Hello everyone,

I am Pacifique Niyorurema from Rwanda. I was introduced to the EA movement last year (2022). I did the introductory program and felt overwhelmed by the content, 80k hours podcast, Slack communities, local groups, and literature. having a background in economics and mission aligning with my values and beliefs, I felt I have found my place. I am pretty excited to be in this community. with time, I plan to engage more in the communities and contribute as an active member. I tend to lean more on meta EA, effective giving and governance, and poverty reduction.

Best.

Would other people find it helpful if I write an article detailing "reasons to be skeptical of working as an independent researcher?" The reasons will come from a mixture of interviews, first-principle thinking, reading past work on this topic by other people (including RP's work), some of my own experiences in research, and my observations as a grantmaker on LTFF.

"Agree"-vote if helpful, "Disagree" if not helpful; assume my nearest counterfactual is writing a different post drawn from the same distribution as my past posts or comments, particularly LTFF-related ones.

The Long-Term Future Fund is somewhat funding constrained. In addition, we (I) have written a number of docs and announcement that we hope to publicly release in the next 1-3 weeks. In the meantime, I recommend anti-x-risk donors who think they might want to donate to LTFF to hold off on donating until after our posts are out next month, to help them make informed decisions about where best to donate to. The main exception of course is funding time-sensitive projects from other charities.

I will likely not answer questions now but will be happy to do so after the docs are released.

(I work for the Long-term Future Fund as a fund manager aka grantmaker. Historically this has been entirely in a volunteer capacity, but I've recently started being paid as I've ramped my involvement up).

Hi! I'm Alyssa. I've been abstractly in favor of EA since around 2014ish when I first encountered it in the LessWrong-sphere, and actively doing the 10%-donations thing since starting my first job post-college in 2021. I've been adjacent to the EA community throughout all of time, but haven't been contributing much to it myself; thus, prior to now, my interactions with the EA forum have been purely reading-ish, rather than posting-ish. But now I've finally found something worth posting about! And thus I'm now here, introducing myself for real.

The 'thing worth posting about' in question is: slightly under two weeks ago, I found an EA channel in my company's Slack, including a nice straightforward pointer to "here are the various EA charities which the company is willing to do donation-matching towards". Previously, I'd looked up various particularly-effective charities in the company's donation-matching tool and found that it wasn't matching with any of them; but, despite this, there apparently are some it matches with! (In particular, CEA's various funds.) My company does up to $10,000 in donation-matching per person per year; I've been entirely missing that opportunity, due to not knowing the right search to find charities-relevant-to-me it's willing to match donations to; as of joining this channel, I now have that knowledge. This is going to let me move significantly more money, over upcoming years.

...and that channel, whose information is going to let me move tens of thousands of extra dollars over the next few years, only has 20 people in it currently. In a tech company with multiple hundreds of thousands of employees. It seems overwhelmingly likely that there are many more effective altruists at my company who are in the same position as me-as-of-two-weeks-ago, wishing they could get matches on their donations-to-EA-charities and not realizing that they have actually-practical options for means by which to do so.

So this has me thinking: at my company alone, there's most likely an opportunity to move tens-to-hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in matched donations by just advertising that channel, or the information therein, better. (Or more, if I roll a critical hit on successful advertising, but I'm currently expecting to get only a handful of people, given my inexperience with the field.) I've started scheming, accordingly, about how to spread the word within my company's internal systems.

But I've also started thinking: there exists more than one company. Most likely, there exists more than one company with circumstances similar to those in mine, donation-matching systems and other such impact-multiplying opportunities which large fractions of their EA-inclined employees either don't know about or don't know how to take advantage of. Therefore, it seems to me that the thing to do here isn't just to advertise company-specific EA resources within my company's channels for such things, but also to set up a larger public list. For each company, here are any relevant links to any EA subcommunity / company-specific EA-resource-listing / etc. that might exist for that company.

I myself don't have the skills to assemble or maintain such a list in well-optimized fashion, currently. I wouldn't know how to search-engine-optimize it, or how to keep its information accurate and up-to-date in the face of how it will almost certainly require submissions-from-the-public, or suchlike. And thus I figure this forum is the natural place to turn, likely to contain people who both have relevant skills and are likely to value employing those skills towards the end of creating and maintaining such a list. (Or, perhaps, to contain people who have arguments-I-have-yet-to-think-of regarding why this isn't as high-value an enterprise as it currently appears to me that it's likely to be, such that I should deprioritize it actually.)

