On “fringe” ideas

Kelsey PiperAug 19, 2019, 7:00 AM
271 points
7 comments5 min readEA link
(theunitofcaring.tumblr.com)

List of ways in which cost-effec­tive­ness es­ti­mates can be misleading

sauliusAug 20, 2019, 6:05 PM
236 points
37 comments13 min readEA link

Log­a­r­ith­mic Scales of Plea­sure and Pain: Rat­ing, Rank­ing, and Com­par­ing Peak Ex­pe­riences Suggest the Ex­is­tence of Long Tails for Bliss and Suffering

algekalipsoAug 11, 2019, 3:49 AM
164 points
25 comments41 min readEA link

How to gen­er­ate re­search proposals

Jaime SevillaAug 1, 2019, 4:38 PM
164 points
7 comments8 min readEA link

Ask Me Any­thing!

William_MacAskillAug 14, 2019, 3:52 PM
153 points
138 comments3 min readEA link

The Pos­si­bil­ity of an On­go­ing Mo­ral Catas­tro­phe (Sum­mary)

LinchAug 2, 2019, 9:55 PM
151 points
17 comments4 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Move­ment Col­lapse Scenarios

rebecca_baronAug 27, 2019, 10:07 AM
147 points
33 comments9 min readEA link

Cluster Headache Fre­quency Fol­lows a Long-Tail Distribution

algekalipsoAug 2, 2019, 10:47 PM
98 points
20 comments7 min readEA link

Im­pact Re­port for Effec­tive Altru­ism Coach­ing

lynettebyeAug 6, 2019, 5:41 AM
86 points
13 comments11 min readEA link

A Frame­work for Assess­ing the Po­ten­tial of EA Devel­op­ment in Emerg­ing Locations

jahyingAug 24, 2019, 2:31 PM
86 points
2 comments19 min readEA link

Are China and In­dia the most promis­ing coun­tries for an­i­mal ad­vo­cacy? A sys­tem­atic coun­try comparison

KarolinaSarek🔸Aug 9, 2019, 10:22 AM
74 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

Coun­ter­ing im­poster syndrome

Julia_Wise🔸Aug 28, 2019, 1:55 AM
73 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Progress book recommendations

Daniel MayAug 8, 2019, 8:47 PM
73 points
7 comments16 min readEA link
(danielmamay.github.io)

Key points from The Dead Hand, David E. Hoffman

KitAug 9, 2019, 1:59 PM
71 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

How Life Sciences Ac­tu­ally Work: Find­ings of a Year-Long Investigation

guzeyAug 16, 2019, 7:43 PM
63 points
14 comments23 min readEA link

[Question] Best EA use of $500,000AUD/​$340,000 USD for ba­sic sci­ence?

AspiringPhilanthropistAug 27, 2019, 10:07 AM
59 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

EAGxNordics 2019 Postmortem

Jørgen Ljønes🔸Aug 23, 2019, 9:37 AM
57 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: July 2019

Aaron Gertler 🔸Aug 7, 2019, 1:27 PM
48 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Treat­ing Cluster Headaches Us­ing N,N-DMT and Other Tryptamines

qfrerichsAug 6, 2019, 5:02 AM
43 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Keep­ing ev­ery­one mo­ti­vated: a case for effec­tive ca­reers out­side of the high­est im­pact EA organizations

FJehnAug 22, 2019, 6:43 AM
39 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

The Mo­ral Cir­cle is not a Circle

Grue_SlinkyAug 14, 2019, 5:55 PM
38 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

Cor­po­rate com­mit­ments breakdown

sauliusAug 28, 2019, 4:53 PM
35 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

An overview of ar­gu­ments for con­cern about automation

LintzAAug 6, 2019, 7:56 AM
34 points
3 comments13 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Lon­don Strat­egy 2019

DavidNashAug 22, 2019, 11:16 AM
33 points
10 comments6 min readEA link

The Arete Fellowship

stecasAug 14, 2019, 10:01 PM
33 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

