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Be­ware sur­pris­ing and sus­pi­cious convergence

Gregory Lewis🔸24 Jan 2016 19:11 UTC
219 points
21 comments15 min readEA link

We are in triage ev­ery sec­ond of ev­ery day

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸26 Aug 2016 20:20 UTC
208 points
25 comments4 min readEA link

In­tegrity for consequentialists

Paul_Christiano14 Nov 2016 20:56 UTC
177 points
18 comments8 min readEA link

The Copen­hagen In­ter­pre­ta­tion of Ethics

jai4 Nov 2016 7:00 UTC
109 points
2 comments5 min readEA link
(laneless.substack.com)

Hits-based Giving

Holden Karnofsky4 Apr 2016 7:45 UTC
93 points
2 comments19 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Us­ing a Spread­sheet to Make Good De­ci­sions: Five Examples

Peter Wildeford26 Nov 2016 2:21 UTC
81 points
6 comments8 min readEA link

Con­cerns with In­ten­tional Insights

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

2016 AI Risk Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

Larks13 Dec 2016 4:36 UTC
57 points
12 comments28 min readEA link

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

Kerry_Vaughan6 Dec 2016 18:21 UTC
55 points
10 comments20 min readEA link

Philo­soph­i­cal Cri­tiques of Effec­tive Altru­ism by Prof Jeff McMahan

Robert_Wiblin3 May 2016 21:05 UTC
50 points
9 comments12 min readEA link

Talk about dona­tions ear­lier and more

ClaireZabel10 Feb 2016 18:14 UTC
46 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Prospect­ing for Gold (Owen Cot­ton-Bar­ratt)

EA Global18 Nov 2016 12:11 UTC
44 points
5 comments21 min readEA link

Eth­i­cal offset­ting is an­ti­thet­i­cal to EA

ClaireZabel5 Jan 2016 17:49 UTC
43 points
78 comments3 min readEA link

A Com­plete Quan­ti­ta­tive Model for Cause Selection

MichaelDickens18 May 2016 2:17 UTC
42 points
44 comments22 min readEA link

Donor lot­ter­ies: demon­stra­tion and FAQ

CarlShulman7 Dec 2016 13:07 UTC
42 points
33 comments10 min readEA link

Guidelines on de­pict­ing poverty

Julia_Wise🔸28 Mar 2016 14:24 UTC
41 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

Five Ways to Han­dle Flow-Through Effects

Peter Wildeford28 Jul 2016 3:39 UTC
40 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Les­sons from the his­tory of an­i­mal rights

JesseClifton17 May 2016 19:32 UTC
40 points
10 comments9 min readEA link

Scien­tific Char­ity Movement

Jeff Kaufman 🔸23 Jul 2016 14:33 UTC
40 points
6 comments7 min readEA link

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

MichaelPlant5 Dec 2016 18:57 UTC
40 points
48 comments7 min readEA link

Mo­ral progress and “Cause X”

EA Global5 Aug 2016 9:19 UTC
39 points
2 comments30 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

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

William_MacAskill26 Oct 2016 22:44 UTC
38 points
59 comments4 min readEA link

End-Re­la­tional The­ory of Meta-ethics: A Dialogue

Peter Wildeford28 Jun 2016 20:11 UTC
38 points
5 comments16 min readEA link

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

Jonas V13 Sep 2016 11:25 UTC
36 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

Why An­i­mals Mat­ter for Effec­tive Altruism

Jacy22 Aug 2016 16:50 UTC
36 points
24 comments7 min readEA link

Why I’m donat­ing to MIRI this year

Owen Cotton-Barratt30 Nov 2016 22:21 UTC
34 points
31 comments7 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on EA Global from a first-time attendee

IanDavidMoss18 Sep 2016 13:38 UTC
33 points
12 comments6 min readEA link

A frame­work for com­par­ing global prob­lems in terms of ex­pected impact

Robert_Wiblin26 Apr 2016 18:43 UTC
32 points
7 comments19 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Some Or­gani­sa­tional Changes at the Cen­tre for Effec­tive Altruism

William_MacAskill23 Jul 2016 4:29 UTC
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_Todd25 Sep 2016 15:01 UTC
31 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

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

MichaelDickens17 May 2016 1:51 UTC
30 points
52 comments8 min readEA link

Against seg­re­gat­ing EAs

Julia_Wise🔸21 Jan 2016 16:15 UTC
30 points
91 comments1 min readEA link

Mak­ing EA groups more welcoming

Julia_Wise🔸29 Jul 2016 1:09 UTC
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

MikeJohnson9 Dec 2016 5:47 UTC
30 points
49 comments5 min readEA link

Some con­sid­er­a­tions for differ­ent ways to re­duce x-risk

Jacy4 Feb 2016 3:21 UTC
28 points
34 comments5 min readEA link

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

MichaelPlant22 Jun 2016 15:29 UTC
28 points
57 comments3 min readEA link

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

MichaelPlant5 Dec 2016 21:03 UTC
27 points
15 comments22 min readEA link

A re­view of the safety & effi­cacy of ge­net­i­cally en­g­ineered mosquitoes

Anj15 Feb 2016 23:26 UTC
26 points
6 comments12 min readEA link

Pres­i­dent Trump as a Global Catas­trophic Risk

HaydnBelfield18 Nov 2016 18:02 UTC
26 points
16 comments27 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing the Effec­tive Altru­ism Network

Kerry_Vaughan31 Aug 2016 19:44 UTC
26 points
8 comments13 min readEA link

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

Peter Wildeford2 Aug 2016 19:24 UTC
26 points
3 comments15 min readEA link

Why I Took the Giv­ing What We Can Pledge

Peter Wildeford28 Dec 2016 0:02 UTC
26 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

How should we pri­ori­tize cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion?

Peter Wildeford13 Jun 2016 17:03 UTC
25 points
7 comments11 min readEA link

Re­or­ga­niz­ing EA NTNU into ag­ile self-or­ga­niz­ing teams

Jørgen Ljønes🔸13 Nov 2016 17:49 UTC
25 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

A Case for Em­piri­cal Cause Prioritization

Peter Wildeford6 Jun 2016 17:32 UTC
25 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

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

Peter Wildeford18 Dec 2016 2:02 UTC
24 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

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

Robert_Wiblin24 Jan 2016 15:10 UTC
23 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Why and how to as­sess expertise

tyleralterman14 Feb 2016 1:43 UTC
23 points
29 comments12 min readEA link

A new refer­ence site: Effec­tive Altru­ism Concepts

Owen Cotton-Barratt5 Dec 2016 21:20 UTC
22 points
19 comments2 min readEA link

Con­tra the Giv­ing What We Can pledge

AlyssaVance4 Dec 2016 20:46 UTC
22 points
80 comments4 min readEA link