(...possibly I should be making a top-level post about this, rather than just dumping it in the open thread like this? But I am sufficiently unfamiliar with local norms about what warrants top-level posting, currently, that I'm erring on the side of at least starting with this open-thread-post, instead.)

Hi everyone, I'm Claudia!

I found out about Effective Altruism through the Waking Up app. Sam Harris brought William MacAskill as a guest to speak about Being Good and Doing Good, and it really resonated with me. The Waking Up app already did a great job in making me contemplate on what it means to live a considered life, and then hearing about EA really got me thinking about my career and how I can contribute to the world.

I'm currently a Product Manager at a B2B startup, working remotely and based in Singapore. After reading the career guide from 80,000 hours, I found that operations management is probably the best career path for me at the moment, so I'm considering what options I can take to eventually get to Operations at a high impact organization. If anyone has a similar experience of pivoting from product management / working in startups to operations management, I'd love to get your advice!

I'm excited to be here, and looking forward to contributing to the EA community.

Hi, I'm an undergraduate psychology student from Moldova. I found effective altruism when I was searching for a list of serious global problems when I was trying to write some fiction.

Now I'm trying to learn more about affective neuroscience and brain simulation in the hope that this information could help with AI alignment and safety.

Anyways, good luck with whatever you're working on.

Hello everyone, 

I am Joel Mwaura Kuiyaki from Kenya. I was introduced to the EA movement by a friend thinking it might be one of those normal lessons but I actually was intrigued and really enjoyed the first Intro sessions we had. It was what I had been looking for for a long while.

I intend to specialize in Effective giving, governance, and longtermism. 

However, I am still interested in learning more about other cause areas and implementing them. 

Hello everyone,

I am Janos, a newbie member of two days.  Originally from Hungary but have been living in London since late 1950's.

Interested in systemic reform of the current version of "capitalism" which is not capitalism as Adam Smith taught us.

I consider Effective Altruism as an immediate response to current suffering, like a First Aid service. But it has to run in parallel with effective efforts to transform a structurally faulty global system. 

As I see that problem, it is based on a bad economic model which is structured to extract the wealth created socially, and transfer it to the top percentile of a population.

PS

I have a self-taught economist's detailed view of the "nuts'n'bolts analysis of the problem...

(Cross-posted on the EA Anywhere Slack and a few other places)

I have, and am willing to offer to EA members and organizations upon request, the following generalist skills: 

• Facilitation. Organize and run a meeting, take notes, email follow-ups and reminders, whatever you need. I don't need to be an expert in the topic, I don't need to personally know the participants. I do need a clear picture of the meeting's purpose and what contributions you're hoping to elicit from the participants. 
• Technical writing. More specifically, editing and proofreading, which don't require I fully understand the subject matter. I am a human Hemingway Editor. I have been known to cut a third of the text out of a corporate document while retaining all relevant information to the owner's satisfaction. I viciously stamp out typos. 
• Presentation review and speech coaching. I used to be terrified of public speaking. I still am, but now I'm pretty good at it anyway. I have given prepared and impromptu talks to audiences of dozens-to-hundreds and I have coached speakers giving company TED talks to thousands. A friend who reached out to me for input said my feedback was "exceedingly helpful". If you plan to give a talk and want feedback on your content, slides, or technique, I would be delighted to advise. 

I am willing to take one-off or recurring requests. I reserve the right to start charging if this starts taking up more than a couple hours a week, but for now I'm volunteering my time and the first consult will always be free (so you can gauge my awesomeness for yourself). Message me or email me at optimiser.joe@gmail.com if you're interested. 

We should use quick posts a lot more. And anyone doing the more typical long posts should ALWAYS do the TLDRS I see many doing. It will help not scare people off. Im new to these forums, joined about a month ago coming in from first hearing Will M on Sam Harris a few times, reading doing good better, listening to lots of 80k hours pods and doing the trial giving what we can pledge, joining EA everywhere slack etc. But I find the vast majority of these forum posts extremely unapproachable. I consider myself a pretty smart guy and I’m pretty into reading books and listening to pods, but I’m still quite put off by the constant wall of words I get delivered by the forum digest (a feature I love!) I have enjoyed a few posts I’ve found and skimmed. It’s just that the main content is usually way too much.

