After one year of ap­ply­ing for EA jobs: It is re­ally, re­ally hard to get hired by an EA organisation

EA applicantFeb 26, 2019, 5:53 AM
407 points
184 comments4 min readEA link

You have more than one goal, and that’s fine

Julia_Wise🔸Feb 20, 2019, 1:08 AM
308 points
28 comments2 min readEA link

Ben Garfinkel: How sure are we about this AI stuff?

bgarfinkelFeb 9, 2019, 7:17 PM
128 points
20 comments18 min readEA link

Can the EA com­mu­nity copy Teach for Amer­ica? (Look­ing for Task Y)

alex lawsenFeb 21, 2019, 1:38 PM
126 points
32 comments8 min readEA link

Will com­pa­nies meet their an­i­mal welfare com­mit­ments?

sauliusFeb 1, 2019, 10:24 AM
116 points
23 comments12 min readEA link

Ro­dents farmed for pet snake food

sauliusFeb 20, 2019, 7:54 PM
87 points
19 comments20 min readEA link

Ev­i­dence on good fore­cast­ing prac­tices from the Good Judg­ment Pro­ject: an ac­com­pa­ny­ing blog post

kokotajlodFeb 15, 2019, 7:14 PM
79 points
14 comments21 min readEA link

Small an­i­mals have enor­mous brains for their size

eukaryoteFeb 13, 2019, 5:12 AM
75 points
7 comments2 min readEA link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Quan­tify­ing an­thropic effects on the Fermi paradox

Lukas FinnvedenFeb 15, 2019, 10:47 AM
72 points
4 comments41 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2018 Series: Geo­graphic Differ­ences in EA

Neil_Dullaghan🔹 Feb 18, 2019, 11:34 PM
68 points
5 comments7 min readEA link

EA Ho­tel Fundraiser 2: Cur­rent guests and their projects

Greg_Colbourn ⏸️ Feb 4, 2019, 8:41 PM
66 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

Effec­tive Im­pact Investing

grissmanFeb 27, 2019, 6:07 PM
62 points
35 comments6 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing GPI’s new re­search agenda

Global Priorities InstituteFeb 15, 2019, 5:11 PM
60 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

EAs and EA Orgs Should Move Cash from Low-In­ter­est to High-In­ter­est Options

Brendon_WongFeb 23, 2019, 12:24 PM
57 points
18 comments13 min readEA link

The Nar­row­ing Cir­cle (Gw­ern)

Aaron Gertler 🔸Feb 11, 2019, 11:50 PM
52 points
17 comments5 min readEA link

My pos­i­tive ex­pe­rience tak­ing the an­tide­pres­sant Wel­lbutrin /​ Bupro­pion, & why maybe you should try it too

Robert_WiblinFeb 1, 2019, 6:56 PM
51 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

How GiveWell’s Re­search is Evolving

GiveWellFeb 9, 2019, 1:17 AM
47 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

Joey Savoie: Char­ity Entrepreneurship

EA GlobalFeb 22, 2019, 3:44 PM
42 points
0 comments20 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

You Should Write a Fo­rum Bio

Aaron Gertler 🔸Feb 1, 2019, 3:32 AM
42 points
58 comments2 min readEA link

Ma­jor Dona­tion: Long Term Fu­ture Fund Ap­pli­ca­tion Ex­tended 1 Week

Habryka [Deactivated]Feb 16, 2019, 11:28 PM
41 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Three Bi­ases That Made Me Believe in AI Risk

beth​Feb 13, 2019, 11:22 PM
41 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

Risk fac­tors for s-risks

Tobias_BaumannFeb 13, 2019, 5:51 PM
40 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(s-risks.org)

Pre-an­nounce­ment and call for feed­back: Oper­a­tions Camp 2019

Jørgen Ljønes🔸Feb 19, 2019, 5:16 PM
39 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

Im­pact Prizes as an al­ter­na­tive to Cer­tifi­cates of Impact

Ozzie GooenFeb 20, 2019, 9:25 PM
39 points
17 comments7 min readEA link

Bounty: Guide To Switch­ing From Farmed Fish To Wild-Caught Fish

ozymandiasFeb 22, 2019, 4:10 PM
38 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(thingofthings.wordpress.com)

