Topic archive: Yearly Archives: 2018

Subtopics in "Yearly Archives: 2018":

• 80000 Hours (3)
• Ability (19)
• About 80,000 Hours (67)
  • Updates (43)
• Academic Research (98)
• Accidental harm (16)
• Advice for undergraduates (15)
• Advocacy (32)
• AI Impacts (1)
• AI safety technical research (44)
• Animal Charity Evaluators (1)
• Anonymous advice (19)
• Anthropic (7)
• Applying an unusual skill to a needed niche (4)
• Art & Entertainment (5)
• Artificial Intelligence (77)
• Artificial sentience (6)
• Asset Management (7)
  • Quantitative hedge funds (4)
• Atomically precise manufacturing (2)
• Being ambitious (16)
• Biomedical Research (12)
• Biomedical Research (21)
• Biorisk strategy & policy (31)
• Building effective altruism (66)
• Building the effective altruism community (19)
• Career advice & strategy (301)
  • Accidental harm (16)
  • Advice for undergraduates (15)
  • Being ambitious (16)
  • Career capital (56)
  • Career planning (26)
  • Community & coordination (10)
  • Exploration (20)
  • Graduate school (17)
  • How to get a job (25)
  • Leverage (7)
  • Mental health (23)
  • Now vs. Later (17)
  • Personal fit (51)
  • Risk (12)
  • Unconventional advice (109)
• Career capital (56)
• Career planning (26)
• Careers (80)
  • Careers to build career capital (2)
  • Categories of impactful careers (3)
  • Other careers (1)
  • Sometimes-recommended careers (2)
  • Top-recommended careers (18)
• Careers to build career capital (28)
  • Congressional staffer (3)
  • Early-stage startup employee (3)
  • Economics PhD (15)
  • Machine learning PhD (6)
• Catastrophic pandemics (40)
• Categories of impactful careers (185)
  • Applying an unusual skill to a needed niche (4)
  • Communication (21)
  • Earning to Give (47)
  • Government & policy (78)
  • Organisation-building at effective nonprofits (15)
  • Research in relevant areas (50)
• Center for AI Safety (1)
• Center for Applied Rationality (1)
• Center for Security and Emerging Technology (2)
• Centre for Effective Altruism (1)
• Centre for the Governance of AI (3)
• Charity Entrepreneurship (3)
• Charter cities (3)
• China-related AI safety & governance (9)
• China-Western coordination (9)
• Civil Service (10)
• Civilisational resilience (6)
• Climate change (18)
  • Geoengineering (3)
• Communication (21)
• Community & coordination (10)
• Computer science (21)
• Computer Science PhD (14)
• Congressional staffer (3)
• Consulting (10)
• COVID-19 (22)
• Data collection for AI alignment (1)
• Data science (27)
• Decision making (40)
• DeepMind (9)
• Design (2)
• Doctor (13)
• Doing good in your current job (95)
  • Advocacy (32)
  • Donating effectively (27)
  • Income (30)
  • Volunteering (8)
• Donating effectively (27)
• Early-stage startup employee (3)
• Earning to Give (63)
  • EtG advice (6)
  • EtG pros and cons (15)
• Earning to give in quant trading (6)
• Economic growth (10)
• Economics (38)
• Economics PhD (15)
• Education (6)
• Effective Altruism (126)
• Effective climate change interventions (9)
• Effective solutions (45)
  • Promising interventions (30)
  • Top-recommended organisations (19)
• Ending Ageing (4)
• Engineering (8)
• Epistemics (5)
• EtG advice (6)
• EtG pros and cons (15)
• Existential risk (92)
• Expert in AI hardware (4)
• Exploration (20)
• Factory Farming (21)
• False ideas on social media (10)
• Fields (124)
  • Computer science (21)
  • Economics (38)
  • History (10)
  • Law (8)
  • Machine learning (26)
  • Philosophy (20)
  • Physics (2)
  • Psychology (16)
  • Statistics (7)
• Finance (17)
  • Asset Management (5)
  • Investment Banking (6)
• Forecasting (4)
