Six Ways To Get Along With Peo­ple Who Are To­tally Wrong*

Robert_WiblinFeb 24, 2015, 12:41 PM
176 points
29 comments5 min readEA link

EA risks fal­ling into a “meta trap”. But we can avoid it.

Peter WildefordAug 25, 2015, 3:22 PM
115 points
65 comments6 min readEA link

EA Diver­sity: Un­pack­ing Pan­dora’s Box

AGB 🔸Feb 1, 2015, 12:40 AM
102 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

The Priv­ilege of Earn­ing To Give

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Jan 14, 2015, 1:59 AM
101 points
38 comments1 min readEA link

How we can make it eas­ier to change your mind about cause areas

ClaireZabelAug 11, 2015, 6:21 AM
78 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

Guessti­mate: An app for mak­ing de­ci­sions with con­fi­dence (in­ter­vals)

Ozzie GooenDec 30, 2015, 5:30 PM
63 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

How valuable is move­ment growth?

Owen Cotton-BarrattMay 14, 2015, 8:54 PM
61 points
21 comments2 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesproject.org)

Room for Other Things: How to ad­just if EA seems overwhelming

Lukas_GloorMar 26, 2015, 2:10 PM
61 points
15 comments10 min readEA link

Peter Hur­ford thinks that a large pro­por­tion of peo­ple should earn to give long term

Peter WildefordAug 17, 2015, 3:42 PM
58 points
77 comments6 min readEA link

An em­bar­rass­ment of riches

Julia_Wise🔸Nov 19, 2015, 6:23 PM
55 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ists love sys­temic change

Robert_WiblinJul 8, 2015, 7:00 AM
54 points
2 comments6 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Why the triv­ial­ity ob­jec­tion to EA is beside the point

Stefan_SchubertJul 20, 2015, 7:29 PM
53 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Half-ass­ing it with ev­ery­thing you’ve got

So8resMar 13, 2015, 6:30 AM
51 points
2 comments8 min readEA link
(mindingourway.com)

If you don’t have good ev­i­dence one thing is bet­ter than an­other, don’t pre­tend you do

Robert_WiblinDec 21, 2015, 7:19 PM
49 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Dorothea Brooke: an al­ter­na­tive ori­gin story for Effec­tive Altruism

Bernadette_YoungJan 25, 2015, 8:26 PM
45 points
20 comments8 min readEA link

Failing with abandon

So8resApr 13, 2015, 6:31 AM
42 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(mindingourway.com)

Sup­port­ive scep­ti­cism in practice

Michelle_HutchinsonJan 15, 2015, 4:35 PM
41 points
23 comments8 min readEA link

Pit­falls in Diver­sity Outreach

Kelsey PiperAug 18, 2015, 9:52 PM
39 points
19 comments2 min readEA link

The Value of a Life

So8resFeb 17, 2015, 5:33 PM
38 points
11 comments10 min readEA link

Im­pos­si­ble EA emotions

ClaireZabelDec 21, 2015, 8:06 PM
37 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

On ev­ery­day al­tru­ism and the lo­cal circle

Bernadette_YoungMay 24, 2015, 2:09 PM
36 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

My Cause Selec­tion: Michael Dickens

MichaelDickensSep 15, 2015, 11:29 PM
36 points
69 comments43 min readEA link

Burnout and self-care

Julia_Wise🔸Oct 23, 2015, 1:15 PM
35 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

On Values Spreading

MichaelDickensSep 11, 2015, 3:57 AM
33 points
13 comments11 min readEA link

Should I be ve­gan?

Jess_WhittlestoneMay 17, 2015, 12:06 PM
33 points
53 comments9 min readEA link

A Defense of Normality

EricHerbosoSep 7, 2015, 9:00 PM
32 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Hand­book—Now Online

RyanCareyApr 23, 2015, 2:23 PM
32 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

Why the Open Philan­thropy Pro­ject isn’t cur­rently fund­ing or­ga­ni­za­tions fo­cused on pro­mot­ing effec­tive altruism

Holden KarnofskyOct 28, 2015, 7:40 PM
32 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

Why Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship?

kierangreig🔸Oct 29, 2015, 9:53 PM
31 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

See the dark world

So8resSep 20, 2015, 5:00 AM
31 points
1 comment8 min readEA link
(mindingourway.com)

Room for more fund­ing: Why doesn’t the Gates foun­da­tion just close the fund­ing gap of AMF and SCI?

Hauke HillebrandtJun 3, 2015, 2:48 PM
31 points
7 comments13 min readEA link

The 2014 Sur­vey of Effec­tive Altru­ists: Re­sults and Analysis

Peter WildefordMar 17, 2015, 12:29 AM
30 points
73 comments3 min readEA link

Should you donate to the Wiki­me­dia Foun­da­tion?

vipulnaikMar 28, 2015, 6:58 PM
30 points
3 comments25 min readEA link

Ber­trand Rus­sell on statis­ti­cal empathy

jonathanstraySep 28, 2015, 4:16 PM
30 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Why effec­tive al­tru­ism used to be like ev­i­dence-based medicine. But isn’t anymore

James Snowden🔸Aug 12, 2015, 3:13 PM
29 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

EA’s Image Problem

Tom_DavidsonOct 11, 2015, 1:44 PM
28 points
60 comments9 min readEA link

Why EA events should be (at least) vegetarian

JacyNov 13, 2015, 5:37 PM
28 points
31 comments5 min readEA link

Log-nor­mal lamentations

Gregory Lewis🔸May 19, 2015, 9:07 PM
28 points
11 comments8 min readEA link

Hu­mane Pes­ti­cides as the Most Marginally Effec­tive Cause

JeffMJordanSep 22, 2015, 6:35 AM
28 points
20 comments10 min readEA link

Why do effec­tive al­tru­ists sup­port the causes we do?

Michelle_HutchinsonDec 30, 2015, 5:51 PM
27 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

Why we need more meta

Benjamin_ToddSep 26, 2015, 10:40 PM
27 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

You’re al­lowed to fight for something

So8resMay 3, 2015, 5:00 AM
27 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(mindingourway.com)

Em­pathic com­mu­ni­ca­tion and strat­egy for Effec­tive Altru­ism, Part 1

LucasNarukamiSep 24, 2015, 12:24 AM
27 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

EA is the best choice I’ve ever made

Peter WildefordJan 30, 2015, 8:25 PM
26 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Not yet gods

So8resAug 9, 2015, 5:00 AM
25 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(mindingourway.com)

Stan­ford EA His­tory and Les­sons Learned

MichaelDickensJul 2, 2015, 3:36 AM
25 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

Why I Don’t Ac­count for Mo­ral Uncertainty

[deleted]Jan 11, 2015, 3:52 AM
25 points
16 comments2 min readEA link

Are GiveWell Top Char­i­ties Too Spec­u­la­tive?

MichaelDickensDec 21, 2015, 4:05 AM
24 points
58 comments3 min readEA link

Quan­tify­ing the Im­pact of Eco­nomic Growth on Meat Consumption

kbogDec 22, 2015, 11:30 AM
24 points
37 comments4 min readEA link

EA In­ter­view Series: Michelle Hutch­in­son, De­cem­ber 2015

JacyDec 22, 2015, 3:46 PM
23 points
6 comments7 min readEA link