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Keep­ing Ab­solutes in Mind

Michelle_HutchinsonOct 21, 2018, 10:40 PM
145 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

A Hap­piness Man­i­festo: Why and How Effec­tive Altru­ism Should Re­think its Ap­proach to Max­imis­ing Hu­man Welfare

MichaelPlantOct 25, 2018, 3:48 PM
77 points
31 comments39 min readEA link

Bot­tle­necks and Solu­tions for the X-Risk Ecosystem

FlorentBerthetOct 8, 2018, 12:47 PM
53 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

Vox has a new de­part­ment, Fu­ture Perfect, cov­er­ing the world from an effec­tive al­tru­ist perspective

Kelsey PiperOct 15, 2018, 6:27 PM
46 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing: “Lets-Fund.org: High-Im­pact Crowd­fund­ing cam­paigns” & “Let’s Fund #1: A (small) sci­en­tific Revolu­tion”

Hauke HillebrandtOct 25, 2018, 9:22 PM
45 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Reliev­ing ex­treme phys­i­cal pain in hu­mans – an op­por­tu­nity for effec­tive funding

jonleightonOct 10, 2018, 12:28 PM
38 points
16 comments15 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the EA An­gel Group—Seek­ing EAs with the Time and Money to Eval­u­ate and Fund Early-Stage Grants

benjamin-penceOct 15, 2018, 6:05 PM
32 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Sugges­tions for de­vel­op­ing na­tional-level effec­tive al­tru­ism organizations

Jan_KulveitOct 17, 2018, 11:35 PM
31 points
3 comments13 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing new EA Funds man­age­ment teams

MarekDudaOct 27, 2018, 8:48 AM
28 points
23 comments5 min readEA link

Why de­velop na­tional-level effec­tive al­tru­ism or­ga­ni­za­tions?

Jan_KulveitOct 17, 2018, 11:29 PM
28 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Mind Ease: a promis­ing new men­tal health intervention

Peter BrietbartOct 23, 2018, 5:34 PM
24 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

Book Re­view: En­light­en­ment Now, by Steven Pinker

Aaron Gertler 🔸Oct 21, 2018, 11:12 PM
24 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

Many EA orgs say they place a lot of fi­nan­cial value on their pre­vi­ous hire. What does that mean, if any­thing? And why aren’t they hiring faster?

80000_HoursOct 12, 2018, 6:55 PM
24 points
37 comments5 min readEA link

Wild An­i­mal Welfare Liter­a­ture Library: Origi­nal Re­search and Cause Prioritization

Evan_GaensbauerOct 15, 2018, 8:28 PM
23 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

Les­sons from giv­ing lec­tures and ca­reer work­shops in the Netherlands

AljeOct 23, 2018, 9:50 AM
22 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Thoughts on short timelines

Tobias_BaumannOct 23, 2018, 3:59 PM
22 points
14 comments5 min readEA link

On Be­com­ing World-Class

Aaron Gertler 🔸Oct 19, 2018, 1:35 AM
22 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

Is Suffer­ing Con­vex?

DavidmanheimOct 21, 2018, 11:44 AM
21 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

RPTP Is a Strong Rea­son to Con­sider Giv­ing Later

trammellOct 1, 2018, 4:27 PM
19 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

Wild An­i­mal Welfare Liter­a­ture Library: Con­scious­ness and Ecol­ogy

Evan_GaensbauerOct 15, 2018, 8:24 PM
17 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

Max Dal­ton and Jonas: How to avoid ac­ci­den­tally hav­ing a nega­tive im­pact with your project

EA GlobalOct 26, 2018, 10:20 PM
16 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

EA Sur­vey 2018 Series: Distri­bu­tion and Anal­y­sis Methodology

laurenwhetstoneOct 18, 2018, 2:06 AM
15 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Dou­ble Crux prompts for Effec­tive Altruists

ElityreOct 12, 2018, 11:12 PM
15 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

Sur­vey of EA org lead­ers about what skills and ex­pe­rience they most need, their staff/​dona­tions trade-offs, prob­lem pri­ori­ti­sa­tion, and more.

80000_HoursOct 9, 2018, 11:33 PM
14 points
33 comments2 min readEA link

Rose Had­shar: From the Ne­olithic Revolu­tion to the far future

EA GlobalOct 26, 2018, 8:35 AM
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Open beta of the new EA Fo­rum now available

Julia_Wise🔸Oct 18, 2018, 2:59 AM
12 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Why Do Small Donors Give Now, But Large Donors Give Later?

MichaelDickensOct 28, 2018, 1:51 AM
11 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(mdickens.me)

Aaron Ham­lin: The plu­ral­ity pandemic

EA GlobalOct 26, 2018, 8:36 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Will MacAskill, Rossa O’Keeffe-O’Dono­van, & An­dreas Mo­gensen: Global Pri­ori­ties In­si­tute’s 2018 goals and research

EA GlobalOct 26, 2018, 8:37 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

CSER Spe­cial Is­sue: ‘Fu­tures of Re­search in Catas­trophic and Ex­is­ten­tial Risk’

HaydnBelfieldOct 2, 2018, 5:18 PM
9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Mitch Riley: A/​B test­ing for­eign aid

EA GlobalOct 26, 2018, 8:35 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[link] Why donate to (sci­en­tific) re­search?

Hauke HillebrandtOct 29, 2018, 11:13 AM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

List of 80,000 Hours con­tent from the last 4 months, sum­mary of what was most pop­u­lar, and plans for fu­ture re­leases.

80000_HoursOct 1, 2018, 5:48 PM
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

A Re­search Frame­work to Im­prove Real-World Giv­ing Behavior

Jon_BeharOct 4, 2018, 6:25 PM
7 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Paul Chris­ti­ano on how OpenAI is de­vel­op­ing real solu­tions to the ‘AI al­ign­ment prob­lem’, and his vi­sion of how hu­man­ity will pro­gres­sively hand over de­ci­sion-mak­ing to AI systems

80000_HoursOct 2, 2018, 11:49 AM
6 points
0 comments185 min readEA link

Fo­rum mov­ing to open beta this week

Julia_Wise🔸Oct 15, 2018, 9:24 PM
4 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Open Thread #42

Milan GriffesOct 17, 2018, 8:10 PM
3 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

Re­duc­ing ex­is­ten­tial risks or wild an­i­mal suffer­ing?

stijnbruersOct 28, 2018, 9:51 AM
3 points
24 comments11 min readEA link

The 2018 elec­tions and farm animals

EA Forum ArchivesOct 4, 2018, 5:00 AM
1 point
0 comments5 min readEA link
(us14.campaign-archive.com)