We're sharing some posts from the last week, which I shared in the most recent Digest.
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We recommend:
- Why I don’t agree with HLI’s estimate of household spillovers from therapy (James Snowden, 6 min)
- Remote Health Centers In Uganda - a cost effective intervention? (Nick Laing, 10 min)
- Why I think it's important to work on AI forecasting (Matthew Barnett, 12 min)
- What does Bing Chat tell us about AI risk? and How major governments can help with the most important century (Holden Karnofsky, 2 min, 5 min)
- Make RCTs cheaper: smaller treatment, bigger control groups (Rory Fenton, 4 min)
- Every Generator Is A Policy Failure (Lauren Gilbert, link-post)
- Some more projects I’d like to see (finm, 29 min)
- Community
- Why I love effective altruism (Michelle Hutchinson, 6 min)
- Who is Uncomfortable Critiquing Who, Around EA? (Ozzie Gooen, 13 min)
- Consent Isn't Always Enough (Jeff Kaufman, 4 min)
- Enemies vs Malefactors (So8res, 6 min)
- On Philosophy Tube's Video on Effective Altruism (Jessica Wen, 4 min)
Announcements:
- Manifund Impact Market / Mini-Grants Round On Forecasting (Scott Alexander)
- Conferences
- 2023 Stanford Existential Risks Conference (Elizabeth Cooper)
- Conference on EA hubs and offices, expression of interest (Tereza_Flidrova, Peter Elam, booritney)
- Apply to attend EA conferences in Europe (Ollie Base, EAGxCambridge 2023, EAGxNordics)
- EA Global in 2022 and plans for 2023 (Eli Nathan)
- Take action
- Help GiveDirectly kill "teach a man to fish" (GiveDirectly)
- Metaculus user survey (Christian)
- Other updates & resources
- Worldview Investigations Team: An Overview (Rethink Priorities, Bob Fischer)
- Updates from the Mental Health Funder's Circle (wtroy)
- Let's Fund: Better Science impact evaluation. Registered Reports now available in Nature (Hauke Hillebrandt)
- Introducing EASE, a managed directory of EA Organization Service Providers (many authors)
- Taking a leave of absence from Open Philanthropy to work on AI safety (Holden Karnofsky)
- 80,000 Hours has been putting much more resources into growing our audience (Bella, 80000_Hours)
- EA content in French: Announcing EA France’s translation project and our translation coordination initiative (Louise Verkin)
- EA Israel: 2022 Progress and 2023 Plans (ezrah)
Classic Forum post:
- Moral trade (EA Forum wiki page)