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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

289 points

182 comments4 min readEA link

Growth and the case against randomista development

HaukeHillebrandt

16 Jan 2020 10:11 UTC

279 points

173 comments30 min readEA link

EAF’s ballot initiative doubled Zurich’s development aid

Jonas Vollmer

13 Jan 2020 11:32 UTC

259 points

23 comments12 min readEA link

Reducing long-term risks from malevolent actors

David_Althaus

29 Apr 2020 8:55 UTC

228 points

49 comments37 min readEA link

Problem areas beyond 80,000 Hours’ current priorities

Ardenlk

22 Jun 2020 12:49 UTC

221 points

54 comments15 min readEA link

Some personal thoughts on EA and systemic change

Carl_Shulman

26 Sep 2019 21:40 UTC

184 points

17 comments6 min readEA link

Are we living at the most influential time in history?

William_MacAskill

3 Sep 2019 4:55 UTC

177 points

141 comments24 min readEA link

Is EA Growing? EA Growth Metrics for 2018

Peter_Hurford

2 Jun 2019 4:08 UTC

168 points

40 comments8 min readEA link

SHIC Will Suspend Outreach Operations

cafelow

7 Mar 2019 16:07 UTC

165 points

8 comments6 min readEA link

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

saulius

20 Aug 2019 18:05 UTC

156 points

27 comments13 min readEA link

Information security careers for GCR reduction

ClaireZabel

20 Jun 2019 23:56 UTC

154 points

34 comments8 min readEA link

Ask Me Anything!

William_MacAskill

14 Aug 2019 15:52 UTC

150 points

138 comments3 min readEA link

Finding equilibrium in a difficult time

Julia_Wise

18 Mar 2020 2:50 UTC

147 points

7 comments6 min readEA link

Reality is often underpowered

Gregory_Lewis

10 Oct 2019 13:14 UTC

144 points

16 comments5 min readEA link

Long-Term Future Fund: April 2019 grant recommendations

Habryka

23 Apr 2019 7:00 UTC

143 points

240 comments46 min readEA link

2019 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

Larks

19 Dec 2019 2:58 UTC

143 points

28 comments62 min readEA link

What will 80,000 Hours provide (and not provide) within the effective altruism community?

Benjamin_Todd

17 Apr 2020 18:36 UTC

142 points

29 comments6 min readEA link

COVID-19 brief for friends and family

eca

28 Feb 2020 22:43 UTC

141 points

66 comments4 min readEA link

SHOW: A framework for shaping your talent for direct work

RyanCarey

12 Mar 2019 17:16 UTC

140 points

28 comments8 min readEA link

Thoughts on doing good through non-standard EA career pathways

Buck

30 Dec 2019 2:06 UTC

139 points

12 comments12 min readEA link

Toby Ord’s ‘The Precipice’ is published!

matthew.vandermerwe

4 Mar 2020 21:09 UTC

135 points

17 comments2 min readEA link

Candy for Nets

Jeff_Kaufman

29 Sep 2019 11:11 UTC

133 points

7 comments2 min readEA link

Aligning Recommender Systems as Cause Area

IvanVendrov

8 May 2019 8:56 UTC

126 points

27 comments13 min readEA link

Update on CEA’s EA Grants Program

Nicole_Ross

8 Nov 2019 23:00 UTC

124 points

31 comments6 min readEA link

Empirical data on value drift

Joey

22 Apr 2018 23:31 UTC

123 points

71 comments5 min readEA link

There’s Lots More To Do

Jeff_Kaufman

29 May 2019 19:58 UTC

123 points

30 comments2 min readEA link

Announcing the launch of the Happier Lives Institute

MichaelPlant

19 Jun 2019 15:40 UTC

123 points

44 comments4 min readEA link

Ingredients for creating disruptive research teams

stefan.torges

16 May 2019 16:23 UTC

122 points

13 comments54 min readEA link

Estimates of global captive vertebrate numbers

saulius

18 Feb 2020 17:05 UTC

122 points

8 comments69 min readEA link

Opinion: Estimating Invertebrate Sentience

Jason Schukraft

7 Nov 2019 2:38 UTC

121 points

33 comments23 min readEA link

I’m Buck Shlegeris, I do research and outreach at MIRI, AMA

Buck

15 Nov 2019 22:44 UTC

120 points

231 comments2 min readEA link

The case for building more and better epistemic institutions in the effective altruism community

stefan.torges

29 Mar 2020 17:01 UTC

120 points

20 comments6 min readEA link

When can I eat meat again?

clairey

30 Apr 2020 12:58 UTC

120 points

18 comments22 min readEA link

Existential Risk and Economic Growth

leopold

3 Sep 2019 13:23 UTC

118 points

28 comments1 min readEA link

A Qualitative Analysis of Value Drift in EA

MarisaJurczyk

12 Feb 2020 5:41 UTC

118 points

3 comments19 min readEA link

My personal cruxes for working on AI safety

Buck

13 Feb 2020 7:11 UTC

117 points

33 comments44 min readEA link

Coronavirus Research Ideas for EAs

Peter_Hurford

27 Mar 2020 21:01 UTC

117 points

20 comments23 min readEA link

A cause can be too neglected

saulius

3 Apr 2020 16:41 UTC

117 points

17 comments1 min readEA link

Some promising career ideas beyond 80,000 Hours’ priority paths

Ardenlk

26 Jun 2020 10:34 UTC

115 points

11 comments15 min readEA link

Movement Collapse Scenarios

rebecca_baron

27 Aug 2019 10:07 UTC

114 points

32 comments9 min readEA link

2018 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

Larks

18 Dec 2018 4:48 UTC

113 points

28 comments63 min readEA link

Will companies meet their animal welfare commitments?

saulius

1 Feb 2019 10:24 UTC

112 points

23 comments EA link

Consider a wider range of jobs, paths and problems if you want to improve the long-term future

Robert_Wiblin

29 Jun 2020 14:48 UTC

112 points

4 comments4 min readEA link

My Q1 2019 EA Hotel donation

vipulnaik

1 Apr 2019 2:23 UTC

111 points

6 comments12 min readEA link

Why and how to start a for-profit company serving emerging markets

Ben_Kuhn

6 Nov 2019 1:00 UTC

111 points

15 comments6 min readEA link

(www.benkuhn.net)

In praise of unhistoric heroism

rosehadshar

7 Jan 2020 12:08 UTC

110 points

18 comments3 min readEA link

Effective Altruism and Free Riding

sbehmer

27 Mar 2020 19:12 UTC

110 points

36 comments11 min readEA link

Long-term investment fund at Founders Pledge

SjirH

3 Jul 2020 18:09 UTC

110 points

22 comments3 min readEA link

Geographic diversity in EA

AmAristizábal

15 Jun 2020 6:13 UTC

108 points

17 comments2 min readEA link

EA is vetting-constrained

EA person

9 Mar 2019 1:25 UTC

106 points

28 comments4 min readEA link