Hi everyone, I'm Connor. I'm an economics PhD student at UChicago. I've been tangentially interested in the EA movement for years, but I've started to invest more after reading What We Owe The Future. In about a month, I'm attending a summer course hosted by the Forethought Foundation, so I look forward to learning even more.

I intend to specialize in development and environmental economics, so I'm most interested in the global health and development focus area of EA. However, I look forward to learning more about other causes.

I'm also hoping to learn more about how to orient my research and work towards EA topics and engage with the community during my studies.

What exactly does the "Request for Feedback" button do when writing a post? I began a post, clicked the aforementioned button, and my post got saved as a draft, with no other visible feedback as to what was happening, or whether the request was successful, or what would happen next.

Also, I kind of expected that I'd be able to mention what kind of feedback I'm actually interested in; a generic request for feedback is unlikely to give me the kind of feedback I'm interested in, after all. Is the idea here to add a draft section with details re: the request for feedback, or what?

Hello! I'm just here to introduce myself as I think I'm a bit of an unusual effective altruist. I am an astrobiologist and my research focuses on the search for life on Mars. Before discovering effective altruism I was always very interested in the long term future of life in the context of looming existential risks. I thought the best thing to do was to send life to other planets so that it would survive in a worst case scenario. But a masters degree later, I got into effective altruism and decided that this cause was a 10/10 on importance, 10/10 on neglectedness, and 1/10 on tractability. 

So my focus has changed more recently as I progress through my PhD. I'm interested in the moral implications of astrobiology as it plays a really important role at the core of longtermism. There are a few moral implications that depend on astrobiology research: 

1. Research conclusion: The universe and our Solar System are full of habitable celestial bodies. Moral implication: The number of potential future humans is huge in the long term future, so we ought to protect these people through research into existential risks. 
2. Research conclusion: The universe seems to be empty of life. Moral Implication: Life on Earth is extremely valuable, so ensuring its survival should be the highest moral priority.
3. Research conclusion: Planets like Earth are extremely rare and far away. Moral implication: "there is no planet B" - we ought to protect our Earth for the next ~1000 years as there is no backup plan

I plan to investigate these ideas further and see where they lead me. I think that as I progress in my career, I can equip philosophy and outreach to help people understand the long term perspective and inspire action towards tackling existential risks. Great to meet you all!

Hi everyone, I'm Paul, a software engineer based in Münster, Germany.

I came across Effective Altruism because of the book by William MacAskill a few years ago. Later, I came in contact with 80.000 hours, giving what we can and many of their representatives in various podcasts/books/articles. I consider Effective Altruism one of the greatest movements I have come across and I feel very grateful for being able to contribute.

Up until now, I have "only" earned to give. But having recently quit my job and having had a few start-up experiences, I now want to go looking for common problems in the main cause area problem spaces, to solve them and directly contribute to them.

Does anyone work in the field and is aware of major problems? Would you be willing to have a short chat with me?
 

If anyone needs advice on all things software, I would be happy to help out as well.

I'm happy to be here, and look forward to contributing to EA.

Hi. I am posting under my real name. I have been effectively banned from less wrong for non actionable reasons. The moderators made a bunch of false accusations publicly without giving me a chance to review or rebut any of them. I believe it was because I don't think AI is necessarily inevitably going to cause genocide and that obvious existing techniques in software should allow us to control AI. This view seems to be banned from discussion, with downvotes used to silence anyone discussing it. I was curious if this moderation action applied here.

The chief moderator, Raemon, has sanctioned me twice with no prior warning of any misconduct, making up new rules explicitly used against me. He has openly stated he believes in rapid foom - aka extremely rapid world takeover by an AI system which continues to self replicate at an exponential rate, with doubling times somewhere in the days to weeks.

Hello! My name is Dawson. I am near to completing my PhD in aerospace engineering. I recently switched to working remotely and I have been missing collaborative projects and working with people. 

If you know of projects, volunteer opportunities, or part-time jobs that would benefit from someone with an engineering research background, please let me know! My primary goal is having a regular reason to talk with people, and I would love to use that time to contribute to EA rather than working at a coffee shop or something. (I'm reading through the EA list of opportunities as well, but I thought I would post something here just in case someone reading this knows of an opportunity)

A thought, with low epistemic confidence:

Some wealthy effective altruists argue that by accumulating more wealth, they can ultimately donate more in the long run. While this may initially seem like a value-neutral approach, they reinforce an unequal rather than altruistic distribution of power.

