We are in triage ev­ery sec­ond of ev­ery day

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸Aug 26, 2016, 8:20 PM
227 points
25 comments4 min readEA link

Be­ware sur­pris­ing and sus­pi­cious convergence

Gregory Lewis🔸Jan 24, 2016, 7:11 PM
220 points
21 comments15 min readEA link

In­tegrity for consequentialists

Paul_ChristianoNov 14, 2016, 8:56 PM
177 points
18 comments8 min readEA link

The Copen­hagen In­ter­pre­ta­tion of Ethics

jaiNov 4, 2016, 7:00 AM
112 points
2 comments5 min readEA link
(laneless.substack.com)

Hits-based Giving

Holden KarnofskyApr 4, 2016, 7:45 AM
99 points
2 comments19 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Us­ing a Spread­sheet to Make Good De­ci­sions: Five Examples

Peter WildefordNov 26, 2016, 2:21 AM
82 points
6 comments8 min readEA link

Con­cerns with In­ten­tional Insights

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Oct 24, 2016, 12:04 PM
64 points
182 comments15 min readEA link

2016 AI Risk Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

LarksDec 13, 2016, 4:36 AM
57 points
12 comments28 min readEA link

What the EA com­mu­nity can learn from the rise of the neoliberals

Kerry_VaughanDec 6, 2016, 6:21 PM
55 points
10 comments20 min readEA link

Philo­soph­i­cal Cri­tiques of Effec­tive Altru­ism by Prof Jeff McMahan

Robert_WiblinMay 3, 2016, 9:05 PM
50 points
9 comments12 min readEA link

Eth­i­cal offset­ting is an­ti­thet­i­cal to EA

ClaireZabelJan 5, 2016, 5:49 PM
50 points
78 comments3 min readEA link

Talk about dona­tions ear­lier and more

ClaireZabelFeb 10, 2016, 6:14 PM
46 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Les­sons from the his­tory of an­i­mal rights

JesseCliftonMay 17, 2016, 7:32 PM
46 points
10 comments9 min readEA link

Prospect­ing for Gold (Owen Cot­ton-Bar­ratt)

EA GlobalNov 18, 2016, 12:11 PM
44 points
5 comments21 min readEA link

Five Ways to Han­dle Flow-Through Effects

Peter WildefordJul 28, 2016, 3:39 AM
43 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

A Com­plete Quan­ti­ta­tive Model for Cause Selection

MichaelDickensMay 18, 2016, 2:17 AM
42 points
44 comments22 min readEA link

Donor lot­ter­ies: demon­stra­tion and FAQ

CarlShulmanDec 7, 2016, 1:07 PM
42 points
33 comments10 min readEA link

Guidelines on de­pict­ing poverty

Julia_Wise🔸Mar 28, 2016, 2:24 PM
41 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

Mo­ral progress and “Cause X”

EA GlobalAug 5, 2016, 9:19 AM
40 points
2 comments30 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Are You Sure You Want To Donate To The Against Malaria Foun­da­tion?

MichaelPlantDec 5, 2016, 6:57 PM
40 points
48 comments7 min readEA link

Scien­tific Char­ity Movement

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Jul 23, 2016, 2:33 PM
40 points
6 comments7 min readEA link

End-Re­la­tional The­ory of Meta-ethics: A Dialogue

Peter WildefordJun 28, 2016, 8:11 PM
38 points
5 comments16 min readEA link

Set­ting Com­mu­nity Norms and Values: A re­sponse to the InIn Open Letter

William_MacAskillOct 26, 2016, 10:44 PM
38 points
59 comments4 min readEA link

Why An­i­mals Mat­ter for Effec­tive Altruism

JacyAug 22, 2016, 4:50 PM
36 points
24 comments7 min readEA link

Fundraiser: Poli­ti­cal ini­ti­a­tive rais­ing an ex­pected USD 30 mil­lion for effec­tive charities

Jonas VSep 13, 2016, 11:25 AM
36 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

A frame­work for com­par­ing global prob­lems in terms of ex­pected impact

Robert_WiblinApr 26, 2016, 6:43 PM
35 points
7 comments19 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Why I’m donat­ing to MIRI this year

