Yarrow🔸

Pronouns: she/her or they/them. 

I got interested in effective altruism back before it was called effective altruism, back before Giving What We Can had a website. Later on, I got involved in my university EA group and helped run it for a few years. Now I’m trying to figure out where effective altruism can fit into my life these days and what it means to me.

Posts

OpenAI's o3 model scores 3% on the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark, compared to 60% for the...
by Yarrow🔸 @ 2025-05-01 | +14 | 0 comments
François Chollet on why LLMs won't scale to AGI
by Yarrow🔸 @ 2025-04-15 | +6 | 0 comments
ARC-AGI-2 Overview With François Chollet
by Yarrow🔸 @ 2025-04-10 | +7 | 0 comments
On January 1, 2030, there will be no AGI (and AGI will still not be imminent)
by Yarrow🔸 @ 2025-04-06 | +35 | 0 comments
What novel, actionable advice does longtermism offer?
by Yarrow🔸 @ 2024-04-19 | +14 | 0 comments
Why won’t nanotech kill us all?
by Yarrow🔸 @ 2023-12-16 | +20 | 0 comments
If AGI is imminent, why can’t I hail a robotaxi?
by Yarrow🔸 @ 2023-12-09 | +26 | 0 comments
Yarrow's Quick takes
by Yarrow🔸 @ 2023-12-07 | +2 | 0 comments
Google DeepMind releases Gemini
by Yarrow🔸 @ 2023-12-06 | +21 | 0 comments
Biological superintelligence: a solution to AI safety
by Yarrow🔸 @ 2023-12-04 | +2 | 0 comments
Aging should be effective altruism's 5th cause area
by Yarrow🔸 @ 2023-12-02 | +20 | 0 comments