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10 years of Earn­ing to Give

AGB 🔸7 Nov 2023 23:35 UTC
726 points
31 comments9 min readEA link

We must be very clear: fraud in the ser­vice of effec­tive al­tru­ism is unacceptable

evhub10 Nov 2022 23:31 UTC
713 points
86 comments3 min readEA link

The FTX Fu­ture Fund team has resigned

Nick_Beckstead11 Nov 2022 2:04 UTC
684 points
288 comments1 min readEA link

CEA’s re­sponse to sex­ual harassment

Fran27 Feb 2026 19:23 UTC
682 points
122 comments19 min readEA link

500 Million, But Not A Sin­gle One More

jai25 May 2020 16:31 UTC
674 points
34 comments3 min readEA link
(laneless.substack.com)

EA is three rad­i­cal ideas I want to protect

Peter Wildeford27 Mar 2023 15:31 UTC
655 points
16 comments4 min readEA link

The EA com­mu­nity does not own its donors’ money

Nick Whitaker18 Jan 2023 18:59 UTC
653 points
116 comments4 min readEA link

Some com­ments on re­cent FTX-re­lated events

Holden Karnofsky10 Nov 2022 22:23 UTC
644 points
80 comments4 min readEA link

Bad Omens in Cur­rent Com­mu­nity Building

Theo Hawking12 May 2022 15:41 UTC
601 points
132 comments18 min readEA link

Cen­ter for Effec­tive Aid Policy has shut down

MathiasKB🔸2 Jul 2024 16:54 UTC
575 points
41 comments9 min readEA link

EA and the cur­rent fund­ing situation

William_MacAskill10 May 2022 2:26 UTC
569 points
185 comments24 min readEA link

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

George Rosenfeld12 Apr 2022 20:30 UTC
568 points
186 comments8 min readEA link

On Liv­ing Without Idols

Rockwell13 Jan 2023 23:35 UTC
560 points
24 comments6 min readEA link

Open Phil Should Allo­cate Most Neart­er­mist Fund­ing to An­i­mal Welfare

Ariel Simnegar 🔸19 Nov 2023 17:00 UTC
538 points
128 comments14 min readEA link

“Long-Ter­mism” vs. “Ex­is­ten­tial Risk”

Scott Alexander6 Apr 2022 21:41 UTC
535 points
81 comments3 min readEA link

EA is about max­i­miza­tion, and max­i­miza­tion is perilous

Holden Karnofsky2 Sep 2022 17:13 UTC
533 points
60 comments7 min readEA link

Marisa, the Co-Founder of EA Any­where, Has Passed Away

carrickflynn17 May 2024 22:49 UTC
525 points
33 comments1 min readEA link

EA for dumb peo­ple?

Olivia Addy11 Jul 2022 10:46 UTC
513 points
160 comments2 min readEA link

Peter Eck­er­sley (1979-2022)

technicalities3 Sep 2022 10:45 UTC
504 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Cen­tre for Effec­tive Altru­ism Is No Longer “Effec­tive Altru­ism”-Related

Anna Weldon1 Apr 2025 18:07 UTC
500 points
24 comments2 min readEA link

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

HaydnBelfield19 May 2022 8:42 UTC
495 points
47 comments18 min readEA link

Power dy­nam­ics be­tween peo­ple in EA

Julia_Wise🔸1 Jun 2022 20:50 UTC
493 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

Tran­si­tion­ing to an ad­vi­sory role

MaxDalton16 Feb 2023 18:11 UTC
481 points
31 comments2 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism in the age of AGI

William_MacAskill10 Oct 2025 10:57 UTC
477 points
81 comments20 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Publi­ca­tion of An­i­mal Liber­a­tion Now

Peter Singer19 May 2023 16:34 UTC
473 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

IMPCO, don’t in­jure your­self by re­turn­ing FTXFF money for ser­vices you already provided

