Cross-post: Think twice be­fore talk­ing about ‘tal­ent gaps’ – clar­ify­ing nine mis­con­cep­tions, by 80,000 Hours.

80000_Hours12 Nov 2018 20:52 UTC
52 points
7 comments9 min readEA link

Wire­head­ing as a Pos­si­ble Con­trib­u­tor to Civ­i­liza­tional Decline

avturchin12 Nov 2018 19:48 UTC
12 points
3 comments35 min readEA link

2017 Donor Lot­tery Report

AdamGleave12 Nov 2018 19:26 UTC
136 points
9 comments16 min readEA link

AI de­vel­op­ment in­cen­tive gra­di­ents are not uniformly terrible

rk12 Nov 2018 16:36 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.greaterwrong.com)

W-Risk and the Tech­nolog­i­cal Wavefront (Nell Wat­son)

Aaron Gertler 🔸11 Nov 2018 23:22 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Pur­su­ing in­finite pos­i­tive util­ity at any cost

slicedonions11 Nov 2018 21:10 UTC
4 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

De­bate and Effec­tive Altru­ism: Friends or Foes?

TenaThau10 Nov 2018 18:33 UTC
33 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

Com­mu­nity Builders, Watch EAG Videos with Your Members

Risto Uuk10 Nov 2018 16:18 UTC
26 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities of Vast Utilities: De­fus­ing the Ini­tial Worry and Steel­man­ning the Problem

kokotajlod10 Nov 2018 9:12 UTC
35 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

Cur­rent AI Safety Roles for Soft­ware Engineers

Ozzie Gooen9 Nov 2018 21:00 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Mea­sur­ing Change in Diet for An­i­mal Advocacy

Jacob_Peacock9 Nov 2018 20:21 UTC
9 points
2 comments11 min readEA link

Which World Gets Saved

trammell9 Nov 2018 18:08 UTC
151 points
27 comments3 min readEA link

Is Ne­glect­ed­ness a Strong Pre­dic­tor of Marginal Im­pact?

sbehmer9 Nov 2018 15:34 UTC
45 points
17 comments10 min readEA link

Do­ing brain­storm­ing better

eirine🔸9 Nov 2018 14:38 UTC
19 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Food for­tifi­ca­tion of fac­tory farmed an­i­mals’ food - CE ask report

KarolinaSarek🔸9 Nov 2018 12:45 UTC
15 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.charityentrepreneurship.com)

Pre­dic­tion-Aug­mented Eval­u­a­tion Systems

Ozzie Gooen9 Nov 2018 11:43 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

“The Vuln­er­a­ble World Hy­poth­e­sis” (Nick Bostrom’s new pa­per)

Hauke Hillebrandt9 Nov 2018 11:20 UTC
24 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(nickbostrom.com)

Book Sum­mary: “Mes­sages: The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Skills Book” Part I & II

konrad9 Nov 2018 8:47 UTC
8 points
4 comments13 min readEA link

Even non-the­ists should act as if the­ism is true

slicedonions8 Nov 2018 23:26 UTC
12 points
37 comments4 min readEA link

The goods of the hu­man saga.

Raltune8 Nov 2018 22:21 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities of Vast Utilities: A Prob­lem for Long-Ter­mism?

kokotajlod8 Nov 2018 10:09 UTC
30 points
18 comments7 min readEA link

Why donate to meta-re­search?

Hauke Hillebrandt8 Nov 2018 9:29 UTC
17 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(lets-fund.org)

Wel­come to the New Fo­rum!

Aaron Gertler 🔸8 Nov 2018 0:06 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Why the EA Fo­rum?

MaxDalton7 Nov 2018 23:24 UTC
35 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

What’s Chang­ing With the New Fo­rum?

Aaron Gertler 🔸7 Nov 2018 23:09 UTC
19 points
15 comments4 min readEA link

Ra­tion­al­ity of demon­strat­ing & voting

bfinn7 Nov 2018 17:52 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Burnout: What is it and how to Treat it.

Elizabeth7 Nov 2018 17:00 UTC
142 points
48 comments7 min readEA link

Lat­est Re­search and Up­dates for October

DavidNash3 Nov 2018 10:56 UTC
15 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Wild An­i­mal Welfare Ecosys­tem & Directory

Evan_Gaensbauer31 Oct 2018 18:26 UTC
18 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

[link] Why donate to (sci­en­tific) re­search?

Hauke Hillebrandt29 Oct 2018 11:13 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Re­duc­ing ex­is­ten­tial risks or wild an­i­mal suffer­ing?

stijnbruers28 Oct 2018 9:51 UTC
3 points
24 comments11 min readEA link

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

MichaelDickens28 Oct 2018 1:51 UTC
11 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(mdickens.me)

An­nounc­ing new EA Funds man­age­ment teams

MarekDuda27 Oct 2018 8:48 UTC
28 points
23 comments5 min readEA link

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

EA Global26 Oct 2018 22:20 UTC
16 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

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

EA Global26 Oct 2018 8:37 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Aaron Ham­lin: The plu­ral­ity pandemic

EA Global26 Oct 2018 8:36 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Rose Had­shar: From the Ne­olithic Revolu­tion to the far future

EA Global26 Oct 2018 8:35 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Mitch Riley: A/​B test­ing for­eign aid

EA Global26 Oct 2018 8:35 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

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

Hauke Hillebrandt25 Oct 2018 21:22 UTC
45 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

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

MichaelPlant25 Oct 2018 15:48 UTC
77 points
31 comments39 min readEA link

Mind Ease: a promis­ing new men­tal health intervention

PeterBrietbart23 Oct 2018 17:34 UTC
24 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

Thoughts on short timelines

Tobias_Baumann23 Oct 2018 15:59 UTC
22 points
14 comments5 min readEA link

Les­sons from giv­ing lec­tures and ca­reer work­shops in the Netherlands

Alje23 Oct 2018 9:50 UTC
22 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Book Re­view: En­light­en­ment Now, by Steven Pinker

Aaron Gertler 🔸21 Oct 2018 23:12 UTC
24 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

Keep­ing Ab­solutes in Mind

Michelle_Hutchinson21 Oct 2018 22:40 UTC
145 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Is Suffer­ing Con­vex?

Davidmanheim21 Oct 2018 11:44 UTC
21 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

On Be­com­ing World-Class

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

Open beta of the new EA Fo­rum now available

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

EA Sur­vey 2018 Series: Distri­bu­tion and Anal­y­sis Methodology

laurenwhetstone18 Oct 2018 2:06 UTC
15 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Sugges­tions for de­vel­op­ing na­tional-level effec­tive al­tru­ism organizations

Jan_Kulveit17 Oct 2018 23:35 UTC
31 points
3 comments13 min readEA link