A gen­er­al­ized strat­egy of ‘mis­sion hedg­ing’: in­vest­ing in ‘evil’ to do more good

Hauke Hillebrandt18 Feb 2018 17:41 UTC
45 points
34 comments18 min readEA link

Do­ing good while clueless

Milan_Griffes15 Feb 2018 5:04 UTC
46 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

On fund­ing med­i­cal research

JanPaul12315 Feb 2018 3:07 UTC
18 points
22 comments7 min readEA link

Where Some Peo­ple Donated in 2017

MichaelDickens11 Feb 2018 21:55 UTC
18 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

Les­sons for Build­ing Up a Cause

Evan_Gaensbauer10 Feb 2018 8:25 UTC
22 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

[Link] OpenPhil’s Up­date on Cause Pri­ori­ti­za­tion at Open Philanthropy

Crosspost7 Feb 2018 15:49 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Global catas­trophic fi­nan­cial risks?

Geoffrey Miller5 Feb 2018 23:26 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Would it be a good idea to cre­ate a ‘GiveWell’ for U.S. char­i­ties?

RandomEA4 Feb 2018 21:29 UTC
9 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

How much fur­ther does your dol­lar go over­seas?

RandomEA4 Feb 2018 21:28 UTC
16 points
5 comments17 min readEA link

His­tory of Philan­thropy Case Study: The Cen­ter on Bud­get and Policy Pri­ori­ties and State EITC Programs

lukeprog2 Feb 2018 16:25 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Effec­tive Altru­ism Swe­den plans for 2018

MarkusAnderljung2 Feb 2018 12:18 UTC
15 points
7 comments22 min readEA link

Pro­posal for the AI Safety Re­search Camp

Remmelt2 Feb 2018 8:07 UTC
16 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

How frag­ile was his­tory?

Gregory Lewis🔸2 Feb 2018 6:23 UTC
22 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

Cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion for down­side-fo­cused value systems

Lukas_Gloor31 Jan 2018 14:47 UTC
75 points
10 comments48 min readEA link

EA Funds hands out money very in­fre­quently—should we be wor­ried?

Henry Stanley 🔸31 Jan 2018 8:10 UTC
41 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

How scale is of­ten mi­sused as a met­ric and how to fix it

Joey🔸30 Jan 2018 1:36 UTC
10 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

The almighty Hive will

Arepo28 Jan 2018 17:59 UTC
27 points
21 comments10 min readEA link

Up­date on Cause Pri­ori­ti­za­tion at Open Philanthropy

Holden Karnofsky26 Jan 2018 16:40 UTC
11 points
2 comments40 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

New Effec­tive Altru­ism course syllabus

Geoffrey Miller25 Jan 2018 19:25 UTC
19 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Volunteering

Kirsten24 Jan 2018 16:09 UTC
21 points
11 comments5 min readEA link

On­go­ing law­suit nam­ing “fu­ture gen­er­a­tions” as plain­tiffs; ad­vice sought for how to investigate

kokotajlod23 Jan 2018 22:22 UTC
9 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Could I have some more sys­temic change, please, sir?

MichaelPlant22 Jan 2018 16:26 UTC
24 points
23 comments4 min readEA link

69 things that might be pretty effec­tive to fund

Hauke Hillebrandt21 Jan 2018 22:47 UTC
35 points
26 comments15 min readEA link

AI al­ign­ment prize win­ners and next round [link]

RyanCarey20 Jan 2018 12:07 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Pro­ject Re­port—On the Po­ten­tial of Nor­we­gian CSR-dona­tions to Effec­tive Charities

Jørgen Ljønes🔸18 Jan 2018 10:56 UTC
9 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

[Paper] In­ter­ven­tions that May Prevent or Mol­lify Su­per­vol­canic Eruptions

Denkenberger🔸15 Jan 2018 21:46 UTC
23 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

[Paper] Global Catas­trophic and Ex­is­ten­tial Risks Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Scale, similar to Tor­ino scale

turchin14 Jan 2018 10:07 UTC
10 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

EA #Giv­ingTues­day Fundraiser Match­ing Retrospective

Avi Norowitz14 Jan 2018 0:48 UTC
23 points
12 comments15 min readEA link

Nudg­ing donors to­wards high-im­pact char­i­ties (a re­quest for fund­ing for SoGive)

Sanjay13 Jan 2018 10:06 UTC
7 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Con­tact peo­ple for the EA community

Julia_Wise🔸12 Jan 2018 17:04 UTC
107 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

The Tech­nolog­i­cal Land­scape Affect­ing Ar­tifi­cial Gen­eral In­tel­li­gence and the Im­por­tance of Nanoscale Neu­ral Probes

Daniel_Eth12 Jan 2018 1:10 UTC
6 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

His­tory of Philan­thropy Case Study: Clin­ton Health Ac­cess Ini­ti­a­tive’s Role in Global Price Drops for An­tiretro­viral Drugs

Holden Karnofsky10 Jan 2018 16:44 UTC
2 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

How to get a new cause into EA

Joey🔸10 Jan 2018 6:41 UTC
46 points
26 comments5 min readEA link

[Paper]: Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence in Life Ex­ten­sion: from Deep Learn­ing to Superintelligence

turchin4 Jan 2018 14:31 UTC
2 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Up­dates from the GiveWell blog

Crosspost4 Jan 2018 12:50 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

2017 LEAN Im­pact Assess­ment: Qual­i­ta­tive Findings

Richenda3 Jan 2018 20:42 UTC
21 points
11 comments27 min readEA link

Eco­nomics, pri­ori­ti­sa­tion, and pro-rich bias

John G. Halstead2 Jan 2018 22:33 UTC
5 points
21 comments5 min readEA link

The fun­nel model (CEA)

EA Forum Archives1 Jan 2018 23:35 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

The Con­cen­tric Cir­cles model (CEA)

EA Forum Archives1 Jan 2018 23:33 UTC
4 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

Cos­mic EA: How Cost Effec­tive Is In­form­ing ET?

TruePath31 Dec 2017 8:37 UTC
3 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Where can I donate to sup­port in­sect welfare?

nonzerosum31 Dec 2017 1:40 UTC
8 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

How tractable is clue­less­ness?

Milan_Griffes29 Dec 2017 18:52 UTC
19 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

View­ing Effec­tive Altru­ism as a System

Chris Leong28 Dec 2017 10:09 UTC
21 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

80,000 Hours an­nual re­view released

Benjamin_Todd27 Dec 2017 20:31 UTC
10 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Dona­tion Plans for 2017

Jeff Kaufman 🔸23 Dec 2017 22:25 UTC
13 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Up­dates from the Open Philan­thropy Blog

Crosspost22 Dec 2017 1:05 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

“Just take the ex­pected value” – a pos­si­ble re­ply to con­cerns about cluelessness

Milan_Griffes21 Dec 2017 19:37 UTC
18 points
29 comments3 min readEA link

2017 AI Safety Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

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

CFAR’s end-of-year Im­pact Re­port and Fundraiser

AnnaSalamon20 Dec 2017 18:58 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Up­dates Thread: How Have You Changed Your Mind This Year?

zdgroff20 Dec 2017 3:53 UTC
10 points
3 comments1 min readEA link