Why we look at the limit­ing fac­tor in­stead of the prob­lem scale

Joey28 Jan 2019 19:12 UTC
64 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

We should make aca­demic knowl­edge easier

mickofemsworth27 Jan 2019 16:52 UTC
−2 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(scepticalacademic.blogspot.com)

Si­mul­ta­neous Shortage and Oversupply

Jeff Kaufman26 Jan 2019 19:35 UTC
41 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Vo­ca­tional Ca­reer Guide for Effec­tive Altruists

kbog26 Jan 2019 11:16 UTC
35 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

Vox’s “Fu­ture Perfect” column fre­quently has flawed journalism

kbog26 Jan 2019 8:09 UTC
36 points
25 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Is in­tel­lec­tual work bet­ter con­strued as ex­plo­ra­tion or perfor­mance?

Milan_Griffes25 Jan 2019 22:00 UTC
11 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Wild An­i­mal Initiative

abrahamrowe25 Jan 2019 17:23 UTC
28 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

EAGx Bos­ton 2018 Postmortem

Mjreard24 Jan 2019 23:34 UTC
31 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing an up­dated draw­ing pro­to­col for the Effec­tiveAltru­ism.org donor lotteries

SamDeere24 Jan 2019 22:22 UTC
7 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

Farmed An­i­mal Fun­ders Cus­tom Shal­low Re­view: On Select­ing Fund­ing Strate­gies In Gen­eral And On Fo­cus­ing Fund­ing On Open-Ac­cess Scien­tific Re­search For Plant-Based Alter­na­tives

kierangreig24 Jan 2019 19:11 UTC
33 points
3 comments18 min readEA link

The Meetup Cook­book (Fan­tas­tic Group Re­source)

Aaron Gertler24 Jan 2019 1:28 UTC
15 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(tigrennatenn.neocities.org)

A case study for an­i­mal-fo­cused lo­cal EA move­ment build­ing: Effec­tive An­i­mal Altru­ism London

Jamie_Harris23 Jan 2019 22:09 UTC
15 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

If slow-take­off AGI is some­what likely, don’t give now

Milan_Griffes23 Jan 2019 20:54 UTC
21 points
33 comments2 min readEA link

Disen­tan­gling ar­gu­ments for the im­por­tance of AI safety

richard_ngo23 Jan 2019 14:58 UTC
63 points
14 comments8 min readEA link

Should Global Poverty Donors Give Now or Later? An In-Depth Analysis

MichaelDickens22 Jan 2019 4:45 UTC
22 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are the most ideal lo­ca­tions (less bu­reau­cratic road­blocks for set­ting up, ease of func­tion­ing etc.) for set­ting up a char­i­ta­ble foun­da­tion, from across the world?

rookiejourno19 Jan 2019 7:27 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2018 Series: Cause Selection

David_Moss18 Jan 2019 16:55 UTC
69 points
11 comments10 min readEA link

EA Web­site Search Optimization

awhitney17 Jan 2019 21:41 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

EA Funds: Long-Term Fu­ture fund is open to ap­pli­ca­tions un­til Feb. 7th

Habryka17 Jan 2019 20:25 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

A gen­eral frame­work for eval­u­at­ing ag­ing re­search. Part 1: rea­son­ing with Longevity Es­cape Velocity

Emanuele_Ascani17 Jan 2019 16:33 UTC
21 points
18 comments21 min readEA link

How can I in­ter­nal­ize my most im­pact­ful nega­tive ex­ter­nal­ities?

rhys_lindmark17 Jan 2019 5:38 UTC
9 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

[EAGx Talk] Con­sid­er­a­tions for Fundrais­ing in Effec­tive Altruism

Hauke Hillebrandt15 Jan 2019 11:20 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Is Su­per­in­tel­li­gence Here Already?

DavidRooke15 Jan 2019 10:48 UTC
−8 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Talk­ing about EA at an in­vestors’ summit

JosephEK14 Jan 2019 23:22 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Com­bi­na­tion Ex­is­ten­tial Risks

ozymandias14 Jan 2019 19:29 UTC
27 points
5 comments2 min readEA link
(thingofthings.wordpress.com)

High-pri­or­ity policy: to­wards a co-or­di­nated plat­form?

MichaelPlant14 Jan 2019 17:05 UTC
31 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

What has Effec­tive Altru­ism ac­tu­ally done?

Chris Leong14 Jan 2019 14:07 UTC
29 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing a pre­doc­toral re­search pro­gramme in eco­nomics at the Global Pri­ori­ties Institute

Global Priorities Institute14 Jan 2019 11:24 UTC
56 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

A spread­sheet for com­par­ing dona­tions in differ­ent careers

kbog12 Jan 2019 7:32 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Cli­mate Change Is, In Gen­eral, Not An Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

ozymandias11 Jan 2019 22:28 UTC
31 points
37 comments5 min readEA link
(thingofthings.wordpress.com)

[Question] What are ways to get more biol­o­gists into EA?

DC11 Jan 2019 21:06 UTC
17 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

EAs Should In­vest All Year, then Give only on Giv­ing Tuesday

Cullen10 Jan 2019 21:17 UTC
54 points
24 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] thoughts on buy­ing beef from brazil?

rafa_fanboy10 Jan 2019 13:30 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

GiveWell Top Char­i­ties Ex­plained: He­len Kel­ler International

ozymandias9 Jan 2019 21:53 UTC
7 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(thingofthings.wordpress.com)

What Is Effec­tive Altru­ism?

ozymandias9 Jan 2019 14:10 UTC
19 points
6 comments4 min readEA link
(thingofthings.wordpress.com)

List of pos­si­ble EA meta-char­i­ties and projects

saulius9 Jan 2019 11:28 UTC
74 points
20 comments8 min readEA link

An in­te­grated model to eval­u­ate the im­pact of an­i­mal products

kbog9 Jan 2019 11:04 UTC
40 points
18 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] How should large donors co­or­di­nate with small donors?

Wei Dai8 Jan 2019 22:47 UTC
55 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

GiveWell Top Char­i­ties Ex­plained: Malaria Consortium

ozymandias8 Jan 2019 17:51 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(thingofthings.wordpress.com)

Cor­po­rate match­ing—good?

WonderingMagnatic7 Jan 2019 21:29 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readEA link

The Global Pri­ori­ties of the Copen­hagen Consensus

Aaron Gertler7 Jan 2019 19:53 UTC
46 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

EA Giv­ing Tues­day Dona­tion Match­ing Ini­ti­a­tive 2018 Retrospective

Avi Norowitz6 Jan 2019 16:23 UTC
86 points
10 comments20 min readEA link

EA orgs are try­ing to fundraise ~$10m - $16m

Hauke Hillebrandt6 Jan 2019 13:51 UTC
52 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Link] The op­tion value of civilization

Gavin6 Jan 2019 9:58 UTC
0 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

EA Meta Fund: we are open to applications

Denise_Melchin5 Jan 2019 13:32 UTC
27 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Altru­is­tic Motivations

So8res4 Jan 2019 20:38 UTC
52 points
7 comments3 min readEA link
(mindingourway.com)

Lat­est Re­search and Up­dates for December

DavidNash4 Jan 2019 12:38 UTC
37 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

are val­ues a po­ten­tial ob­sta­cle in scal­ing the EA move­ment?

BryonyMC3 Jan 2019 15:47 UTC
2 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Dona­tion Post: 2018

ozymandias3 Jan 2019 14:10 UTC
23 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(thingofthings.wordpress.com)

Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity Work­shop Cologne, Germany

mxschons3 Jan 2019 9:12 UTC
17 points
0 comments2 min readEA link