• Forecasting research & implementation (19)
• Found a tech startup (30)
• Foundation Program Management (10)
• Foundations (290)
  • Effective Altruism (126)
  • Existential risk (92)
  • Future generations & longtermism (74)
  • Moral philosophy (70)
  • Reasoning well (92)
• Founder of new projects (43)
• Founders Pledge (2)
• Fundraising (9)
• Future generations & longtermism (74)
• Future of Humanity Institute (15)
• Geoengineering (3)
• GiveWell (10)
• Giving What We Can (5)
• Global Health (26)
• Global Priorities Institute (5)
• Global priorities research (45)
• Global public goods (7)
• Good Judgement Inc (1)
• Government & policy (80)
  • Party Politics (11)
• Graduate school (22)
  • PhDs (13)
• Grantmaker (21)
• Great power conflict (17)
• Gun Control (3)
• Harmful restrictions on migration (5)
• High impact executive assistant (3)
• Historian of large societal trends (7)
• History (10)
• How to get a job (25)
• Improving values (3)
• Income (30)
• Individual reasoning & cognition (18)
• Information security (8)
• Institutional decision making (40)
• Investigate new problems (2)
• Investment Banking (6)
• J-PAL (4)
• Job satisfaction (28)
• Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (1)
• Journalism (25)
  • Journalist (10)
• Journalist (10)
• Law (8)
• Lawyer (8)
• Leverage (7)
• Long-term AI policy (42)
• Longtermist philanthropy (2)
• Machine Intelligence Research Institute (3)
• Machine learning (26)
• Machine learning PhD (6)
• Marketing (3)
• Medical Researcher (7)
• Medicine (28)
  • Doctor (13)
  • Medical Researcher (7)
• Mental health (23)
• Mental health (problem area) (5)
• Moral patients (10)
• Moral philosophy (72)
  • Moral patients (10)
  • Moral uncertainty (9)
• Moral uncertainty (9)
• Most pressing problems (252)
  • Artificial Intelligence (77)
  • Building effective altruism (66)
  • Catastrophic pandemics (40)
  • Climate change (17)
  • Global priorities research (45)
  • Institutional decision making (40)
  • Nuclear war (26)
• Non-technical roles in leading AI labs (7)
• Now vs. Later (17)
• Nuclear Threat Initiative (4)
• Nuclear war (26)
• Nursing (1)
• Open Philanthropy (19)
• OpenAI (14)
• Operations at high impact organisations (13)
• Organisation-building at effective nonprofits (41)
  • Foundation Program Management (10)
  • Fundraising (9)
  • Philanthropic Advising (11)
• Organise an effective altruism group (1)
• Other careers (140)
  • Art & Entertainment (5)
  • Biomedical Research (12)
  • Computer Science PhD (14)
  • Consulting (10)
  • Data science (27)
  • Design (2)
  • Education (6)
  • Finance (11)
  • Lawyer (8)
  • Marketing (3)
  • Medicine (18)
  • Nursing (1)
  • Philosophy academia (7)
  • Politics (38)
  • Web designer (1)
• Other pressing problems (146)
  • Artificial sentience (6)
  • Atomically precise manufacturing (2)
  • Charter cities (3)
  • Civilisational resilience (6)
  • Economic growth (10)
  • Ending Ageing (4)
  • Factory Farming (21)
  • False ideas on social media (10)
  • Global Health (26)
  • Global public goods (7)
  • Great power conflict (17)
  • Gun Control (3)
  • Harmful restrictions on migration (5)
  • Improving values (3)
  • Individual reasoning & cognition (18)
  • Mental health (problem area) (5)
  • Risks from malevolent actors (9)
  • Risks of stable totalitarianism (8)
  • S-risks (4)
  • Science policy & infrastructure (19)
  • Space governance (3)
  • Voting reform (6)
  • Whole brain emulation (4)
  • Wild animal suffering (6)
• Other topics (79)
  • About 80,000 Hours (27)
  • Anonymous advice (19)
  • COVID-19 (22)
  • Doing good in your current job (6)
