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EAG 2017 London: Invest in evil to do more good? (Hauke Hillebrandt) Apr 23, 2018

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Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).

EAG 2017 London: What are the best ways to improve world happiness? (Michael Plant) Apr 23, 2018

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Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).

EAG 2017 London: Universalised critiques of EA (Emilia Wilson) Apr 23, 2018

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Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).

EAG 2017 London: The technological landscape of affective artificial general intelligence (Daniel Eth) Apr 23, 2018

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Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).

EAG 2017 London: The Open Philanthropy Project’s work on AI risk (Helen Toner) Apr 23, 2018

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Updates on the Open Philanthropy Project’s work to build the field of technical AI safety research and to support initial work on AI strategy and policy. This talk will also include some comments on how interested attendees can get involved in these issues.

Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).

EAG 2017 London: Biotechnology and existential risk (Andrew Snyder-Beattie) Apr 23, 2018

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In the decades to come, advances in biotechnology could pose new risks to humanity. This talk will provide an introductory overview of these risks within the framework effective altruism.

Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).

EAG 2017 London: Shaping the far future (Joseph Carlsmith) Apr 23, 2018

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Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).

EAG 2017 London: Reducing wild-animal suffering through research (Persis Eskander) Apr 23, 2018

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Wild animals exist in huge numbers. Their aggregate suffering occurs on an enormous scale. However, very few people are concerned. The neglectedness of wildanimal suffering (WAS) is, in part, due to the complexity of conceiving solutions to it. If WAS advocates stand any chance at finding cost-effective interventions, they need support. This presentation considers three research strategies: wildlife management, the impact of human activities on WAS, and wild animal experiences; and explores the role they’ll play in building the WAS movement.

Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).

EAG 2017 London: Prioritisation and economics (Max Dalton) Apr 23, 2018

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Note: There’s a casual conversation that overlaps with the speaker during the first couple of minutes, probably because someone forgot to turn off a microphone.

Prioritisation research asks lots of different types of questions (moral and empirical, theoretical and applied). First, I argue that economics can provide a structure for thinking about these prioritisation problems. This highlights that prioritisation is even more difficult than it might intuitively seem. Second, economics could benefit from being a bit more like prioritisation research. In particular, it should be more strategic in the ways it simplifies things.

Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).

EAG 2017 London: Preventing deaths from pesticide self-poisoning (Leah Utyasheva) Apr 23, 2018

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Intentional pesticide poisoning is a major clinical and public health problem in agricultural communities in low-income countries. Every year at least 150,000 people die after ingesting pesticides, the majority in the Asia-Pacific and African regions. Most deaths follow ingestion of highly hazardous pesticides. People die because they stop breathing, frequently before they arrive at hospitals where they could receive life-saving treatment.

One of the key barriers to pesticide suicide reduction is a lack of human capacity for effective pesticide regulation, such as gathering data on the specific HHPs most commonly used for suicide in the country, and an absence of mechanisms for surveillance of pesticide poisoning. The Centre for Pesticide Suicide Prevention aims to substantially reduce the global number of pesticide suicides, by working with national pesticide regulators and the UN to identify the hazardous pesticides through research and reduce their use through regulation.

Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).

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