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Could you live on the international poverty line?
RyanCarey
May 30, 2013, 4:00 AM
7
points
0
comments
5
min read
EA
link
Earning to give vs. altruistic career choice revisited
Jonah_Sinick
May 28, 2013, 4:00 AM
2
points
0
comments
8
min read
EA
link
A proposed adjustment to the astronomical waste argument
Nick_Beckstead
May 27, 2013, 4:00 AM
43
points
0
comments
12
min read
EA
link
On the robustness of cost-effectiveness estimates
William_MacAskill
May 24, 2013, 4:00 AM
5
points
0
comments
2
min read
EA
link
Peter Singer’s TED talk on effective altruism
William_MacAskill
May 22, 2013, 4:00 AM
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
EA
link
Getting inspired by cost-effective giving
William_MacAskill
May 20, 2013, 4:00 AM
3
points
0
comments
2
min read
EA
link
$1.25/day—What does that mean?
William_MacAskill
May 17, 2013, 4:00 AM
91
points
4
comments
2
min read
EA
link
An example of do-gooding done wrong
William_MacAskill
May 15, 2013, 4:00 AM
9
points
0
comments
2
min read
EA
link
What is effective altruism?
William_MacAskill
May 13, 2013, 4:00 AM
15
points
23
comments
2
min read
EA
link
Doing well by doing good: careers that benefit others also benefit you
William_MacAskill
Apr 18, 2013, 4:00 AM
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
EA
link
Giving now vs. later
Paul_Christiano
Mar 12, 2013, 4:00 AM
4
points
1
comment
7
min read
EA
link
Risk aversion and investment (for altruists)
Paul_Christiano
Feb 28, 2013, 5:00 AM
5
points
6
comments
8
min read
EA
link
Why might the future be good?
Paul_Christiano
Feb 27, 2013, 5:00 AM
5
points
0
comments
9
min read
EA
link
To save the world, don’t get a job at a charity; go work on Wall Street
William_MacAskill
Feb 27, 2013, 5:00 AM
3
points
5
comments
3
min read
EA
link
Nick Bostrom – Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority
Zach Stein-Perlman
Feb 1, 2013, 5:00 PM
15
points
1
comment
1
min read
EA
link
(www.existential-risk.org)
Replaceability
Paul_Christiano
Jan 22, 2013, 5:00 AM
15
points
0
comments
4
min read
EA
link
Some general concerns about GiveWell
William_MacAskill
Dec 23, 2012, 5:00 AM
2
points
0
comments
4
min read
EA
link
GiveWell’s recommendation of GiveDirectly
William_MacAskill
Nov 30, 2012, 5:00 AM
2
points
0
comments
5
min read
EA
link
Researching what we should
William_MacAskill
Nov 12, 2012, 5:00 AM
0
points
0
comments
6
min read
EA
link
The most important unsolved problems in ethics
William_MacAskill
Oct 15, 2012, 2:28 AM
16
points
0
comments
2
min read
EA
link
How to be a high impact philosopher, part II
William_MacAskill
Sep 27, 2012, 4:00 AM
0
points
0
comments
3
min read
EA
link
Objections and Concerns About Our New Direction
Holden Karnofsky
Jun 22, 2012, 3:59 PM
2
points
0
comments
7
min read
EA
link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)
How to be a high impact philosopher
William_MacAskill
May 8, 2012, 4:00 AM
3
points
0
comments
3
min read
EA
link
Philanthropy’s Success Stories
Holden Karnofsky
Mar 1, 2012, 4:53 PM
3
points
0
comments
7
min read
EA
link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)
Practical ethics given moral uncertainty
William_MacAskill
Jan 31, 2012, 5:00 AM
23
points
5
comments
3
min read
EA
link
Giving isn’t demanding*
William_MacAskill
Nov 25, 2011, 5:00 AM
22
points
3
comments
2
min read
EA
link
The Cognitive Science of Rationality
lukeprog
Sep 12, 2011, 10:35 AM
14
points
3
comments
14
min read
EA
link
(www.lesswrong.com)
Brian Tomasik – The Importance of Wild-Animal Suffering
Babel
Jul 8, 2009, 12:42 PM
12
points
0
comments
1
min read
EA
link
(longtermrisk.org)
Pascal’s Mugging
EA Handbook
Jul 1, 2009, 7:00 AM
9
points
0
comments
4
min read
EA
link
(www.nickbostrom.com)
Scott Alexander – A Modest Proposal
Zach Stein-Perlman
Nov 26, 2008, 5:00 PM
19
points
4
comments
3
min read
EA
link
(web.archive.org)
Policymaking for Posterity
EA Handbook
Sep 2, 2008, 1:39 AM
10
points
0
comments
1
min read
EA
link
(www.nber.org)
Biotechnology and biosecurity
EA Handbook
1 Sep 2008 7:00 UTC
10
points
0
comments
4
min read
EA
link
Three ways to advance science (Nick Bostrom)
EA Forum Archives
31 Jan 2008 21:04 UTC
5
points
1
comment
2
min read
EA
link
(www.nickbostrom.com)
What is evidence?
EliezerYudkowsky
22 Sep 2007 4:09 UTC
12
points
0
comments
3
min read
EA
link
(www.lesswrong.com)
Scope Insensitivity
EA Handbook
13 May 2007 23:08 UTC
36
points
1
comment
2
min read
EA
link
(www.lesswrong.com)
The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
EA Forum Archives
1 May 2005 13:18 UTC
39
points
3
comments
20
min read
EA
link
(nickbostrom.com)
Peter Singer – Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Zach Stein-Perlman
1 Mar 1972 17:00 UTC
43
points
2
comments
19
min read
EA
link
(www.jstor.org)
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