Jeff Kaufman 🔸

karma rank #6 · 18,500 karma · 9 posts sampled · profile ↗

Top cause areas

effective giving 4.2 +1.1σ
prioritization 2.9 -0.1σ
ea meta 2.6 -1.5σ
global health 2.0 +0.5σ
Show all 15 cause areas
biosecurity 2.0 +2.5σ
forecasting epistemics 1.2 -0.4σ
rationalist meta 1.2 -0.3σ
ai safety 0.9 -0.3σ
ai governance 0.9 +0.0σ
longtermism xrisk 0.8 -0.8σ
animal welfare 0.7 -0.1σ
mental health 0.1 -0.3σ
climate 0.1 -0.2σ
nuclear great power 0.0 -0.6σ
moral circle values 0.0 -1.0σ

Distinguishing dimensions z-score vs top-30 cohort

▲ cause_biosecurity +2.5σ
▲ style_personal_narrative +2.0σ
▲ cause_effective_giving +1.1σ
▼ cause_ea_meta -1.5σ
▼ tone_earnestness -1.1σ

Style quantitative / empirical / philosophical / speculative / operational / contrarian

quantitative 4.9 +0.6σ
empirical 3.7 -0.0σ
philosophical 3.0 -0.5σ
speculative 4.0 -0.1σ
operational howto 3.6 -0.8σ
critical contrarian 3.9 +0.1σ
Show all 9 style dims
personal narrative 4.0 +2.0σ
synthesizing 4.4 -0.7σ
question asking 2.9 +0.1σ

Stance signature top 3 stance dims furthest from neutral (5)

inside ea 7.0 -1.0σ
ea org coded 6.7 -0.1σ
optimism ea institutions 5.8 -0.2σ
Show all 9 stance dims
longtermist framing 4.4 -1.0σ
animal moral status 5.3 -0.2σ
rationalist coded 4.8 -0.4σ
ai doom axis 5.2 -0.1σ
welfarist vs rights 5.2 -0.3σ
suffering focused 5.1 -0.1σ

Tone

combativeness 1.8 -0.0σ
calibration 6.0 -0.2σ
jargon 4.3 -0.9σ
humility 5.9 +0.0σ

Quality

rigor 6.1 -0.1σ
originality 5.2 -0.2σ
clarity 8.1 +0.0σ

Neighbors in dimension space

Nearest: NickLaing

Foil: David_Moss

Most characteristic post

Contra Binder on far-UVC and filtration

baseScore: 90

Damon Binder recently wrote up an argument for prioritizing air filtration over far-UVC for pathogen control: UVC and filtration are close substitutes—both deliver effective air changes per hour, both reduce airborne pathogen concentrations by the same amount per eACH—and on current pricing, filtration is cheaper. There's a lot of good stuff in his analysis, but I see [1] three considerations that really change the bottom line: - Cost is actually much lower. - Noise is a ser…

Highest-karma post in sample

AMA: Earning to Give

baseScore: 97