Hello!
This week is right between EAGx Oxford and EAGx Boston, and the Forum is full of reflections, suggestions, and ways to prepare for conferences — take a look, and find more at the “effective altruism conferences” tag.
We recommend:
- Paul Farmer (1959 – 2022) (Gavin Leech)
- AI safety starter pack (Marius Hobbhahn)
- EA should taboo "EA should" (Lizka — me)
- Meditations on careers in AI Safety (Pablo AMC)
- Critique of OpenPhil's macroeconomic policy advocacy (Hauke Hillebrandt)
- Awards for the Future Fund's Project Ideas Competition (Nick Beckstead)
- Impactful Forecasting Prize Results and Reflections (Eli Lifland and Misha Yagudin)
- “Should you use EA in your group name?” An update on PISE's naming experiment (Amarins, Joris P)
- Career story: why I decided to leave corporate for now (Yufeng Tao)
- Nuclear Expert Comment on Samotsvety Nuclear Risk Forecast (Josh Rosenberg and J. Peter Scoblic)
Questions seeking answers:
- I'm interviewing Nova Das Sarma about AI safety and information security. What shouId I ask her? (Robert Wiblin)
- What pieces of ~historical research have been action-guiding for you, or for EA? (Rose Hadshar)
- Will the next global conflict be more like World War I (bloody stalemates)? And what does this mean in a world with nuclear weapons? (Florian Jehn)
Classic post:
We also want to feature a classic Forum post this week: Use resilience, instead of imprecision, to communicate uncertainty (Greg Lewis).
We don't have room for every good post. See the All Posts page for more!
You can see all of our past classic reposts here.
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