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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

10 years of Earning to Give

AGB 🔸7 Nov 2023 23:35 UTC

698 points

29 comments9 min readEA link

The FTX Future Fund team has resigned

Nick_Beckstead11 Nov 2022 2:04 UTC

680 points

287 comments1 min readEA link

Some comments on recent FTX-related events

Holden Karnofsky10 Nov 2022 22:23 UTC

644 points

79 comments4 min readEA link

EA is three radical ideas I want to protect

Peter Wildeford27 Mar 2023 15:31 UTC

638 points

16 comments4 min readEA link

The EA community does not own its donors’ money

Nick Whitaker18 Jan 2023 18:59 UTC

636 points

116 comments4 min readEA link

500 Million, But Not A Single One More

jai25 May 2020 16:31 UTC

602 points

29 comments3 min readEA link

(laneless.substack.com)

Bad Omens in Current Community Building

Theo Hawking12 May 2022 15:41 UTC

582 points

132 comments18 min readEA link

EA and the current funding situation

William_MacAskill10 May 2022 2:26 UTC

566 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

Center for Effective Aid Policy has shut down

MathiasKB🔸2 Jul 2024 16:54 UTC

547 points

40 comments9 min readEA link

On Living Without Idols

Rockwell13 Jan 2023 23:35 UTC

544 points

24 comments6 min readEA link

Open Phil Should Allocate Most Neartermist Funding to Animal Welfare

Ariel Simnegar 🔸19 Nov 2023 17:00 UTC

519 points

126 comments14 min readEA link

“Long-Termism” vs. “Existential Risk”

Scott Alexander6 Apr 2022 21:41 UTC

519 points

81 comments3 min readEA link

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

carrickflynn17 May 2024 22:49 UTC

517 points

31 comments1 min readEA link

Peter Eckersley (1979-2022)

Gavin3 Sep 2022 10:45 UTC

497 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

EA is about maximization, and maximization is perilous

Holden Karnofsky2 Sep 2022 17:13 UTC

492 points

59 comments7 min readEA link

EA for dumb people?

Olivia Addy11 Jul 2022 10:46 UTC

488 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

485 points

44 comments18 min readEA link

Transitioning to an advisory role

MaxDalton16 Feb 2023 18:11 UTC

480 points

31 comments2 min readEA link

Power dynamics between people in EA

Julia_Wise🔸1 Jun 2022 20:50 UTC

478 points

15 comments8 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

463 points

85 comments11 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

452 points

55 comments4 min readEA link

My current impressions on career choice for longtermists

Holden Karnofsky4 Jun 2021 17:07 UTC

444 points

37 comments26 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

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

patio119 Dec 2022 20:13 UTC

435 points

8 comments7 min readEA link

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

NunoSempere23 Jan 2023 20:08 UTC

435 points

116 comments14 min readEA link

(nunosempere.com)

Open EA Global

Scott Alexander1 Sep 2022 4:26 UTC

434 points

154 comments5 min readEA link

Sharing Information About Nonlinear

Ben Pace7 Sep 2023 6:51 UTC

432 points

497 comments34 min readEA link

Growth and the case against randomista development

Hauke Hillebrandt16 Jan 2020 10:11 UTC

432 points

197 comments31 min readEA link

My mistakes on the path to impact

Denise_Melchin4 Dec 2020 22:13 UTC

430 points

74 comments11 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

427 points

28 comments1 min readEA link

(www.safe.ai)

Leaning into EA Disillusionment

Helen21 Jul 2022 17:06 UTC

426 points

61 comments13 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

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

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

Luke Freeman10 Sep 2024 21:02 UTC

412 points

26 comments8 min readEA link

(www.lukefreeman.com.au)

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)

Concrete Biosecurity Projects (some of which could be big)

ASB11 Jan 2022 3:46 UTC

408 points

71 comments5 min readEA link

Why I love effective altruism

Michelle_Hutchinson1 Mar 2023 9:41 UTC

408 points

12 comments5 min readEA link

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

jenn2 Jun 2023 9:37 UTC

401 points

22 comments8 min readEA link

(jenn.site)

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

400 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

396 points

35 comments10 min readEA link

AMA: Beast Philanthropy’s Darren Margolias

Beast Philanthropy9 Jul 2024 13:15 UTC

394 points

58 comments1 min readEA link

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

Holden Karnofsky18 Nov 2022 23:57 UTC

389 points

35 comments5 min readEA link

Maternal Health Initiative is Shutting Down

Ben Williamson15 Mar 2024 17:19 UTC

386 points

19 comments20 min readEA link

EA’s success no one cares about

Jakub Stencel24 Jun 2023 14:29 UTC

385 points

13 comments9 min readEA link

We can all help solve funding constraints. What stops us?

Luke Freeman18 Jun 2023 23:30 UTC

382 points

18 comments12 min readEA link

No injuries were reported

JulianHazell14 Feb 2023 2:18 UTC

382 points

10 comments2 min readEA link

(muddyclothes.substack.com)