Un­der­stand­ing cause-neutrality

The asym­me­try and the far future

Peter Singer no-plat­formed by pro-dis­abil­ity protestors at Cana­dian university

In­tro­duc­ing CEA’s Guid­ing Principles

Ad­vi­sory panel at CEA

Save the Date for EA Global Bos­ton and San Francisco

Time sen­si­tive ac­tions to move billions in global health fund­ing [Effec­tive Altru­ism Lob­by­ing]

EA Funds Beta Launch

Prac­ti­cal poli­ti­cal ac­tion on global health

Vote Pairing is a Cost-Effec­tive Poli­ti­cal Intervention

What Should the Aver­age EA Do About AI Align­ment?

Some Thoughts on Public Discourse

In some cases, if a prob­lem is harder hu­man­ity should in­vest more in it, but you should be less in­clined to work on it

Why I left EA

CHCAI/​MIRI re­search in­tern­ship in AI safety

The Mo­ral Obli­ga­tion to Organize

Rad­i­cal Empathy

GiveWell and the prob­lem of par­tial funding

Donat­ing To High-Risk High-Re­ward Charities

[CEA Up­date] Up­dates from Jan­uary 2017

New Va­cancy: Policy & AI at Cam­bridge University

Changes to how 80,000 Hours pri­ori­tises the world’s problems

Use “care” with care.

Out­come of GWWC Outreach Experiment

In­tro­duc­ing the EA Funds

Anony­mous EA comments

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

Clar­ify­ing the Giv­ing What We Can pledge

Pro­posed method­ol­ogy for leaflet­ing study

EA should in­vest more in exploration

Select­ing in­vest­ments based on co­var­i­ance with the value of charities

Changes in fund­ing in the AI safety field

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

EAs are not perfect utilitarians

OPP’s “Last Dol­lar”

Ben’s ex­penses in 2016

80,000 Hours: EA and Highly Poli­ti­cal Causes

Col­lab­o­ra­tors Wanted: Could war dis­rupt EA orgs in the US or UK in the next 10 years?

FHI is hiring a pro­ject manager

The Giv­ing What We Can Pledge: self-de­ter­mi­na­tion vs. self-binding

EAG 2017 Bos­ton Up­date: moved to June

EA es­say con­test for <18s

Es­say con­test: gen­eral con­sid­er­a­tions for eval­u­at­ing small-scale giv­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties ($300 for win­ning sub­mis­sion)

3 Ex­am­ples You Can Use To Pro­mote Causes Hon­estly and Effectively

Act util­i­tar­i­anism: crite­rion of right­ness vs. de­ci­sion procedure

Why I donated to the En­vi­ron­men­tal Data & Gover­nance Initiative

A re­view of what af­fec­tive neu­ro­science knows about suffer­ing & valence. (TLDR: Affec­tive Neu­ro­science is very con­fused about what suffer­ing is.)

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

Donor lot­tery details

Giv­ing What We Can Pledge thoughts