The Economist on “ex­treme al­tru­ism”

PabloSep 18, 2014, 7:53 PM
4 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(www.economist.com)

Sup­port­ive Scepticism

Jess_WhittlestoneSep 18, 2014, 2:02 PM
75 points
21 comments4 min readEA link

Minor Updates

RyanCareySep 18, 2014, 2:00 PM
3 points
29 comments1 min readEA link

Meetup : Stan­ford EA

CarolineEllisonSep 17, 2014, 7:17 PM
0 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

In­tro­duce Yourself

RyanCareySep 17, 2014, 3:24 PM
9 points
71 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism quotes

PabloSep 17, 2014, 6:47 AM
7 points
26 comments1 min readEA link

To In­spire Peo­ple to Give, Be Public About Your Giving

Peter WildefordSep 16, 2014, 5:34 PM
22 points
13 comments6 min readEA link

Meetup : New York City

Jess_RiedelSep 16, 2014, 3:00 PM
0 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

A Brief Sum­mary of “How to Raise Money Without Killing a Kit­ten”

Peter WildefordSep 16, 2014, 3:34 AM
11 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Open Thread

RyanCareySep 15, 2014, 3:40 PM
7 points
162 comments1 min readEA link

Meetup : GWWC Glas­gow: first meet­ing/​social

Erwan_AtchesonSep 14, 2014, 11:54 AM
0 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Meetup : Un­der the in­fluence @ the Shake­speare’s Head

weeatquinceSep 12, 2014, 7:11 AM
0 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Dis­abil­ity Weights

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Sep 11, 2014, 9:34 PM
12 points
23 comments8 min readEA link

Meetup : De­bi­as­ing Techniques

ImmaSixSep 11, 2014, 5:10 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Challenges of Transparency

Holden KarnofskySep 11, 2014, 12:46 PM
10 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Good policy ideas that won’t hap­pen (yet)

Niel_BowermanSep 11, 2014, 12:29 PM
28 points
8 comments14 min readEA link

Meetup : NCEA—Se­cond Meetup

curiousepicSep 10, 2014, 4:09 PM
0 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Meetup : Cookie Bank with EA Melbourne

HelenSep 10, 2014, 9:13 AM
0 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Cosmopolitanism

TopherHallquistSep 10, 2014, 7:30 AM
47 points
40 comments5 min readEA link

Meetup : Effec­tive Altru­ism pub meetup!

Daniel MaySep 10, 2014, 12:46 AM
0 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

All An­i­mals Are Equal

IntroductionSep 9, 2014, 4:45 PM
79 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

The Haste Consideration

IntroductionSep 9, 2014, 4:40 PM
5 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Your Dol­lar Goes Fur­ther Overseas

IntroductionSep 9, 2014, 4:39 PM
8 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

How to Assess the Im­pact of a Career

IntroductionSep 9, 2014, 4:38 PM
1 point
1 comment4 min readEA link

High Im­pact Science

IntroductionSep 9, 2014, 4:32 PM
10 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

GiveWell’s Top Char­i­ties for Giv­ing Sea­son 2013

IntroductionSep 9, 2014, 4:19 PM
0 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Es­ti­ma­tion Is the Best We Have

IntroductionSep 9, 2014, 4:15 PM
9 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

The Mo­ral Im­per­a­tive Towards Cost-effectiveness

Toby_OrdSep 9, 2014, 4:14 PM
27 points
6 comments10 min readEA link

How Not to Be a “White in Shin­ing Ar­mor”

IntroductionSep 9, 2014, 4:10 PM
4 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

“Effi­ciency” Mea­sures Miss the Point

IntroductionSep 9, 2014, 4:08 PM
4 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

The Drown­ing Child and the Ex­pand­ing Circle

Peter SingerSep 9, 2014, 3:16 PM
72 points
32 comments6 min readEA link

Meetup : Meetup for effec­tive altruists

IntroductionSep 9, 2014, 1:58 AM
0 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Su­per­in­tel­li­gence read­ing group

Katja_GraceSep 1, 2014, 5:55 AM
5 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Why we should err in both directions

Owen Cotton-BarrattAug 21, 2014, 2:23 AM
15 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Con­ver­sa­tion with Holden Karnofsky, Nick Beck­stead, and Eliezer Yud­kowsky on the “long-run” per­spec­tive on effec­tive altruism

Nick_BecksteadAug 18, 2014, 4:30 AM
11 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

Strate­gic con­sid­er­a­tions about differ­ent speeds of AI takeoff

Owen Cotton-BarrattAug 13, 2014, 12:18 AM
10 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

A rel­a­tively athe­o­ret­i­cal per­spec­tive on as­tro­nom­i­cal waste

Nick_BecksteadAug 6, 2014, 12:55 AM
9 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

Agri­cul­tural re­search and development

David_GollJul 30, 2014, 9:38 PM
4 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Scott Alexan­der — Med­i­ta­tions on Moloch

JP Addison🔸Jul 30, 2014, 2:09 PM
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(slatestarcodex.com)

How to treat prob­lems of un­known difficulty

Owen Cotton-BarrattJul 30, 2014, 2:57 AM
27 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Ben Kuhn on the effec­tive al­tru­ist movement

admin3Jul 23, 2014, 7:53 AM
4 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Au­dio record­ings from Good Done Right available online

Andreas_MogensenJul 18, 2014, 10:42 PM
2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

‘Spe­cial Pro­jects’ at the Cen­tre for Effec­tive Altruism

Niel_BowermanJul 7, 2014, 3:47 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

The timing of labour aimed at re­duc­ing ex­is­ten­tial risk

Toby_Ord2Jul 4, 2014, 4:08 AM
21 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

The Mo­ral Value of the Far Future

Holden KarnofskyJul 3, 2014, 12:43 PM
2 points
0 comments8 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

On ‘causes’

Owen Cotton-BarrattJun 24, 2014, 5:19 PM
10 points
29 comments3 min readEA link

Will we even­tu­ally be able to colonize other stars? Notes from a pre­limi­nary review

Nick_BecksteadJun 22, 2014, 6:19 PM
30 points
7 comments32 min readEA link

Hu­man and an­i­mal in­ter­ven­tions: the long-term view

Owen Cotton-BarrattJun 2, 2014, 12:10 AM
−2 points
18 comments3 min readEA link

Ap­ples and or­anges? Some ini­tial thoughts on com­par­ing di­verse benefits

Katja_GraceMay 29, 2014, 3:51 PM
3 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

How much do Y Com­bi­na­tor founders earn?

RyanCareyMay 28, 2014, 12:59 PM
1 point
1 comment9 min readEA link