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EA and the current funding situation

William_MacAskill10 May 2022 2:26 UTC

570 points

195 comments24 min readEA link

Free-spending EA might be a big problem for optics and epistemics

George Rosenfeld12 Apr 2022 20:30 UTC

544 points

188 comments8 min readEA link

Peter Eckersley (1979-2022)

Gavin3 Sep 2022 10:45 UTC

504 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Bad Omens in Current Community Building

Theo Hawking12 May 2022 15:41 UTC

499 points

131 comments18 min readEA link

“Long-Termism” vs. “Existential Risk”

Scott Alexander6 Apr 2022 21:41 UTC

477 points

80 comments3 min readEA link

Critiques of EA that I want to read

abrahamrowe19 Jun 2022 22:22 UTC

444 points

86 comments11 min readEA link

My mistakes on the path to impact

Denise_Melchin4 Dec 2020 22:13 UTC

413 points

70 comments11 min readEA link

EA for dumb people?

Olivia Addy11 Jul 2022 10:46 UTC

412 points

160 comments2 min readEA link

Growth and the case against randomista development

Hauke Hillebrandt16 Jan 2020 10:11 UTC

391 points

193 comments30 min readEA link

Are you really in a race? The Cautionary Tales of Szilárd and Ellsberg

HaydnBelfield19 May 2022 8:42 UTC

386 points

36 comments17 min readEA link

Open EA Global

Scott Alexander1 Sep 2022 4:26 UTC

384 points

147 comments5 min readEA link

Announcing my retirement

Aaron Gertler25 Nov 2021 13:55 UTC

378 points

28 comments1 min readEA link

Power dynamics between people in EA

Julia_Wise1 Jun 2022 20:50 UTC

376 points

14 comments8 min readEA link

Announcing the Future Fund

Nick_Beckstead28 Feb 2022 17:26 UTC

371 points

184 comments4 min readEA link

(ftxfuturefund.org)

Announcing Alvea—An EA COVID Vaccine Project

kyle_fish16 Feb 2022 13:50 UTC

368 points

25 comments2 min readEA link

My current impressions on career choice for longtermists

Holden Karnofsky4 Jun 2021 17:07 UTC

364 points

36 comments27 min readEA link

Concrete Biosecurity Projects (some of which could be big)

ASB11 Jan 2022 3:46 UTC

351 points

72 comments5 min readEA link

After one year of applying for EA jobs: It is really, really hard to get hired by an EA organisation

EA applicant26 Feb 2019 5:53 UTC

350 points

183 comments4 min readEA link

Leaning into EA Disillusionment

Helen21 Jul 2022 17:06 UTC

338 points

59 comments14 min readEA link

“Big tent” effective altruism is very important (particularly right now)

Luke Freeman20 May 2022 3:39 UTC

334 points

79 comments6 min readEA link

Some clarifications on the Future Fund’s approach to grantmaking

Nick_Beckstead10 May 2022 2:42 UTC

328 points

59 comments3 min readEA link

Some unfun lessons I learned as a junior grantmaker

Linch23 May 2022 16:31 UTC

327 points

61 comments13 min readEA link

My take on What We Owe the Future

elifland1 Sep 2022 18:07 UTC

324 points

46 comments30 min readEA link

What happens on the average day?

rosehadshar17 Aug 2022 10:09 UTC

321 points

26 comments6 min readEA link

EA is about maximization, and maximization is perilous

Holden Karnofsky2 Sep 2022 17:13 UTC

317 points

56 comments7 min readEA link

Major UN report discusses existential risk and future generations (summary)

finm17 Sep 2021 15:51 UTC

312 points

5 comments12 min readEA link

Don’t Be Bycatch

AllAmericanBreakfast10 Mar 2021 5:28 UTC

311 points

19 comments3 min readEA link

Announcing “Naming What We Can”!

GidonKadosh1 Apr 2021 10:17 UTC

311 points

72 comments2 min readEA link

Deworming and decay: replicating GiveWell’s cost-effectiveness analysis

JoelMcGuire25 Jul 2022 20:26 UTC

304 points

35 comments12 min readEA link

(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

The Unweaving of a Beautiful Thing

atb26 Dec 2021 10:24 UTC

302 points

36 comments23 min readEA link

Announcing What We Owe The Future

William_MacAskill30 Mar 2022 19:37 UTC

300 points

36 comments5 min readEA link

What We Owe The Future is out today

William_MacAskill16 Aug 2022 15:13 UTC

300 points

68 comments2 min readEA link

EAF’s ballot initiative doubled Zurich’s development aid

Jonas Vollmer13 Jan 2020 11:32 UTC

298 points

25 comments12 min readEA link

Snakebites kill 100,000 people every year, here’s what you should know

MathiasKB27 Apr 2022 14:30 UTC

297 points

36 comments5 min readEA link

The Cost of Rejection

Daystar Eld8 Oct 2021 12:35 UTC

293 points

48 comments8 min readEA link

A Critical Review of Open Philanthropy’s Bet On Criminal Justice Reform

NunoSempere16 Jun 2022 16:40 UTC

293 points

94 comments26 min readEA link

Is effective altruism growing? An update on the stock of funding vs. people

Benjamin_Todd29 Jul 2021 11:47 UTC

292 points

106 comments21 min readEA link

Some potential lessons from Carrick’s Congressional bid

Daniel_Eth18 May 2022 5:58 UTC

292 points

97 comments10 min readEA link

Reducing long-term risks from malevolent actors

David_Althaus29 Apr 2020 8:55 UTC

290 points

85 comments37 min readEA link

The case of the missing cause prioritisation research

weeatquince16 Aug 2020 0:21 UTC

290 points

89 comments16 min readEA link

My EA Failure Story

semicycle11 Jul 2022 9:22 UTC

288 points

31 comments4 min readEA link

What Makes Outreach to Progressives Hard

Cullen_OKeefe14 Mar 2021 0:32 UTC

284 points

77 comments9 min readEA link

The best $5,800 I’ve ever donated (to pandemic prevention).

ASB5 Feb 2022 21:18 UTC

284 points

86 comments4 min readEA link

Senior EA ‘ops’ roles: if you want to undo the bottleneck, hire differently

AnonymousThrowAway9 Jul 2022 10:47 UTC

284 points

32 comments11 min readEA link

Climate Change & Longtermism: new book-length report

John G. Halstead26 Aug 2022 9:13 UTC

283 points

158 comments13 min readEA link

My experience with imposter syndrome — and how to (partly) overcome it

Luisa_Rodriguez21 Apr 2022 19:55 UTC

282 points

21 comments23 min readEA link

Introducing Asterisk

Clara Collier26 May 2022 5:54 UTC

282 points

32 comments3 min readEA link

Announcing the Longtermism Fund

Michael Townsend11 Aug 2022 13:06 UTC

280 points

18 comments5 min readEA link

Future Fund June 2022 Update

Nick_Beckstead1 Jul 2022 0:50 UTC

278 points

24 comments21 min readEA link

(ftxfuturefund.org)

What is the likelihood that civilizational collapse would directly lead to human extinction (within decades)?

Luisa_Rodriguez24 Dec 2020 22:10 UTC

277 points

37 comments50 min readEA link