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In defence of epistemic modesty

Gregory Lewis🔸29 Oct 2017 19:15 UTC
140 points
51 comments37 min readEA link

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

Brian_Tomasik16 Sep 2017 10:40 UTC
106 points
6 comments28 min readEA link
(reducing-suffering.org)

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

Lee_Sharkey31 Jan 2017 16:13 UTC
89 points
19 comments10 min readEA link

Mul­ti­verse-wide co­op­er­a­tion in a nutshell

Lukas_Gloor2 Nov 2017 10:17 UTC
84 points
10 comments16 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism is Not a Competition

Peter Wildeford5 Jan 2017 2:11 UTC
73 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Rad­i­cal Empathy

Holden Karnofsky16 Feb 2017 12:41 UTC
73 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

Some Thoughts on Public Discourse

Holden Karnofsky23 Feb 2017 17:29 UTC
71 points
37 comments12 min readEA link

Cause Area: Hu­man Rights in North Korea

Dawn Drescher20 Nov 2017 20:52 UTC
64 points
12 comments20 min readEA link

Act util­i­tar­i­anism: crite­rion of right­ness vs. de­ci­sion procedure

Askell18 Jan 2017 23:49 UTC
61 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

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

Daniel_Dewey7 Jul 2017 1:17 UTC
60 points
59 comments19 min readEA link

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

Stefan_Schubert31 May 2017 22:41 UTC
58 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism is self-recommending

BenHoffman23 Apr 2017 6:11 UTC
57 points
48 comments28 min readEA link

Per­sonal thoughts on ca­reers in AI policy and strategy

carrickflynn27 Sep 2017 16:52 UTC
56 points
28 comments18 min readEA link

Fact check­ing com­par­i­son be­tween tra­choma surg­eries and guide dogs

saulius10 May 2017 22:33 UTC
53 points
34 comments3 min readEA link

An Ar­gu­ment for Why the Fu­ture May Be Good

Ben_West🔸19 Jul 2017 22:03 UTC
50 points
30 comments4 min readEA link

Men­tal Health Shal­low Review

Elizabeth20 Nov 2017 18:34 UTC
49 points
29 comments10 min readEA link

Why I left EA

Lila19 Feb 2017 17:42 UTC
48 points
59 comments2 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing CEA’s Guid­ing Principles

William_MacAskill8 Mar 2017 1:57 UTC
48 points
43 comments5 min readEA link

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

Kelly_Witwicki26 Oct 2017 13:20 UTC
47 points
231 comments26 min readEA link

Con­crete pro­ject lists

Richard_Batty25 Mar 2017 18:12 UTC
46 points
49 comments2 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the EA Funds

William_MacAskill9 Feb 2017 0:15 UTC
46 points
62 comments4 min readEA link

Clar­ify­ing the Giv­ing What We Can pledge

Julia_Wise🔸6 Feb 2017 20:07 UTC
45 points
11 comments8 min readEA link

De­liber­ate Perfor­mance in Peo­ple Management

Ben_West🔸25 Nov 2017 14:41 UTC
45 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Why I think the Foun­da­tional Re­search In­sti­tute should re­think its approach

MikeJohnson20 Jul 2017 20:46 UTC
45 points
76 comments20 min readEA link

2017 AI Safety Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

Larks20 Dec 2017 21:54 UTC
43 points
17 comments23 min readEA link

The ex­traor­di­nary value of or­di­nary norms

EmilyTench8 Nov 2017 17:34 UTC
42 points
7 comments12 min readEA link

What Should the Aver­age EA Do About AI Align­ment?

Raemon25 Feb 2017 20:07 UTC
42 points
39 comments7 min readEA link

Anony­mous EA comments

RobBensinger7 Feb 2017 21:42 UTC
42 points
91 comments2 min readEA link

Pro­jects I’d like to see

William_MacAskill12 Jun 2017 16:19 UTC
42 points
17 comments5 min readEA link

The mar­ket­ing gap and a plea for moral inclusivity

MichaelPlant8 Jul 2017 11:34 UTC
40 points
46 comments8 min readEA link

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

Peter Wildeford27 Jun 2017 3:16 UTC
40 points
9 comments10 min readEA link

Four Or­ga­ni­za­tions EAs Should Fully Fund for 2018

Peter Wildeford12 Dec 2017 7:17 UTC
40 points
28 comments7 min readEA link

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

Kaj_Sotala5 Jun 2017 13:46 UTC
40 points
37 comments4 min readEA link

A men­tal health re­source for EA community

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

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

Denkenberger🔸29 Oct 2017 23:28 UTC
38 points
9 comments16 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing for­tify hEAlth: an EA-al­igned char­ity startup

e19brendan27 Oct 2017 13:54 UTC
37 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Changes in fund­ing in the AI safety field

Sebastian_Farquhar3 Feb 2017 13:09 UTC
34 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

Find­ing and man­ag­ing liter­a­ture on EA topics

kastrel13 Nov 2017 16:55 UTC
34 points
9 comments11 min readEA link

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

Joey 🔸26 Aug 2017 19:57 UTC
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 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

What con­se­quences?

Milan_Griffes23 Nov 2017 18:27 UTC
31 points
22 comments8 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)

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

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

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)

‘Cru­cial Con­sid­er­a­tions and Wise Philan­thropy’, by Nick Bostrom

Pablo17 Mar 2017 6:48 UTC
30 points
4 comments24 min readEA link
(www.stafforini.com)