EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (21 Aug - 27 Aug 22')
This is also posted on the EA forum: see here. Supported by Rethink Priorities Sunday August 21st - Saturday August 27th The amount of content on the EA and LW forums has been accelerating. This is awesome, but makes it tricky to keep up with! The below hopes to help by summarizing popular (>40 karma) posts each week. It also includes announcements and ideas from Twitter that this audience might find interesting. This will be a regular series published weekly - let me know in the comments if you have any feedback on what could make it more useful! If you'd like to receive these summaries via email, you can subscribe here. Methodology This series originated from a task I did as Peter Wildeford’s executive research assistant at Rethink Priorities, to summarize his weekly readings. If your post is in the ‘Didn’t Summarize’ list, please don’t take that as a judgment on its quality - it’s likely just a topic less relevant to his work. I’ve also left out technical AI posts because I don’t have the background knowledge to do them justice. My methodology has been to use this and this link to find the posts with >40 karma in a week for the EA forum and LW forum respectively, read / skim each, and summarize those that seem relevant to Peter. Those that meet the karma threshold as of Sunday each week are considered (sometimes I might summarize a very popular later-in-the-week post in the following week’s summary, if it doesn’t meet the bar until then). For twitter, I skim through the following lists: AI, EA, Forecasting, National Security (mainly nuclear), Science (mainly biosec). I’m going through a large volume of posts so it’s totally possible I’ll get stuff wrong. If I’ve misrepresented your post, or you’d like a summary edited, please let me know (via comment or DM). EA Forum Philosophy and Methodologies Critque’s of MacAskill’s ‘Is it Good to Make Happy People?’ Discusses population asymmetry, the viewpoint that a new life of suffering is bad, but a ne