Widening wealth disparities and consolidating power in the hands of a few, further marginalises those who are already disadvantaged. As we know, more money is not inherently valuable. Instead, it is how much someone has relative to others that influences its exchange value, and therefore influence over scarce resources in a zero-sum manner with other market participants, including recipients of charity and their benefactors.

I was doing the 80,000 hours career guide, but I suppose it's too ambitious for me. I just want to work for an org with a good altruistic mission, not completely maximize my impact. What's the career advice for that? I've been doing full-stack web dev for 11 years now, so I've learned a thing or two about running big complicated projects, at least in the software world, but I think this transfers, since complexity is complexity.

I looked at the orgs listed in the software dev career path, but they didn't seem very inspiring. I'm open to going back to college, but I wouldn't be sure for what. I hear EA still has an operations bottleneck, but it doesn't seem like that's something you can study for, and I'm not sure if transitioning my career to management (a tricky move, as I haven't really gunned for leadership, though I have been the lead at times) would enable a jump to operations later on.

Any advice?

I'm extremely upset about recent divergence from ForumMagnum / LessWrong. 

• 1 click to go from any page to my profile became 2 clicks. (is the argument that you looked at the clickstream dashboard and found that Quinn was the only person navigating to his profile noticeably more than he was navigating to say DMs or new post? I go to my profile a lot to look up prior comments so I can not repeat myself across discord servers or threads as much!) 
• permalink in the top right corner of comment, instead of clicking the timestamp (David Mears suggests that we're in violation of industry standard now)
• moving upvote downvote to the left. and removing it from the bottom! this seems opposite to me: we want more people upvoting/downvoting at the bottom of the posts (presumably to decrease voting on things without actually reading) and less people voting at the top!

I'm neutral on QuickTakes rebrand: I'm a huge fan of shortform overall (if I was Dictator of Big EA I would ban twitter and facebook and move everybody to to shortform/quicktake!), I trust y'all to do whatever you can to increase adoption. 

I think it's important that there isn't a knee jerk reaction (e.g. it may not be the fault of any person, there may be a complex cause, or there may not be any real issue at all).

Why has the virtual program scores sort of fallen off? That's a huge stat change.

Are the Career Conversations and AI Pause Debate weeks on the Forum part of a trend to have 'week-specific' topics? I sort-of like the idea to focus Forum discussion on rotating/specific topics (alongside the usual dynamics) to see what the Community thinks of issue X at a given time as well as share up-to-date opinions and resources.

If it is, is there a prospective calendar anywhere?

Hi all, 

I came across the 80,000 hours initiative a few years ago and it 100% aligned with my purpose in life. 

I'm on track to give 50% of my salary to the top EA charity [We are downsizing our home] later this year. 

Just having this purpose has undoubtedly made me happier and I'd like to promote this benefit to others, as my second passion is increasing Happiness, the synergy between the two is fantastic. 

In the meantime, I've been adjusting some famous quotes to include an EA mindset, what thinks you? 

'If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.'

Booker T. Washington

To: ''If you want to lift yourself up as high as possible, lift up someone else as high as you can.'

'If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.'

Confucius

To: If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want maximum happiness for a lifetime, help someone else as best you can.'

'As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.'

Victor Hugo

'As the purse is emptied the heart is filled. But keep it filled enough to keep yourself. '

Perhaps not entirely EA but I came across this post that’s potentially interesting and disturbing of a statistician casting scepticism on the evidence that convicted Lucy Letby and I wondered if any rationalists could assess its claim. Potentially touches on weaknesses in the justice system regarding medical evidence and how’s it’s weighed up. https://gill1109.com/2023/05/24/the-lucy-letby-case/?amp=1

The blog post "This can't go on" is quite prominent in the introductory reading lists to AI Safety. I really struggle to see why. Most of the content in the post is about why the growth we currently have is very unusual and why we can't have economic growth forever. I think mainstream audience is already OK with that and that's a reason they are sceptical to AI boom scenarios. When I first read that post I was very confused. After organising a few reading groups other people seem to have similar confusions too. It's weird to argue from "look, we can't grow forever, growth is very rare" to "we might have explosive growth in our lifetimes." A similar reaction here.

Hello everyone,

I was introduced to the effective altruism movement about a decade ago, but it's taken me a while to engage with it.  At present, I'm interested in exploring ways that modern information and computing technology can help people more effectively align short term decisions (e.g. purchases, housing choices, transportation, employment, etc.) with their ultimate/long-term objectives (e.g. in medicine, economics, social justice, sustainability, etc.), as well as understanding the ethical implications of and possibilities allowed by emerging technologies, and what factors might ultimately determine or limit how those technologies are adopted and expressed. 

