Growth and the case against ran­domista development

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

Con­cern­ing the Re­cent 2019-Novel Coron­avirus Outbreak

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

In praise of un­his­toric heroism

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

Long-term in­vest­ment fund at Founders Pledge

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

It’s OK to feed stray cats

Julia_Wise28 Jan 2020 10:33 UTC
131 points
13 comments2 min readEA link
(www.givinggladly.com)

Do­ing good is as good as it ever was

Denise_Melchin22 Jan 2020 22:09 UTC
118 points
26 comments3 min readEA link

In­ter­ven­tion Pro­file: Bal­lot Initiatives

Jason Schukraft13 Jan 2020 15:41 UTC
117 points
5 comments36 min readEA link

How we pro­moted EA at a large tech company

ParthThaya25 Jan 2020 19:55 UTC
116 points
10 comments7 min readEA link
(medium.com)

Space gov­er­nance is im­por­tant, tractable and neglected

Tobias_Baumann7 Jan 2020 11:24 UTC
108 points
18 comments7 min readEA link

EA Ho­tel Fundraiser 8: Life at the EA Ho­tel, and Testimonials

CEEALAR27 Jan 2020 13:16 UTC
102 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Notes on hiring a copy­ed­i­tor for CEA

Aaron Gertler9 Jan 2020 12:56 UTC
94 points
11 comments11 min readEA link

AMA: Rob Mather, founder and CEO of the Against Malaria Foundation

RobM22 Jan 2020 21:40 UTC
82 points
47 comments2 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2019 Series: Cause Prioritization

Neil_Dullaghan2 Jan 2020 17:32 UTC
81 points
8 comments14 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Ca­reers

lauren_mee4 Jan 2020 12:10 UTC
75 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

How Much Lev­er­age Should Altru­ists Use?

MichaelDickens7 Jan 2020 4:25 UTC
70 points
64 comments43 min readEA link

[Link] EAF Re­search agenda: “Co­op­er­a­tion, Con­flict, and Trans­for­ma­tive Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence”

stefan.torges17 Jan 2020 13:28 UTC
64 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[AN #80]: Why AI risk might be solved with­out ad­di­tional in­ter­ven­tion from longtermists

Rohin Shah3 Jan 2020 7:52 UTC
58 points
12 comments10 min readEA link
(www.alignmentforum.org)

Po­ten­tial down­sides of us­ing ex­plicit probabilities

MichaelA20 Jan 2020 2:14 UTC
57 points
22 comments18 min readEA link

Is veg­e­tar­i­anism/​ve­g­anism grow­ing more par­ti­san over time?

schmiessja23 Jan 2020 6:14 UTC
56 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

Love seems like a high priority

kbog19 Jan 2020 0:41 UTC
55 points
31 comments12 min readEA link

Tack­ling the Largest Cause of Death Wor­ld­wide: Good Poli­cies Up­date on Tobacco Taxes

calebp28 Jan 2020 11:15 UTC
51 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Phys­i­cal Ex­er­cise for EAs – Why and How

severintroesch12 Jan 2020 15:37 UTC
50 points
17 comments6 min readEA link

Welfare sto­ries: How his­tory should be writ­ten, with an ex­am­ple (early his­tory of Guam)

kbog2 Jan 2020 23:32 UTC
48 points
3 comments60 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2019 Series: Ca­reers and Skills

Neil_Dullaghan7 Jan 2020 21:13 UTC
46 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: Novem­ber 2019 short grant writeups

Habryka5 Jan 2020 0:15 UTC
46 points
11 comments9 min readEA link

I’m Cul­len O’Keefe, a Policy Re­searcher at OpenAI, AMA

Cullen11 Jan 2020 4:13 UTC
45 points
68 comments1 min readEA link

Mak­ing de­ci­sions un­der moral uncertainty

MichaelA1 Jan 2020 13:02 UTC
44 points
8 comments17 min readEA link

EA Up­dates for Jan­uary 2020

DavidNash30 Jan 2020 18:38 UTC
44 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2019 Series: Geo­graphic Distri­bu­tion of EAs

Neil_Dullaghan22 Jan 2020 14:44 UTC
43 points
5 comments10 min readEA link

[Question] Is learn­ing about EA con­cepts in de­tail use­ful to the typ­i­cal EA?

Linch16 Jan 2020 7:37 UTC
42 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Peter Hur­ford: U.S. bal­lot ini­ti­a­tives as a path­way for EA policy

EA Global15 Jan 2020 15:24 UTC
41 points
1 comment8 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Char­ac­ter­is­ing utopia

richard_ngo2 Jan 2020 0:24 UTC
40 points
3 comments21 min readEA link

AMA: We are Jon and Kathryn. We work with The Life You Can Save. Ask us any­thing!

TLYCSAMA21 Jan 2020 19:29 UTC
40 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

[Notes] Could cli­mate change make Earth un­in­hab­it­able for hu­mans?

Ben14 Jan 2020 22:13 UTC
40 points
7 comments14 min readEA link

[Question] How to es­ti­mate the EV of gen­eral in­tel­lec­tual progress

Ozzie Gooen27 Jan 2020 10:21 UTC
40 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Com­par­ing Four Cause Areas for Found­ing New Charities

Joey24 Jan 2020 12:58 UTC
39 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

On Col­lapse Risk (C-Risk)

Pawntoe42 Jan 2020 5:10 UTC
39 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

Per­sis­tence and re­versibil­ity – long-term de­sign con­sid­er­a­tions for wild an­i­mal welfare

Wild_Animal_Initiative28 Jan 2020 8:49 UTC
38 points
0 comments38 min readEA link

Dataset of Trillion Dol­lar figures

Hauke Hillebrandt13 Jan 2020 13:33 UTC
37 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Neil Buddy Shah: What an­i­mal ad­vo­cates can learn from medicine and global development

EA Global21 Jan 2020 15:00 UTC
36 points
0 comments12 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Five GCR grants from the Global Challenges Foundation

Aaron Gertler16 Jan 2020 0:46 UTC
34 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund and EA Meta Fund ap­pli­ca­tions open un­til Jan­uary 31st

agdfoster6 Jan 2020 18:26 UTC
34 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Op­por­tu­nity to work in Down­ing Street and in­fluence UK policy

Arran McCutcheon3 Jan 2020 13:49 UTC
33 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(dominiccummings.com)

An­nounc­ing the Ben­tham Prize

Pablo21 Jan 2020 22:23 UTC
33 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Should EAs be more wel­com­ing to thought­ful and al­igned Repub­li­cans?

Linch20 Jan 2020 2:28 UTC
33 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

EA Fo­rum Prize: Win­ners for De­cem­ber 2019

Aaron Gertler27 Jan 2020 10:33 UTC
31 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

The ‘far fu­ture’ is not just the far future

David_Kristoffersson16 Jan 2020 15:30 UTC
30 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What are words, phrases, or top­ics that you think most EAs don’t know about but should?

Ozzie Gooen21 Jan 2020 20:15 UTC
30 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

Fi­nal up­date on EA Nor­way’s Oper­a­tions Project

Jorgen_Ljones10 Jan 2020 11:27 UTC
29 points
6 comments9 min readEA link