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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

Why de­velop na­tional-level effec­tive al­tru­ism or­ga­ni­za­tions?

Jan_Kulveit17 Oct 2018 23:29 UTC
28 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Open Thread #42

Milan_Griffes17 Oct 2018 20:10 UTC
3 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

Fo­rum mov­ing to open beta this week

Julia_Wise🔸15 Oct 2018 21:24 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Wild An­i­mal Welfare Liter­a­ture Library: Origi­nal Re­search and Cause Prioritization

Evan_Gaensbauer15 Oct 2018 20:28 UTC
23 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

Wild An­i­mal Welfare Liter­a­ture Library: Con­scious­ness and Ecol­ogy

Evan_Gaensbauer15 Oct 2018 20:24 UTC
17 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

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

Kelsey Piper15 Oct 2018 18:27 UTC
46 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

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

benjamin-pence15 Oct 2018 18:05 UTC
32 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Dou­ble Crux prompts for Effec­tive Altruists

Elityre12 Oct 2018 23:12 UTC
15 points
12 comments1 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_Hours12 Oct 2018 18:55 UTC
24 points
37 comments5 min readEA link

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

jonleighton10 Oct 2018 12:28 UTC
38 points
16 comments15 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_Hours9 Oct 2018 23:33 UTC
14 points
33 comments2 min readEA link

Bot­tle­necks and Solu­tions for the X-Risk Ecosystem

FlorentBerthet8 Oct 2018 12:47 UTC
53 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

A Re­search Frame­work to Im­prove Real-World Giv­ing Behavior

Jon_Behar4 Oct 2018 18:25 UTC
7 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

The 2018 elec­tions and farm animals

EA Forum Archives4 Oct 2018 5:00 UTC
1 point
0 comments5 min readEA link
(us14.campaign-archive.com)

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

HaydnBelfield2 Oct 2018 17:18 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 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_Hours2 Oct 2018 11:49 UTC
6 points
0 comments185 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_Hours1 Oct 2018 17:48 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

RPTP Is a Strong Rea­son to Con­sider Giv­ing Later

trammell1 Oct 2018 16:27 UTC
19 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

Th­ese are the world’s high­est im­pact ca­reer paths ac­cord­ing to our re­search − 80,000 Hours

80000_Hours30 Sep 2018 6:37 UTC
10 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

EA com­mu­nity build­ing grant: Les­sons learned from work­ing part-time on EA Denmark

SebastianSchmidt28 Sep 2018 11:18 UTC
17 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Com­mu­nal Space

LaurenMcG27 Sep 2018 11:43 UTC
5 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Cur­ing past suffer­ings and pre­vent­ing s-risks via in­dex­i­cal uncertainty

turchin27 Sep 2018 10:48 UTC
1 point
18 comments4 min readEA link

Memetic Tribes and Cul­ture War 2.0 (Ar­ti­cle Dis­cus­sion)

rhys_lindmark23 Sep 2018 23:05 UTC
11 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2018 Series: Com­mu­nity De­mo­graph­ics & Characteristics

laurenwhetstone21 Sep 2018 4:13 UTC
39 points
30 comments5 min readEA link

His­tory of Philan­thropy Case Study: The Cam­paign for Mar­riage Equality

Holden Karnofsky20 Sep 2018 8:58 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

2018 list of half-baked vol­un­teer re­search ideas

Jacy19 Sep 2018 7:58 UTC
20 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

EA Con­cepts: Share Im­pres­sions Be­fore Credences

Aaron Gertler 🔸18 Sep 2018 22:47 UTC
9 points
6 comments2 min readEA link