Hi I am Richard. I live in the US. Moved to the US from the Dominican Republic in 1994. I am reading the career guide from 80,000 hours (starting chapter 8 today ). I have a systems/business analysis background. I want to use my career to do good in EA, extreme poverty and mental health. Looks like operations is the best path for me. Looking forward to meeting others in this space, learning more and contributing.

Hello everybody, I'm Azad.

I've been into EA for a while but I never explored the community aspect. Since I've decided to go the EAG this year and help volunteer I thought it would be worth being more active on the forums and engage with the community more.

I'm currently a student studying Computer Science. On the side I enjoy reading philosophy papers and books. My introduction into EA was through an Ethics course I took, and I pretty quickly bought it as a moral obligation. From there on I took an interest in AI and animal suffering. Nice to meet you all!

I would like for XPT to be assembled with the sequence functionality plz  https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/users/forecasting-research-institute I like the sequence functionality for keeping track of my progress or in what order did I read things

I have a proposal for making an AGI killswitch. 

Assuming god like computational budgets, algorithmic improvements, and hardware improvements, can you use fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) to train and run an AGI? FHE allows you to run computation on encrypted data without decrypting it. Wouldn't such an AGI find the world illegible with out its input being specifically encrypted for it with a key? 

Can the key then be split into shards so that m of n shards are needed to encrypt queries to the FHE AGI? Can you also create a m of n function so that if m of n shards are destroyed the key is useless?

Can you distribute the keys in such a way so if the AGI destabilizes or hurts society m of n keys are destroyed as a byproduct and the AGI is functionally turned off?

I think this would create a kill switch that is hard to subvert by the AGI and easily triggered by society. 

At the limit you could create a shard for every person on the planet with only one shard deletion being required to delete the key. Then if anyone doesn't like the way things are going with the AGI they could delete their key killing it. 

You might argue that this is a brute force method for alignment. Everyone is happy with the AGI's behavior or the AGI is rendered nonfunctional.  This method avoids defining what alignment is. This is important because defining defining what an aligned state is is intractable. There are too many divergent and contradictory opinions about what alignment means to ever reach universal consensus. What alignment means will necessarily change from person to person and moment to moment. It is too subjective and value laden a goal to be objectively defined and put in to an algorithm to control an AI. 

I would love criticism of this idea to know why it is impractical, not-even-wrong, or flawed.

One problem is that the FHE AGI could secretly steal enough key shards to generate it's own functional copy of the key. This seems hard to do but not impossible.

Another problem is that the AGI could get smart enough to break the FHE.

FHE of the AGI might make it harder to interpret its internal workings.

Is there any online aggregator for short term volunteering opportunities with EA-affiliated orgs?

Anecdotally I've seen a lot of interest in volunteering among the EAs in my area, but a quick search for volunteering opportunities online only shows the more traditional "staff a soup kitchen" or "do phone banking" style opportunities. While certainly these are good things, it seems against the ethos of doing the most good with limited resources. Many of the EAs near me are professionals with expertise in high-demand / low-supply skill sets, and it seems like there ought to be a low-friction way for them to use their competitive advantages towards direct-impact work.

To make things concrete I'm imagining a site like Fiverr with tasks like "help us analyze the data from this study" or "design marketing materials" or "copyedit this communications letter". I imagine all tasks would be relatively small in scope (1-15 hours of work) and self-contained (able to be comprehensively understood by someone with relevant skills with <30 minutes of explanation). Perhaps there could be something on the site where you can sort opportunities by expected impact / cause area / skills required / etc.

Does anything like this already exist?

I have a question regarding artificial sentience. 
While I do agree that it might be theoretically possible and could cause suffering on a astronomical scale, I do not understand why we would intentionally or unintentionally create it. Intentionally I don't see any reason why a sentient AI would proform any better than a non-sentient AI. And unintentionally, I could imagine that with some unknown future technology, it might be possible. But no matter how complex we make AI with our current technology, it will just become a more "intelligent" binary system. 

So am I right in these statements? And if so, is the cause area more about preparing for a potential future technology? If you have any information or sources I will be very thankful for your time. I welcome any thoughts.  

Introducing Myself

Who I am

My name is Elias Malisi, though my friends call me Prince.

