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

evhub10 Nov 2022 23:31 UTC

726 points

90 comments3 min readEA link

The FTX Future Fund team has resigned

Nick_Beckstead11 Nov 2022 2:04 UTC

683 points

292 comments1 min readEA link

Some comments on recent FTX-related events

Holden Karnofsky10 Nov 2022 22:23 UTC

665 points

77 comments4 min readEA link

The EA community does not own its donors’ money

Nick Whitaker18 Jan 2023 18:59 UTC

607 points

113 comments4 min readEA link

EA and the current funding situation

William_MacAskill10 May 2022 2:26 UTC

573 points

185 comments21 min readEA link

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

George Rosenfeld12 Apr 2022 20:30 UTC

560 points

188 comments8 min readEA link

Bad Omens in Current Community Building

Theo Hawking12 May 2022 15:41 UTC

539 points

132 comments18 min readEA link

On Living Without Idols

Rockwell13 Jan 2023 23:35 UTC

511 points

17 comments6 min readEA link

Peter Eckersley (1979-2022)

Gavin3 Sep 2022 10:45 UTC

497 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

“Long-Termism” vs. “Existential Risk”

Scott Alexander6 Apr 2022 21:41 UTC

492 points

81 comments3 min readEA link

500 Million, But Not A Single One More

jai9 Dec 2014 17:04 UTC

462 points

21 comments2 min readEA link

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

EliezerYudkowsky12 Nov 2022 4:51 UTC

460 points

43 comments8 min readEA link

Critiques of EA that I want to read

abrahamrowe19 Jun 2022 22:22 UTC

452 points

86 comments9 min readEA link

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

Fods1214 Nov 2022 12:43 UTC

439 points

55 comments4 min readEA link

EA for dumb people?

Olivia Addy11 Jul 2022 10:46 UTC

437 points

160 comments2 min readEA link

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

HaydnBelfield19 May 2022 8:42 UTC

429 points

43 comments18 min readEA link

EA is about maximization, and maximization is perilous

Holden Karnofsky2 Sep 2022 17:13 UTC

422 points

56 comments7 min readEA link

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

patio119 Dec 2022 20:13 UTC

421 points

8 comments7 min readEA link

My mistakes on the path to impact

Denise_Melchin4 Dec 2020 22:13 UTC

417 points

70 comments11 min readEA link

Open Phil is seeking applications from grantees impacted by recent events

Bastian_Stern16 Nov 2022 5:10 UTC

414 points

19 comments1 min readEA link

Power dynamics between people in EA

Julia_Wise1 Jun 2022 20:50 UTC

409 points

14 comments8 min readEA link

Open EA Global

Scott Alexander1 Sep 2022 4:26 UTC

409 points

155 comments6 min readEA link

My takes on the FTX situation will (mostly) be cold, not hot

Holden Karnofsky18 Nov 2022 23:57 UTC

401 points

21 comments5 min readEA link

My current impressions on career choice for longtermists

Holden Karnofsky4 Jun 2021 17:07 UTC

396 points

35 comments26 min readEA link

Growth and the case against randomista development

Hauke Hillebrandt16 Jan 2020 10:11 UTC

393 points

193 comments31 min readEA link

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

NunoSempere23 Jan 2023 20:08 UTC

385 points

111 comments14 min readEA link

(nunosempere.com)

Announcing my retirement

Aaron Gertler25 Nov 2021 13:55 UTC

378 points

28 comments1 min readEA link

Concrete Biosecurity Projects (some of which could be big)

ASB11 Jan 2022 3:46 UTC

378 points

72 comments5 min readEA link

Leaning into EA Disillusionment

Helen21 Jul 2022 17:06 UTC

377 points

60 comments13 min readEA link

Announcing Alvea—An EA COVID Vaccine Project

kyle_fish16 Feb 2022 13:50 UTC

376 points

25 comments2 min readEA link

The Spanish-Speaking Effective Altruism community is awesome

Jaime Sevilla7 Dec 2022 17:54 UTC

376 points

15 comments3 min readEA link

Announcing the Future Fund

Nick_Beckstead28 Feb 2022 17:26 UTC

372 points

186 comments4 min readEA link

(ftxfuturefund.org)

Thoughts on legal concerns surrounding the FTX situation

Molly13 Nov 2022 17:01 UTC

369 points

65 comments4 min readEA link

FTX Crisis. What we know and some forecasts on what will happen next

Nathan Young8 Nov 2022 19:16 UTC

366 points

322 comments3 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

360 points

183 comments4 min readEA link

My take on What We Owe the Future

elifland1 Sep 2022 18:07 UTC

346 points

51 comments26 min readEA link

The Welfare Range Table

Bob Fischer7 Nov 2022 10:19 UTC

345 points

14 comments8 min readEA link

Why you’re not hearing as much from EA orgs as you’d like

Shakeel Hashim15 Nov 2022 19:42 UTC

344 points

42 comments1 min readEA link

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

Luke Freeman20 May 2022 3:39 UTC

344 points

77 comments4 min readEA link

FLI FAQ on the rejected grant proposal controversy

Tegmark19 Jan 2023 17:31 UTC

343 points

130 comments1 min readEA link

A Letter to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

John G. Halstead23 Nov 2022 20:06 UTC

341 points

58 comments2 min readEA link

Why Anima International suspended the campaign to end live fish sales in Poland

Jakub Stencel30 Dec 2022 17:47 UTC

341 points

24 comments14 min readEA link

(animainternational.org)

The relative silence on FTX/SBF is likely the result of sound legal advice

Tyler Whitmer21 Nov 2022 1:47 UTC

337 points

58 comments5 min readEA link

Some unfun lessons I learned as a junior grantmaker

Linch23 May 2022 16:31 UTC

336 points

59 comments13 min readEA link

Moderator Appreciation Thread

Ben_West18 Nov 2022 22:51 UTC

336 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

StrongMinds should not be a top-rated charity (yet)

Simon_M27 Dec 2022 23:53 UTC

330 points

127 comments6 min readEA link

(simonm.substack.com)

The ones that walk away

Karthik Tadepalli19 Jan 2023 15:33 UTC

329 points

30 comments4 min readEA link

Some clarifications on the Future Fund’s approach to grantmaking

Nick_Beckstead10 May 2022 2:42 UTC

327 points

61 comments3 min readEA link

Don’t Be Bycatch

DirectedEvolution10 Mar 2021 5:28 UTC

320 points

19 comments3 min readEA link

My reaction to FTX: appalled

Robert_Wiblin11 Nov 2022 18:08 UTC

319 points

73 comments2 min readEA link