Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: How to Resist the Fading Qualia Argument (Andreas Mogensen), published by Global Priorities Institute on March 26, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This paper was published as a GPI work…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Timelines to Transformative AI: an investigation, published by Zershaaneh Qureshi on March 26, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This post is part of a series by Convergence Analysis' AI …

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Effective Giving Projects That Have (and Haven't) Been Tried Among Christians, published by JDBauman on March 26, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.TLDR: US Christian giving amounts to hu…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: How Educational Courses Help Build Fields: Lessons from AI Safety Fundamentals, published by Jamie B on March 25, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Cross-posted as there may be others int…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Research report: meta-analysis on sexual violence prevention programs, published by Seth Ariel Green on March 25, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This post summarizes a new paper: Preve…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Announcement on the future of Wytham Abbey, published by Rob Gledhill on March 25, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.The Wytham Abbey Project is closing. After input from the Abbey's majo…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Killing the moths, published by Bella on March 25, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This post was partly inspired by, and shares some themes with, this Joe Carlsmith post. My post (unsur…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: EA Sweden's Impact 2023, Plans for 2024, and Current Funding Gap, published by Emil Wasteson on March 25, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This post draws on insights fromEA Sweden's 202…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Long Reflection Reading List, published by Will Aldred on March 25, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This is a reading list on the following cluster of notions: "the long reflection", "t…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Friendship as a sacred value, published by Michelle Hutchinson on March 24, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.In 2022/3 there were a number of stressful events in and affecting the EA com…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: What we fund, #1: We fund many opportunities outside our top charities, published by GiveWell on March 23, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Author: Isabel ArjmandThis post is the fourth …

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Posts from 2023 you thought were valuable (and underrated), published by Lizka on March 22, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.I'm sharing:a list of posts that were marked as "most valuabl…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Slim overview of work one could do to make AI go better (and a grab-bag of other career considerations), published by Chi on March 22, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Many kinds of work…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Videos on the world's most pressing problems, by 80,000 Hours, published by Bella on March 21, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Recently, 80,000 Hours has made two ~10-minute videos aimi…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Can the AI afford to wait?, published by Ben Millwood on March 21, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Suppose you're a proto-AI who understands that it is a neural net being trained, and h…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Nigeria pilot report: Reducing child mortality from diarrhoea with ORS & zinc, Clear Solutions, published by Martyn J on March 21, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.SummaryWe introduce Cl…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: EA Philippines Needs Your Help!, published by zianbee on March 21, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.SummaryIn light of the current funding constraints in the EA community, EA Philippines…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Updates on Community Health Survey Results, published by David Moss on March 20, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.SummarySatisfaction with the EA communityReported satisfaction, from 1 (…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Effective language-learning for effective altruists, published by taoburga on March 20, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This is a (late!) Draft Amnesty Week draft. It may not be polishe…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The current limiting factor for new charities, published by Joey on March 19, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.TLDR: we think the limiting factor for new charities has shifted from found…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: There and back again: reflections from leaving EA (and returning), published by LotteG on March 18, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This is aDraft Amnesty Week draft. It may not be poli…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Carlo: uncertainty analysis in Google Sheets, published by ProbabilityEnjoyer on March 18, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.I've been working on Carlo, a tool that lets you do uncertaint…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: EA "Worldviews" Need Rethinking, published by Richard Y Chappell on March 18, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.I like Open Phil's worldview diversification. But I don't think their curre…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Personal fit is different from the thing that you already like, published by Joris P on March 18, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This is aDraft Amnesty Week draft. It may not be polish…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Ways in which I'm not living up to my EA values, published by Joris P on March 18, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This is aDraft Amnesty Week draft. It may not be polished, up to my us…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The Scale of Fetal Suffering in Late-Term Abortions, published by Ariel Simnegar on March 17, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This is a draft amnesty post.SummaryIt seems plausible that…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Ashamed of wealth, published by Neil Warren on March 17, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.tl;dr: I feel ashamed of being born into wealth. Upon analysis, I don't think that's justified. …

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: [Draft] The humble cosmologist's P(doom) paradox, published by titotal on March 17, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.[This post has been published as part of draft amnesty week. I did qu…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: How people stopped dying from diarrhea so much (& other life-saving decisions), published by Writer on March 16, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Rational Animations made this video coll…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Why I worry about about EA leadership, explained through two completely made-up LinkedIn profiles, published by Yanni Kyriacos on March 16, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.The following…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Focusing on bad criticism is dangerous to your epistemics, published by Lizka on March 16, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.TL;DR: Really low quality criticism[1] can grab my attention -…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: [Applications open] Summer Internship with CEA's University Groups Team!, published by Joris P on March 15, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.TLDRApplications for CEA's University Groups …

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: I'm glad I joined an experienced, 20+ person organization, published by michel on March 15, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This is aDraft Amnesty Week draft. It may not be polished up …

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Maternal Health Initiative is Shutting Down, published by Ben Williamson on March 15, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Maternal Health Initiative (MHI) was founded out of Charity Entrepr…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: We Did It! - Victory for Octopus in Washington State, published by Tessa @ ALI on March 15, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.In 2022, Aquatic Life Institute (ALI) led the charge in Bandi…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Unflattering aspects of Effective Altruism, published by NunoSempere on March 15, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.I've been writing a few posts critical of EA over at my blog. They migh…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The Lack of EA in US Private Foundations, published by Kyle Smith on March 15, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.I've written before about trying to bring US private foundations into EA a…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Crowdsourced Overview of Funding for Regional Community Building Orgs, published by Rockwell on March 15, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This post was primarily authored by Kiryl Shant…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: University groups as impact-driven truth-seeking teams, published by anormative on March 14, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.A rough untested idea that I'd like to hear others' thoughts…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: There are no massive differences in impact between individuals, published by Sarah Weiler on March 14, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Or: Why aiming for the tail-end in an imaginary so…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Hire the CEA Online team for software development & consulting, published by Will Howard on March 14, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.TL;DR: We are offering (paid) software consulting a…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: And the capybara suffer what they must? [the ethics of reintroducing predators], published by tobytrem on March 14, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This is aDraft Amnesty Week draft. It…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: AIM (CE) new program: Founding to Give. Apply now to launch a high-growth company!, published by CE on March 14, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.TLDR: This post introduces you to Ambiti…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Two Concrete Ways to Help Feeder Rodents, published by Hazo on March 14, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Feeder rodents are rodents that are fed to pet reptiles, mainly snakes. After ma…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: GiveWell is hiring Research Analysts!, published by GiveWell on March 14, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.We're hiring Research Analysts to support our research team and ensure that the…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Why I care so much about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in EA, published by Ulrik Horn on March 13, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum."Dude!" Bob panted, horror written all over his face…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: China x AI Reference List, published by Saad Siddiqui on March 13, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.BackgroundThere are several China-focused AI reading lists / curricula out there (e.g.…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Wild animal welfare? Stable totalitarianism? Predict which new EA cause area will go mainstream!, published by Jackson Wagner on March 13, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Long have I id…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: #182 - Comparing the welfare of humans, chickens, pigs, octopuses, bees, and more (Bob Fischer on the 80,000 Hours Podcast), published by 80000 Hours on March 13, 2024 on The Effective Altru…

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: New video: You're richer than you realise, published by GraceAdams on March 13, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.This might be one of the best pieces of introductory content to the conce…