Interesting post, thanks!! Excited to see discussion of it.

One thing I wonder if it's relevant are the sort of "mixed" pictures? Like, maybe you think totalitarian control of AI would be really bad because it increases the risk of human extinction from misalignment, by increasing the success rate of any attempted AI takeover / making it happen sooner in time (bc a totalitarian might e.g. give more control over to an AI they were using to stay in power).

Or, more vaguely, I sorta feel like if world governments / anyone with ambitions to power think that advanced AI will help them, that's bad news for alignment efforts.

Anyway, that could be something going on for some people I think?

Clothing (there’s a world beyond EAG merch and Uniqlo)

I'm currently wearing a fully Uniqlo outfit and I'm feeling very attacked right now

Thanks Marta!! I'm also really excited for the cartoons hehe. Involved lots of Gdoc comments about which jokes are funnier — my job is so cool!

🚨 New EA book cover to critique 🚨 

http://80000hours.org/book/ 

Tell me all the ways we messed up, and how/why the original was better actually (see for example this excellent alternative design by Catherine: https://x.com/wilhelmscreamin/status/2029302612210626958 )

Thanks for writing this James, interesting / potentially helpful idea! :D

So incredibly excited for everyone to see this video. From my slightly-outsider-insider perspective (I'm managing Chana) I really think the team gave it absolutely everything they had — just an insane amount of effort, thoughtfulness, collaboration, creativity, and love went into this. I hope you all love it as much as I do!!

Here's the message that displays on their page if you have it turned on: 'The Dietary Profile service is currently unavailable while we build a new and improved service which will launch later this year. In the meantime please check individual product pages for further allergen information'

I'm not sure if it always said 'which will launch later this year' but I'm confident it's been broken since 2022 or so.

Sainsbury's used to offer this (called 'dietary profiles', maybe used to be offered in 2021 or so?) but it got broken at some point and they've never fixed it. They're already tagging new products as vegan or not, since they have a 'new + vegan' section, implying they wouldn't need to do any extra categorisation work — so I'm not sure why their dietary profiles are broken.

Hey! This post feels very relevant for me (I'm Director of Growth at 80k, and manage a digital marketing team, haha!). We've spent $mns and years of staff time on growth + digital :)

Three major reasons we don't invest more: 
1. Low capacity to plan + execute campaigns (I failed to hire despite hundreds of hrs of effort in 2024);

2. Slow feedback loops on end-of-funnel outcomes we care most about (people changing their careers can take years)

3. Evidence suggesting that digital marketing is perhaps less likely than other growth channels to find the folks who are most likely to really love our advice (i.e., in for-profit terms, lower CLTV)

Anyway, it seems possible we should connect / chat more about this at some point! :D

I think investing in [shortform] mediums would just be good money chasing after bad.

Interesting!! Curious for any more detail on why you think this, if it's not too annoying to write out :)

if you have in mind content like the highest-quality video essays on YouTube

Yep, that's one of the things I'd be super excited about!!

To that end, earlier this year I helped get started AI in Context, which has been heavily inspired by the awesome creators you mentioned above :)

It sure is time and resource-heavy to get the videos out (we've only managed two so far (working on the third!) even though we hired the first programme staff in early Feb), but my hope is that it's worth it — the reception has been broadly very positive :)