In defence of epistemic modesty

Gregory Lewis🔸Oct 29, 2017, 7:15 PM
140 points
51 comments37 min readEA link

Why Char­i­ties Usu­ally Don’t Differ Astro­nom­i­cally in Ex­pected Cost-Effectiveness

Brian_TomasikSep 16, 2017, 10:40 AM
109 points
6 comments28 min readEA link
(reducing-suffering.org)

In­creas­ing Ac­cess to Pain Relief in Devel­op­ing Coun­tries—An EA Perspective

Lee_SharkeyJan 31, 2017, 4:13 PM
89 points
19 comments10 min readEA link

Mul­ti­verse-wide co­op­er­a­tion in a nutshell

Lukas_GloorNov 2, 2017, 10:17 AM
84 points
10 comments16 min readEA link

Rad­i­cal Empathy

Holden KarnofskyFeb 16, 2017, 12:41 PM
78 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism is Not a Competition

Peter WildefordJan 5, 2017, 2:11 AM
73 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Some Thoughts on Public Discourse

Holden KarnofskyFeb 23, 2017, 5:29 PM
71 points
37 comments12 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism is self-recommending

BenHoffmanApr 23, 2017, 6:11 AM
67 points
48 comments28 min readEA link

Cause Area: Hu­man Rights in North Korea

Dawn DrescherNov 20, 2017, 8:52 PM
64 points
12 comments20 min readEA link

Act util­i­tar­i­anism: crite­rion of right­ness vs. de­ci­sion procedure

AskellJan 18, 2017, 11:49 PM
61 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

My cur­rent thoughts on MIRI’s “highly re­li­able agent de­sign” work

Daniel_DeweyJul 7, 2017, 1:17 AM
60 points
59 comments19 min readEA link

Con­sid­er­ing Con­sid­er­ate­ness: Why com­mu­ni­ties of do-good­ers should be ex­cep­tion­ally considerate

Stefan_SchubertMay 31, 2017, 10:41 PM
58 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Per­sonal thoughts on ca­reers in AI policy and strategy

carrickflynnSep 27, 2017, 4:52 PM
56 points
28 comments18 min readEA link

Fact check­ing com­par­i­son be­tween tra­choma surg­eries and guide dogs

sauliusMay 10, 2017, 10:33 PM
53 points
34 comments3 min readEA link

An Ar­gu­ment for Why the Fu­ture May Be Good

Ben_West🔸Jul 19, 2017, 10:03 PM
51 points
30 comments4 min readEA link

Men­tal Health Shal­low Review

ElizabethNov 20, 2017, 6:34 PM
49 points
29 comments10 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing CEA’s Guid­ing Principles

William_MacAskillMar 8, 2017, 1:57 AM
48 points
44 comments5 min readEA link

Why I left EA

LilaFeb 19, 2017, 5:42 PM
48 points
59 comments2 min readEA link

Why & How to Make Progress on Diver­sity & In­clu­sion in EA

Kelly_WitwickiOct 26, 2017, 1:20 PM
47 points
231 comments26 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the EA Funds

William_MacAskillFeb 9, 2017, 12:15 AM
46 points
62 comments4 min readEA link

Con­crete pro­ject lists

Richard_BattyMar 25, 2017, 6:12 PM
46 points
49 comments2 min readEA link

Why I think the Foun­da­tional Re­search In­sti­tute should re­think its approach

MikeJohnsonJul 20, 2017, 8:46 PM
45 points
76 comments20 min readEA link

Clar­ify­ing the Giv­ing What We Can pledge

Julia_Wise🔸Feb 6, 2017, 8:07 PM
45 points
11 comments8 min readEA link

De­liber­ate Perfor­mance in Peo­ple Management

Ben_West🔸Nov 25, 2017, 2:41 PM
45 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

2017 AI Safety Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

LarksDec 20, 2017, 9:54 PM
43 points
17 comments23 min readEA link

The ex­traor­di­nary value of or­di­nary norms

EmilyTenchNov 8, 2017, 5:34 PM
42 points
7 comments12 min readEA link

What Should the Aver­age EA Do About AI Align­ment?

