Effective Altruism News
Effective Altruism News
- Transforming Workplace Diets: Key to Reducing the Surge in Diabetes gloireri Thu, 04/24/2025 - 07:36 . The number of adults living with diabetes has more than doubled over the span of 30 years, rising from 7% in 1990 to more than 14% in 2022.1 An estimated 828 million adults worldwide currently live with diabetes, and if trends continue, this is projected to reach 1.3 billion by 2050.2.
- Converting to a for-profit model would undermine the company's founding mission to ensure AGI "benefits all of humanity," argues new letter. This is the full text of a post from Obsolete, a Substack that I write about the intersection of capitalism, geopolitics, and artificial intelligence.
- In a word: compute
- I'm in the process of setting up The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience at the LSE, and I have two new job ads out: Research Officer in Animal Sentience (Animals and AI) - this is an open-ended, research-focused postdoctoral role looking at the impacts AI is having on non-human animals, ways of promoting beneficial uses, and ways of ameliorating harmful uses.
- The UC Berkeley School of Information (I School) and the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) are pleased to announce that Varoon Bashyakarla, a second-year Master of Information and Cybersecurity (MICS)…. The post Varoon Bashyakarla Chosen to Represent I School and CLTC as 2025 RSAC Security Scholar appeared first on CLTC.
- new articles, lessonline, and samotsvety coming to nyc in june
- A new scientific approach
- For National Cold Brew Day on April 20, coffee chains around the United States offered various deals in celebration of this fa-brew-lous holiday. Despite the steep discounts available to customers across coffee chains on this day, some chains always charge extra for one particular selection: plant-based milk. Luckily, the coffee industry has shifted toward a […].
- Crosspost from my blog that you should totally check out! . If I were an animal, I would be a bug. Statistically. — David Sposito. C.S. Lewis once said, “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance.
- For all my lifetime, futurists have had a dream, of humanity coming together to consciously decide its fate.
- It's hard to write a guide to being good at ownership.
- This article is an excerpt from the book Our Tools They Deserve and has been modified specifically for publication by ClearerThinking.org...
- tl;dr: Even if we can't solve alignment, we can solve the problem of catching and fixing misalignment. If a child is bowling for the first time, and they just aim at the pins and throw, they’re almost certain to miss. Their ball will fall into one of the gutters.
- In his free time, while working as a clerk at a local Australian railway, James Harrison saved millions of lives — with his blood. Harrison had particularly special plasma: It had a rare antibody that doctors used to make a medication for pregnant mothers with different blood types from their newborns. When this happens, it […]...
- Starting out in your career—or shifting to a new field—can feel like a catch-22. You need experience to get a job, but you need a job to get experience. Internships can help break that cycle by offering a chance to get that first bit of experience. They offer a chance... Read more...
- New EA Animal Welfare Fund grantees, black soldier fly welfare research funding, and Liv Boeree's interview with Lewis Bollard
- Ducks are the second most slaughtered land animal on the planet, but campaigns against the consumption of duck meat are rare. This blog explores what it would take to put ducks on animal advocates’ agenda. The post Why Don’t More Animal Advocates Talk About Ducks? appeared first on Faunalytics.
- One of the most distinctive features of effective altruism is the use of the importance, tractability, and neglectedness framework for evaluating charities.
- A video with over a million views is filled with easily checkable falsehoods
- Imagine you didn't know what money was.
- Break into AI policy – No tech background needed | Job Blast 🚀 Consulting experience wanted: 10 top roles, and 3 AI policy programs with May deadlines. ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ...
- EA Forum Digest #237 Hello!. Another reminder that DIY Debate Week is next week. We’ll release our new polls-in-posts feature on Monday, so you can ask the Forum community anything you like, and they can answer on a sliding scale. Also, you can add our Forum events calendar to your Google Calendar and never miss a forum event.
- The wave two open research dataset from the Global Flourishing Study (GFS) — one of the most comprehensive studies on wellbeing ever conducted — is now available to researchers.
- The post Open position: Engagement Specialist appeared first on 80,000 Hours.
- Consider the transistor, the basic unit of computer processors. Transistors can be tiny, down to single-digit nanometers in size. Billions can fit on a computer chip. Though they have no moving parts, they devour electricity as they store and modify bits of information. “Ones and zeros are encoded as these high and low voltages,” said […]...
- Open Philanthropy’s Farm Animal Welfare team is hiring!. We’re looking for a Program Assistant to support the team’s work to reduce the suffering of farmed animals by managing processes, coordinating logistics, and keeping complex administrative projects on track. We’re looking for someone who is:
- On how good AI might—or might not—get at tasks beyond math & coding...
- How the metal made the material world
- On Tuesday, a pair of documentaries landed on Amazon Prime that put forth a rather bold claim: By simply making a few tweaks to how we farm, humanity can reverse climate change and all but eliminate a host of other problems stemming from our modern food system. The two films — Kiss the Ground, which […]...
