Real­ity is of­ten underpowered

Gregory Lewis🔸Oct 10, 2019, 1:14 PM
236 points
17 comments5 min readEA link

Shap­ley val­ues: Bet­ter than counterfactuals

NunoSempereOct 10, 2019, 10:26 AM
159 points
62 comments15 min readEA link

The ITN frame­work, cost-effec­tive­ness, and cause prioritisation

John G. HalsteadOct 6, 2019, 5:26 AM
145 points
20 comments14 min readEA link

Effec­tive An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Resources

sauliusOct 24, 2019, 10:41 AM
123 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

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

Hauke HillebrandtOct 2, 2019, 8:36 AM
119 points
44 comments16 min readEA link

Why do so­cial move­ments fail: Two con­crete ex­am­ples.

NunoSempereOct 4, 2019, 7:56 PM
104 points
16 comments8 min readEA link

EA Ho­tel Fundraiser 5: Out of run­way!

CEEALAROct 25, 2019, 2:16 PM
98 points
90 comments1 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing Fish Welfare Initiative

Tom BillingtonOct 8, 2019, 5:38 PM
94 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

Tech­ni­cal AGI safety re­search out­side AI

richard_ngoOct 18, 2019, 3:02 PM
91 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Altru­is­tic equity allocation

Paul_ChristianoOct 16, 2019, 5:54 AM
85 points
5 comments7 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: Au­gust 2019 grant recommendations

Habryka [Deactivated]Oct 3, 2019, 6:46 PM
79 points
70 comments64 min readEA link

Re­view of ITN Critiques

DirectedEvolutionOct 9, 2019, 8:27 AM
77 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

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

kcuddingOct 25, 2019, 7:14 PM
74 points
6 comments49 min readEA link

Is pain just a sig­nal to en­list al­tru­ists?

Ben_West🔸Oct 1, 2019, 9:25 PM
73 points
10 comments4 min readEA link

The Fu­ture of Earn­ing to Give

PeterMcCluskeyOct 13, 2019, 9:28 PM
70 points
34 comments10 min readEA link
(www.bayesianinvestor.com)

The Last Decade: 10 Things We Got Right & Wrong

GiveDirectlyOct 22, 2019, 1:21 AM
65 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

Notes on ‘Atomic Ob­ses­sion’ (2009)

lukeprogOct 26, 2019, 12:30 AM
62 points
16 comments8 min readEA link

Altru­ism Coach

raypsydOct 2, 2019, 9:12 PM
62 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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

Harri BesceliOct 7, 2019, 11:28 AM
62 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

An up­date on plans for EAGx 2020

KatieGlassOct 25, 2019, 10:29 AM
60 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

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

PabloOct 22, 2019, 12:41 PM
50 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(dx.doi.org)

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

Ozzie GooenOct 16, 2019, 2:47 PM
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]

lynettebyeOct 9, 2019, 6:40 PM
43 points
4 comments13 min readEA link

Who runs the Fo­rum?

JP Addison🔸Oct 14, 2019, 3:35 PM
42 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

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

Milan GriffesOct 11, 2019, 9:01 PM
42 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

EA Art: Neu­ral Style Trans­fer Portraits

Ben_West🔸Oct 3, 2019, 1:37 AM
42 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Defend­ing Philan­thropy Against Democracy

Cullen 🔸Oct 6, 2019, 7:20 AM
40 points
23 comments5 min readEA link

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

CaroOct 8, 2019, 5:29 AM
40 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Un­der­stand­ing and eval­u­at­ing EA’s cause pri­ori­ti­sa­tion methodology

MichaelPlantOct 14, 2019, 7:55 PM
39 points
2 comments19 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and In­ter­na­tional Trade

brb243Oct 15, 2019, 3:21 AM
38 points
77 comments5 min readEA link

Re­view of Cli­mate Cost-Effec­tive­ness Analyses

mchr3kOct 20, 2019, 8:39 PM
36 points
17 comments15 min readEA link

Defend­ing the Pro­cre­ation Asym­me­try with Con­di­tional Interests

MichaelStJulesOct 13, 2019, 6:49 PM
34 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

At­tempt at un­der­stand­ing the role of moral philos­o­phy in moral progress

alexhillOct 28, 2019, 4:32 PM
34 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

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

John_MaxwellOct 6, 2019, 11:17 PM
33 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: Septem­ber 2019

Aaron Gertler 🔸Oct 10, 2019, 10:05 AM
33 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

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

Rohin ShahOct 19, 2019, 7:56 PM
33 points
1 comment15 min readEA link
(www.alignmentforum.org)

Does the US nu­clear policy still tar­get cities?

Jeffrey LadishOct 2, 2019, 5:46 PM
32 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

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

Will BradshawOct 28, 2019, 3:32 PM
31 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

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

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸Oct 4, 2019, 7:35 PM
31 points
25 comments1 min readEA link

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

With Love from IsraelOct 29, 2019, 9:34 AM
30 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

List of EA-re­lated email newsletters

Aaron Gertler 🔸Oct 9, 2019, 9:51 AM
30 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Be the Match: a vol­un­teer list for bone mar­row donation

Evan RysdamOct 27, 2019, 5:44 AM
29 points
30 comments1 min readEA link

Jeff Sebo: A util­i­tar­ian case for an­i­mal rights

EA GlobalOct 18, 2019, 6:05 PM
29 points
1 comment14 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Up­dated Cli­mate Change Prob­lem Profile

mchr3kOct 7, 2019, 3:47 PM
28 points
13 comments15 min readEA link

[Question] Re­mote lo­cal group lead­ers?

Denkenberger🔸Oct 13, 2019, 9:43 PM
27 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on EA Global Lon­don 2019 (Mri­nank Sharma)

Aaron Gertler 🔸Oct 29, 2019, 11:00 PM
26 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(mrinanksharma.github.io)

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

Tessa A 🔸Oct 22, 2019, 10:08 PM
25 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

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

Milan GriffesOct 29, 2019, 9:34 PM
25 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

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

GiveDirectlyOct 24, 2019, 7:00 AM
24 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

[Link] “One year of Fu­ture Perfect” (Vox)

Milan GriffesOct 15, 2019, 6:12 PM
24 points
0 comments2 min readEA link