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| Mo Putera1d | I just learned about Zipline, the world's largest autonomous drone delivery system, from YouTube tech reviewer Marques Brownlee's recent video, so I was surprised to see Zipline pop up in a GiveWell grant writeup of all places. I admittedly had the intuition that if you're optimising for cost-effectiveness as hard as GW do, and that your prior is as skeptical as theirs is, then the "coolness factor" would've been stripped clean off whatever interventions pass the bar, and Brownlee's demo both blew my mind with its coolness (he placed an order on mobile for a power bank and it arrived by air in thirty seconds flat, yeesh) and also seemed the complete opposite of cost-effective (caveating that I know nothing about drone delivery economics). Quoting their "in a nutshell" section: Okay, but what about cost-effectiveness? Their "main reservations" section says Is there any evidence of cost-effectiveness at all then? According to Zipline, yes — e.g. quoting the abstract from their own 2025 modelling study: That's super cost-effective. For context, the standard willingness-to-pay to avert a DALY is 1x per capita GDP or $2,100 in Ghana, so 35-50x higher. Also: (GW notes that they'd given Zipline's study a look and "were unable to quickly assess how key parameters like program costs and the impact of the program on vaccination uptake and disease were being estimated". Neither can I. Still pretty exciting) |
| Cian M2d | I recently came across Santi Ruiz from the Institute for Progress's podcast and substack, Statecraft. I enjoyed going back through the archives and thought I'd share some of my favorites here. Particularly Forum relevant 1. How to Save Twenty Million Lives 2. How to Secure Weapons-Grade Uranium 3. How to Hide the Manhattan Project 4. How to Salvage a Nuclear Waste Facility 5. How to Ban Biological Weapons 6. How to Catch a Lab Leak Other standouts 1. How to Stage a Coup 2. How to Fix Crime in New York City 3. 50 Thoughts on DOGE 4. How to Win an Election Against the Communists |
| calebp43m | Some AI research projects that (afaik) haven't had much work done on them and would be pretty interesting: * If the US were to co-build secure data centres in allied countries, would that be geopolitically stabilising or destabilising? * What AI safety research agendas could be massively sped up by AI agents? What properties do they have (e.g. easily checkable, engineering > conceptual ...)? * What will the first non-AI R&D uses of powerful and general AI systems be? * Are there ways to leverage cheap (e.g. 100x lower than present-day cost) intelligence or manual labour to massively increase the US's electricity supply? * What kinds of regulation might make it easier to navigate an intelligence explosion (e.g. establishing quick pathways to implement policy informed by AI experts, or establishing zones where compute facilities can be quickly built without navigating a load of red tape)? |
| Aaron Bergman2d | Is there a good list of the highest leverage things a random US citizen (probably in a blue state) can do to cause Trump to either be removed from office or seriously constrained in some way? Anyone care to brainstorm? Like the safe state/swing state vote swapping thing during the election was brilliant - what analogues are there for the current moment, if any? |
| quinn2d | Yall, I have been off and on distracted from my work by intense and unpleasant outrage/disgust at immigration enforcement, ever since Trump's first campaign speech close to ten years ago. I have few visceral moral convictions, and this is the strongest. I wish my strongest conviction was a positive one, where I'm brimming with hope and warmth. But instead, anger is more salient. I don't know what to do about it. I dont think spending kajillions of dollars of lawyers so that the victims' lives can be somewhat less inconvenienced passes the ITN test, and i don't have kajillions of dollars. So it's basically like, I know I'm not gonna do anything about it, I just have to sit and try to let it distract me as little as possible. Total bummer, feels very disempowering. It'd be great to be able to transmute these feelings into a positive vibe. |
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