- 25th of April 2025 marks the annual World Malaria Day, an opportunity for the worldwide malaria community to highlight the ongoing need for funding and political support in the fight against malaria, share information about differing approaches toward malaria eradication, and celebrate milestones in research. Our campaign this year is aligning with the Global […].
- Member States at the United Nations are currently negotiating the modalities of the Global Dialogue on AI Governance. The outcome document…
- RIP Pope Francis and a particularly interesting apocalyptic prophecy
- Converting to a for-profit model would undermine the company's founding mission to ensure AGI "benefits all of humanity," argues new letter
- How do we get out of here?
- We are announcing the open position for the role of General Director at AWO. As part of a planned transformation process, the organization is adopting a horizontal co-leadership model led by a team of four people (plus the general director). This strategic shift is aimed at strengthening our internal structure and enhancing collaboration and efficiency in our work.
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- Epistemic status: Like all alignment ideas, this one is incomplete and/or wrong, but I am hoping mostly incomplete and not wrong. One of the hard subproblems of alignment is constructing a "stable pointer to value" (see this overview and this (sub)sequence discussing OU agents).
- We recognize our supporters and respond to our critics
- If you take away one thing from our chapter in the World Happiness Report, it should be that: Using evidence, it’s now possible to find the best charities at increasing happiness. And by donating to the best ones, you can do hundreds, if not thousands, of times more good. The post What is the best charity to donate to? appeared first on Happier Lives Institute.
- Frontier AI development relies on powerful AI supercomputers. To train AI models with exponentially more compute, companies have developed massive systems like xAI’s Colossus, that contain up to 200,000 specialized AI chips, cost billions of dollars to build, and require hundreds of MW of power—equivalent to a medium-sized city.
- By Dr. Esther Njoroge-Muriithi, chief growth officer, Fistula Foundation When I stepped into the room at Nkwen Baptist Hospital in Bamenda, Cameroon, I expected to meet six incredible women—women who had undergone successful fistula treatment and returned simply to say “thank you” to Fistula Foundation. I was prepared for an emotional encounter; after all, I’ve … Continued.
- The Ultimate in Extreme Ecology: Life Off Planet for Science and Settlement
- What are species? How to determine whether a biological organism belongs to one species or another? These are important questions, with moral implications in animal and environmental ethics. It is very difficult to give a definition of species. In this … Lees verder →...
- 22 April 2025 We mourn the passing of Pope Francis, a steadfast voice for peace in a fractured world. Throughout … More...
- The point I make in this post is quite unlikely to be original.
- On March 12, the UC Berkeley Center for Long Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) hosted an online panel focused on the implications of “open radio access networks,” or Open RAN,…. The post Event Recap: Exploring Open RAN’s Role in Transforming Telecom appeared first on CLTC.
- Announcing 10 AI safety regrantors, with $2m+ total to distribute
- Jeb Bush was right
- Despite the significant role of animal agriculture in climate change, many environmental organizations shy away from this topic. The post Why Aren’t Environmental NGOs Speaking Up About Animal Agriculture? appeared first on Faunalytics.
- A study of Siamese fighting fishes suggests that larger, well-furnished tanks offer more comfortable living spaces and encourage natural activity. The post Life In A Jar Is No Life At All appeared first on Faunalytics.
- Intellectuals should do more than launder vibes
- We currently seek an undercover investigator to join our investigations team. In this role, you will obtain employment at factory farms and slaughterhouses in order to document conditions. Investigators must be prepared to witness unimaginable cruelty and engage in intense manual labor while maintaining their composure and cover to gather information necessary to expose and stop farmed animal...
- A story of aging infrastructure and perverse incentives
- We're thrilled to share the results of our V-March (vegan in March) 2025 campaign! . The numbers speak for themselves: - Reached over 7 million people across China. - More than 70,000 active engagements through comments and shares. - 600+ daily check-ins via our WeChat Mini Program. - 341 Sogdian Trees planted (reclaiming approximately 3410㎡ of desert).
- One year as a Charity Entrepreneur. When we founded NOVAH (No Violence At Home) in April 2024 through the Charity Entrepreneurship incubation program, we had a research-backed hypothesis that edutainment (mixing social messages in entertaining content) could effectively reduce domestic violence (technical term: intimate partner violence, IPV).
- From Presentation to Partnership, Our Journey with Uganda’s office of the Prime Minister gloireri Tue, 04/22/2025 - 11:39 . A single presentation about workforce nutrition became the catalyst for a transformative partnership with Uganda’s office of the prime minister (OPM). When we first introduced the four pillars of workforce nutrition i.e.
- The short film Voices of Hope ~ Words of Wisdom by Marlon Brando brings Brando’s stirring words to life. The post New Short Film: Marlon Brando’s Powerful Message Urges Us to Take Action appeared first on Mercy For Animals.
