Lizka

I run the non-engineering side of the EA Forum (this platform), run the EA Newsletter, and work on some other content-related tasks at CEA. Please feel free to reach out! You can email me. [More about my job.]

Some of my favorite of my own posts:

I finished my undergraduate studies with a double major in mathematics and comparative literature in 2021. I was a research fellow at Rethink Priorities in the summer of 2021 and was then hired by the Events Team at CEA. I've since switched to the Online Team. In the past, I've also done some (math) research and worked at Canada/USA Mathcamp.

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Posts

“Cool Things Our GHW Grantees Have Done in 2023” — Open Philanthropy
by Lizka @ 2024-05-08 | +42 | 0 comments
New Epistemics Tool: ThEAsaurus
by Lizka, Jonathan Michel @ 2024-04-01 | +78 | 0 comments
Posts from 2023 you thought were valuable (and underrated)
by Lizka @ 2024-03-21 | +81 | 0 comments
Focusing on bad criticism is dangerous to your epistemics
by Lizka @ 2024-03-15 | +70 | 0 comments
Celebrating Benjamin Lay (died on this day 265 years ago)
by Lizka @ 2024-02-08 | +148 | 0 comments
RAND report finds no effect of current LLMs on viability of bioterrorism attacks
by Lizka @ 2024-01-26 | +108 | 0 comments
2023: highlights from the year, from the EA Newsletter
by Lizka @ 2024-01-05 | +68 | 0 comments
2023: news on AI safety, animal welfare, global health, and more
by Lizka @ 2024-01-05 | +54 | 0 comments
Open thread: January - March 2024
by Lizka @ 2024-01-02 | +23 | 0 comments
Winners in the Forum’s Donation Election (2023)
by Lizka @ 2023-12-24 | +127 | 0 comments
Vote in the Donation Election by 15 December
by Lizka @ 2023-12-08 | +39 | 0 comments
Meet the candidates in the Forum’s Donation Election (2023)
by Lizka @ 2023-11-28 | +67 | 0 comments
Where are you donating this year, and why? (Open thread)
by Lizka @ 2023-11-21 | +71 | 0 comments
Notes on not taking the GWWC pledge (yet)
by Lizka @ 2023-11-15 | +123 | 0 comments
How would your project use extra funding? (Marginal Funding Week)
by Lizka @ 2023-11-14 | +53 | 0 comments
Donation Election: how voting will work
by Lizka @ 2023-11-14 | +59 | 0 comments
Participate in the Donation Election and the first weekly theme (starting 7...
by Lizka @ 2023-11-02 | +84 | 0 comments
EA Forum: plans for Giving Season 2023
by Lizka, Agnes Stenlund @ 2023-10-23 | +121 | 0 comments
EA Organization Updates: October 2023
by Lizka, JP Addison @ 2023-10-17 | +25 | 0 comments
Open Thread: October - December 2023
by Lizka @ 2023-10-10 | +12 | 0 comments
What do staff at CEA believe? (Evidence from a rough cause prio survey from...
by Lizka @ 2023-10-02 | +81 | 0 comments
AMA: Christian Ruhl (senior global catastrophic risk researcher at Founders...
by Lizka, christian.r @ 2023-09-26 | +68 | 0 comments
AMA: Andy Weber (U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense from 2009-2014)
by Lizka, Andy Weber @ 2023-09-26 | +132 | 0 comments
The state of AI in different countries — an overview
by Lizka @ 2023-09-14 | +68 | 0 comments
About my job: "Content Specialist"
by Lizka @ 2023-09-08 | +66 | 0 comments
Writing about your job is (still) great — consider doing it
by Lizka @ 2023-09-08 | +34 | 0 comments
“Longtermist causes” is a tricky classification
by Lizka @ 2023-08-29 | +63 | 0 comments
Career Conversations Week on the Forum (8-15 September)
by Lizka @ 2023-08-25 | +64 | 0 comments
Problems with free services for EA projects
by Lizka @ 2023-08-03 | +133 | 0 comments
Are there diseconomies of scale in the reputation of communities?
by Lizka, Ben_West @ 2023-07-27 | +50 | 0 comments
EA Organization Updates: July 2023
by Lizka, JP Addison @ 2023-07-17 | +32 | 0 comments
AMA: We’re the Forum team (and we’re hiring). Ask us anything!
