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500 Million, But Not A Sin­gle One More

jai25 May 2020 16:31 UTC
580 points
28 comments3 min readEA link
(laneless.substack.com)

Growth and the case against ran­domista development

Hauke Hillebrandt16 Jan 2020 10:11 UTC
428 points
197 comments31 min readEA link

My mis­takes on the path to impact

Denise_Melchin4 Dec 2020 22:13 UTC
426 points
74 comments11 min readEA link

Re­duc­ing long-term risks from malev­olent actors

David_Althaus29 Apr 2020 8:55 UTC
331 points
88 comments37 min readEA link

EAF’s bal­lot ini­ti­a­tive dou­bled Zurich’s de­vel­op­ment aid

Jonas V13 Jan 2020 11:32 UTC
307 points
23 comments12 min readEA link

The case of the miss­ing cause pri­ori­ti­sa­tion research

weeatquince16 Aug 2020 0:21 UTC
303 points
88 comments16 min readEA link

What is the like­li­hood that civ­i­liza­tional col­lapse would di­rectly lead to hu­man ex­tinc­tion (within decades)?

Luisa_Rodriguez24 Dec 2020 22:10 UTC
292 points
37 comments50 min readEA link

Prob­lem ar­eas be­yond 80,000 Hours’ cur­rent pri­ori­ties

Arden Koehler22 Jun 2020 12:49 UTC
274 points
62 comments16 min readEA link

Big List of Cause Candidates

NunoSempere25 Dec 2020 16:34 UTC
269 points
71 comments47 min readEA link

AI Gover­nance: Op­por­tu­nity and The­ory of Impact

Allan Dafoe17 Sep 2020 6:30 UTC
256 points
16 comments12 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing Prob­a­bly Good: A New Ca­reer Guidance Or­ga­ni­za­tion

omernevo6 Nov 2020 14:50 UTC
254 points
75 comments5 min readEA link

Ob­jec­tions to Value-Align­ment be­tween Effec­tive Altruists

CarlaZoeC15 Jul 2020 16:07 UTC
225 points
49 comments18 min readEA link

Col­lec­tion of good 2012-2017 EA fo­rum posts

saulius10 Jul 2020 16:35 UTC
202 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

Avoid­ing Mu­nich’s Mis­takes: Ad­vice for CEA and Lo­cal Groups

Larks14 Oct 2020 17:08 UTC
186 points
80 comments40 min readEA link

A new strat­egy for broad­en­ing the ap­peal of effec­tive giv­ing (Giv­ingMul­ti­plier.org)

Lucius Caviola26 Oct 2020 23:18 UTC
185 points
13 comments7 min readEA link

Par­ent­ing: Things I wish I could tell my past self

Michelle_Hutchinson12 Sep 2020 14:22 UTC
183 points
23 comments10 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Project

jonasschuett30 Aug 2020 14:10 UTC
179 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

“Pa­tient vs ur­gent longter­mism” has lit­tle di­rect bear­ing on giv­ing now vs later

Owen Cotton-Barratt9 Dec 2020 14:58 UTC
177 points
32 comments6 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing High Im­pact Athletes

Marcus Daniell30 Nov 2020 13:20 UTC
175 points
60 comments1 min readEA link

Thoughts on whether we’re liv­ing at the most in­fluen­tial time in history

Buck3 Nov 2020 4:07 UTC
174 points
66 comments9 min readEA link

Geo­graphic di­ver­sity in EA

AmAristizabal15 Jun 2020 6:13 UTC
172 points
26 comments2 min readEA link

Des­per­a­tion Ham­ster Wheels

Nicole_Ross30 Oct 2020 16:55 UTC
165 points
21 comments6 min readEA link
(www.cuttingmangoes.com)

In­tro­duc­ing LEEP: Lead Ex­po­sure Elimi­na­tion Project

Jack6 Oct 2020 7:25 UTC
165 points
25 comments5 min readEA link

A cen­tral di­rec­tory for open re­search questions

MichaelA19 Apr 2020 23:47 UTC
163 points
26 comments6 min readEA link

Es­ti­mates of global cap­tive ver­te­brate numbers

saulius18 Feb 2020 17:05 UTC
162 points
11 comments61 min readEA link

What will 80,000 Hours provide (and not provide) within the effec­tive al­tru­ism com­mu­nity?