- An international cast of notable narrators partner with Mercy For Animals to highlight Marlon Brando’s lifetime of advocacy. LOS ANGELES — On April 3, 2024, the world celebrated the 100th birthday of Marlon Brando, one of Hollywood’s most legendary actors and a passionate advocate for human rights, animal welfare and environmental justice. In honor of […].
- Francis Fukuyama’s book is over 30 years old, but the argument he makes has never been more relevant.
- Testimony to the US House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
- I speak to many entrepreneurial people trying to do a large amount of good by starting a nonprofit organisation. I think this is often an error for four main reasons. Scalability. Capital counterfactuals. Standards. Learning potential. Earning to give potential. These arguments are most applicable to starting high-growth organisations, such as startups. Scalability.
- Kelsey Piper and Jasmine Sun talk about microschools, whether localism is the enemy of Abundance, and why Chinese bureaucrats are like Growth PMs.
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- A conclave draws nigh, and tensions run high
- As polls and asking LLMs didn’t give me much insight into which status markers are more adaptive, let me try to think the issue through myself.
- Also Iran nuclear talks, dollar falling, trade disruptions.
- New data supports an exponential AI curve, but lots of uncertainty remains
- Once again Google has made something awesome and completely failed to market it
- READ PAPER ON ARXIV The AI Now Institute has released a new report, Safety Co-Option and Compromised National Security: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Weakened AI Risk Thresholds, sounding the alarm on how today’s AI safety efforts, led primarily by industry technologists, are weakening long-established safety protocols and jeopardizing US national security. This report examines how […].
- 83% true that the Trump administration has disobeyed the Supreme Court so far
- Dear FAST Community,. I'm excited to announce that Vegans Support the Farmers are attending the Landworkers' Alliance "Food In Our Hands" rally in solidarity on Saturday 26th April in central London. Ongoing attempts to hijack the UK’s farming movement by the far-right make it more urgent than ever to unite and put forward our progressive vision for a vibrant, anti-oppressive and...
- Open Phil’s Farm Animal Welfare (FAW) team is looking for a Program Assistant to support their efforts to identify the most promising opportunities for grantmaking to help animals confined on factory farms by facilitating the day-to-day operations of our team’s work. This support role is ideal for someone who is efficient, organized, and cares about the FAW team’s mission.
- Editors’ Note: Reflecting on the novel challenge the Trump administration now poses to civil society, David Morse reflects on the distance traveled from a White House gathering in 2003, one which defined the embrace of voluntarism by Trump’s last Republican predecessor, George W. Bush. Donald Trump’s war on the independence of the independent sector, combined … Continue reading →...
- Are you passionate about creating a positive social impact through entrepreneurship?. Now in its third year, the Kickstarting For Good Incubator (K4G) for social-impact entrepreneurs is calling for applicants to join their 2025 cohort. The incubator is a 15-week program with a total of $200,000 in grants and seed funding awarded to graduating initiatives.
- In an attempt to learn more about status, I asked some polls comparing status markers.
- Considerations about economics, history, training, deployment, investment, and more
- Why you should give to Givewell charities
- Biological sex is both real and important.
- Slogans like “Adopt, don’t shop” encourage people to adopt animals from a shelter or rescue organization. But what can new dog guardians expect thereafter?. The post Adapting After Adoption: Dog Guardians’ Experiences appeared first on Faunalytics.
- Implementing it in Britain destroyed the then-dominant Liberal Party.
- Article in Financial Times -. Excerpts “Multiple staff from US-based foundations and non-profits told the FT that they expected the Trump administration to end their tax exemptions for projects that involved spending overseas or were focused on climate or racial justice. The likelihood has risen since President Trump threatened this week to remove Harvard’s tax exempt status.”.
- Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research.
- Greetings from a world where…...
- You'll do it, if it's for you
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- How much better are the best charities compared to the average charity? And how much better do people think they are? The Happier Lives Institute presents new evidence-based answers to both those questions. The post The best charities to donate to could be more than x50 better than expected appeared first on Happier Lives Institute.
- Without a comparative advantage, cheaper energy imports often help domestic jobs.
- Data from large meta-analyses show that measles vaccination is highly effective and safe, giving a 95% reduction in the risk of measles.
- Discuss...
- Also which AI to use for what, career opportunities, and a drone show
- Editorial note. This report is a “shallow” investigation, as described here, and was commissioned by Open Philanthropy and originally produced by Rethink Priorities from September to October 2024. Open Philanthropy does not necessarily endorse our conclusions, nor do the organizations represented by those who were interviewed... .
- These average Londoners are shocked 🤯 at how their income compares to the rest of the world - and we bet you would be too! To learn more about where you stack up - Watch the full video: https://youtu.be/ekIRVhbpiQw...
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