On “fringe” ideas

Kelsey Piper19 Aug 2019 7:00 UTC
250 points
6 comments5 min readEA link
(theunitofcaring.tumblr.com)

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

saulius20 Aug 2019 18:05 UTC
234 points
37 comments13 min readEA link

How to gen­er­ate re­search proposals

Jaime Sevilla1 Aug 2019 16:38 UTC
164 points
7 comments8 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

algekalipso11 Aug 2019 3:49 UTC
163 points
23 comments41 min readEA link

Ask Me Any­thing!

William_MacAskill14 Aug 2019 15:52 UTC
153 points
138 comments3 min readEA link

Move­ment Col­lapse Scenarios

rebecca_baron27 Aug 2019 10:07 UTC
146 points
33 comments9 min readEA link

The Pos­si­bil­ity of an On­go­ing Mo­ral Catas­tro­phe (Sum­mary)

Linch2 Aug 2019 21:55 UTC
139 points
17 comments4 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Cluster Headache Fre­quency Fol­lows a Long-Tail Distribution

algekalipso2 Aug 2019 22:47 UTC
98 points
20 comments7 min readEA link

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

jahying24 Aug 2019 14:31 UTC
86 points
2 comments19 min readEA link

Im­pact Re­port for Effec­tive Altru­ism Coach­ing

lynettebye6 Aug 2019 5:41 UTC
86 points
13 comments11 min readEA link

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

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

Coun­ter­ing im­poster syndrome

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

Progress book recommendations

Daniel May8 Aug 2019 20:47 UTC
73 points
7 comments16 min readEA link
(danielmamay.github.io)

Key points from The Dead Hand, David E. Hoffman

Kit9 Aug 2019 13:59 UTC
71 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

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

guzey16 Aug 2019 19:43 UTC
63 points
14 comments23 min readEA link

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

AspiringPhilanthropist27 Aug 2019 10:07 UTC
58 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

EAGxNordics 2019 Postmortem

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

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: July 2019

Aaron Gertler 🔸7 Aug 2019 13:27 UTC
48 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

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

qfrerichs6 Aug 2019 5:02 UTC
43 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

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

FJehn22 Aug 2019 6:43 UTC
39 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

The Mo­ral Cir­cle is not a Circle

Grue_Slinky14 Aug 2019 17:55 UTC
38 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

An overview of ar­gu­ments for con­cern about automation

alexlintz6 Aug 2019 7:56 UTC
34 points
3 comments13 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Lon­don Strat­egy 2019

DavidNash22 Aug 2019 11:16 UTC
33 points
10 comments6 min readEA link

The Arete Fellowship

stecas14 Aug 2019 22:01 UTC
33 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

In­ter­view with Michael Tye about in­ver­te­brate consciousness

Max_Carpendale8 Aug 2019 10:13 UTC
32 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

Cor­po­rate com­mit­ments breakdown

saulius28 Aug 2019 16:53 UTC
32 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

EA-al­igned pod­cast with Lewis Bollard

Garrison15 Aug 2019 14:48 UTC
32 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

How to Make Billions of Dol­lars Re­duc­ing Loneliness

John_Maxwell24 Aug 2019 1:49 UTC
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 Gooen4 Aug 2019 20:38 UTC
31 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

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

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

Lat­est EA Up­dates for Au­gust 2019

DavidNash30 Aug 2019 11:35 UTC
31 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

AI Fore­cast­ing Re­s­olu­tion Coun­cil (Fore­cast­ing in­fras­truc­ture, part 2)

jacobjacob29 Aug 2019 17:43 UTC
28 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

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

alex lawsen5 Aug 2019 13:39 UTC
28 points
59 comments1 min readEA link

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

SebastianSchmidt17 Aug 2019 14:05 UTC
27 points
5 comments7 min readEA link

Us­ing Ibo­gaine to Create Friendlier Opioids

qfrerichs6 Aug 2019 21:31 UTC
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.

weeatquince27 Aug 2019 11:04 UTC
27 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

Ex­treme un­cer­tainty in wild an­i­mal welfare re­quires re­silient model-build­ing

Wild_Animal_Initiative7 Aug 2019 22:25 UTC
26 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

EA Fo­rum Prize: Win­ners for July 2019

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

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

richard_ngo7 Aug 2019 22:24 UTC
24 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Cam­paign fi­nance re­form as an EA pri­or­ity?

Milan_Griffes30 Aug 2019 1:46 UTC
19 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

EU AI policy and OPSI Consultation

Nathan Young8 Aug 2019 9:51 UTC
19 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

ACE Call for Ex­ter­nal Reviewers

erikaalonso28 Aug 2019 18:18 UTC
19 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

ACE Re­port on An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy in India

MelissaMG15 Aug 2019 20:47 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(animalcharityevaluators.org)

[Question] Where are Lev­er­age re­search staff now?

anonymoose3 Aug 2019 12:15 UTC
18 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

AI Fore­cast­ing Dic­tionary (Fore­cast­ing in­fras­truc­ture, part 1)

jacobjacob8 Aug 2019 13:16 UTC
18 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

[Link] BERI hand­ing off Jaan Tal­linn’s grantmaking

Milan_Griffes27 Aug 2019 17:13 UTC
18 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Con­sumer prefer­ences for lab­grown and plant-based meat

cole_haus8 Aug 2019 18:45 UTC
18 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(jaysonlusk.com)

Cul­tured Abun­dance—a high de­tail blog about clean meat.

Yoav_Ravid13 Aug 2019 11:01 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.culturedabundance.com)

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

nonzerosum25 Aug 2019 16:58 UTC
16 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Eval­u­at­ing Com­mu­nal Violence from an Effec­tive Altru­ist Perspective

frankfredericks13 Aug 2019 19:38 UTC
16 points
4 comments8 min readEA link