EA Sur­vey 2018 Series: Where Peo­ple First Hear About EA and In­fluences on Involvement

David_MossFeb 11, 2019, 6:05 AM
34 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2018 Series: Group Membership

David_MossFeb 11, 2019, 6:04 AM
34 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Ar­gu­ments for moral indefinability

richard_ngoFeb 8, 2019, 11:09 AM
34 points
8 comments7 min readEA link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

EA Bos­ton 2018 Year in Review

TaymonFeb 5, 2019, 8:15 PM
33 points
8 comments12 min readEA link

Con­fused about AI re­search as a means of ad­dress­ing AI risk

Eli RoseFeb 21, 2019, 12:07 AM
31 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

EA grants available to in­di­vi­d­u­als (cross­post from LessWrong)

Jameson QuinnFeb 7, 2019, 3:23 PM
31 points
13 comments3 min readEA link

EA Fo­rum Prize: Win­ners for Jan­uary 2019

Aaron Gertler 🔸Feb 22, 2019, 10:27 PM
30 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Os­car Horta: Pro­mot­ing Welfare Biol­ogy as the Study of Wild An­i­mal Suffering

EA GlobalFeb 26, 2019, 3:51 PM
30 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] Has your “EA wor­ld­view” changed over time? How and why?

Ben KuhnFeb 23, 2019, 2:22 PM
28 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are some lists of open ques­tions in effec­tive al­tru­ism?

Aaron Gertler 🔸Feb 5, 2019, 2:23 AM
28 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

How Can Donors In­cen­tivize Good Pre­dic­tions on Im­por­tant but Un­pop­u­lar Topics?

MichaelDickensFeb 3, 2019, 1:11 AM
27 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

David Denken­berger: Loss of In­dus­trial Civ­i­liza­tion and Re­cov­ery (Work­shop)

Denkenberger🔸Feb 19, 2019, 3:58 PM
27 points
1 comment15 min readEA link

kbog did an oop­sie! (new meat eater prob­lem num­bers)

kbogFeb 15, 2019, 3:17 PM
26 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

FHI Re­port: Stable Agree­ments in Tur­bu­lent Times

Cullen 🔸Feb 21, 2019, 5:12 PM
25 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(www.fhi.ox.ac.uk)

A sys­tem for scor­ing poli­ti­cal can­di­dates. RFC (re­quest for com­ments) on method­ol­ogy and positions

kbogFeb 13, 2019, 10:35 AM
24 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

Hit Based Giv­ing for Global Development

DavidNashFeb 6, 2019, 6:19 PM
24 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Tech vol­un­teer­ing: mar­ket failure?

matthewpFeb 17, 2019, 4:51 PM
22 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Fund­ing Pro­posal: Sup­port­ing a Cam­paign to In­crease Cana­dian Offi­cial Devel­op­ment As­sis­tance

jonathancourtneyFeb 8, 2019, 11:51 PM
21 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

Sharks prob­a­bly do feel pain: a re­ply to Michael Tye and others

Max_CarpendaleFeb 4, 2019, 1:51 PM
21 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

What we talk about when we talk about life satisfaction

Milan GriffesFeb 4, 2019, 11:51 PM
20 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

Are there more pa­pers on dung bee­tles than hu­man ex­tinc­tion?

Aaron Gertler 🔸Feb 5, 2019, 2:09 AM
19 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing a call for grant ap­pli­cants in South­east Asia and Bangladesh

GiveWellFeb 14, 2019, 8:47 PM
19 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Open Thread: What’s The Se­cond-Best Cause?

ozymandiasFeb 20, 2019, 4:10 PM
18 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(thingofthings.wordpress.com)

Pod­cast Dis­cus­sion Meet­ings—A Po­ten­tially High-Value Event Tem­plate For Lo­cal Groups

Tom BillingtonFeb 1, 2019, 8:17 PM
17 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

De­liber­a­tive Pol­ling-A Bet­ter Way to Gauge Public Opinion on AGI

qfrerichsFeb 26, 2019, 5:53 AM
17 points
1 comment2 min readEA link