EA - Prototype: GPT-powered EA/LW weekly summary by Hamish McDoodles

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: Prototype: GPT-powered EA/LW weekly summary, published by Hamish McDoodles on August 24, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Zoe Williams used to manually do weekly summaries of the EA Forum and LessWrong, but now she doesn'ttoday I strung together a bunch of google apps scripts, google sheets expressions, graphQL queries, and D3.js to automatically extract all the posts on EAF/LW from the last week with >50 karma, summarize them with GPT-4, and assemble the result into HTML with links and stuffhard to say what the API usage cost, what with all the tinkering and experimenting, but I reckon it was about $5there were a bunch of posts which were too long for the API message length, so as a first whack i just cut stuff out of the middle of the post until it fit (Procrustes style)Siao (co-author) was going to help but i finished everything so fast she never got a chance lolI haven't spent much time sanity-checking these summaries, but I reckon they're "good enough to be useful"They often drop useful details or get the emphasis wrong.I haven't seen any outright fabrication.Obviously if you have a special interest in some topic these aren't going to substitute for reading the original post.the obvious next few steps are:automate the actual posting of the summaries.does EAF/LW have an API for posting?also summarize top comment(s)this is kinda hardexperiment with prompts to see if other summaries are more usefulalso generate a top level summary which gives you like 5 bullet points of the most important things from the forums this weekfeedback that would be useful:what would you (personally) like to be different about these summaries? should they be shorter? longer? bullet points? have quotes? fewer entries? more entries?leave a comment or DM me or whatever with any old feedbackoh, and: i originally also got the top posts from the AI alignment forum, but they were all cross posted on lesswrong? is that alwasy true? anyone know?EA ForumSelect examples of adverse selection in longtermist grantmakingby LinchThe author, a volunteer and sometimes contractor for EA Funds' Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF), discusses the pros and cons of diversification in longtermist EA funding. While diversification can increase financial stability, allow for a variety of worldviews, encourage accountability, and provide access to diverse networks, it can also lead to adverse selection, where projects that have been rejected by existing grantmakers are funded by new ones. The author provides examples of such cases and suggests that new grantmakers should be cautious about funding projects that have been rejected by others, but also acknowledges that grantmakers can make mistakes and that a network of independent funders could help ensure that unusual but potentially high-impact projects are not overlooked.An Elephant in the Community Building roomby KaleemThe author, a contractor for CEA and employee of EVOps, shares his personal views on the strategies of community building within the Effective Altruism (EA) movement. He identifies two main strategies: Global EA, which aims to spread EA ideas as widely as possible, and Narrow EA, which focuses on influencing a small group of highly influential people. The author argues that community builders and funders should be more explicit about their theory of change for global community building, as there could be significant trade-offs in impact between these two strategies.CE alert: 2 new interventions for February-March 2024 Incubation Programby CECharity Entrepreneurship has announced two new charity interventions for its February-March 2024 Incubation Program, bringing the total to six. The new interventions include an organization focused on bringing new funding into the animal advocacy movement and an organization providing ...