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March 09, 2023 EA Forum Weekly Summaries – Episode 19 (Feb. 27 - Mar. 5, 2023)
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Original article:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yCxsz9jk5iau2uvYH/ea-and-lw-forum-weekly-summary-27th-feb-5th-mar-2023
This is part of a weekly series summarizing the top posts on the EA Forum — you can see the full collection here. The first post includes some details on purpose and methodology. Feedback, thoughts, and corrections are welcomed.
Narrated by Coleman Jackson Snell. Summaries written by Zoe Williams (Rethink Priorities).
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20 min
March 08, 2023 "The Waluigi Effect (mega-post)" by Cleo Nardo
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In this article, I will present a mechanistic explanation of the Waluigi Effect and other bizarre "semiotic" phenomena which arise within large language models such as GPT-3/3.5/4 and their variants (ChatGPT, Sydney, etc). This article will be folklorish to some readers, and profoundly novel to others.

Original article:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/D7PumeYTDPfBTp3i7/the-waluigi-effect-mega-post

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March 06, 2023"Acausal normalcy" by Andrew Critch
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Summary: Having thought a bunch about acausal trade — and proven some theorems relevant to its feasibility — I believe there do not exist powerful information hazards about it that stand up to clear and circumspect reasoning about the topic. I say this to be comforting rather than dismissive; if it sounds dismissive, I apologize.
With that said, I have four aims in writing this post:
Dispelling myths. There are some ill-conceived myths about acausal trade that I aim to dispel with this post. Alternatively, I will argue for something I'll call acausal normalcy as a more dominant decision-relevant consideration than one-on-one acausal trades.
Highlighting normalcy. I'll provide some arguments that acausal normalcy is more similar to human normalcy than any particular acausal trade is to human trade, such that the topic of acausal normalcy is — conveniently — also less culturally destabilizing than (erroneous) preoccupations with 1:1 acausal trades.
Affirming AI safety as a straightforward priority. I'll argue that for most real-world-prevalent perspectives on AI alignment, safety, and existential safety, acausal considerations are not particularly dominant, except insofar as they push a bit further towards certain broadly agreeable human values applicable in the normal-everyday-human-world, such as nonviolence, cooperation, diversity, honesty, integrity, charity, and mercy. In particular, I do not think acausal normalcy provides a solution to existential safety, nor does it undermine the importance of existential safety in some surprising way.
Affirming normal human kindness. I also think reflecting on acausal normalcy can lead to increased appreciation for normal notions of human kindness, which could lead us all to treat each other a bit better. This is something I wholeheartedly endorse.
Original article:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3RSq3bfnzuL3sp46J/acausal-normalcy

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March 06, 2023 "Scoring forecasts from the 2016 “Expert Survey on Progress in AI”" by PatrickL
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This document looks at the predictions made by AI experts in The 2016 Expert Survey on Progress in AI, analyses the predictions on ‘Narrow tasks’, and gives a Brier score to the median of the experts’ predictions.

My analysis suggests that the experts did a fairly good job of forecasting (Brier score = 0.21), and would have been less accurate if they had predicted each development in AI to generally come, by a factor of 1.5, later (Brier score = 0.26) or sooner (Brier score = 0.29) than they actually predicted.

Original article:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/tCkBsT6cAw6LEKAbm/scoring-forecasts-from-the-2016-expert-survey-on-progress-in

