Jeff Kaufman

FarmKind's Illusory Offer
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2024-08-09 | +95 | 0 comments

Sample Prevalence vs Global Prevalence
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2024-07-08 | +34 | 0 comments

Detecting Genetically Engineered Viruses With Metagenomic Sequencing
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2024-06-27 | +202 | 0 comments

NAO Updates, Spring 2024
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2024-05-20 | +54 | 0 comments

Simulating Approaches to Metagenomic Pandemic Identification
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2024-04-08 | +25 | 0 comments

Trying to Do More Good
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2024-04-04 | +88 | 0 comments

Legality as a Career Harm Assessment Heuristic
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2024-03-26 | +18 | 0 comments

A Strange ACH Corner Case
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2024-02-10 | +17 | 0 comments

Sequencing Swabs
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2024-02-01 | +24 | 0 comments

When Does Altruism Strengthen Altruism?
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2024-01-21 | +105 | 0 comments

Out-of-distribution Bioattacks
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-12-02 | +70 | 0 comments

Accounting for Foregone Pay
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-11-26 | +23 | 0 comments

Post-EAG Music Party
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-11-18 | +36 | 0 comments

AMA: Earning to Give
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-11-07 | +92 | 0 comments

Securing Civilization Against Catastrophic Pandemics
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-11-03 | +30 | 0 comments

Public Weights?
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-11-02 | +20 | 0 comments

Computational Approaches to Pathogen Detection
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-11-01 | +49 | 0 comments

Will releasing the weights of large language models grant widespread access to...
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-10-30 | +56 | 0 comments

Revisiting Guide Dogs and Blindness Prevention
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-10-13 | +25 | 0 comments

My Mid-Career Transition into Biosecurity
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-10-02 | +64 | 0 comments

Weighing Animal Worth
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-09-28 | +45 | 0 comments

Commonsense Good, Creative Good
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-09-27 | +107 | 0 comments

Biosecurity Culture, Computer Security Culture
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-08-30 | +129 | 0 comments

Predicting Virus Relative Abundance in Wastewater
by Jeff Kaufman, mike_mclaren, slg @ 2023-08-10 | +46 | 0 comments

Genetic Sequencing of Wastewater: Prevalence to Relative Abundance
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-04-25 | +56 | 0 comments

GWWC Reporting Attrition Visualization
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-04-19 | +47 | 0 comments

Run Posts By Orgs
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-03-29 | +281 | 0 comments

Books: Lend, Don't Give
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-03-22 | +47 | 0 comments

Write a Book?
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-03-16 | +188 | 0 comments

Milk EA, Casu Marzu EA
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-02-27 | +124 | 0 comments

Consent Isn't Always Enough
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-02-24 | +294 | 0 comments

Make Conflict of Interest Policies Public
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-02-09 | +175 | 0 comments

When Did EA Start?
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-01-25 | +117 | 0 comments

GWWC Pledge History
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-01-24 | +49 | 0 comments

GWWC's Handling of Conflicting Funding Bars
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-01-11 | +83 | 0 comments

GWWC Should Require Public Charity Evaluations
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2023-01-09 | +93 | 0 comments

CEA Disambiguation
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2022-12-19 | +134 | 0 comments

Historical Notes on Charitable Funds
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2022-12-04 | +25 | 0 comments

Our 2022 Giving
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2022-12-04 | +114 | 0 comments

If Professional Investors Missed This...
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2022-11-16 | +192 | 0 comments

Mildly Against Donor Lotteries
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2022-11-01 | +38 | 0 comments

Consider Applying to the Future Fellowship at MIT
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2022-10-25 | +68 | 0 comments

Research Deprioritizing External Communication
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2022-10-06 | +89 | 0 comments

Case Rates to Sequencing Reads
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2022-09-21 | +32 | 0 comments

Hiring Programmers in Academia
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2022-07-24 | +47 | 0 comments

Spending Update 2022
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2022-07-19 | +35 | 0 comments

Passing Up Pay
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2022-07-13 | +128 | 0 comments

Leaving Google, Joining the Nucleic Acid Observatory
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2022-06-11 | +170 | 0 comments

Revisiting "Why Global Poverty"
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2022-06-01 | +66 | 0 comments

Increasing Demandingness in EA
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2022-04-29 | +140 | 0 comments

US Taxes: Adjust Withholding When Donating?
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2022-04-12 | +13 | 0 comments

Responsible Transparency Consumption
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2022-03-11 | +42 | 0 comments

EA Dinner Covid Logistics
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2021-12-11 | +11 | 0 comments

Issues with Giving Multiplier
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2021-09-29 | +26 | 0 comments

What should "counterfactual donation" mean?
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2021-09-23 | +38 | 0 comments

GiveWell Donation Matching
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2021-09-21 | +35 | 0 comments

Limits of Giving
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2021-03-04 | +36 | 0 comments

When I left Google
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2021-02-28 | +40 | 0 comments

Giving Tuesday 2020
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2020-11-30 | +34 | 0 comments

EA Relationship Status
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2020-09-19 | +39 | 0 comments

Leaving Things For Others
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2020-04-12 | +7 | 0 comments

Why I'm Not Vegan
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2020-04-09 | +4 | 0 comments

Candy for Nets
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2019-09-29 | +175 | 0 comments

Long-term Donation Bunching?
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2019-09-27 | +17 | 0 comments

Effective Altruism and Everyday Decisions
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2019-09-16 | +77 | 0 comments

Answering some questions about EA
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2019-09-12 | +50 | 0 comments

There's Lots More To Do
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2019-05-29 | +134 | 0 comments

Value of Working in Ads?
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2019-04-09 | +17 | 0 comments

Simultaneous Shortage and Oversupply
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2019-01-26 | +41 | 0 comments

College and Earning to Give
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2018-12-16 | +28 | 0 comments

2018 ACE Recommendations
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2018-11-26 | +10 | 0 comments

2018 GiveWell Recommendations
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2018-11-26 | +8 | 0 comments

Donation Plans for 2017
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2017-12-23 | +13 | 0 comments

Estimating the Value of Mobile Money
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2016-12-21 | +8 | 0 comments

[meta] New mobile display
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2016-12-05 | +5 | 0 comments

Concerns with Intentional Insights
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2016-10-24 | +64 | 0 comments

Scientific Charity Movement
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2016-07-23 | +40 | 0 comments

Independent re-analysis of MFA veg ads RCT data
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2016-02-20 | +11 | 0 comments

The Counterfactual Validity of Donation Matching
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2015-03-02 | +17 | 0 comments

The Privilege of Earning To Give
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2015-01-14 | +86 | 0 comments

Effective Altruism at Your Work
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2014-11-12 | +7 | 0 comments

Lawyering to Give
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2014-09-25 | +13 | 0 comments

Disability Weights
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2014-09-11 | +12 | 0 comments

Altruism isn't about sacrifice
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2013-09-06 | +6 | 0 comments

Personal consumption changes as charity
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2013-07-31 | +4 | 0 comments

Haiti and disaster relief
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2013-07-19 | +3 | 0 comments

Keeping choices donation neutral
by Jeff Kaufman @ 2013-06-28 | +5 | 0 comments