Consider donating to the Malaria Consortium, or the Against Malaria Foundation.
I've been looking for options for ethical savings/investment aligned with EA ideas (particularly options that don't just fund projects in your home country).
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/JqCoJWH7JXnrWeGi4/what-do-you-do-with-your-savings made me aware of Mintos...
In this "quick take", I want to summarize some my idiosyncratic views on AI risk.
My goal here is to list just a few ideas that cause me to approach the subject differently from how I perceive most other EAs view the topic. These ideas largely push me in the direction...
I want to say thank you for holding the pole of these perspectives and keeping them in the dialogue. I think that they are important and it's underappreciated in EA circles how plausible they are.
(I definitely don't agree with everything you have here, but typically my view is somewhere between what you've expressed and what is commonly expressed in x-risk focused spaces. Often also I'm drawn to say "yeah, but ..." -- e.g. I agree that a treacherous turn is not so likely at global scale, but I don't think it's completely out of the question, and given that I think it's worth serious attention safeguarding against.)
Explicit +1 to what Owen is saying here.
(Given that I commented with some counterarguments, I thought I would explicitly note my +1 here.)
The obvious example would be synthetic biology, gain-of-function research, and similar.
Can you explain why you suspect these things should be more regulated than they currently are?
This is a linkpost for Animals in Cost-Benefit Analysis by Andrew Stawasz. The article is forthcoming in the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform.
...Federal agencies’ cost-benefit analyses do not capture nonhuman animals’ (“animals’”) interests. This omission matters. Cost-benefit analysis drives many regulatory decisions that substantially affect many billions of animals. That omission creates a regulatory blind spot that is untenable as a matter of morality and of policy.
This Article advances two claims related to valuing animals in cost-benefit analyses. The Weak Claim argues that agencies typically may do so. No legal prohibitions usually exist, and such valuation is within agencies’ legitimate discretion. The Strong Claim argues that agencies often must do so if a policy would substantially affect animals. Cost-benefit analysis is concerned with improving welfare, and no
Originally posted on my blog
A very interesting discussion I came across online between Cosmicskeptic (Alex) and Earthlings Ed (Ed Winters) brought forth several points that I have wondered about in the past. In one segment, Alex poses the following question: ...
Executive summary: The definition of veganism is ambiguous and arbitrary, and a more nuanced view is needed that recognizes the continuum of harm reduction and the varying levels of effort required by individuals in different circumstances.
Key points:
My recommended readings/resources for community builders/organisers
In a recent announcement, Manifold Markets say they will change the exchange rate for your play-money (called "Mana") from 1:100 to 1:1000. Importantly, one of the ways to use this Mana is to do charity donations.
TLDR: The CTA here is to log in to your Manifold account ...
If incremental funding to Manifold isn't 10x more effective than effective charities, somebody should fund 10x cheaper rebuys for anyone who is planning to keep their mana through the devaluation, so their current balance can go to charity at 100:1.
My definition of “capitalism” is:
An economy with capital markets (in addition to markets in goods and services).
Most of my friends and acquaintances generally don’t have a precise definition of “capitalism”, but use the word to mean something like:
...The
As other users have noted, the presence of unregulated markets does not necessarily make a capitalist system. Market socialism is a thing, and mutualism is one of the oldest kinds of anarchism.
The systems of the EZLN and Rojava are both minimally regulated and explicitly anti-capital. It's worth noting that the EZLN has increased quality of life for Zapatistas compared to other peasants who live in similar conditions under the Mexican government.
This article is part of a series of ~10 posts comprising a 2024 State of the AI Regulatory Landscape Review, conducted by the Governance Recommendations Research Program at Convergence Analysis. Each post will cover a specific domain of AI governance (e.g...
Executive summary: Cybersecurity of frontier AI models is a key concern for AI labs and regulators, with a focus on protecting user data, model weights, codebases, and training data from leaks that could enable misuse or accelerate competition.
Key points:
Thanks to Eli Lifland, Molly Hickman, Değer Turan, and Evan Miyazono for reviewing drafts of this post. The opinions expressed here are my own.
Summary:
FRI went further and quantitatively estimated how important each crux was - a great starting point towards an adversarially-collaborated synthesis.
And you can too! We evaluated cruxes on two axes: "value of information" (VOI) and "value of discrimination" (VOD). Essentially: VOI is how much someone expects to gain by finding out the answer to a given crux question (with respect to an ultimate question), and VOD is how much two people expect to converge on the ultimate question when they find out the answer to the crux question.
There's a google sheets...
You might want to reach out to the author of this post to see if they got anywhere with their research
I can only echo what I said on that post, Energise Africa lets you invest in bonds, it used to be just for solar panels but they've expanded recently to other things like electric forklifts
You can invest via your ISA too
The platform itself I think is stable and reliable, though the companies themselves do occasionally go under - I think rising interest rates over the past couple of years hit some of these companies hard. When I have time later I'll go thro... (read more)