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Image format that might effective for animal welfare
Left: chicken in tiny box
Cost per chicken over lifetime: X$
Right: chicken in bigger box
Cost per chicken over lifetime: Y$
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Headline finding: I audited 17 AI Safety Talent programmes. Zero of 17 have published any comparison group, rejected-applicant follow-up, matched control or randomisation. Not one. Every programme that mentions a counterfactual does it by asking participants to self-report.
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At least $70 million...
In celebration of still being alive and fighting, we are giving away 1,000 Amazon e-books of “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies”. Feel free to send a copy to yourself, a loved one, or a friend—we need all hands on deck.
Today marks exactly one year since If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All, by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soare...
Two weeks ago, I released a population ethics quiz. 582 people took it.[1] Here's what I learned from reading the responses.
Cross-posted from my website.
Preamble, and a new edition of the quiz
I was worried that I'd...
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Is there a good post explaining what the biggest/easiest wins in animal welfare have been and what easy things can be done next?
There is A Year of Wins for Farmed Animals by Lewis Bollard, Open Phil's program officer for farmed animal welfare, although it's limited to 2023 and none of these big wins have been easy. I'd love to know this as well.