EliezerYudkowsky12 Nov 2022 4:51 UTC
466 points
43 comments8 min readEA link

Cri­tiques of EA that I want to read

abrahamrowe19 Jun 2022 22:22 UTC
464 points
86 comments11 min readEA link

My cur­rent im­pres­sions on ca­reer choice for longtermists

Holden Karnofsky4 Jun 2021 17:07 UTC
463 points
37 comments26 min readEA link

Growth and the case against ran­domista development

Hauke Hillebrandt16 Jan 2020 10:11 UTC
454 points
197 comments31 min readEA link

The FTX crisis high­lights a deeper cul­tural prob­lem within EA—we don’t suffi­ciently value good governance

James Fodor14 Nov 2022 12:43 UTC
453 points
55 comments4 min readEA link

Open EA Global

Scott Alexander1 Sep 2022 4:26 UTC
451 points
154 comments5 min readEA link

Some ob­ser­va­tions from an EA-ad­ja­cent (?) char­i­ta­ble effort

patio119 Dec 2022 20:13 UTC
448 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

My highly per­sonal skep­ti­cism brain­dump on ex­is­ten­tial risk from ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence.

NunoSempere23 Jan 2023 20:08 UTC
442 points
116 comments14 min readEA link
(nunosempere.com)

My mis­takes on the path to impact

D_M_x4 Dec 2020 22:13 UTC
436 points
75 comments11 min readEA link

EV up­dates: FTX set­tle­ment and the fu­ture of EV

Zachary Robinson🔸13 Dec 2023 21:25 UTC
436 points
39 comments2 min readEA link

Lean­ing into EA Disillusionment

Helen21 Jul 2022 17:06 UTC
435 points
61 comments13 min readEA link

Maybe let the non-EA world train you

ElliotTep14 Jun 2024 14:45 UTC
434 points
30 comments8 min readEA link

State­ment on AI Ex­tinc­tion—Signed by AGI Labs, Top Aca­demics, and Many Other Notable Figures

Center for AI Safety30 May 2023 9:06 UTC
431 points
27 comments1 min readEA link
(www.safe.ai)

Con­crete Biose­cu­rity Pro­jects (some of which could be big)

ASB11 Jan 2022 3:46 UTC
429 points
73 comments5 min readEA link

an­i­mal welfare has an ev­i­dence problem

matthes5 Jun 2026 22:04 UTC
429 points
87 comments13 min readEA link

Shar­ing In­for­ma­tion About Nonlinear

Ben Pace7 Sep 2023 6:51 UTC
425 points
497 comments34 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
424 points
184 comments4 min readEA link

Can we help in­di­vi­d­ual peo­ple cost-effec­tively? Our trial with three sick kids

NickLaing20 Feb 2024 9:43 UTC
420 points
36 comments10 min readEA link

Tak­ing a leave of ab­sence from Open Philan­thropy to work on AI safety

Holden Karnofsky23 Feb 2023 19:05 UTC
420 points
31 comments2 min readEA link

Step­ping down from GWWC: So long, and thanks for all the shrimp

Luke Freeman 🔸10 Sep 2024 21:02 UTC
417 points
26 comments8 min readEA link
(www.lukefreeman.com.au)

Open Phil is seek­ing ap­pli­ca­tions from grantees im­pacted by re­cent events

Bastian_Stern16 Nov 2022 5:10 UTC
415 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on An­thropic and EA

abrahamrowe10 May 2026 17:04 UTC
414 points
52 comments6 min readEA link

Why I love effec­tive altruism

Michelle_Hutchinson1 Mar 2023 9:41 UTC
411 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

Why I Spoke to TIME Magaz­ine, and My Ex­pe­rience as a Fe­male AI Re­searcher in Sili­con Valley

Lucretia11 Jun 2023 3:31 UTC
411 points
95 comments40 min readEA link
(medium.com)

Things I Learned by Spend­ing Five Thou­sand Hours In Non-EA Charities

jenn2 Jun 2023 9:37 UTC
407 points
22 comments8 min readEA link
(jenn.site)