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My mistakes on the path to impact

Denise_Melchin4 Dec 2020 22:13 UTC

431 points

74 comments11 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

296 points

37 comments50 min readEA link

Big List of Cause Candidates

NunoSempere25 Dec 2020 16:34 UTC

291 points

71 comments47 min readEA link

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

Owen Cotton-Barratt9 Dec 2020 14:58 UTC

178 points

32 comments6 min readEA link

Improving Institutional Decision-Making: a new working group

IanDavidMoss28 Dec 2020 5:47 UTC

159 points

24 comments10 min readEA link

2020 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

Larks21 Dec 2020 15:25 UTC

155 points

16 comments68 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

Joey🔸23 Dec 2020 12:24 UTC

150 points

13 comments16 min readEA link

Health and happiness research topics—Part 1: Background on QALYs and DALYs

Derek9 Dec 2020 0:38 UTC

126 points

8 comments61 min readEA link

Introducing Animal Advocacy Africa

AnimalAdvocacyAfrica7 Dec 2020 16:11 UTC

118 points

11 comments6 min readEA link

Make a $10 donation into $35

WilliamKiely1 Dec 2020 19:52 UTC

116 points

18 comments1 min readEA link

A new, cause-general career planning process

Benjamin_Todd3 Dec 2020 11:35 UTC

113 points

16 comments3 min readEA link

The Fermi Paradox has not been dissolved

James Fodor12 Dec 2020 12:02 UTC

109 points

17 comments14 min readEA link

Mitigating x-risk through modularity

Toby Newberry17 Dec 2020 19:54 UTC

103 points

6 comments14 min readEA link

Ask Rethink Priorities Anything (AMA)

Marcus_A_Davis13 Dec 2020 17:23 UTC

101 points

136 comments3 min readEA link

Giving What We Can & EA Funds now operate independently of CEA

MaxDalton22 Dec 2020 3:47 UTC

99 points

2 comments7 min readEA link

(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

Wholehearted choices and “morality as taxes”

Joe_Carlsmith21 Dec 2020 19:35 UTC

89 points

9 comments4 min readEA link

Long-Term Future Fund: Ask Us Anything!

AdamGleave3 Dec 2020 13:44 UTC

89 points

153 comments1 min readEA link

Center on Long-Term Risk: 2021 Plans & 2020 Review

stefan.torges8 Dec 2020 13:39 UTC

87 points

3 comments13 min readEA link

Introducing Family Empowerment Media

Ken_Scheffler13 Dec 2020 17:08 UTC

84 points

4 comments7 min readEA link

Stanford EA has Grown During the Pandemic; Your Group Can Too

kuhanj25 Dec 2020 0:25 UTC

83 points

5 comments7 min readEA link

How You Can Counterfactually Send Millions of Dollars to EA Charities

Brendon_Wong24 Dec 2020 2:50 UTC

82 points

19 comments12 min readEA link

2018-19 Donor Lottery Report, pt. 1

Ross Rheingans-Yoo🔸13 Dec 2020 17:18 UTC

77 points

2 comments11 min readEA link

Long-Term Future Fund: November 2020 grant recommendations

Habryka [Deactivated]3 Dec 2020 12:57 UTC

76 points

5 comments14 min readEA link

(app.effectivealtruism.org)

[Expired] 20,000 Free $50 Charity Gift Cards

WilliamKiely11 Dec 2020 20:00 UTC

76 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

LessWrong/EA New Year’s Ultra Party

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸18 Dec 2020 5:15 UTC

74 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

80k hrs #88 - Response to criticism

mark_ledwich11 Dec 2020 8:53 UTC

71 points

21 comments4 min readEA link

First S-Risk Intro Seminar

stefan.torges8 Dec 2020 9:23 UTC

70 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Incentivizing forecasting via social media

David_Althaus16 Dec 2020 12:11 UTC

70 points

19 comments15 min readEA link

CEA’s 2020 Annual Review

MaxDalton10 Dec 2020 23:45 UTC

69 points

9 comments31 min readEA link

(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

Announcement: applications for the 2021 Charity Entrepreneurship Incubation Program are now open!

Joey🔸15 Dec 2020 10:43 UTC

68 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

A case against strong longtermism

vadmas15 Dec 2020 20:56 UTC

68 points

79 comments1 min readEA link

CEA’s Plans for 2021

MaxDalton11 Dec 2020 0:27 UTC

67 points

10 comments14 min readEA link

Forecasts about EA organisations which are currently on Metaculus.

alex lawsen29 Dec 2020 17:42 UTC

65 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

Open Philanthropy’s AI governance grantmaking (so far)

Aaron Gertler 🔸17 Dec 2020 12:00 UTC

63 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

(www.openphilanthropy.org)

[Short Version] What Helped the Voiceless? Historical Case Studies

Mau15 Dec 2020 3:40 UTC

62 points

2 comments10 min readEA link

TAI Safety Bibliographic Database

Jess_Riedel22 Dec 2020 16:03 UTC

61 points

9 comments17 min readEA link

Strong Longtermism, Irrefutability, and Moral Progress

ben_chugg26 Dec 2020 19:44 UTC

60 points

99 comments11 min readEA link

[Question] How high impact are UK policy career paths?

Denise_Melchin17 Dec 2020 15:04 UTC

59 points

6 comments3 min readEA link

EA Infrastructure Fund Grants (November 2020)

agdfoster1 Dec 2020 12:11 UTC

58 points

0 comments12 min readEA link

(app.effectivealtruism.org)

An experiment to evaluate the value of one researcher’s work

NunoSempere1 Dec 2020 9:01 UTC

57 points

23 comments10 min readEA link

Brief book review 2020

Denise_Melchin3 Dec 2020 21:30 UTC

56 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

A Case Study in Newtonian Ethics—Kindly Advise

Lumpyproletariat5 Dec 2020 7:40 UTC

53 points

14 comments5 min readEA link

Forum update: New features (December 2020)

Aaron Gertler 🔸4 Dec 2020 6:45 UTC

52 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

10 things I bought and recommend (2020)

Michelle_Hutchinson30 Dec 2020 14:47 UTC

50 points

7 comments3 min readEA link

Blueprints (& lenses) for longtermist decision-making

Owen Cotton-Barratt21 Dec 2020 17:25 UTC

49 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

LessWrong is now a book, available for pre-order!

terraform4 Dec 2020 20:42 UTC

48 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

Against GDP as a metric for timelines and takeoff speeds

kokotajlod29 Dec 2020 17:50 UTC

47 points

6 comments14 min readEA link

Requests on the Forum

EdoArad22 Dec 2020 10:42 UTC

46 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Introduction to the Philosophy of Well-Being

finm7 Dec 2020 12:32 UTC

45 points

22 comments6 min readEA link