COVID-19 brief for friends and family

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

A ro­bust adapt­able food sys­tem ca­pa­ble of ab­sorb­ing food shocks likely to de­velop in the 21st century

Ross_Tieman28 Feb 2020 22:40 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

EA Up­dates for Fe­bru­ary 2020

DavidNash28 Feb 2020 14:14 UTC
38 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

Epistea Work­shop Series: Epistemics Work­shop, May 2020, UK

nora28 Feb 2020 10:37 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Should effec­tive al­tru­ists give money to lo­cal beg­gars?

Liface27 Feb 2020 23:13 UTC
1 point
4 comments1 min readEA link

Effects of anti-ag­ing re­search on the long-term future

Matthew_Barnett27 Feb 2020 22:42 UTC
61 points
33 comments4 min readEA link

My Char­i­ta­ble Giv­ing Re­port 2019

Eevee🔹27 Feb 2020 16:35 UTC
24 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

How did we do in 2019? A pre­limi­nary look at our growth

GiveWell27 Feb 2020 5:32 UTC
13 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

Up­date On Six New Char­i­ties In­cu­bated By Char­ity Entrepreneurship

ishaan27 Feb 2020 5:20 UTC
51 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

1 min Key and Peele clip on chil­dren saved per dollar

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸27 Feb 2020 2:11 UTC
20 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

How can EA lo­cal groups re­duce like­li­hood of our mem­bers get­ting COVID-19 or other in­fec­tious dis­eases?

Linch26 Feb 2020 16:16 UTC
23 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

Against anti-na­tal­ism; or: why cli­mate change should not be a sig­nifi­cant fac­tor in your de­ci­sion to have children

ben.smith26 Feb 2020 10:04 UTC
14 points
22 comments3 min readEA link

EA Kansas City poverty meetup & group plan­ning, con­tent & slides + dis­cus­sion notes

samstowers26 Feb 2020 2:26 UTC
5 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

New ar­ti­cle from Oren Etzioni

Aryeh Englander25 Feb 2020 15:38 UTC
23 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

EA Direc­tory & Groups Dis­cus­sion Board

DavidNash25 Feb 2020 13:01 UTC
23 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Bi­ases in our es­ti­mates of Scale, Ne­glect­ed­ness and Solv­abil­ity?

MichaelStJules24 Feb 2020 18:39 UTC
93 points
12 comments7 min readEA link

Does Bail Re­form In­crease Crime?

Dale22 Feb 2020 20:58 UTC
20 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(papers.ssrn.com)

Why SENS makes sense

Emanuele_Ascani22 Feb 2020 16:28 UTC
49 points
51 comments31 min readEA link

[Question] W-8BEN forms as a blocker to ac­cess­ing grant fund­ing.

kw22 Feb 2020 1:44 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Em­pa­thy and com­pas­sion to­ward other species de­crease with evolu­tion­ary di­ver­gence time

David_Moss21 Feb 2020 15:31 UTC
48 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(www.nature.com)

Ben Grodeck: Co­op­er­at­ing with fu­ture gen­er­a­tions — an ex­per­i­men­tal investigation

EA Global21 Feb 2020 15:28 UTC
17 points
0 comments14 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Op­tion Value, an In­tro­duc­tory Guide

Caleb_Maresca21 Feb 2020 14:45 UTC
31 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

Re­quest for feed­back on my ca­reer plan for im­pact (560 words)

tzuiop9c21 Feb 2020 14:42 UTC
7 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Any re­sponse from OpenAI (or EA in gen­eral) about the Tech­nol­ogy Re­view fea­ture on OpenAI?

qjtva21 Feb 2020 9:12 UTC
5 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Help in choos­ing good char­i­ties in spe­cific domains

Conundrum20 Feb 2020 18:53 UTC
6 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Cul­len O’Keefe: The Wind­fall Clause — shar­ing the benefits of ad­vanced AI

EA Global20 Feb 2020 17:24 UTC
14 points
2 comments13 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Harsanyi’s sim­ple “proof” of utilitarianism

Ben_West🔸20 Feb 2020 15:27 UTC
47 points
42 comments4 min readEA link

Hello there, Effec­tive Altru­ism!

pixel_brownie_software20 Feb 2020 14:00 UTC
4 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

COVID-19 Risk Assess­ment App Idea for Vet­ting and Discussion

tina20 Feb 2020 5:49 UTC
38 points
15 comments11 min readEA link

EA Toronto—Gen­eral Re­port—Look­ing Back at 2019

ColinBested19 Feb 2020 17:59 UTC
21 points
2 comments22 min readEA link

Eva Vi­valt: Fore­cast­ing re­search results

EA Global19 Feb 2020 16:34 UTC
18 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Micro­cre­dit may some­times be effec­tive, but per­haps shouldn’t be funded by donations

Sanjay19 Feb 2020 15:30 UTC
20 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Us­ing Char­ity Perfor­mance Met­rics as an Ex­cuse Not to Give

Alexander Herwix 🔸19 Feb 2020 9:54 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(pubsonline.informs.org)

[Link] Assess­ing and Re­spect­ing Sen­tience After Brexit

MichaelStJules19 Feb 2020 7:19 UTC
17 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Hay­den Wilk­in­son: Do­ing good in an in­finite, chaotic world

EA Global18 Feb 2020 23:29 UTC
34 points
1 comment18 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] Biggest Biose­cu­rity Threat? An­tibiotic Resistance

talk2sarahw18 Feb 2020 20:33 UTC
5 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Es­ti­mates of global cap­tive ver­te­brate numbers

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

If you (mostly) be­lieve in worms, what should you think about WASH?

alex lawsen18 Feb 2020 16:47 UTC
64 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Thoughts on elec­toral reform

Tobias_Baumann18 Feb 2020 16:23 UTC
85 points
31 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Look­ing for Re­search Participants

NikolasBerlin18 Feb 2020 8:27 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readEA link

Shoot Your Shot

Eevee🔹18 Feb 2020 6:39 UTC
7 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Zach Groff: Does suffer­ing dom­i­nate en­joy­ment in the an­i­mal king­dom?

EA Global18 Feb 2020 0:46 UTC
43 points
1 comment14 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

80,000 Hours: Anony­mous con­trib­u­tors on EA move­ment growth

Aaron Gertler 🔸18 Feb 2020 0:09 UTC
33 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Group Or­ganiser Sur­vey on Ca­reer Ad­vice Bottlenecks

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸17 Feb 2020 18:53 UTC
18 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Chlo­ram­pheni­col as in­ter­ven­tion in heart attacks

Gordon Seidoh Worley17 Feb 2020 18:47 UTC
1 point
5 comments1 min readEA link
(www.cringely.com)

Ne­glected EA Regions

DavidNash17 Feb 2020 11:25 UTC
31 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Why Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship is Re­search­ing Men­tal Health and Hap­piness

GeorgeBridgwater17 Feb 2020 8:51 UTC
32 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Has any­one done an anal­y­sis on the im­por­tance, tractabil­ity, and ne­glect­ed­ness of keep­ing hu­man-di­gestible calories in the ocean in case we need it af­ter some global catas­tro­phe?

Mati_Roy17 Feb 2020 7:47 UTC
9 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are the best ar­gu­ments that AGI is on the hori­zon?

gabcoh16 Feb 2020 6:12 UTC
14 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How much will lo­cal/​uni­ver­sity groups benefit from tar­geted EA con­tent cre­ation?

Linch15 Feb 2020 21:46 UTC
24 points
21 comments1 min readEA link