Real­ity is of­ten underpowered

Gregory Lewis10 Oct 2019 13:14 UTC
230 points
17 comments5 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

Shap­ley val­ues: Bet­ter than counterfactuals

NunoSempere10 Oct 2019 10:26 UTC
141 points
54 comments14 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 comments17 min readEA link

Effec­tive An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Resources

saulius24 Oct 2019 10:41 UTC
117 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Why do so­cial move­ments fail: Two con­crete ex­am­ples.

NunoSempere4 Oct 2019 19:56 UTC
102 points
16 comments8 min readEA link

EA Ho­tel Fundraiser 5: Out of run­way!

CEEALAR25 Oct 2019 14:16 UTC
98 points
90 comments1 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing Fish Welfare Initiative

TomBill8 Oct 2019 17:38 UTC
94 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

Tech­ni­cal AGI safety re­search out­side AI

richard_ngo18 Oct 2019 15:02 UTC
91 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Altru­is­tic equity allocation

Paul_Christiano16 Oct 2019 5:54 UTC
85 points
5 comments7 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: Au­gust 2019 grant recommendations

Habryka3 Oct 2019 18:46 UTC
79 points
70 comments64 min readEA link

Re­view of ITN Critiques

DirectedEvolution9 Oct 2019 8:27 UTC
76 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

Would a re­duc­tion in the num­ber of owned cats out­doors in Canada and the US in­crease an­i­mal welfare?

kcudding25 Oct 2019 19:14 UTC
74 points
6 comments50 min readEA link

The Fu­ture of Earn­ing to Give

PeterMcCluskey13 Oct 2019 21:28 UTC
70 points
34 comments11 min readEA link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

Is pain just a sig­nal to en­list al­tru­ists?

Ben_West1 Oct 2019 21:25 UTC
66 points
10 comments4 min readEA link

Only a few peo­ple de­cide about fund­ing for com­mu­nity builders world-wide

JanB22 Oct 2019 20:52 UTC
65 points
24 comments1 min readEA link

The Last Decade: 10 Things We Got Right & Wrong

GiveDirectly22 Oct 2019 1:21 UTC
65 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

Altru­ism Coach

raypsyd2 Oct 2019 21:12 UTC
62 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Notes on ‘Atomic Ob­ses­sion’ (2009)

lukeprog26 Oct 2019 0:30 UTC
62 points
16 comments8 min readEA link

EA Com­mu­nity Build­ing Grants—Re­cent Grants Made and Changes to the Ap­pli­ca­tion Pro­cess

Harri Besceli7 Oct 2019 11:28 UTC
62 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

An up­date on plans for EAGx 2020

KatieGlass25 Oct 2019 10:29 UTC
60 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Schu­bert, Cavi­ola & Faber, ‘The Psy­chol­ogy of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk’

Pablo22 Oct 2019 12:41 UTC
50 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(dx.doi.org)

In­tro­duc­ing Fore­told.io: A New Open-Source Pre­dic­tion Registry

Ozzie Gooen16 Oct 2019 14:47 UTC
48 points
5 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Will MacAskill on his ‘Eat That Elephant’ rou­tine, learn­ing from suc­cess­ful peo­ple, and the diminish­ing marginal re­turns of time spent work­ing [blog cross-post]

lynettebye9 Oct 2019 18:40 UTC
43 points
4 comments13 min readEA link

Who runs the Fo­rum?

JP Addison14 Oct 2019 15:35 UTC
42 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

EA Art: Neu­ral Style Trans­fer Portraits

Ben_West3 Oct 2019 1:37 UTC
42 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Link] “How fea­si­ble is long-range fore­cast­ing?” (Open Phil)

Milan_Griffes11 Oct 2019 21:01 UTC
42 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Publi­ca­tion of Stu­art Rus­sell’s new book on AI safety—re­views needed

Caro8 Oct 2019 5:29 UTC
40 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Defend­ing Philan­thropy Against Democracy

Cullen6 Oct 2019 7:20 UTC
40 points
23 comments5 min readEA link

Un­der­stand­ing and eval­u­at­ing EA’s cause pri­ori­ti­sa­tion methodology

MichaelPlant14 Oct 2019 19:55 UTC
39 points
2 comments19 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and In­ter­na­tional Trade

brb24315 Oct 2019 3:21 UTC
38 points
77 comments5 min readEA link

Defend­ing the Pro­cre­ation Asym­me­try with Con­di­tional Interests

MichaelStJules13 Oct 2019 18:49 UTC
34 points
13 comments8 min readEA link

Re­view of Cli­mate Cost-Effec­tive­ness Analyses

mchr3k20 Oct 2019 20:39 UTC
34 points
17 comments16 min readEA link

Should you fa­mil­iarize your­self with the liter­a­ture be­fore writ­ing an EA Fo­rum post?

John_Maxwell6 Oct 2019 23:17 UTC
33 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: Septem­ber 2019

Aaron Gertler10 Oct 2019 10:05 UTC
33 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Sum­mary of Stu­art Rus­sell’s new book, “Hu­man Com­pat­i­ble”

Rohin Shah19 Oct 2019 19:56 UTC
33 points
1 comment16 min readEA link
(www.alignmentforum.org)

Does the US nu­clear policy still tar­get cities?

Jeffrey Ladish2 Oct 2019 17:46 UTC
32 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

At­tempt at un­der­stand­ing the role of moral philos­o­phy in moral progress

alexhill28 Oct 2019 16:32 UTC
32 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Why did MyGiv­ing need to be re­placed? And why is the Effec­tiveAltru­ism.org re­place­ment so bad?

Holly_Elmore4 Oct 2019 19:35 UTC
31 points
25 comments1 min readEA link

List of EA-re­lated email newsletters

Aaron Gertler9 Oct 2019 9:51 UTC
30 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Do­ing Global Pri­ori­ties or AI Policy re­search from re­mote lo­ca­tion?

With Love from Israel29 Oct 2019 9:34 UTC
30 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Be the Match: a vol­un­teer list for bone mar­row donation

Evan Rysdam27 Oct 2019 5:44 UTC
29 points
30 comments1 min readEA link

Up­dated Cli­mate Change Prob­lem Profile

mchr3k7 Oct 2019 15:47 UTC
28 points
13 comments15 min readEA link

[Question] Re­mote lo­cal group lead­ers?

Denkenberger13 Oct 2019 21:43 UTC
27 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Jeff Sebo: A util­i­tar­ian case for an­i­mal rights

EA Global18 Oct 2019 18:05 UTC
26 points
1 comment14 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Reflec­tions on EA Global Lon­don 2019 (Mri­nank Sharma)

Aaron Gertler29 Oct 2019 23:00 UTC
26 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(mrinanksharma.github.io)

[Question] What are your top pa­pers of the 2010s?

Tessa22 Oct 2019 22:08 UTC
25 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

[Link] “Progress Up­date Oc­to­ber 2019” (Ought)

Milan_Griffes29 Oct 2019 21:34 UTC
25 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

A Bizarre Baraza: Why One Village Re­fused Funds — Then Changed Its Mind

GiveDirectly24 Oct 2019 7:00 UTC
24 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

[Question] How wor­ried should I be about a child­less Dis­ney­land?

Will Bradshaw28 Oct 2019 15:32 UTC
24 points
8 comments1 min readEA link