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

evhubNov 10, 2022, 11:31 PM
713 points
86 comments3 min readEA link

10 years of Earn­ing to Give

AGB 🔸Nov 7, 2023, 11:35 PM
701 points
29 comments9 min readEA link

The FTX Fu­ture Fund team has resigned

Nick_BecksteadNov 11, 2022, 2:04 AM
680 points
287 comments1 min readEA link

Some com­ments on re­cent FTX-re­lated events

Holden KarnofskyNov 10, 2022, 10:23 PM
644 points
79 comments4 min readEA link

The EA com­mu­nity does not own its donors’ money

Nick WhitakerJan 18, 2023, 6:59 PM
640 points
116 comments4 min readEA link

EA is three rad­i­cal ideas I want to protect

Peter WildefordMar 27, 2023, 3:31 PM
639 points
16 comments4 min readEA link

500 Million, But Not A Sin­gle One More

jaiMay 25, 2020, 4:31 PM
618 points
30 comments3 min readEA link
(laneless.substack.com)

Bad Omens in Cur­rent Com­mu­nity Building

Theo HawkingMay 12, 2022, 3:41 PM
584 points
132 comments18 min readEA link

EA and the cur­rent fund­ing situation

William_MacAskillMay 10, 2022, 2:26 AM
567 points
185 comments24 min readEA link

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

George RosenfeldApr 12, 2022, 8:30 PM
562 points
186 comments8 min readEA link

Cen­ter for Effec­tive Aid Policy has shut down

MathiasKB🔸Jul 2, 2024, 4:54 PM
559 points
41 comments9 min readEA link

On Liv­ing Without Idols

RockwellJan 13, 2023, 11:35 PM
551 points
24 comments6 min readEA link

“Long-Ter­mism” vs. “Ex­is­ten­tial Risk”

Scott AlexanderApr 6, 2022, 9:41 PM
526 points
81 comments3 min readEA link

Open Phil Should Allo­cate Most Neart­er­mist Fund­ing to An­i­mal Welfare

Ariel Simnegar 🔸Nov 19, 2023, 5:00 PM
524 points
126 comments14 min readEA link

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

carrickflynnMay 17, 2024, 10:49 PM
520 points
32 comments1 min readEA link

Peter Eck­er­sley (1979-2022)

technicalitiesSep 3, 2022, 10:45 AM
497 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

EA for dumb peo­ple?

Olivia AddyJul 11, 2022, 10:46 AM
496 points
160 comments2 min readEA link

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

Anna WeldonApr 1, 2025, 6:07 PM
494 points
24 comments2 min readEA link

EA is about max­i­miza­tion, and max­i­miza­tion is perilous

Holden KarnofskySep 2, 2022, 5:13 PM
494 points
59 comments7 min readEA link

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

HaydnBelfieldMay 19, 2022, 8:42 AM
489 points
44 comments18 min readEA link

Power dy­nam­ics be­tween peo­ple in EA

Julia_Wise🔸Jun 1, 2022, 8:50 PM
485 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

Tran­si­tion­ing to an ad­vi­sory role

MaxDaltonFeb 16, 2023, 6:11 PM
481 points
31 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Publi­ca­tion of An­i­mal Liber­a­tion Now

Peter SingerMay 19, 2023, 4:34 PM
473 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

Cri­tiques of EA that I want to read

abrahamroweJun 19, 2022, 10:22 PM
468 points
85 comments11 min readEA link

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

EliezerYudkowskyNov 12, 2022, 4:51 AM
466 points
43 comments8 min readEA link

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

James FodorNov 14, 2022, 12:43 PM
452 points
55 comments4 min readEA link

My cur­rent im­pres­sions on ca­reer choice for longtermists

Holden KarnofskyJun 4, 2021, 5:07 PM
447 points
37 comments26 min readEA link

Open EA Global

Scott AlexanderSep 1, 2022, 4:26 AM
439 points
154 comments5 min readEA link

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

NunoSempereJan 23, 2023, 8:08 PM
436 points
116 comments14 min readEA link
(nunosempere.com)

EV up­dates: FTX set­tle­ment and the fu­ture of EV

Zachary Robinson🔸Dec 13, 2023, 9:25 PM
436 points
39 comments2 min readEA link

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

patio11Dec 9, 2022, 8:13 PM
436 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

Growth and the case against ran­domista development

Hauke HillebrandtJan 16, 2020, 10:11 AM
435 points
197 comments31 min readEA link

Lean­ing into EA Disillusionment

HelenJul 21, 2022, 5:06 PM
432 points
61 comments13 min readEA link

Shar­ing In­for­ma­tion About Nonlinear

Ben PaceSep 7, 2023, 6:51 AM
432 points
497 comments34 min readEA link

My mis­takes on the path to impact

Denise_MelchinDec 4, 2020, 10:13 PM
431 points
74 comments11 min readEA link

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

Center for AI SafetyMay 30, 2023, 9:06 AM
427 points
28 comments1 min readEA link
(www.safe.ai)

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

Holden KarnofskyFeb 23, 2023, 7:05 PM
420 points
31 comments2 min readEA link

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

Luke FreemanSep 10, 2024, 9:02 PM
417 points
26 comments8 min readEA link
(www.lukefreeman.com.au)

Open Phil is seek­ing ap­pli­ca­tions from grantees im­pacted by re­cent events

Bastian_SternNov 16, 2022, 5:10 AM
415 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

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

LucretiaJun 11, 2023, 3:31 AM
411 points
95 comments40 min readEA link
(medium.com)

Con­crete Biose­cu­rity Pro­jects (some of which could be big)

ASBJan 11, 2022, 3:46 AM
410 points
71 comments5 min readEA link

Maybe let the non-EA world train you

ElliotTepJun 14, 2024, 2:45 PM
410 points
30 comments8 min readEA link

Why I love effec­tive altruism

Michelle_HutchinsonMar 1, 2023, 9:41 AM
408 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

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

NickLaingFeb 20, 2024, 9:43 AM
407 points
36 comments10 min readEA link

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

EA applicantFeb 26, 2019, 5:53 AM
403 points
184 comments4 min readEA link

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

jennJun 2, 2023, 9:37 AM
402 points
22 comments8 min readEA link
(jenn.site)

EA’s suc­cess no one cares about

Jakub StencelJun 24, 2023, 2:29 PM
392 points
13 comments9 min readEA link

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

Holden KarnofskyNov 18, 2022, 11:57 PM
389 points
35 comments5 min readEA link

Ma­ter­nal Health Ini­ti­a­tive is Shut­ting Down

Ben WilliamsonMar 15, 2024, 5:19 PM
389 points
19 comments20 min readEA link

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

LintzAJan 28, 2025, 9:20 PM
389 points
69 comments13 min readEA link