by Lizka @ 2023-07-05 | +64 | 0 comments
Washington Post article about EA university groups
by Lizka @ 2023-07-05 | +39 | 0 comments
Open Thread: July - September 2023
by Lizka @ 2023-07-02 | +29 | 0 comments
Productive criticism: running a draft past the people you’re criticizing
by Lizka @ 2023-06-15 | +38 | 0 comments
Productive criticism: what could help?
by Lizka @ 2023-06-13 | +38 | 0 comments
Notes on how I want to handle criticism
by Lizka @ 2023-06-08 | +63 | 0 comments
EA Forum: content and moderator positions
by Lizka @ 2023-05-18 | +72 | 0 comments
EA Organization Updates: May 2023
by Lizka @ 2023-05-15 | +29 | 0 comments
On missing moods and tradeoffs
by Lizka @ 2023-05-09 | +50 | 0 comments
Books — what do you recommend? What are you looking for?
by Lizka @ 2023-05-08 | +25 | 0 comments
Please don’t vote brigade
by Lizka @ 2023-05-05 | +304 | 0 comments
List of AI safety newsletters and other resources
by Lizka @ 2023-05-01 | +49 | 0 comments
What are work practices that you’ve adopted that you now think are underrated?
by Lizka @ 2023-04-27 | +81 | 0 comments
12 tentative ideas for US AI policy (Luke Muehlhauser)
by Lizka @ 2023-04-19 | +117 | 0 comments
EA Organization Updates: April 2023
by Lizka @ 2023-04-13 | +41 | 0 comments
EA & “The correct response to uncertainty is *not* half-speed”
by Lizka @ 2023-04-09 | +83 | 0 comments
Open Thread: April — June 2023
by Lizka @ 2023-04-03 | +25 | 0 comments
It’s "The EA-Adjacent Forum" now
by Lizka @ 2023-04-01 | +174 | 0 comments
Holden Karnofsky’s recent comments on FTX
by Lizka @ 2023-03-24 | +149 | 0 comments
Design changes & the community section (Forum update March 2023)
by Lizka, Agnes Stenlund, Ollie Etherington, Sarah Cheng @ 2023-03-21 | +64 | 0 comments
Highlights from last week
by Lizka @ 2023-03-16 | +11 | 0 comments
EA Organization Updates & Opportunities: March 2023
by Lizka @ 2023-03-15 | +27 | 0 comments
GPT-4 is out: thread (& links)
by Lizka @ 2023-03-14 | +84 | 0 comments
Highlights from last week
by Lizka @ 2023-03-09 | +21 | 0 comments
Posts we recommend from last week (Digest #126)
by Lizka @ 2023-03-01 | +24 | 0 comments
Posts we recommend from last week (Digest #125)
by Lizka @ 2023-02-24 | +22 | 0 comments
How can we improve discussions on the Forum?
by Lizka @ 2023-02-23 | +72 | 0 comments
EA Organization Updates: February 2023
by Lizka @ 2023-02-14 | +43 | 0 comments
“Community” posts have their own section, subforums are closing, and more (Forum...
