Thoughts on do­ing good through non-stan­dard EA ca­reer pathways

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

2019 AI Align­ment Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

Larks19 Dec 2019 2:58 UTC
147 points
28 comments64 min readEA link

Com­mu­nity vs Network

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

Pur­chase fuzzies and utilons separately

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

Ge­netic En­hance­ment as a Cause Area

Galton25 Dec 2019 11:30 UTC
104 points
20 comments12 min readEA link

Will the Treaty on the Pro­hi­bi­tion of Nu­clear Weapons af­fect nu­clear de­pro­lifer­a­tion through le­gal chan­nels?

Luisa_Rodriguez6 Dec 2019 10:38 UTC
100 points
5 comments30 min readEA link

We’re Re­think Pri­ori­ties. AMA.

Peter Wildeford12 Dec 2019 16:09 UTC
91 points
126 comments3 min readEA link

I’m Michelle Hutch­in­son, head of ad­vis­ing at 80,000 Hours, AMA

Michelle_Hutchinson4 Dec 2019 10:53 UTC
90 points
57 comments1 min readEA link

Manag­ing risk in the EA policy space

weeatquince9 Dec 2019 13:32 UTC
89 points
7 comments13 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Foun­da­tion: Plans for 2020

Jonas V23 Dec 2019 11:51 UTC
82 points
13 comments14 min readEA link

Is mind­ful­ness good for you?

John G. Halstead29 Dec 2019 20:01 UTC
76 points
13 comments7 min readEA link

Up­dated es­ti­mates of the sever­ity of a nu­clear war

Luisa_Rodriguez19 Dec 2019 15:11 UTC
76 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

When To Find More In­for­ma­tion: A Short Explanation

Davidmanheim28 Dec 2019 18:00 UTC
76 points
14 comments3 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2019 Series: Com­mu­nity De­mo­graph­ics & Characteristics

Neil_Dullaghan5 Dec 2019 20:25 UTC
75 points
9 comments9 min readEA link

An­nounce­ment: early ap­pli­ca­tions for Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship’s 2020 In­cu­ba­tion Pro­gram are now open!

Joey16 Dec 2019 9:32 UTC
72 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties 2019 Im­pact and Strategy

Peter Wildeford2 Dec 2019 16:32 UTC
72 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

Where are you donat­ing this year and why – in 2019? Open thread for dis­cus­sion.

weeatquince11 Dec 2019 0:57 UTC
69 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

How fre­quently do ACE and Open Phil agree about an­i­mal char­i­ties?

Ben_West17 Dec 2019 23:56 UTC
66 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

EA Hub’s new features

Michal_Trzesimiech28 Dec 2019 12:19 UTC
64 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

8 things I be­lieve about cli­mate change

Linch28 Dec 2019 3:02 UTC
64 points
48 comments1 min readEA link

Ac­cu­racy is­sues in FAO an­i­mal numbers

saulius2 Dec 2019 14:56 UTC
62 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

[Part 1] Am­plify­ing gen­er­al­ist re­search via fore­cast­ing – mod­els of im­pact and challenges

jacobjacob19 Dec 2019 18:16 UTC
60 points
2 comments17 min readEA link

Quote from Strangers Drowning

Ben_West23 Dec 2019 3:49 UTC
60 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

More info on EA Global admissions

Julia_Wise23 Dec 2019 20:20 UTC
56 points
39 comments3 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the 2019-20 Donor Lottery

SamDeere2 Dec 2019 13:56 UTC
52 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Funds Pro­ject Updates

SamDeere20 Dec 2019 22:23 UTC
46 points
36 comments6 min readEA link

How to in­crease your odds of start­ing a ca­reer in char­ity entrepreneurship

Kat Woods3 Dec 2019 17:40 UTC
45 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

New re­search on moral weights

GiveWell4 Dec 2019 11:57 UTC
42 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

An­nounc­ing our 2019 char­ity recommendations

Animal Charity Evaluators4 Dec 2019 11:56 UTC
41 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(animalcharityevaluators.org)

EA Meta Fund Novem­ber 2019 Pay­out Report

SamDeere7 Dec 2019 16:32 UTC
40 points
14 comments7 min readEA link
(app.effectivealtruism.org)

A col­lec­tion of re­searchy pro­jects for Aspiring EAs

EdoArad2 Dec 2019 11:14 UTC
40 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

But ex­actly how com­plex and frag­ile?

Katja_Grace13 Dec 2019 7:05 UTC
37 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(meteuphoric.com)

[Question] What is EA opinion on The Bul­letin of the Atomic Scien­tists?

VPetukhov2 Dec 2019 5:45 UTC
36 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing Pest Man­age­ment for Wild In­sect Welfare

Wild_Animal_Initiative26 Dec 2019 17:47 UTC
35 points
1 comment33 min readEA link

Learn­ing to ask ac­tion-rele­vant questions

Ronja_Lutz28 Dec 2019 19:26 UTC
34 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Should we use wiki to im­prove knowl­edge man­age­ment within the com­mu­nity?

VPetukhov8 Dec 2019 23:30 UTC
32 points
26 comments1 min readEA link

Pod­cast: Mar­cus Davis on Nu­clear War, In­ver­te­brate Sen­tience, Foun­da­tional Re­search, & the De­mo­graph­ics of Effec­tive Altru­ism

Garrison13 Dec 2019 15:48 UTC
32 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: Novem­ber 2019

Aaron Gertler18 Dec 2019 10:39 UTC
32 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

[Part 2] Am­plify­ing gen­er­al­ist re­search via fore­cast­ing – re­sults from a pre­limi­nary exploration

jacobjacob19 Dec 2019 16:36 UTC
32 points
1 comment15 min readEA link

[Question] What ever hap­pened to PETRL (Peo­ple for the Eth­i­cal Treat­ment of Re­in­force­ment Learn­ers)?

matthew.vandermerwe30 Dec 2019 17:28 UTC
32 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Peter Singer on the 80K podcast

Jon_Behar18 Dec 2019 17:17 UTC
31 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

[Question] Brief sum­mary of key dis­agree­ments in AI Risk

Aryeh Englander26 Dec 2019 19:40 UTC
31 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Novem­ber 2019 An­i­mal Welfare Fund Pay­out Report

SamDeere11 Dec 2019 19:06 UTC
31 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(app.effectivealtruism.org)

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter, fall 2019

avturchin3 Dec 2019 17:01 UTC
27 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

80,000 Hours: Bad habits among peo­ple try­ing to im­prove the world

Aaron Gertler12 Dec 2019 21:04 UTC
27 points
2 comments12 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

[Link] We run the Cen­ter for Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity, AMA

Adam_Scholl20 Dec 2019 9:51 UTC
27 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Dy­lan Matthews: The case for car­ing about the year 3000

Pablo18 Dec 2019 1:07 UTC
27 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Tak­ing ad­van­tage of cli­mate change con­cerns to chan­nel dona­tions to EA-recom­mended or­ga­ni­za­tions at low marginal cost (pro­posal and call for more re­search)

ianps19 Dec 2019 14:06 UTC
26 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

[Link] CFAR: Progress Re­port & Fu­ture Plans

Adam_Scholl20 Dec 2019 9:48 UTC
26 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Car­bon Offsets as an Non-Altru­is­tic Expense

Davidmanheim3 Dec 2019 11:38 UTC
25 points
7 comments2 min readEA link