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.
Background
At least $70 million...
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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...
I gave more than I thought I would. In early 2020, I predicted I would give between 11% and 12% of my income to charity in 2020:
However, I actually gave closer to 16%, primarily due to lower expenses, good investment returns, higher earnings, refinancing my loans, and stimulus checks.
That is amazing Cullen!
Was this towards any particular organisations/charities?
As listed here:
I don't think COVID changed my allocation very much, with the exception of the EA Cameroon donation.
May I ask why it is you had decided on this way of donating and how you came to the decision that these projects were the best donate to?