I am an undergraduate student of philosophy & physics at the University of St Andrews and I volunteer as an IT-officer for the physics education non-profit Orpheus e.V.

My mission is to improve the long-term future through research and advocacy that seek to mitigate risks from misaligned incentive structures while advancing the development of safe AI.

I grew up in Germany where I recently graduated high school with a perfect GPA as the best student of ethics in the country on top of receiving multiple awards for academic excellence in physics and English.

My history with EA

I have been introduced to EA through the Atlas Fellowship around May 2023 and have since been reading EA materials intensively. Moreover, I am enrolled in the Introductory EA Virtual Program, the Precipice Reading Group, and the AI Safety Quest Pilot Program at the time of this post.

My interests

I am primarily interested in three sets of related fields:

1. (Complex) systems science, mechanism design, and machine learning as applied to AI safety and improving institutional decision making
2. Acting, video production, and digital outreach as applied to communicating important ideas, building EA, and promoting positive values
3. Rationality and self-improvement as applied to improving my capacity to pursue 1. and 2.

What I can do for you

• I know quite a lot about ways for high-school students and, to a more limited extent, early undergraduates to build career capital through competitions, fellowships, or camps, so feel free to reach out to me if such information would be useful to you.
• Also reach out to me if you want to add a promising young researcher to your network. I expect that I will be able to provide much more value to you in the future.

What you can do for me

I am looking for mentorship, opportunities, and funding to build career capital in the following areas:

• Systems Science
• Machine Learning and Technical AI Safety
• Mechanism Design
• Acting
• Video Production
• Digital Outreach and Copywriting

If you consider providing mentorship or know someone who likely would, I believe the expected value of reaching out to me to see whether I would be a good fit is highly positive since any suitable mentoring opportunity would accelerate my impact significantly.

Think of it as using a bit of your time for hits-based giving.

Additionally, I would love to hear about any EA organisations that specialise in or fund upskilling for aspiring EA communicators.

Furthermore, I would welcome feedback on whether or not you think that acquiring skills in acting and video production would likely be valuable for an aspiring EA communicator, assuming that they are a good fit for it. Vote agree to indicate positive counterfactual impact and disagree to indicate that you believe counterfactuals to be more valuable.

PS: Please let me know about appropriate places for cross-posting this introduction.

Has anything changed on the forum recently? I am no longer able to open posts in new tabs with middle-click? Is it just me?

Hello all, I'm new here and trying to find my way around the site. The main reasons I joined are: 

• to look for practical information about donating and tax returns in the Netherlands. Does anyone know where I could find information about this? I'm trying to figure out if it's worth it to get something back from taxes and what hoops I have to jump through. 
• suggestions for charities. My current idea is that I want to donate an amount to GiveWell for them to use as they see fit, and donate an amount to a charity specialized in providing contraception/abortion/gynaecologic health for women. If you have suggestions I would love to hear it. Preferably charities with an ANBI-status, which is a necessity in the Netherlands for the tax returns. Right now the only things I've found are SheDecides, which is more political action less practical, and Pathfinder International, which doesn't have the ANBI stamp. 

Any replies are welcome!

TLDR:  Bio Data scientist here concerned about AI risks , working to get his institution (DCRI) at Duke working on AI and alignment.

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Long Version: I wrote below blurb and pasted it into https://bard.google.com/ to get TLDR to us...
 

Can you create a TLDR for the following post: Hi Sage Arbor here. I just joined effectivealtruism.org and have been listening to the 80K podcast for about a year. I work in data science (PhD biochem) and currently work with clinical trails at Duke. My main concernt is AI in the next 10 years. Id like my institution Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) create a center of excellence for AI and dedicate a percentage of work towards alignment. Im starting to give talks to that end now. I thought this might be a good place to post alignment articles or work I have to get suggestions on improvement (as always tha work seems 6 months off when I find time).

Sure, here is a TLDR for Sage Arbor's post:

• Sage Arbor is a data scientist with a PhD in biochemistry who works with clinical trials at Duke.
• They are concerned about the potential risks of AI in the next 10 years and want to help their institution, Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), create a center of excellence for AI and dedicate a percentage of work towards alignment.
• They are starting to give talks about this and thought this forum might be a good place to post alignment articles or work they have to get suggestions on improvement.

Here is a more concise TLDR:

• Data scientist concerned about AI risks wants to create AI alignment center at DCRI.

I hope this is helpful!