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

Aaron Gertler 🔸12 Dec 2019 21:04 UTC
27 points
2 comments12 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

We’re Re­think Pri­ori­ties. AMA.

Peter Wildeford12 Dec 2019 16:09 UTC
91 points
126 comments2 min readEA link

Com­mu­nity vs Network

DavidNash12 Dec 2019 14:04 UTC
130 points
15 comments3 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)

EA Fo­rum Prize: Win­ners for Oc­to­ber 2019

Aaron Gertler 🔸11 Dec 2019 10:37 UTC
23 points
4 comments3 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

[Question] Is cap­i­tal­ism a sus­tain­able de­sign?

asemakula10 Dec 2019 6:10 UTC
−7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Manag­ing risk in the EA policy space

weeatquince9 Dec 2019 13:32 UTC
89 points
7 comments13 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

EA Meta Fund Novem­ber 2019 Pay­out Report

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

MIRI’s 2019 Fundraiser

Malo7 Dec 2019 0:30 UTC
19 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

A library of sci­en­tific refer­ences rele­vant to welfare biology

Animal_Ethics6 Dec 2019 14:24 UTC
21 points
0 comments1 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 comments32 min readEA link

Are Hu­mans ‘Hu­man Com­pat­i­ble’?

Matt Boyd6 Dec 2019 5:49 UTC
23 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2019 Series: Com­mu­nity De­mo­graph­ics & Characteristics

Neil_Dullaghan🔹 5 Dec 2019 20:25 UTC
75 points
9 comments9 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the Sen­tience In­sti­tute Podcast

Jamie_Harris5 Dec 2019 18:12 UTC
22 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

How do cash trans­fers im­pact the peo­ple who don’t re­ceive them?

GiveDirectly4 Dec 2019 12:10 UTC
14 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

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)

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

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

[Link] EA Global 2020 an­nounced (CEA)

Milan_Griffes3 Dec 2019 19:31 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 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

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter, fall 2019

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

Car­bon Offsets as an Non-Altru­is­tic Expense

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

Men­tal Health Re­source Recommendations

Danica_Wilbanks2 Dec 2019 22:30 UTC
23 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties 2019 Im­pact and Strategy

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

Ac­cu­racy is­sues in FAO an­i­mal numbers

saulius2 Dec 2019 14:56 UTC
62 points
2 comments14 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the 2019-20 Donor Lottery

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

A col­lec­tion of re­searchy pro­jects for Aspiring EAs

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

[Question] Why do planet & so­ciety set­tle for dona­tions yet they in­vest in wealth cre­ation?

asemakula2 Dec 2019 5:45 UTC
−5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[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

An­nounc­ing our 2019 top charities

GiveWell1 Dec 2019 12:03 UTC
14 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

[Question] What is EA’s story?

Milan_Griffes30 Nov 2019 21:45 UTC
20 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Ryan Carey on how to tran­si­tion from be­ing a soft­ware en­g­ineer to a re­search en­g­ineer at an AI safety team

lynettebye30 Nov 2019 17:41 UTC
38 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

Pre­dic­tion: The long and the short of it

Global Priorities Institute30 Nov 2019 14:32 UTC
3 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

The In­di­vi­d­ual and the Bathwater

Tom_Beggs29 Nov 2019 14:17 UTC
51 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

EA Up­dates for Novem­ber 2019

DavidNash29 Nov 2019 13:15 UTC
37 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Eight high-level un­cer­tain­ties about global catas­trophic and ex­is­ten­tial risk

SiebeRozendal28 Nov 2019 14:47 UTC
85 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

How to Sur­vive the End of the Universe

avturchin28 Nov 2019 12:40 UTC
54 points
11 comments33 min readEA link

Pos­si­ble way of re­duc­ing great power war prob­a­bil­ity?

Denkenberger🔸28 Nov 2019 4:27 UTC
33 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

[Link] “Sta­tus in aca­demic ethics” (Charles Foster)

Milan_Griffes27 Nov 2019 23:20 UTC
18 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

80,000 Hours is com­piling anony­mous ad­vice from peo­ple whose work we re­spect — here are the first 4 entries

80000_Hours27 Nov 2019 18:50 UTC
32 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Link] “Art as the start­ing point” (Au­to­translu­cence)

Milan_Griffes27 Nov 2019 17:10 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

A list of EA-re­lated podcasts

M_Allcock27 Nov 2019 15:57 UTC
105 points
51 comments3 min readEA link

[Link] A new char­ity eval­u­a­tor (NYTimes)

Milan_Griffes26 Nov 2019 22:44 UTC
18 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Did For­tify Health re­ceive $1 mil­lion from EA Funds?

HStencil26 Nov 2019 18:41 UTC
17 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

A cor­rected model sug­gests cli­mate change in­ter­ven­tions may be within a fac­tor of two of di­rect cash transfers

cole_haus26 Nov 2019 0:19 UTC
32 points
9 comments8 min readEA link
(www.col-ex.org)

Kotlikoff et al., ‘Mak­ing Car­bon Tax­a­tion a Gen­er­a­tional Win Win’

Matt_Lerner24 Nov 2019 16:27 UTC
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

EA Giv­ing Tues­day, Dec 3, 2019: In­struc­tions for Donors

WilliamKiely24 Nov 2019 4:02 UTC
46 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Are com­ment “dis­claimers” nec­es­sary?

Pablo23 Nov 2019 22:47 UTC
60 points
9 comments1 min readEA link