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

EA applicant

26 Feb 2019 5:53 UTC

274 points

179 comments4 min readEA link

Is EA Growing? EA Growth Metrics for 2018

Peter_Hurford

2 Jun 2019 4:08 UTC

167 points

36 comments8 min readEA link

SHIC Will Suspend Outreach Operations

cafelow

7 Mar 2019 16:07 UTC

161 points

8 comments6 min readEA link

Are we living at the most influential time in history?

William_MacAskill

3 Sep 2019 4:55 UTC

149 points

116 comments23 min readEA link

Information security careers for GCR reduction

ClaireZabel

20 Jun 2019 23:56 UTC

146 points

26 comments8 min readEA link

Long-Term Future Fund: April 2019 grant recommendations

Habryka

23 Apr 2019 7:00 UTC

137 points

237 comments46 min readEA link

List of ways in which cost-effectiveness estimates can be misleading

saulius

20 Aug 2019 18:05 UTC

131 points

20 comments13 min readEA link

Ask Me Anything!

William_MacAskill

14 Aug 2019 15:52 UTC

130 points

136 comments3 min readEA link

SHOW: A framework for shaping your talent for direct work

RyanCarey

12 Mar 2019 17:16 UTC

129 points

26 comments8 min readEA link

Announcing the launch of the Happier Lives Institute

MichaelPlant

19 Jun 2019 15:40 UTC

118 points

44 comments4 min readEA link

There’s Lots More To Do

Jeff_Kaufman

29 May 2019 19:58 UTC

114 points

30 comments2 min readEA link

Ingredients for creating disruptive research teams

stefan.torges

16 May 2019 16:23 UTC

113 points

11 comments54 min readEA link

Will companies meet their animal welfare commitments?

saulius

1 Feb 2019 10:24 UTC

112 points

22 comments EA link

Empirical data on value drift

Joey

22 Apr 2018 23:31 UTC

110 points

65 comments5 min readEA link

2018 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

Larks

18 Dec 2018 4:48 UTC

109 points

27 comments63 min readEA link

My Q1 2019 EA Hotel donation

vipulnaik

1 Apr 2019 2:23 UTC

107 points

6 comments12 min readEA link

Aligning Recommender Systems as Cause Area

IvanVendrov

8 May 2019 8:56 UTC

100 points

15 comments13 min readEA link

EA is vetting-constrained

EA person

9 Mar 2019 1:25 UTC

98 points

25 comments4 min readEA link

Effective Altruism is an Ideology, not (just) a Question

Fods12

28 Jun 2019 7:18 UTC

98 points

44 comments16 min readEA link

(thegodlesstheist.com)

2017 Donor Lottery Report

AdamGleave

12 Nov 2018 19:26 UTC

96 points

7 comments EA link

Movement Collapse Scenarios

rebecca_baron

27 Aug 2019 10:07 UTC

94 points

29 comments9 min readEA link

Cause profile: mental health

MichaelPlant

31 Dec 2018 12:09 UTC

92 points

27 comments EA link

Corporate campaigns affect 9 to 120 years of chicken life per dollar spent

saulius

8 Jul 2019 8:01 UTC

92 points

15 comments60 min readEA link

Invertebrate Welfare Cause Profile

Jason Schukraft

9 Jul 2019 17:28 UTC

92 points

13 comments42 min readEA link

Existential Risk and Economic Growth

leopold

3 Sep 2019 13:23 UTC

91 points

12 comments1 min readEA link

Takeaways from EAF’s Hiring Round

stefan.torges

19 Nov 2018 20:50 UTC

90 points

19 comments16 min readEA link

Thoughts on 80,000 Hours’ research that might help with job-search frustrations

Ardenlk

16 Apr 2019 18:51 UTC

88 points

57 comments10 min readEA link

Does climate change deserve more attention within EA?

bdixon

17 Apr 2019 6:50 UTC

87 points

60 comments16 min readEA link

‘Longtermism’

William_MacAskill

25 Jul 2019 21:27 UTC

87 points

54 comments9 min readEA link

From humans in Canada to battery caged chickens in the United States, which animals have the hardest lives: results

KarolinaSarek

27 Nov 2018 22:28 UTC

86 points

10 comments EA link

There are a bajillion jobs working on plant-based foods right now

scottweathers

12 Jul 2019 16:13 UTC

86 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

Editing available for EA Forum drafts

aarongertler

24 Jul 2019 5:56 UTC

86 points

8 comments2 min readEA link

Announcing EA Hub 2.0

Michal_Trzesimiech

8 Apr 2019 8:54 UTC

85 points

18 comments2 min readEA link

Invertebrate Sentience Table

Daniela R. Waldhorn

14 Jun 2019 15:57 UTC

85 points

21 comments3 min readEA link

Concrete Ways to Reduce Risks of Value Drift and Lifestyle Drift

Darius_Meissner

8 May 2018 9:50 UTC

84 points

37 comments11 min readEA link

[Link] What opinions do you hold that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of effective altruists? Anonymous form.

arikr

10 Sep 2019 19:38 UTC

84 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

“Why Nations Fail” and the long-termist view of global poverty

Ben_Kuhn

16 Jul 2019 7:59 UTC

83 points

17 comments13 min readEA link

(www.benkuhn.net)

Defining Effective Altruism

William_MacAskill

19 Jul 2019 10:49 UTC

82 points

18 comments5 min readEA link

EA Survey 2018 Series: Donation Data

David_Moss

9 Dec 2018 3:58 UTC

81 points

15 comments7 min readEA link

You have more than one goal, and that’s fine

Julia_Wise

20 Feb 2019 1:08 UTC

81 points

14 comments2 min readEA link

(givinggladly.com)

Terrorism, Tylenol, and dangerous information

Davis_Kingsley

23 Mar 2019 2:10 UTC

81 points

15 comments3 min readEA link

35-150 billion fish are raised in captivity to be released into the wild every year

saulius

2 Apr 2019 13:16 UTC

81 points

12 comments36 min readEA link

Interview with Jon Mallatt about invertebrate consciousness

MaxCarpendale

28 Apr 2019 17:52 UTC

81 points

9 comments11 min readEA link

Invertebrate Sentience: A Useful Empirical Resource

Jason Schukraft

12 Jun 2019 1:15 UTC

81 points

3 comments32 min readEA link

English as a dominant language in the movement: challenges and solutions

Dobroslawa_Gogloza

3 Sep 2019 19:45 UTC

81 points

17 comments9 min readEA link

EA Giving Tuesday Donation Matching Initiative 2018 Retrospective

AviNorowitz

6 Jan 2019 16:23 UTC

80 points

9 comments EA link

How to generate research proposals

Jsevillamol

1 Aug 2019 16:38 UTC

80 points

5 comments8 min readEA link

Impact Report for Effective Altruism Coaching

lynettebye

6 Aug 2019 5:41 UTC

80 points

9 comments11 min readEA link

Effective Altruism is a Question (not an ideology)

HelenToner

16 Oct 2014 4:16 UTC

79 points

45 comments EA link

Ben Garfinkel: How sure are we about this AI stuff?

bmg

9 Feb 2019 19:17 UTC

79 points

16 comments EA link