: The EA Survey reveals that Global poverty, AI risk, and Biosecurity are the highest prioritized causes, with longtermist causes being favored especially among highly-engaged EAs, and that key philosophical ideas are associated with cause prioritization.
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Executive summary: The Giving What We Can Pledge involves several misconceptions, and clarifying these can better inform potential pledgers about the flexibility and impact of their commitment.
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Executive summary: Caspar Oesterheld shares insights into his conceptual research process, highlighting the importance of immersion, goal-orientation balanced with curiosity, and iterative high-level thinking alongside narrow projects.
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Executive summary: Despite the increasing risks of nuclear war, philanthropic funding for nuclear security has significantly decreased, presenting a critical funding gap that smaller donors could potentially fill.
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Executive summary: The partisanship of environmentalism in the United States emerged in the 1990s due to specific alliances formed between environmentalists, climate scientists, Democratic politicians, fossil fuel companies, climate skeptics, and conservative think tanks.
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Executive summary: Brain preservation via chemical fixation and fluid storage is a speculative but potentially cost-effective intervention for saving lives in the long-term, depending on key assumptions about the probability of successful future revival.
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