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Growth and the case against ran­domista development

HaukeHillebrandt16 Jan 2020 10:11 UTC
311 points
179 comments30 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
291 points
182 comments4 min readEA link

EAF’s bal­lot ini­ti­a­tive dou­bled Zurich’s de­vel­op­ment aid

Jonas Vollmer13 Jan 2020 11:32 UTC
276 points
24 comments12 min readEA link

Prob­lem ar­eas be­yond 80,000 Hours’ cur­rent pri­ori­ties

Ardenlk22 Jun 2020 12:49 UTC
248 points
58 comments15 min readEA link

Re­duc­ing long-term risks from malev­olent actors

David_Althaus29 Apr 2020 8:55 UTC
244 points
64 comments37 min readEA link

The case of the miss­ing cause pri­ori­ti­sa­tion research

weeatquince16 Aug 2020 0:21 UTC
226 points
84 comments16 min readEA link

New Ca­reer Guidance Or­ga­ni­za­tion: Prob­a­bly Good

omernevo6 Nov 2020 14:50 UTC
204 points
72 comments5 min readEA link

Some per­sonal thoughts on EA and sys­temic change

Carl_Shulman26 Sep 2019 21:40 UTC
186 points
17 comments6 min readEA link

Are we liv­ing at the most in­fluen­tial time in his­tory?

William_MacAskill3 Sep 2019 4:55 UTC
177 points
145 comments25 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Project

jonasschuett30 Aug 2020 14:10 UTC
175 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

SHIC Will Sus­pend Outreach Oper­a­tions

cafelow7 Mar 2019 16:07 UTC
171 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

A new strat­egy for broad­en­ing the ap­peal of effec­tive giv­ing (Giv­ingMul­ti­plier.org)

Lucius_Caviola26 Oct 2020 23:18 UTC
169 points
12 comments7 min readEA link

Is EA Grow­ing? EA Growth Met­rics for 2018

Peter_Hurford2 Jun 2019 4:08 UTC
168 points
40 comments8 min readEA link

Avoid­ing Mu­nich’s Mis­takes: Ad­vice for CEA and Lo­cal Groups

Larks14 Oct 2020 17:08 UTC
167 points
75 comments39 min readEA link

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

saulius20 Aug 2019 18:05 UTC
166 points
27 comments13 min readEA link

Col­lec­tion of good 2012-2017 EA fo­rum posts

saulius10 Jul 2020 16:35 UTC
161 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

Real­ity is of­ten underpowered

Gregory_Lewis10 Oct 2019 13:14 UTC
160 points
16 comments5 min readEA link

Thoughts on whether we’re liv­ing at the most in­fluen­tial time in history

Buck3 Nov 2020 4:07 UTC
159 points
61 comments9 min readEA link

Par­ent­ing: Things I wish I could tell my past self

Michelle_Hutchinson12 Sep 2020 14:22 UTC
156 points
18 comments10 min readEA link

In­for­ma­tion se­cu­rity ca­reers for GCR reduction

ClaireZabel20 Jun 2019 23:56 UTC
154 points
34 comments8 min readEA link

Ask Me Any­thing!

William_MacAskill14 Aug 2019 15:52 UTC
150 points
138 comments3 min readEA link

Find­ing equil­ibrium in a difficult time

Julia_Wise18 Mar 2020 2:50 UTC
149 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

Please Take the 2020 EA Survey

Peter_Hurford11 Nov 2020 16:05 UTC
148 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

2019 AI Align­ment Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

Larks19 Dec 2019 2:58 UTC
146 points
28 comments62 min readEA link

SHOW: A frame­work for shap­ing your tal­ent for di­rect work

RyanCarey12 Mar 2019 17:16 UTC
145 points
28 comments8 min readEA link

Thoughts on do­ing good through non-stan­dard EA ca­reer pathways

Buck30 Dec 2019 2:06 UTC
144 points
12 comments12 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: April 2019 grant recommendations

Habryka23 Apr 2019 7:00 UTC
143 points
241 comments46 min readEA link

AI Gover­nance: Op­por­tu­nity and The­ory of Impact

Allan Dafoe17 Sep 2020 6:30 UTC
143 points
14 comments13 min readEA link

Candy for Nets

Jeff_Kaufman29 Sep 2019 11:11 UTC
142 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

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

Benjamin_Todd17 Apr 2020 18:36 UTC
142 points
29 comments6 min readEA link

COVID-19 brief for friends and family

eca28 Feb 2020 22:43 UTC
141 points
68 comments4 min readEA link

Align­ing Recom­mender Sys­tems as Cause Area

IvanVendrov8 May 2019 8:56 UTC
136 points
31 comments13 min readEA link

Toby Ord’s ‘The Precipice’ is pub­lished!

matthew.vandermerwe4 Mar 2020 21:09 UTC
136 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

Ob­jec­tions to Value-Align­ment be­tween Effec­tive Altruists

CarlaZoeC15 Jul 2020 16:07 UTC
136 points
43 comments17 min readEA link

Things I Learned at the EA Stu­dent Summit

Akash27 Oct 2020 19:03 UTC
136 points
13 comments6 min readEA link

Em­piri­cal data on value drift

Joey22 Apr 2018 23:31 UTC
135 points
71 comments5 min readEA link

Des­per­a­tion Ham­ster Wheels

Nicole_Ross30 Oct 2020 16:55 UTC
135 points
21 comments6 min readEA link
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When can I eat meat again?

clairey30 Apr 2020 12:58 UTC
133 points
18 comments22 min readEA link

Long-term in­vest­ment fund at Founders Pledge

SjirH10 Jan 2020 19:09 UTC
132 points
28 comments3 min readEA link

In­gre­di­ents for cre­at­ing dis­rup­tive re­search teams

stefan.torges16 May 2019 16:23 UTC
130 points
14 comments54 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing LEEP: Lead Ex­po­sure Elimi­na­tion Project

Jack6 Oct 2020 7:25 UTC
129 points
26 comments5 min readEA link

Five New EA Char­i­ties with High Po­ten­tial for Impact

Joey14 Oct 2020 12:15 UTC
129 points
11 comments6 min readEA link

A Qual­i­ta­tive Anal­y­sis of Value Drift in EA

MarisaJurczyk12 Feb 2020 5:41 UTC
128 points
3 comments19 min readEA link

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

Ardenlk26 Jun 2020 10:34 UTC
128 points
21 comments15 min readEA link

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

Robert_Wiblin29 Jun 2020 14:48 UTC
128 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

If you like a post, tell the au­thor!

Aaron Gertler6 Oct 2020 17:26 UTC
125 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

There’s Lots More To Do

Jeff_Kaufman29 May 2019 19:58 UTC
124 points
30 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the launch of the Hap­pier Lives Institute

MichaelPlant19 Jun 2019 15:40 UTC
124 points
44 comments4 min readEA link

Up­date on CEA’s EA Grants Program

Nicole_Ross8 Nov 2019 23:00 UTC
124 points
31 comments6 min readEA link

Move­ment Col­lapse Scenarios

rebecca_baron27 Aug 2019 10:07 UTC
123 points
32 comments9 min readEA link