Oh, cool, Open Philanthropy is doing scholarships for effective altruist international students doing degrees at top US/UK universities https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/other-areas/undergraduate-scholarship?utm_campaign=80000+Hours+Job+Board&utm_source=80000+Hours+Job+Board
If any of you want to solve AI safety (or animal farming, or global poverty, or...) and could do with having an undergrad degree from Oxford but are deciding not to because it would be too expensive and you live outside the UK, check it out
Current goals:
* Awakening to the true nature of existence und relinquishing all suffering by meditating 2 hours a day
* Having great sex with hot chicks by talking to them on the street and getting ripped
* Solving the AI alignment problem by, uhh, let's find that one out (it'll involve learning math, I think)
@niplav @urshanabi https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-blames-human-error-amid-suspicion-it-censored-1847037545 this was a few months ago, they fixed it when lots of people noticed and started complaining
@icedquinn The thing I'm thinking of is https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/03/its-a-miracle-helsinkis-radical-solution-to-homelessness
"blantantly overdetermined" is because of this tantalizing line:
> savings in emergency healthcare, social services and the justice system totalled as much as €15,000 a year for every homeless person in properly supported housing
Looking deeper it just seems like subsidized housing with social workers living there or something?:
> they can’t be moved unless they break the rules [...] or fail to pay the rent
Moved to @TetraspaceGrouping