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March 03, 2023"Why I don’t agree with HLI’s estimate of household spillovers from therapy" by James Snowden
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I don’t think the existing evidence justifies HLI's estimate of 50% household spillovers.
My main disagreements are:
Two of the three RCTs HLI relies on to estimate spillovers are on interventions specifically intended to benefit household members (unlike StrongMinds’ program, which targets women and adolescents living with depression).
Those RCTs only measure the wellbeing of a subset of household members most likely to benefit from the intervention.
The results of the third RCT are inconsistent with HLI’s estimate.
Original article:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/gr4epkwe5WoYJXF32/why-i-don-t-agree-with-hli-s-estimate-of-household
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March 03, 2023 EA Forum Weekly Summaries – Episode 18 (Feb. 20-26, 2023)
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Original article:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/bEJ6SyrkSF45B2LWZ/ea-and-lw-forum-weekly-summary-20th-26th-feb-2023
This is part of a weekly series summarizing the top posts on the EA Forum — you can see the full collection here. The first post includes some details on purpose and methodology. Feedback, thoughts, and corrections are welcomed.
Narrated by Coleman Jackson Snell. Summaries written by Zoe Williams (Rethink Priorities).
Published by TYPE III AUDIO on behalf of the Effective Altruism Forum.
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22 min
February 27, 2023 Effektiver Altruismus: eine Einführung
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Effektiver Altruismus bezeichnet die Suche nach den besten Wegen, anderen zu helfen, und deren Umsetzung in die Praxis.

Es handelt sich um ein Projekt, das aus zwei komplementären Teilen besteht: zum Einen, einem Forschungsfeld, das sich darauf konzentriert, die wichtigsten globalen Probleme und die besten Lösungen für diese Probleme zu ermitteln. Zum anderen einer Gemeinschaft von Menschen, die in dem Bestreben geeint sind, auf der Grundlage dieser Erkenntnisse Gutes zu tun.

Dieses Projekt ist von großer Bedeutung, denn während viele Versuche, Gutes zu tun, scheitern, sind einige enorm effektiv. So helfen einige Hilfsorganisationen mit den gleichen Mitteln 100- oder sogar 1.000-mal so vielen Menschen wie andere.

Das bedeutet, dass wir die wichtigsten globalen Probleme weitaus besser angehen können, wenn wir sorgfältig über die besten Lösungswege nachdenken.
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February 26, 2023 "Why should ethical anti-realists do ethics?" by Joe Carlsmith
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Ethical philosophy often tries to systematize. That is, it seeks general principles that will explain, unify, and revise our more particular intuitions. And sometimes, this can lead to strange and uncomfortable places.

So why do it? If you believe in an objective ethical truth, you might talk about getting closer to that truth. But suppose that you don’t. Suppose you think that you’re “free to do whatever you want.” In that case, if “systematizing” starts getting tough and uncomfortable, why not just … stop? After all, you can always just do whatever’s most intuitive or common-sensical in a given case – and often, this is the choice the “ethics game” was trying so hard to validate, anyway. So why play?

I think it’s a reasonable question. And I’ve found it showing up in my life in various ways. So I wrote a set of two essays explaining part of my current take. This is the first essay. Here I describe the question in more detail, give some examples of where it shows up, and describe my dissatisfaction with two places anti-realists often look for answers.

Original article:
https://joecarlsmith.com/2023/02/16/why-should-ethical-anti-realists-do-ethics

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54 min
February 23, 2023 EA Forum Weekly Summaries – Episode 17 (Feb. 6-19, 2023)
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Original article:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/fAWotZTEnyycJnuxz/ea-and-lw-forum-weekly-summary-6th-19th-feb-2023
This is part of a weekly series summarizing the top posts on the EA Forum — you can see the full collection here. The first post includes some details on purpose and methodology. Feedback, thoughts, and corrections are welcomed.
Narrated by Coleman Jackson Snell. Summaries written by Zoe Williams (Rethink Priorities).
Published by TYPE III AUDIO on behalf of the Effective Altruism Forum.
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17 min
February 18, 2023 "Why I No Longer Prioritize Wild Animal Welfare (edited)" by saulius
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This is the story of how I came to see Wild Animal Welfare (WAW) as a less promising cause than I did initially. I summarise three articles I wrote on WAW: ‘Why it’s difficult to find cost-effective WAW interventions we could do now’, ‘Lobbying governments to improve WAW’, and ‘WAW in the far future’. I then draw some more general conclusions. The articles assume some familiarity with WAW ideas. See here or here for an intro to WAW ideas.

Original article:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/saEQXBgzmDbob9GdH/why-i-no-longer-prioritize-wild-animal-welfare

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