alex lawsen

I work on AI Grantmaking at Open Philanthropy. Comments here are posted in a personal capacity.

Posts

Whether you should do a PhD doesn't depend much on timelines.
by alex lawsen @ 2023-03-22 | +67 | 0 comments

Know what you're optimising for
by alex lawsen, 80000_Hours @ 2022-06-29 | +48 | 0 comments

An easy win for hard decisions.
by alex lawsen @ 2022-05-04 | +200 | 0 comments

What examples are there of (science) fiction predicting something strange/bad,...
by alex lawsen @ 2022-04-27 | +18 | 0 comments

New addition to the 80,000 hours 1-on-1 team.
by alex lawsen @ 2022-04-01 | +73 | 0 comments

Why I'm concerned about Giving Green
by alex lawsen @ 2021-01-20 | +231 | 0 comments

Forecasts about EA organisations which are currently on Metaculus.
by alex lawsen @ 2020-12-29 | +65 | 0 comments

Incentive Problems With Current Forecasting Competitions.
by alex lawsen, NunoSempere @ 2020-11-10 | +56 | 0 comments

What questions would you like to see forecasts on from the Metaculus community?
by alex lawsen @ 2020-07-26 | +32 | 0 comments

[Linkpost] - Mitigation versus Supression for COVID-19
by alex lawsen @ 2020-03-16 | +9 | 0 comments

If you (mostly) believe in worms, what should you think about WASH?
by alex lawsen @ 2020-02-18 | +64 | 0 comments

alex lawsen (previously alexrjl)'s Quick takes
by alex lawsen @ 2019-11-02 | +2 | 0 comments

What book(s) would you want a gifted teenager to come across?
by alex lawsen @ 2019-08-05 | +28 | 0 comments

Can the EA community copy Teach for America? (Looking for Task Y)
by alex lawsen @ 2019-02-21 | +126 | 0 comments

Amazon Smile
by alex lawsen @ 2018-11-18 | +8 | 0 comments