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10 years of Earning to Give

AGB 🔸7 Nov 2023 23:35 UTC

714 points

30 comments9 min readEA link

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

evhub10 Nov 2022 23:31 UTC

712 points

86 comments3 min readEA link

The FTX Future Fund team has resigned

Nick_Beckstead11 Nov 2022 2:04 UTC

680 points

288 comments1 min readEA link

500 Million, But Not A Single One More

jai25 May 2020 16:31 UTC

665 points

33 comments3 min readEA link

(laneless.substack.com)

CEA’s response to sexual harassment

Fran27 Feb 2026 19:23 UTC

664 points

113 comments19 min readEA link

EA is three radical ideas I want to protect

Peter Wildeford27 Mar 2023 15:31 UTC

653 points

16 comments4 min readEA link

The EA community does not own its donors’ money

Nick Whitaker18 Jan 2023 18:59 UTC

650 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

596 points

132 comments18 min readEA link

Center for Effective Aid Policy has shut down

MathiasKB🔸2 Jul 2024 16:54 UTC

573 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

563 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

537 points

128 comments14 min readEA link

“Long-Termism” vs. “Existential Risk”

Scott Alexander6 Apr 2022 21:41 UTC

534 points

81 comments3 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 is about maximization, and maximization is perilous

Holden Karnofsky2 Sep 2022 17:13 UTC

518 points

60 comments7 min readEA link

EA for dumb people?

Olivia Addy11 Jul 2022 10:46 UTC

510 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

494 points

47 comments18 min readEA link

Power dynamics between people in EA

Julia_Wise🔸1 Jun 2022 20:50 UTC

492 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

474 points

80 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

85 comments11 min readEA link

My current impressions on career choice for longtermists

Holden Karnofsky4 Jun 2021 17:07 UTC

459 points

37 comments26 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

Growth and the case against randomista development

Hauke Hillebrandt16 Jan 2020 10:11 UTC

449 points

197 comments31 min readEA link

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

patio119 Dec 2022 20:13 UTC

448 points

9 comments7 min readEA link

Open EA Global

Scott Alexander1 Sep 2022 4:26 UTC

444 points

154 comments5 min readEA link

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

NunoSempere23 Jan 2023 20:08 UTC

438 points

116 comments14 min readEA link

(nunosempere.com)

Leaning into EA Disillusionment

Helen21 Jul 2022 17:06 UTC

437 points

61 comments13 min readEA link

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

Maybe let the non-EA world train you

ElliotTep14 Jun 2024 14:45 UTC

432 points

30 comments8 min readEA link

Sharing Information About Nonlinear

Ben Pace7 Sep 2023 6:51 UTC

432 points

497 comments34 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

429 points

27 comments1 min readEA link

(www.safe.ai)

Concrete Biosecurity Projects (some of which could be big)

ASB11 Jan 2022 3:46 UTC

425 points

71 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

421 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 Freeman10 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

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

406 points

22 comments8 min readEA link

(jenn.site)

EA’s success no one cares about

Jakub Stencel24 Jun 2023 14:29 UTC

400 points

13 comments9 min readEA link

The Game Board has been Flipped: Now is a good time to rethink what you’re doing

LintzA28 Jan 2025 21:20 UTC

399 points

69 comments13 min readEA link