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Miranda_Zhang

Operations Generalist @ Anthropic
1189 karmaJoined Working (0-5 years)Oakland, CA, USA
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Bio

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Operations Generalist at Anthropic & former President of UChicago Effective Altruism. Suffering-focused.

Currently testing fit for operations. Tentative long-term plan involves AI safety field-building or longtermist movement-building, particularly around s-risks and suffering-focused ethics.

Cause priorities: suffering-focused ethics, s-risks, meta-EA, AI safety, wild animal welfare, moral circle expansion.

How others can help me

  • Learn more about s-risk: talk to me about what you think!
  • Learn how to get the most out of my first job and living in the Bay Area
  • Seek advice on how to become excellent at operations (and/or ways to tell that I may be a better fit for community-building or research)

How I can help others

  • Talk about university groups community-building
  • Be a sounding board for career planning (or any meta-EA topic)
  • Possibly connect you to other community-builders

Sequences
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Building My Scout Mindset

Comments
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Some governance research ideas to prevent malevolent control over AGI and why this might matter a hell of a lot
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Thanks a lot for your work on this neglected topic!

You mention,

Those counter-considerations seem potentially as strong as the motivations I list in favor of a focus on malevolent actors. 

Could you give more detail on which of the counter-considerations (and motivations) you consider strongest?

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If you could make a second EA forum with a different vibe to this one, what would it be like?
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People being less scared to post! (FWIW I think this has increasingly become the case)

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On sincerity
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Thanks for this - I think this captures a quality (or set of qualities?) that has previously not had so accurate a handle! I think, in many ways, sincerity is the quality that leads people to really 'take seriously' (i.e., follow through in a coherent way) the project of doing good.

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Building my Scout Mindset: #1
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Haha aw, thanks! I would love to keep doing these some day.

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Criticism of the 80k job board listing strategy
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To clarify, I agree that 80k is the main actor who could + should change people's perceptions of the job board!

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Criticism of the 80k job board listing strategy
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I find myself slightly confused - does 80k ever promote jobs they consider harmful (but ultimately worth it if the person goes on to leverage that career capital)?

My impression was that all career-capital building jobs were ~neutral or mildly positive. My stance on the 80k job board—that the set up is largely fine, though the perception of it needs shifting—would change significantly if 80k were listing jobs they thought were net negative if they didn't expect the person to later take an even higher-impact role because of the net negative job.

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We’re still (extremely) funding constrained (but don’t let fear of getting funding stop you trying).
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I always appreciate reading your thoughts on the EA community; you are genuinely one of my favorite writers on meta-EA!

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JP Addison's Quick takes
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woah! I haven't tried it yet but this is really exciting! the technical changes to the Forum have seemed impressive to me so far. I also just noticed that the hover drop-down on the username is more expanded, which is visually unappealing but probably more useful.

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