After one year of ap­ply­ing for EA jobs: It is re­ally, re­ally hard to get hired by an EA organisation

EA applicant26 Feb 2019 5:53 UTC
399 points
184 comments4 min readEA link

You have more than one goal, and that’s fine

Julia_Wise🔸20 Feb 2019 1:08 UTC
294 points
28 comments2 min readEA link

On “fringe” ideas

Kelsey Piper19 Aug 2019 7:00 UTC
250 points
6 comments5 min readEA link
(theunitofcaring.tumblr.com)

List of ways in which cost-effec­tive­ness es­ti­mates can be misleading

saulius20 Aug 2019 18:05 UTC
234 points
37 comments13 min readEA link

Real­ity is of­ten underpowered

Gregory Lewis🔸10 Oct 2019 13:14 UTC
234 points
17 comments5 min readEA link

SHOW: A frame­work for shap­ing your tal­ent for di­rect work

RyanCarey12 Mar 2019 17:16 UTC
215 points
29 comments8 min readEA link

Are we liv­ing at the most in­fluen­tial time in his­tory?

William_MacAskill3 Sep 2019 4:55 UTC
203 points
147 comments24 min readEA link

Some per­sonal thoughts on EA and sys­temic change

CarlShulman26 Sep 2019 21:40 UTC
198 points
17 comments6 min readEA link

In­for­ma­tion se­cu­rity ca­reers for GCR reduction

ClaireZabel20 Jun 2019 23:56 UTC
187 points
35 comments8 min readEA link

Is EA Grow­ing? EA Growth Met­rics for 2018

Peter Wildeford2 Jun 2019 4:08 UTC
181 points
40 comments8 min readEA link

SHIC Will Sus­pend Outreach Oper­a­tions

Catherine Low🔸7 Mar 2019 16:07 UTC
179 points
17 comments6 min readEA link

Cor­po­rate cam­paigns af­fect 9 to 120 years of chicken life per dol­lar spent

saulius8 Jul 2019 8:01 UTC
176 points
22 comments59 min readEA link

Candy for Nets

Jeff Kaufman 🔸29 Sep 2019 11:11 UTC
175 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

Thoughts on do­ing good through non-stan­dard EA ca­reer pathways

Buck30 Dec 2019 2:06 UTC
171 points
13 comments12 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism is an Ide­ol­ogy, not (just) a Question

Fods1228 Jun 2019 7:18 UTC
165 points
46 comments16 min readEA link
(thegodlesstheist.com)

How to gen­er­ate re­search proposals

Jaime Sevilla1 Aug 2019 16:38 UTC
164 points
7 comments8 min readEA link

Log­a­r­ith­mic Scales of Plea­sure and Pain: Rat­ing, Rank­ing, and Com­par­ing Peak Ex­pe­riences Suggest the Ex­is­tence of Long Tails for Bliss and Suffering

algekalipso11 Aug 2019 3:49 UTC
163 points
23 comments41 min readEA link

“Why Na­tions Fail” and the long-ter­mist view of global poverty

Ben Kuhn16 Jul 2019 7:59 UTC
161 points
20 comments13 min readEA link
(www.benkuhn.net)

In­gre­di­ents for cre­at­ing dis­rup­tive re­search teams

stefan.torges16 May 2019 16:23 UTC
159 points
17 comments54 min readEA link

Ask Me Any­thing!

William_MacAskill14 Aug 2019 15:52 UTC
153 points
138 comments3 min readEA link

Shap­ley val­ues: Bet­ter than counterfactuals

NunoSempere10 Oct 2019 10:26 UTC
152 points
54 comments15 min readEA link

Does cli­mate change de­serve more at­ten­tion within EA?