RaemonFeb 25, 2017, 8:07 PM
42 points
39 comments7 min readEA link

Pro­jects I’d like to see

William_MacAskillJun 12, 2017, 4:19 PM
42 points
17 comments5 min readEA link

Anony­mous EA comments

RobBensingerFeb 7, 2017, 9:42 PM
42 points
91 comments2 min readEA link

Four Or­ga­ni­za­tions EAs Should Fully Fund for 2018

Peter WildefordDec 12, 2017, 7:17 AM
40 points
28 comments7 min readEA link

The mar­ket­ing gap and a plea for moral inclusivity

MichaelPlantJul 8, 2017, 11:34 AM
40 points
46 comments8 min readEA link

Can we ap­ply start-up in­vest­ing prin­ci­ples to non-prof­its?

Peter WildefordJun 27, 2017, 3:16 AM
40 points
9 comments10 min readEA link

Cog­ni­tive Science/​Psy­chol­ogy As a Ne­glected Ap­proach to AI Safety

Kaj_SotalaJun 5, 2017, 1:46 PM
40 points
37 comments4 min readEA link

Should we be spend­ing no less on al­ter­nate foods than AI now?

Denkenberger🔸Oct 29, 2017, 11:28 PM
38 points
9 comments16 min readEA link

A men­tal health re­source for EA community

Julia_Wise🔸May 6, 2017, 2:07 AM
38 points
19 comments7 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing for­tify hEAlth: an EA-al­igned char­ity startup

e19brendanOct 27, 2017, 1:54 PM
37 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

‘Cru­cial Con­sid­er­a­tions and Wise Philan­thropy’, by Nick Bostrom

PabloMar 17, 2017, 6:48 AM
35 points
4 comments24 min readEA link
(www.stafforini.com)

Changes in fund­ing in the AI safety field

Sebastian_FarquharFeb 3, 2017, 1:09 PM
34 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

Find­ing and man­ag­ing liter­a­ture on EA topics

kastrelNov 13, 2017, 4:55 PM
34 points
9 comments11 min readEA link

Set­ting our salary based on the world’s av­er­age GDP per capita

Joey🔸Aug 26, 2017, 7:57 PM
34 points
27 comments2 min readEA link

Hard-to-re­verse de­ci­sions de­stroy op­tion value

Stefan_Schubert17 Mar 2017 17:54 UTC
33 points
14 comments11 min readEA link

What con­se­quences?

Milan Griffes23 Nov 2017 18:27 UTC
33 points
22 comments8 min readEA link

What if you’re work­ing on the wrong cause? Pre­limi­nary thoughts on how long to spend ex­plor­ing vs ex­ploit­ing.

Kat Woods6 Feb 2017 22:13 UTC
33 points
4 comments21 min readEA link

Hi, I’m Luke Muehlhauser. AMA about Open Philan­thropy’s new re­port on con­scious­ness and moral patienthood

lukeprog28 Jun 2017 15:49 UTC
32 points
66 comments1 min readEA link

How big a deal was the In­dus­trial Revolu­tion?

lukeprog16 Sep 2017 7:00 UTC
31 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(lukemuehlhauser.com)

EA Funds Beta Launch

TaraMacAulay28 Feb 2017 3:40 UTC
31 points
24 comments15 min readEA link

Build­ing Co­op­er­a­tive Episte­mol­ogy (Re­sponse to “EA has a Ly­ing Prob­lem”, among other things)

Raemon11 Jan 2017 17:45 UTC
31 points
79 comments3 min readEA link

Use “care” with care.

ricoh_aficio9 Feb 2017 6:38 UTC
31 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

Anti-trib­al­ism and pos­i­tive men­tal health as high-value cause areas

Kaj_Sotala17 Oct 2017 11:10 UTC
31 points
31 comments2 min readEA link

There’s No Fire Alarm for Ar­tifi­cial Gen­eral Intelligence

EA Forum Archives14 Oct 2017 2:41 UTC
30 points
1 comment25 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)