by Lizka, Sharang Phadke, Clifford @ 2023-02-10 | +135 | 0 comments
An update to our policies on revealing personal information on the Forum
by Lizka @ 2023-02-07 | +107 | 0 comments
Moving community discussion to a separate tab (a test we might run)
by Lizka, Clifford @ 2023-02-06 | +197 | 0 comments
Karma overrates some topics; resulting issues and potential solutions
by Lizka, Ben_West @ 2023-01-30 | +287 | 0 comments
Posts from 2022 you thought were valuable (or underrated)
by Lizka @ 2023-01-17 | +87 | 0 comments
EA Organization Updates: January 2023
by Lizka @ 2023-01-16 | +62 | 0 comments
Thread for discussing Bostrom's email and apology
by Lizka @ 2023-01-13 | +72 | 0 comments
Beware safety-washing
by Lizka @ 2023-01-13 | +139 | 0 comments
Open Thread: January — March 2023
by Lizka @ 2023-01-09 | +20 | 0 comments
Register your predictions for 2023
by Lizka @ 2022-12-26 | +42 | 0 comments
EA Organization Updates: December 2022
by Lizka @ 2022-12-19 | +19 | 0 comments
Niche vs. broad-appeal posts (& how this relates to usefulness/karma) (a sketch)
by Lizka @ 2022-12-17 | +34 | 0 comments
Today is Draft Amnesty Day (December 16-18)
by Lizka @ 2022-12-16 | +61 | 0 comments
Smallpox eradication
by Lizka @ 2022-12-09 | +93 | 0 comments
December 16 (and 17-18) will be Draft Amnesty Days
by Lizka @ 2022-12-04 | +12 | 0 comments
Why do you give (or pursue work in effective altruism)? (Open thread)
by Lizka @ 2022-12-01 | +27 | 0 comments
Effective giving subforum and other updates (bonus Forum update November 2022)
by Lizka @ 2022-11-28 | +42 | 0 comments
Where are you donating this year, and why? (Open thread)
by Lizka, MichaelA @ 2022-11-23 | +151 | 0 comments
EA Organization Updates: November 2022
by Lizka @ 2022-11-19 | +49 | 0 comments
Dark mode (Forum update November 2022)
by Lizka @ 2022-11-01 | +76 | 0 comments
Draft Amnesty Day: an event we might run on the Forum
by Lizka @ 2022-10-31 | +82 | 0 comments
Search, subforums, and other Forum updates (October 2022)
by Lizka @ 2022-10-25 | +58 | 0 comments
How many people die from the flu? (OWID)
by Lizka @ 2022-10-24 | +45 | 0 comments
EA Organization Updates: October 2022
by Lizka @ 2022-10-14 | +23 | 0 comments
Open Thread: October — December 2022
by Lizka @ 2022-10-12 | +19 | 0 comments
Prediction market does not imply causation
by Lizka @ 2022-10-10 | +29 | 0 comments
Invisible impact loss (and why we can be too error-averse)
by Lizka @ 2022-10-06 | +129 | 0 comments
Ask (Everyone) Anything — “EA 101”
by Lizka @ 2022-10-05 | +110 | 0 comments
Winners of the EA Criticism and Red Teaming Contest
by Lizka, Owen Cotton-Barratt @ 2022-10-01 | +226 | 0 comments
Reasoning Transparency
by Lizka @ 2022-09-28 | +117 | 0 comments
9/26 is Petrov Day
by Lizka @ 2022-09-25 | +72 | 0 comments
EA Organization Updates: September 2022
by Lizka @ 2022-09-14 | +40 | 0 comments
Agree/disagree voting (& other new features September 2022)
by Lizka @ 2022-09-07 | +142 | 0 comments
Who are some less-known people like Petrov?
by Lizka @ 2022-09-06 | +54 | 0 comments
Celebrations and gratitude thread
by Lizka, MaxDalton @ 2022-09-02 | +145 | 0 comments
Notes on the Forum today
by Lizka @ 2022-09-01 | +34 | 0 comments
Epistemic status: an explainer and some thoughts
by Lizka @ 2022-08-31 | +59 | 0 comments
EA Organization Updates: July-August 2022
by Lizka @ 2022-08-15 | +25 | 0 comments
EA Organization Updates: June-July 2022
by Lizka @ 2022-07-14 | +23 | 0 comments
Vox on cash transfers vs "graduation programs" for fighting extreme poverty
by Lizka @ 2022-07-07 | +29 | 0 comments
New? Start here! (Useful links)
by Lizka @ 2022-07-01 | +25 | 0 comments
Import your EAG(x) info to your profile & other new features (Forum update June...
