Catastrophic Disease
A recent global pandemic that forced people into quarantine.
What is COVID-19?
202 million of this animal is slaughtered for meat every day.
Who is a chicken?
He is arguably the most famous Effective Altruist of all time and is also now in jail.
Who is Sam Bankman Fried (SBF)?
What major company owns Open AI?
What is Microsoft?
What is it called when an individual feels like a fraud, failure or disappointment in some sort of activity compared to their peers?
What is imposter syndrome?
It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history.
What is Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague?
This amount of agricultural land is used for farmed animals.
What is 75%?
This philosopher is known as the author of the "shallow pond and drowning child" idea.
Who is Peter Singer?
This supercomputer defeated the chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997.
What is IBM's Deep Blue?
This cognitive bias makes it difficult to emotionally feel differences in numbers, especially big ones, thus making x-risk prevention more neglected.
What is scope insensitivity? (or scope neglect)
This disease, which primarily affected the LGBTQIA+ community, became a hot topic in American politcs during the latter 1900's.
What is the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
What is the phenomenon called where people like to eat meat but do not like to or avoid thinking about animals dying to provide it?
What is the meat paradox?
Where did Effective Altruism originate?
What is Oxford University?
It took this long to reach 1M users for ChatGPT.
What is 5 days? (Fastest in history)
What is a mindset that is focused on learning, understanding, and identifying potential obstacles?
What is scout mindset?
This disease had a 30% death rate, but was eradicated in 1979.
What is Smallpox?
In the past 50 years the world population has increased from 3bn to 8bn (ca 2.5x), this is how many times the meat production has gone up.
What is 5x?
The year in which effective altruism was founded.
What is 2009?
This test is designed to determine if a machine exhibits intelligence equal to or indistinguishable from that of a human?
What is the Turing Test?
What is it called when a person's lack of knowledge and skill in a certain area causes them to overestimate their own competence?
What is the Dunning-Kruger Effect?
This virus became contagious between mammals in a 2011 lab experiment. It has a 60% mortality rate for humans.
What is the H5N1 strain of avian influenza?
The number of shrimp farmed annualy is about this many times more than that of all land animals combined.
What is 5 times?
This pair of renowned Effective Altruists founded a student-run organization that grew into an official university course and brought the ideas of EA to new territories.
Who are Evan and Akash
These types of AI models may pretend to be motivated by human approval during training so they can pursue other goals more effectively?
What are schemer models?
What is the bias where it is difficult to tell if an individual has independently validated an analysis or evaluation of a topic or if their knowledge is just being quoted from another source?
What is the bandwagon effect?