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The Risk of Orbital Debris and One (Cheap) Way to Mitigate It
clans
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Sadly, FTX
Zvi
1mo
17
4
An easier(?) end to the electoral college
ejacob
1d
2
113
Speculation on Current Opportunities for Unusually High Impact in Global Health
johnswentworth
1mo
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Summary of a new study on out-group hate (and how to fix it)
AllAmericanBreakfast
16d
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Geometric Exploration, Arithmetic Exploitation
Scott Garrabrant
26d
4
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Socialist firms as a cause area
Bob Jacobs
23d
74
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Beyond a better world
Davidmanheim
6d
7
220
How my team at Lightcone sometimes gets stuff done
jacobjacob
3mo
41
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Our 2022 Giving
jefftk
17d
0
11
How Many Lives Does X-Risk Work Save From Nonexistence On Average?
Jordan Arel
12d
5
232
What Are You Tracking In Your Head?
johnswentworth
5mo
75
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Transformative VR Is Likely Coming Soon
jimrandomh
2mo
42
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The heritability of human values: A behavior genetic critique of Shard Theory
geoffreymiller
2mo
58
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CEA Disambiguation
jefftk
1d
0
44
patio11's "Observations from an EA-adjacent (?) charitable effort"
RobertM
10d
0
32
Machine Learning Consent
jefftk
12d
14
51
SBF's comments on ethics are no surprise to virtue ethicists
c.trout
19d
29
74
Utilitarianism Meets Egalitarianism
Scott Garrabrant
29d
10
73
Deontology and virtue ethics as "effective theories" of consequentialist ethics
Jan_Kulveit
1mo
6
16
Historical Notes on Charitable Funds
jefftk
16d
0
12
The Categorical Imperative Obscures
Gordon Seidoh Worley
14d
17
16
Against meta-ethical hedonism
Joe Carlsmith
18d
3
33
Estimating the probability that FTX Future Fund grant money gets clawed back
spencerg
1mo
6
12
How should I judge the impact of giving $5k to a family of three kids and two mentally ill parents?
Blake
15d
10
58
We can do better than argmax
Jan_Kulveit
2mo
4
85
The ethics of reclining airplane seats
braces
3mo
74
20
Reflective Consequentialism
Adam Zerner
1mo
14