Ben17 Apr 2019 6:50 UTC
151 points
65 comments15 min readEA link

Align­ing Recom­mender Sys­tems as Cause Area

IvanVendrov8 May 2019 8:56 UTC
150 points
48 comments13 min readEA link

Why and how to start a for-profit com­pany serv­ing emerg­ing markets

Ben Kuhn6 Nov 2019 1:00 UTC
148 points
15 comments6 min readEA link
(www.benkuhn.net)

2019 AI Align­ment Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

Larks19 Dec 2019 2:58 UTC
147 points
28 comments62 min readEA link

Move­ment Col­lapse Scenarios

rebecca_baron27 Aug 2019 10:07 UTC
146 points
33 comments9 min readEA link

How bad would nu­clear win­ter caused by a US-Rus­sia nu­clear ex­change be?

Luisa_Rodriguez20 Jun 2019 1:48 UTC
145 points
18 comments43 min readEA link

The ITN frame­work, cost-effec­tive­ness, and cause prioritisation

John G. Halstead6 Oct 2019 5:26 UTC
144 points
20 comments14 min readEA link

What to know be­fore talk­ing with jour­nal­ists about EA

sky4 Sep 2019 19:59 UTC
142 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: April 2019 grant recommendations

Habryka23 Apr 2019 7:00 UTC
142 points
242 comments46 min readEA link

The Pos­si­bil­ity of an On­go­ing Mo­ral Catas­tro­phe (Sum­mary)

Linch2 Aug 2019 21:55 UTC
139 points
17 comments4 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

There’s Lots More To Do

Jeff Kaufman 🔸29 May 2019 19:58 UTC
134 points
30 comments2 min readEA link

Opinion: Es­ti­mat­ing In­ver­te­brate Sentience

Jason Schukraft7 Nov 2019 2:38 UTC
134 points
36 comments23 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the launch of the Hap­pier Lives Institute

MichaelPlant19 Jun 2019 15:40 UTC
133 points
44 comments4 min readEA link

Com­mu­nity vs Network

DavidNash12 Dec 2019 14:04 UTC
130 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

EA is vet­ting-constrained

toonalfrink9 Mar 2019 1:25 UTC
129 points
29 comments4 min readEA link

‘Longter­mism’

William_MacAskill25 Jul 2019 21:27 UTC
128 points
56 comments9 min readEA link

Ben Garfinkel: How sure are we about this AI stuff?

bgarfinkel9 Feb 2019 19:17 UTC
128 points
20 comments18 min readEA link

English as a dom­i­nant lan­guage in the move­ment: challenges and solutions

Dobroslawa_Gogloza3 Sep 2019 19:45 UTC
127 points
18 comments9 min readEA link

EA Lead­ers Fo­rum: Sur­vey on EA pri­ori­ties (data and anal­y­sis)

Aaron Gertler 🔸12 Nov 2019 1:14 UTC
126 points
50 comments16 min readEA link

Can the EA com­mu­nity copy Teach for Amer­ica? (Look­ing for Task Y)

alex lawsen21 Feb 2019 13:38 UTC
126 points
32 comments8 min readEA link

Up­date on CEA’s EA Grants Program

Nicole_Ross8 Nov 2019 23:00 UTC
125 points
31 comments6 min readEA link

I’m Buck Sh­legeris, I do re­search and out­reach at MIRI, AMA

Buck15 Nov 2019 22:44 UTC
123 points
228 comments2 min readEA link

My Q1 2019 EA Ho­tel donation

vipulnaik1 Apr 2019 2:23 UTC
120 points
6 comments12 min readEA link

Pur­chase fuzzies and utilons separately

EliezerYudkowsky27 Dec 2019 2:21 UTC
120 points
4 comments5 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

[up­dated] Global de­vel­op­ment in­ter­ven­tions are gen­er­ally more effec­tive than cli­mate change interventions

Hauke Hillebrandt2 Oct 2019 8:36 UTC
119 points
44 comments16 min readEA link

In­sti­tu­tions for Fu­ture Generations

tylermjohn11 Nov 2019 20:33 UTC
118 points
55 comments5 min readEA link

Effec­tive An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Resources

saulius24 Oct 2019 10:41 UTC
118 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

Feed­back available for EA Fo­rum drafts (sus­pended)

Aaron Gertler 🔸24 Jul 2019 5:56 UTC
118 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

What to do with peo­ple?

Jan_Kulveit6 Mar 2019 11:04 UTC
118 points
31 comments9 min readEA link