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EAG 2017 SF: Moral trade and effective altruism (Ruairí Donnelly) Nov 03, 2017

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A moral trade occurs when individuals with different values cooperate to produce an outcome that’s better according to both their values than what they could have achieved individually.

Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).

EAG 2017 SF: Embedding EA thinking in government decisions beyond the OECD (Claire Walsh) Nov 03, 2017

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Governments in developing countries are some of the biggest players in the fight against poverty, providing millions of low-income people with critical services daily. Scaling up effective, evidence-backed programs through governments is a critical path to alleviating human suffering worldwide. But how can governments begin to build a culture of EA thinking and evidence-informed policymaking, especially when ideology, inertia, and politics often drive policy decisions? Based at MIT, J-PAL is a network of economists who have run over 800 randomized controlled trials in over 80 countries to ensure that policy is informed by scientific evidence. Claire Walsh, head of J-PAL’s Government Partnership Initiative, will share lessons learned about how governments can adopt a more EA approach to policymaking based on our partnerships with over 30 national, state, and city governments in over 15 countries over the past decade. She will feature examples of randomized controlled trials that have led to national government scale-ups of effective programs in India, Indonesia, Peru, and Zambia.

Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).

EAG 2017 SF: Social science as lens on effective charity (Spencer Greenberg) Nov 03, 2017

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What makes effective altruism so “strange”? We’ll take a data driven look into this question using results from four new studies that we conducted, which examine perceptions on catastrophic risk, charity cost effectiveness, animal suffering, and self-reported personality.

Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).

EAG 2017 Boston: The AI revolution and international politics (Allan Dafoe) Nov 02, 2017

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly improving. Superhuman AI in strategically relevant domains is likely to arrive in the next several decades; some experts think two. This will transform international politics, could be profoundly destabilizing, and could pose existential risks. Urgent research is needed on AI grand strategy. This requires a careful examination of humanity’s highest interests in the era of transformative AI, of the international dynamics likely to arise from AI, and of the most promising strategies for securing a good future. Much work will be required to design and enact effective global AI policy.

Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).

EAG 2017 Boston: Open until dangerous—Gene drive and the case for reforming research (Kevin Esvelt) Nov 02, 2017

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The wisdom with which we develop and deploy new technologies will define the future of our civilization. Why do we conduct research in small teams of specialists who cannot reliably anticipate consequences on their own? Might it be better to share our best ideas and plans with others, actively inviting concerns, criticism, and possible improvements? Unfortunately, the current system has evolved to punish sharing. By highlighting the benefits of an open approach and the dangers of the status quo, gene drive may allow us to test a new approach and change the governing incentives.

Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).

EAG 2017 Boston: CRISPR (George Church) Nov 02, 2017

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Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).

EAG 2017 Boston: Opening talk (Will MacAskill) Nov 02, 2017

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Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).

EAG 2017 Boston: Convinced, not convincing (Duncan Sabien) Nov 02, 2017

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Duncan presents an introduction to the Center for Applied Rationality’s tools for increasing motivation, avoiding mistakes, and collaborating effectively.

Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).

EAG 2017 Boston: Effective altruism, existential risk, and existential hope (Max Tegmark) Nov 02, 2017

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Max Tegmark on Effective altruism, existential risk, and existential hope.

Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).

EAG 2017 Boston: Effective Altruism in Government (Jason Matheny) Nov 02, 2017

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EAs can substantially improve the world by taking Government roles that direct funding or set policy. This talk will describe several such roles and will provide some advice on how to pursue them.

Source: Effective Altruism Global (video).

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