We’re hiring! Apply to our Director of Communications opening by 02/18, and to our GCR Cause Prioritization internship by 03/04. Check our careers page for more details: openphilanthropy.org/careers/ If you refer someone we hire, we’ll offer you a reward: openphilanthropy.slab.com/public/posts/o…

We’re still hiring for GCR Cause Prioritization interns! You can apply to either the Research or the Strategy track — visit the listing below for more info on both. (Deadline 03/04) jobs.ashbyhq.com/openphilanthro…

Winners announced for Phase 1 of the challenge by Lead Detect Prize Challenge leaddetectprize.com/phase-1-winner…

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"Philanthropic cause prioritization" Emily Oehlsen has a nice piece in the JEP outlining Open Philanthropy's very economist-y approach to grantmaking (including, by way of full disclosure, to CGD for our work on lead exposure). A few highlights... pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10…

We’re hiring a Program Officer/Senior Program Associate to help us address lead exposure in LMICs. Deadline 6/30 — see the listing for more info: jobs.ashbyhq.com/openphilanthro… And please share widely! We'll offer you a reward if you refer someone we hire. openphilanthropy.slab.com/public/posts/o…

Popularity of token money is ⬆️ to allocate class seats, food donations, holiday homes,… My #JMP asks 1⃣ Does price-setting with tokens work as in normal markets? 2⃣ Can token money have advantages even when using real money possible? Surprisingly: NO, YES! 1/🧵

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Couples rearrange their time after having a child—but what happens to their relationship? My JMP w/Belén Rodríguez introduces a novel measure of relationship quality (RQ). We find a sharp, lasting RQ decline after birth, driven by shifts in household specialization. 1/11

My team GCR cause prio is hiring interns for next June-August, please apply!

I'm excited to launch CEPR's new webinar series on 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 on Tue 1/28 - please join us for a take on the questions that transformative advances in AI will pose for economics! #econtwitter

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Elo uses ordinal comparisons, A is better than B. Is there any literature on a variant that uses cardinal comparisons, A is 2/3/4x better than B?

🧵 Super excited about this RFP we’ve been working on! Let me highlight eight of the research areas we're particularly keen to fund.

In an exclusive for nature, I report on a paper that AI folks will probably debate for a LONG time. The key finding: the time horizon of tasks AI can handle is doubling fast. Extrapolating the trend: AIs will be able to handle 1-month tasks by 2029. 🧵 x.com/METR_Evals/sta…

First day of our relationship being non-long distance, we go for a run and see a double rainbow. Life is good.

💡Leading researchers and AI companies have raised the possibility that AI models could soon be sentient. I’m worried that too few people are thinking about this. Let’s change that. I’m excited to announce a Digital Sentience Consortium. Check out these funding opps.👇

Today's the day! Essays on longtermism is now out (open access) with Oxford University Press. academic.oup.com/book/60794

David Roodman writes: consumers of economic research are more truth-seeking than the producers. Here is Roodman's recap of his re-analysis of a set of papers on temperature and judge decision-making. The comment process is not working that well! Gory details in 🧵 1/

If you said: “We should have real-time incident reporting for large-scale frontier AI cyber incidents.” A lot of people in DC would say: “That sounds ea/doomer-coded.” And yet incident reporting for large-scale, non-AI cyber incidents is the standard practice of all major