by Lizka, Sarah Cheng, JP Addison, Jonathan Mustin @ 2022-07-01 | +67 | 0 comments
Kurzgesagt - The Last Human (Longtermist video)
by Lizka @ 2022-06-28 | +150 | 0 comments
Examples of someone admitting an error or changing a key conclusion
by Lizka @ 2022-06-27 | +47 | 0 comments
Open Thread: June — September 2022
by Lizka @ 2022-06-22 | +30 | 0 comments
You don’t have to respond to every comment
by Lizka @ 2022-06-20 | +128 | 0 comments
GiveDirectly to Administer Cash Grants Pilot in Chicago
by Lizka @ 2022-06-20 | +20 | 0 comments
EA Organization Updates: May-June 2022
by Lizka @ 2022-06-16 | +32 | 0 comments
Follow and filter topics (& an update to the “Community” topic)
by Lizka, JP Addison @ 2022-06-09 | +40 | 0 comments
Notes on impostor syndrome
by Lizka @ 2022-06-06 | +90 | 0 comments
Announcing a contest: EA Criticism and Red Teaming
by Lizka, finm, jtm @ 2022-06-01 | +276 | 0 comments
Resource for criticisms and red teaming
by Lizka, finm @ 2022-06-01 | +60 | 0 comments
Stop scolding people for worrying about monkeypox (Vox article)
by Lizka @ 2022-05-31 | +39 | 0 comments
Link-posting is an act of community service
by Lizka @ 2022-05-16 | +59 | 0 comments
Against “longtermist” as an identity
by Lizka @ 2022-05-13 | +165 | 0 comments
Results from the First Decade Review
by Lizka @ 2022-05-13 | +163 | 0 comments
EA Organization Updates: April-May 2022
by Lizka @ 2022-05-12 | +25 | 0 comments
How to use the Forum (intro)
by Lizka @ 2022-05-05 | +20 | 0 comments
You should write on the EA Forum
by Lizka @ 2022-04-29 | +71 | 0 comments
Forum user manual
by Lizka @ 2022-04-28 | +35 | 0 comments
Guide to norms on the Forum
by Lizka @ 2022-04-28 | +58 | 0 comments
A Bayesian framework for interpreting impact evaluations
by Lizka @ 2022-04-28 | +23 | 0 comments
Forum Digest: reminder that it exists & request for feedback
by Lizka @ 2022-04-28 | +56 | 0 comments
Help with the Forum; wiki editing, giving feedback, moderation, and more
by Lizka @ 2022-04-20 | +88 | 0 comments
The accidental experiment that saved 700 lives (IRS & health insurance)
by Lizka @ 2022-04-19 | +42 | 0 comments
EA should taboo "EA should"
by Lizka @ 2022-03-29 | +203 | 0 comments
Is misinformation a serious problem, and is it tractable?
by Lizka @ 2022-03-28 | +21 | 0 comments
Pre-announcing a contest for critiques and red teaming
by Lizka, finm, jtm @ 2022-03-25 | +173 | 0 comments
A Forum post can be short
by Lizka @ 2022-03-22 | +188 | 0 comments
Distillation and research debt
by Lizka @ 2022-03-15 | +65 | 0 comments
Hello from the new Content Specialist at CEA
by Lizka @ 2022-03-08 | +184 | 0 comments
The best EA Global yet? (And other updates.)
by Lizka, Amy Labenz @ 2022-02-13 | +50 | 0 comments
[Updated] EA conferences in 2022: save the dates
by Lizka, Amy Labenz @ 2022-02-09 | +123 | 0 comments
Vote on posts for the Decade Review (Deadline: February 1)
by Lizka, JP Addison @ 2022-01-24 | +26 | 0 comments
What are some artworks relevant to EA?
by Lizka @ 2022-01-17 | +51 | 0 comments
Native languages in the EA community (and issues with assessing promisingness)
by Lizka @ 2021-12-27 | +71 | 0 comments
[Book rec] The War with the Newts as “EA fiction”
by Lizka @ 2021-12-22 | +59 | 0 comments
Help CEA plan future events and conferences
by Lizka, Amy Labenz @ 2021-12-09 | +23 | 0 comments
Please post reflections on EA Global: London ($500 bounty)
by Lizka, Amy Labenz @ 2021-12-04 | +25 | 0 comments
[Creative writing contest] Super-parenting
by Lizka @ 2021-10-22 | +22 | 0 comments
Lizka's Quick takes
by Lizka @ 2021-10-09 | +4 | 0 comments
Issues with Futarchy
by Lizka @ 2021-10-07 | +63 | 0 comments
[Creative writing contest] Blue bird and black bird
by Lizka @ 2021-09-16 | +74 | 0 comments
Disentangling "Improving Institutional Decision-Making"
by Lizka @ 2021-09-13 | +90 | 0 comments
Summary and Takeaways: Hanson's “Shall We Vote on Values, But Bet on Beliefs?”
by Lizka @ 2021-08-25 | +38 | 0 comments
Humanities Research Ideas for Longtermists
by Lizka @ 2021-06-09 | +151 | 0 comments