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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

421 points

184 comments4 min readEA link

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

Julia_Wise🔸20 Feb 2019 1:08 UTC

319 points

28 comments2 min readEA link

On “fringe” ideas

Kelsey Piper19 Aug 2019 7:00 UTC

281 points

9 comments5 min readEA link

(theunitofcaring.tumblr.com)

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

saulius20 Aug 2019 18:05 UTC

236 points

37 comments13 min readEA link

Reality is often underpowered

Gregory Lewis🔸10 Oct 2019 13:14 UTC

235 points

17 comments5 min readEA link

SHOW: A framework for shaping your talent for direct work

RyanCarey12 Mar 2019 17:16 UTC

227 points

29 comments8 min readEA link

Are we living at the most influential time in history?

William_MacAskill3 Sep 2019 4:55 UTC

205 points

147 comments24 min readEA link

Some personal thoughts on EA and systemic change

CarlShulman26 Sep 2019 21:40 UTC

201 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

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

James Fodor28 Jun 2019 7:18 UTC

178 points

46 comments16 min readEA link

(thegodlesstheist.com)

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

saulius8 Jul 2019 8:01 UTC

176 points

28 comments59 min readEA link

Candy for Nets

Jeff Kaufman 🔸29 Sep 2019 11:11 UTC

173 points

9 comments2 min readEA link

Thoughts on doing good through non-standard EA career pathways

Buck30 Dec 2019 2:06 UTC

172 points

13 comments12 min readEA link

The Possibility of an Ongoing Moral Catastrophe (Summary)

Linch2 Aug 2019 21:55 UTC

167 points

21 comments4 min readEA link

(docs.google.com)

Shapley values: Better than counterfactuals

NunoSempere10 Oct 2019 10:26 UTC

165 points

64 comments15 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

165 points

25 comments41 min readEA link

How to generate research proposals

Jaime Sevilla1 Aug 2019 16:38 UTC

164 points

7 comments8 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

Does climate change deserve more attention within EA?

Ben17 Apr 2019 6:50 UTC

152 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

149 points

15 comments6 min readEA link

(www.benkuhn.net)

Movement Collapse Scenarios

rebecca_baron27 Aug 2019 10:07 UTC

147 points

33 comments9 min readEA link

2019 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

Larks19 Dec 2019 2:58 UTC

147 points

28 comments62 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

145 points

20 comments14 min readEA link

Long-Term Future Fund: April 2019 grant recommendations

Habryka [Deactivated]23 Apr 2019 7:00 UTC

142 points

242 comments47 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

Purchase fuzzies and utilons separately

EliezerYudkowsky27 Dec 2019 2:21 UTC

137 points

4 comments5 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

There’s Lots More To Do

Jeff Kaufman 🔸29 May 2019 19:58 UTC

135 points

30 comments2 min readEA link

Opinion: Estimating Invertebrate Sentience

Jason Schukraft7 Nov 2019 2:38 UTC

134 points

36 comments23 min readEA link

‘Longtermism’

William_MacAskill25 Jul 2019 21:27 UTC

133 points

56 comments9 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

132 points

15 comments3 min readEA link

EA is vetting-constrained

toonalfrink9 Mar 2019 1:25 UTC

129 points

29 comments4 min readEA link

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

Aaron Gertler 🔸12 Nov 2019 1:14 UTC

127 points

51 comments16 min readEA link

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

Dobroslawa_Gogloza3 Sep 2019 19:45 UTC

127 points

19 comments9 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

Effective Animal Advocacy Resources

saulius24 Oct 2019 10:41 UTC

123 points

4 comments8 min readEA link

Institutions for Future Generations

tylermjohn11 Nov 2019 20:33 UTC

122 points

55 comments5 min readEA link

My Q1 2019 EA Hotel donation

vipulnaik1 Apr 2019 2:23 UTC

120 points

6 comments12 min readEA link

[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

Invertebrate Welfare Cause Profile

Jason Schukraft9 Jul 2019 17:28 UTC

119 points

14 comments42 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