EA Lifestyles

I am on a one-woman mission to remind everyone that EA includes: -vegan and wants a good future for the animals -donates 10% to effective climate charities -tiny biosecurity charity -government peeps -works a 9 to 5 and buys bed nets -and so many more

met yudkowsky in london, much softer and warmer than i expected

the “befriend ambitious people” theory of building your own ambition really does work if your friend group contains a person starting a multimillion dollar fund, a person running a hedge fund, a person running a new university, it really does raise your sense of the possible

refreshing

Some simple & creative ways to say you're not enjoying a social event: "did you mean for this to be type 2 fun?" "do you typically exempt your events from counterfactual use of time considerations?" "is the feedback form anonymous?"

Is this the third daily show x ea crossover?

@timhwang @MargRev I want to request EA Garfield but let's be real, Garfield is ngmi as an EA

Today, I'm pleased to announce that we are extending the technology behind rationalistgarfield.com to a new stream which converts @MargRev into a daily Garfield strip at marginalgarfield.com. We call this breakthrough enterprise platform The Garfield Intelligence Layer (GIL).

Proud to be launching a new service today that pulls the latest posts from @lesswrong and produces a topical Garfield comic daily rationalistgarfield.com

upskilling rn 🙏🙏

The Optimist by @keachhagey is incredibly well-sourced. And thanks to the transparency of EA culture, it explains in almost banal detail how #TheBlip went down. It was just an inexperienced leader & board's poor attempt at outmaneuvering a political mastermind.

@wilhelmscreamin I've heard the same take about the publishing industry actually. Publishers are desperate for good book proposals, constantly constantly searching

i don't understand why people think there are too many podcasts. there are like 3-4 good podcasts in the world. i would love there to be more good podcasts

list of good podcasts

There should be a version of ‘earn to give’ that’s something like ‘get pretty to persuade’ I can’t think of a way to say this that doesn’t feel mean, but I think if you have a cause you really care about, and are lacking in basic hygiene practices, you’re leaving money on the table We’re wired to take fitter & more hygienic/presentable people more seriously than someone who eg clearly needs a shower and a hair cut. You may not want the world to work that way, but it just does I’m a little worried I’m going to get torn apart for posting this, but I genuinely want to see the people working on important causes have the best fighting chance to achieve their goals

the lengthy illegible footnote caveat is a highly advanced protest sign move

this is a famously seductive piece of cope that has ensnared many people over the years what actually happens is that when you say yes, you *become* (both then and slowly over time as you navigate the moral maze) the person with less values and kindness x.com/JeremyNoronha/…

They say don't meet your heroes, but mine seemed nice enough, if a bit quiet.

unironically this is our book club loll let us know if you wanna read about personal identity with a bunch of ai nerds

Not typically a fan of rage bait, but swapping isomorphic and orthogonal is genius and the reply guys are running in like rats to cheese

effective altruism??

Anthropic's founders and employees are about to have a lot of cash. Many of them have pledged to give away huge amounts of that cash. But where's it gonna go? @cogcelia took a look in this excellent new piece: