EA Forum Digest #293
Animal welfare, meta-traps, and new ways to give
Hello!
80,000 Hours’ book is out in the US today. And EA Forum readers might be particularly interested in the Worldview Investigations Researcher role at Rethink Priorities — you can think about cause prioritisation all day.
— Toby (for the Forum team)
We recommend:
Why now might be the best time ever to start an animal charity (Ambitious Impact, multiple authors, 6 min)
Does disaster frequency follow power laws? It’s complicated (titotal, 16 min, link-post)
Donating 80% While It Still Counts (Jeff Kaufman 🔸, 6 min)
Will we really put data centers in space? (Forethought, Aviel Parrack, finm, 5 min)
Nature’s value mostly doesn’t come from present-day benefits to humanity (Tandena Wagner, 9 min)
Fortify Health’s Lessons from Scaling (Tony Senanayake, 17 min), and relatedly, What a Decade of Iron Funding Has Taught Us (GiveWell, 3 min)
Are Mythos’ Cyber Capabilities Overstated? - Yes and No (Muhan Luo🔸, 12 min)
A foundation’s investments could do as much good as its grants, potentially (Sanjay, 12 min)
Community
Stewardship in EA’s Most Important Era (Sam Anschell, 5 min)
A personal letter on transformative AI (George Rosenfeld, 1 min, link-post)
Announcements:
Updates from organisations
Announcing the Rethink Priorities Cross-Cause Fund (Rethink Priorities, 18 min)
80,000 Hours (the book) launched in the US (Bella, quick take)
Job listings
Rethink Priorities is hiring. (Bob Fischer, Rethink Priorities, 1 min)
Head of Community Engagement US (Giving What We Can🔸, James Rayton 🔸, 1 min)
Head of Community Engagement UK (Giving What We Can🔸, James Rayton 🔸, 1 min)
Other opportunities to take action
Announcing the Impact Accelerator Program’s Entrepreneurship Track (High Impact Professionals, multiple authors, 3 min)
Announcing the Frontier Biodefense Fellowship (deadline 2 June) (multiple authors, 4 min)
Classic Forum post:
EA risks falling into a “meta trap”. But we can avoid it. (Peter Wildeford, 8 min)