Benjamin_Todd17 Apr 2020 18:36 UTC
156 points
30 comments5 min readEA link

2020 AI Align­ment Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

Larks21 Dec 2020 15:25 UTC
155 points
16 comments70 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing In­sti­tu­tional De­ci­sion-Mak­ing: a new work­ing group

IanDavidMoss28 Dec 2020 5:47 UTC
153 points
24 comments10 min readEA link

Please Take the 2020 EA Survey

Peter Wildeford11 Nov 2020 16:05 UTC
152 points
30 comments1 min readEA link

Ca­reers Ques­tions Open Thread

Benjamin_Todd4 Dec 2020 12:05 UTC
151 points
230 comments2 min readEA link

What ar­eas are the most promis­ing to start new EA meta char­i­ties—A sur­vey of 40 EAs

Joey23 Dec 2020 12:24 UTC
150 points
13 comments16 min readEA link

COVID-19 brief for friends and family

eca28 Feb 2020 22:43 UTC
150 points
67 comments4 min readEA link

Find­ing equil­ibrium in a difficult time

Julia_Wise18 Mar 2020 2:50 UTC
150 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

Con­sider a wider range of jobs, paths and prob­lems if you want to im­prove the long-term future

Robert_Wiblin29 Jun 2020 14:48 UTC
149 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

£4bn for the global poor: the UK’s 0.7%

Sanjay30 Nov 2020 15:50 UTC
148 points
20 comments2 min readEA link

A cause can be too neglected

saulius3 Apr 2020 16:41 UTC
148 points
18 comments1 min readEA link

Things I Learned at the EA Stu­dent Summit

Akash27 Oct 2020 19:03 UTC
148 points
13 comments6 min readEA link

Toby Ord’s ‘The Precipice’ is pub­lished!

matthew.vandermerwe4 Mar 2020 21:09 UTC
146 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

Con­cern­ing the Re­cent 2019-Novel Coron­avirus Outbreak

Matthew_Barnett27 Jan 2020 5:47 UTC
144 points
142 comments3 min readEA link

A Qual­i­ta­tive Anal­y­sis of Value Drift in EA

Marisa12 Feb 2020 5:41 UTC
144 points
5 comments19 min readEA link

When can I eat meat again?

wen30 Apr 2020 12:58 UTC
144 points
19 comments19 min readEA link

In praise of un­his­toric heroism

rosehadshar7 Jan 2020 12:08 UTC
143 points
18 comments4 min readEA link

Some promis­ing ca­reer ideas be­yond 80,000 Hours’ pri­or­ity paths

Arden Koehler26 Jun 2020 10:34 UTC
141 points
28 comments15 min readEA link

If you like a post, tell the au­thor!

Aaron Gertler6 Oct 2020 17:26 UTC
141 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

Does Eco­nomic His­tory Point Toward a Sin­gu­lar­ity?

bgarfinkel2 Sep 2020 12:48 UTC
140 points
55 comments3 min readEA link

Long-term in­vest­ment fund at Founders Pledge

Sjir Hoeijmakers10 Jan 2020 19:09 UTC
138 points
28 comments3 min readEA link

My per­sonal cruxes for work­ing on AI safety

Buck13 Feb 2020 7:11 UTC
135 points
35 comments45 min readEA link

Some thoughts on defer­ence and in­side-view models

Buck28 May 2020 5:37 UTC
133 points
31 comments10 min readEA link

Illeg­ible im­pact is still impact

Gordon Seidoh Worley13 Feb 2020 21:45 UTC
133 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

Five New EA Char­i­ties with High Po­ten­tial for Impact

Joey14 Oct 2020 12:15 UTC
132 points
14 comments6 min readEA link