Submissions by robertwiblin

PhD or programming? A fast path into aligning AI as a machine learning engineer

How even trivial actions we take change humanity's entire future history

Tyler Cowen says our top priority should be maximising econ growth. Is he right?

Ways people trying to do good accidentally do harm instead and how to avoid them

An ML researcher on how humanity will hand decision-making over to AI systems

Is academia the best place to do important research?

Dr Christiano on OpenAI developing real solutions to the 'AI alignment problem'

Considering becoming an academic? Read this first

Daniel Ellsberg's confessions of a nuclear war planner

Daniel Ellsberg on the Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

The world’s highest impact careers according to our research

How can we do the most good for the world? [video]

Should you play to your comparative advantage when choosing your career?

If you’re unsure whether to quit your job or break up, you probably should

Consider applying for grad school

High impact job board – August 2018

Why expert opinion isn’t a great guide to AI's impacts and how to do better

The econ professor who wrote up effective altruism's key insights decades ago

How GiveWell picks the worlds top charities by trying to estimate the unknowable

Research recommending 2 most cost-effective charities to prevent climate change [pdf]

How the audacity to fix things without asking permission can change the world

Politics is bad because we use an 18th century voting system

Would stopping ageing mean dictators could rule forever?

Debate over whether The Case Against Education holds up

The US should remove foreign language education requirements