Owen Cotton-BarrattNov 30, 2016, 10:21 PM
34 points
31 comments7 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on EA Global from a first-time attendee

IanDavidMossSep 18, 2016, 1:38 PM
33 points
12 comments6 min readEA link

Some Or­gani­sa­tional Changes at the Cen­tre for Effec­tive Altruism

William_MacAskillJul 23, 2016, 4:29 AM
31 points
40 comments7 min readEA link

If you want to dis­agree with effec­tive al­tru­ism, you need to dis­agree one of these three claims

Benjamin_ToddSep 25, 2016, 3:01 PM
31 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

Against seg­re­gat­ing EAs

Julia_Wise🔸Jan 21, 2016, 4:15 PM
30 points
91 comments1 min readEA link

Mak­ing EA groups more welcoming

Julia_Wise🔸Jul 29, 2016, 1:09 AM
30 points
13 comments11 min readEA link

Prin­cipia Qualia: blueprint for a new cause area, con­scious­ness re­search with an eye to­ward ethics and x-risk

MikeJohnsonDec 9, 2016, 5:47 AM
30 points
50 comments5 min readEA link

GiveWell’s Char­ity Recom­men­da­tions Re­quire Tak­ing a Con­tro­ver­sial Stance on Pop­u­la­tion Ethics

MichaelDickensMay 17, 2016, 1:51 AM
30 points
52 comments8 min readEA link

Some con­sid­er­a­tions for differ­ent ways to re­duce x-risk

JacyFeb 4, 2016, 3:21 AM
28 points
34 comments5 min readEA link

Is effec­tive al­tru­ism over­look­ing hu­man hap­piness and men­tal health? I ar­gue it is.

MichaelPlantJun 22, 2016, 3:29 PM
28 points
57 comments3 min readEA link

The Un­proven (And Un­prov­able) Case For Net Wild An­i­mal Suffer­ing. A Re­ply To Tomasik

MichaelPlantDec 5, 2016, 9:03 PM
27 points
15 comments22 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing the Effec­tive Altru­ism Network

Kerry_VaughanAug 31, 2016, 7:44 PM
26 points
8 comments13 min readEA link

Pres­i­dent Trump as a Global Catas­trophic Risk

HaydnBelfieldNov 18, 2016, 6:02 PM
26 points
17 comments27 min readEA link

A re­view of the safety & effi­cacy of ge­net­i­cally en­g­ineered mosquitoes

AnjFeb 15, 2016, 11:26 PM
26 points
6 comments12 min readEA link

Why I Took the Giv­ing What We Can Pledge

Peter WildefordDec 28, 2016, 12:02 AM
26 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

Us­ing Ama­zon’s Me­chan­i­cal Turk for An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Stud­ies: Op­por­tu­ni­ties and Challenges

Peter WildefordAug 2, 2016, 7:24 PM
26 points
3 comments15 min readEA link

How should we pri­ori­tize cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion?

Peter WildefordJun 13, 2016, 5:03 PM
25 points
7 comments11 min readEA link

Why and how to as­sess expertise

tyleraltermanFeb 14, 2016, 1:43 AM
25 points
29 comments12 min readEA link

Re­or­ga­niz­ing EA NTNU into ag­ile self-or­ga­niz­ing teams

Jørgen Ljønes🔸Nov 13, 2016, 5:49 PM
25 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

A Case for Em­piri­cal Cause Prioritization

Peter WildefordJun 6, 2016, 5:32 PM
25 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

What is the ex­pected value of cre­at­ing a GiveWell top char­ity?

Peter WildefordDec 18, 2016, 2:02 AM
24 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

The Im­por­tant/​Ne­glected/​Tractable frame­work needs to be ap­plied with care

Robert_WiblinJan 24, 2016, 3:10 PM
23 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Find­ing more effec­tive causes

Michelle_HutchinsonJan 1, 2016, 10:54 PM
23 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Con­tra the Giv­ing What We Can pledge

AlyssaVanceDec 4, 2016, 8:46 PM
22 points
80 comments4 min readEA link