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

EA applicant26 Feb 2019 5:53 UTC
399 points
184 comments4 min readEA link

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

Julia_Wise🔸20 Feb 2019 1:08 UTC
294 points
28 comments2 min readEA link

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

bgarfinkel9 Feb 2019 19:17 UTC
128 points
20 comments18 min readEA link

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

alex lawsen21 Feb 2019 13:38 UTC
126 points
32 comments8 min readEA link

Will com­pa­nies meet their an­i­mal welfare com­mit­ments?

saulius1 Feb 2019 10:24 UTC
116 points
23 comments12 min readEA link

Ro­dents farmed for pet snake food

saulius20 Feb 2019 19:54 UTC
83 points
19 comments20 min readEA link

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

kokotajlod15 Feb 2019 19:14 UTC
79 points
14 comments21 min readEA link

Quan­tify­ing an­thropic effects on the Fermi paradox

Lukas Finnveden15 Feb 2019 10:47 UTC
72 points
4 comments41 min readEA link

Small an­i­mals have enor­mous brains for their size

eukaryote13 Feb 2019 5:12 UTC
71 points
7 comments2 min readEA link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

EA Sur­vey 2018 Series: Geo­graphic Differ­ences in EA

Neil_Dullaghan🔹 18 Feb 2019 23:34 UTC
68 points
5 comments7 min readEA link

EA Ho­tel Fundraiser 2: Cur­rent guests and their projects

Greg_Colbourn4 Feb 2019 20:41 UTC
66 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

Effec­tive Im­pact Investing

grissman27 Feb 2019 18:07 UTC
62 points
35 comments6 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing GPI’s new re­search agenda

Global Priorities Institute15 Feb 2019 17:11 UTC
60 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

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

Brendon_Wong23 Feb 2019 12:24 UTC
57 points
18 comments13 min readEA link

The Nar­row­ing Cir­cle (Gw­ern)

Aaron Gertler 🔸11 Feb 2019 23:50 UTC
51 points
17 comments5 min readEA link

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

Robert_Wiblin1 Feb 2019 18:56 UTC
51 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

How GiveWell’s Re­search is Evolving

GiveWell9 Feb 2019 1:17 UTC
47 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

Joey Savoie: Char­ity Entrepreneurship

EA Global22 Feb 2019 15:44 UTC
42 points
0 comments20 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

You Should Write a Fo­rum Bio

Aaron Gertler 🔸1 Feb 2019 3:32 UTC
41 points
58 comments2 min readEA link

Ma­jor Dona­tion: Long Term Fu­ture Fund Ap­pli­ca­tion Ex­tended 1 Week

Habryka16 Feb 2019 23:28 UTC
41 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Three Bi­ases That Made Me Believe in AI Risk

beth​13 Feb 2019 23:22 UTC
41 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

Risk fac­tors for s-risks

Tobias_Baumann13 Feb 2019 17:51 UTC
40 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(s-risks.org)

Pre-an­nounce­ment and call for feed­back: Oper­a­tions Camp 2019

Jørgen Ljønes🔸19 Feb 2019 17:16 UTC
39 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

Im­pact Prizes as an al­ter­na­tive to Cer­tifi­cates of Impact

Ozzie Gooen20 Feb 2019 21:25 UTC
39 points
17 comments7 min readEA link

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

ozymandias22 Feb 2019 16:10 UTC
37 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(thingofthings.wordpress.com)

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

David_Moss11 Feb 2019 6:05 UTC
34 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2018 Series: Group Membership

David_Moss11 Feb 2019 6:04 UTC
34 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Ar­gu­ments for moral indefinability

richard_ngo8 Feb 2019 11:09 UTC
34 points
8 comments7 min readEA link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

EA Bos­ton 2018 Year in Review

Taymon5 Feb 2019 20:15 UTC
33 points
8 comments12 min readEA link

Con­fused about AI re­search as a means of ad­dress­ing AI risk

Eli Rose21 Feb 2019 0:07 UTC
31 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

EA grants available to in­di­vi­d­u­als (cross­post from LessWrong)

Jameson Quinn7 Feb 2019 15:23 UTC
31 points
13 comments3 min readEA link

EA Fo­rum Prize: Win­ners for Jan­uary 2019

Aaron Gertler 🔸22 Feb 2019 22:27 UTC
30 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

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

EA Global26 Feb 2019 15:51 UTC
30 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

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

Ben Kuhn23 Feb 2019 14:22 UTC
28 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

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

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

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

MichaelDickens3 Feb 2019 1:11 UTC
27 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

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

Denkenberger🔸19 Feb 2019 15:58 UTC
27 points
1 comment15 min readEA link

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

kbog15 Feb 2019 15:17 UTC
26 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

FHI Re­port: Stable Agree­ments in Tur­bu­lent Times

Cullen 🔸21 Feb 2019 17:12 UTC
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

kbog13 Feb 2019 10:35 UTC
24 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

Hit Based Giv­ing for Global Development

DavidNash6 Feb 2019 18:19 UTC
24 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Tech vol­un­teer­ing: mar­ket failure?

matthewp17 Feb 2019 16:51 UTC
22 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

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

jonathancourtney8 Feb 2019 23:51 UTC
21 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

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

Max_Carpendale4 Feb 2019 13:51 UTC
21 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

What we talk about when we talk about life satisfaction

Milan_Griffes4 Feb 2019 23:51 UTC
20 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

Are there more pa­pers on dung bee­tles than hu­man ex­tinc­tion?

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

An­nounc­ing a call for grant ap­pli­cants in South­east Asia and Bangladesh

GiveWell14 Feb 2019 20:47 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

ozymandias20 Feb 2019 16:10 UTC
18 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(thingofthings.wordpress.com)

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

TomBill1 Feb 2019 20:17 UTC
17 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

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

qfrerichs26 Feb 2019 5:53 UTC
17 points
1 comment2 min readEA link