  • Promoting effective altruism (2)
  • User stories (4)
• Our World in Data (2)
• Party Politics (19)
• Party Politics (11)
• Personal fit (75)
  • Ability (19)
  • Job satisfaction (28)
• PhDs (13)
• Philanthropic Advising (11)
• Philosophy (20)
• Philosophy academia (7)
• Physics (2)
• Policy careers (8)
• Politics (50)
  • Civil Service (10)
  • Party Politics (19)
• Problem prioritisation (25)
• Promising interventions (30)
• Promoting effective altruism (2)
• Psychology (16)
• Public intellectual (11)
• Quantitative hedge funds (4)
• Reasoning well (119)
  • Decision making (40)
  • Epistemics (5)
  • Forecasting (4)
• Research in relevant areas (79)
  • Biomedical Research (21)
  • Scientific research (17)
• Research into global priorities (41)
• Research management (7)
• Rethink Priorities (1)
• Risk (12)
• Risks from malevolent actors (9)
• Risks of stable totalitarianism (8)
• S-risks (4)
• Science policy & infrastructure (19)
• Scientific research (17)
• Sculpting Evolution Group at the MIT Media Lab (1)
• Skills (8)
• Software Engineering (33)
• Sometimes-recommended careers (224)
  • Academic Research (98)
  • China-Western coordination (9)
  • Data collection for AI alignment (1)
  • Earning to give in quant trading (6)
  • Effective climate change interventions (9)
  • Engineering (8)
  • Expert in AI hardware (4)
  • Found a tech startup (30)
  • High impact executive assistant (3)
  • Historian of large societal trends (7)
  • Information security (8)
  • Investigate new problems (2)
  • Journalism (22)
  • Longtermist philanthropy (2)
  • Non-technical roles in leading AI labs (7)
  • Organise an effective altruism group (1)
  • Policy careers (8)
  • Public intellectual (11)
  • Research management (7)
  • Software Engineering (33)
  • Specialist in emerging global powers (5)
  • Think tank research (3)
• Space governance (3)
• Specialist in emerging global powers (5)
• Statistics (7)
• The Good Food Institute (2)
• Think tank research (3)
• Top-recommended careers (214)
  • AI safety technical research (44)
  • Biorisk strategy & policy (31)
  • Building the effective altruism community (19)
  • China-related AI safety & governance (9)
  • Forecasting research & implementation (19)
  • Founder of new projects (43)
  • Grantmaker (21)
  • Long-term AI policy (42)
  • Operations at high impact organisations (13)
  • Research into global priorities (41)
• Top-recommended organisations (125)
  • 80000 Hours (3)
  • AI Impacts (1)
  • Animal Charity Evaluators (1)
  • Anthropic (7)
  • Center for AI Safety (1)
  • Center for Applied Rationality (1)
  • Center for Security and Emerging Technology (2)
  • Centre for Effective Altruism (1)
  • Centre for the Governance of AI (3)
  • Charity Entrepreneurship (3)
  • DeepMind (9)
  • Founders Pledge (2)
  • Future of Humanity Institute (15)
  • GiveWell (10)
  • Giving What We Can (5)
  • Global Priorities Institute (5)
  • Good Judgement Inc (1)
  • J-PAL (4)
  • Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (1)
  • Machine Intelligence Research Institute (3)
  • Nuclear Threat Initiative (4)
  • Open Philanthropy (19)
  • OpenAI (14)
  • Our World in Data (2)
  • Rethink Priorities (1)
  • Sculpting Evolution Group at the MIT Media Lab (1)
  • The Good Food Institute (2)
• Uncategorised (161)
• Unconventional advice (109)
• Updates (43)
• User stories (4)
• Volunteering (8)
• Voting reform (6)
• Web designer (1)
• Whole brain emulation (4)
• Wild animal suffering (6)
• World problems (77)
  • Most pressing problems (11)
  • Other pressing problems (5)
  • Problem prioritisation (25)