EA-al­igned pod­cast with Lewis Bollard

GarrisonAug 15, 2019, 2:48 PM
32 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

In­ter­view with Michael Tye about in­ver­te­brate consciousness

Max_CarpendaleAug 8, 2019, 10:13 AM
32 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

How to Make Billions of Dol­lars Re­duc­ing Loneliness

John_MaxwellAug 24, 2019, 1:49 AM
31 points
18 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] What types of or­ga­ni­za­tions would be ideal to be dis­tribut­ing fund­ing for EA? (Fel­low­ships, Or­ga­ni­za­tions, etc)

Ozzie GooenAug 4, 2019, 8:38 PM
31 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

How do you, per­son­ally, ex­pe­rience “EA mo­ti­va­tion”?

Aaron Gertler 🔸Aug 16, 2019, 10:04 AM
31 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

Lat­est EA Up­dates for Au­gust 2019

DavidNashAug 30, 2019, 11:35 AM
31 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

[Question] What book(s) would you want a gifted teenager to come across?

alex lawsenAug 5, 2019, 1:39 PM
28 points
59 comments1 min readEA link

AI Fore­cast­ing Re­s­olu­tion Coun­cil (Fore­cast­ing in­fras­truc­ture, part 2)

terraformAug 29, 2019, 5:43 PM
28 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Us­ing Ibo­gaine to Create Friendlier Opioids

qfrerichsAug 6, 2019, 9:31 PM
27 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

AI & Policy 1/​3: On know­ing the effect of to­day’s poli­cies on Trans­for­ma­tive AI risks, and the case for in­sti­tu­tional im­prove­ments.

weeatquinceAug 27, 2019, 11:04 AM
27 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

Strat­egy-de­vel­op­ment for EA groups: Les­sons learned from EA Den­mark

SebastianSchmidtAug 17, 2019, 2:05 PM
27 points
5 comments7 min readEA link

Ex­treme un­cer­tainty in wild an­i­mal welfare re­quires re­silient model-build­ing

Wild_Animal_InitiativeAug 7, 2019, 10:25 PM
26 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

EA Fo­rum Prize: Win­ners for July 2019

Aaron Gertler 🔸Aug 20, 2019, 7:09 AM
24 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Why has poverty wor­ld­wide fallen so lit­tle in re­cent decades out­side China?

richard_ngoAug 7, 2019, 10:24 PM
24 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Cam­paign fi­nance re­form as an EA pri­or­ity?

Milan GriffesAug 30, 2019, 1:46 AM
19 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

ACE Call for Ex­ter­nal Reviewers

erikaalonsoAug 28, 2019, 6:18 PM
19 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

ACE Re­port on An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy in India

MelissaMGAug 15, 2019, 8:47 PM
19 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(animalcharityevaluators.org)

EU AI policy and OPSI Consultation

Nathan YoungAug 8, 2019, 9:51 AM
19 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

AI Fore­cast­ing Dic­tionary (Fore­cast­ing in­fras­truc­ture, part 1)

terraformAug 8, 2019, 1:16 PM
18 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Where are Lev­er­age re­search staff now?

anonymooseAug 3, 2019, 12:15 PM
18 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Link] BERI hand­ing off Jaan Tal­linn’s grantmaking

Milan GriffesAug 27, 2019, 5:13 PM
18 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Con­sumer prefer­ences for lab­grown and plant-based meat

cole_hausAug 8, 2019, 6:45 PM
18 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(jaysonlusk.com)

Cul­tured Abun­dance—a high de­tail blog about clean meat.

Yoav_RavidAug 13, 2019, 11:01 AM
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.culturedabundance.com)

Eval­u­at­ing Com­mu­nal Violence from an Effec­tive Altru­ist Perspective

Frank FredericksAug 13, 2019, 7:38 PM
16 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Who would you like to see do an AMA on this fo­rum?

nonzerosumAug 25, 2019, 4:58 PM
16 points
8 comments1 min readEA link