Toby Ord’s ‘The Precipice’ is pub­lished!

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

Po­ten­tial High-Lev­er­age and In­ex­pen­sive Miti­ga­tions (which are still fea­si­ble) for Pandemics

Davidmanheim4 Mar 2020 17:06 UTC
45 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

In­ward vs. Out­ward Fo­cused Altruism

Chris Leong4 Mar 2020 2:05 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

80,000 Hours: Anony­mous con­trib­u­tors on flaws of the EA community

Aaron Gertler 🔸4 Mar 2020 0:32 UTC
46 points
7 comments12 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

[Question] Are there good EA pro­jects for helping with COVID-19?

Linch3 Mar 2020 23:55 UTC
31 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

In­som­nia with an EA lens: Big­ger than malaria?

samstowers3 Mar 2020 23:05 UTC
73 points
17 comments4 min readEA link

Vot­ing is to­day (Tues­day March 3) in Cal­ifor­nia and other states—here are recommendations

kbog3 Mar 2020 10:40 UTC
23 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] How effec­tive were vote trad­ing schemes in the 2016 U.S. pres­i­den­tial elec­tion?

Eli Rose2 Mar 2020 23:15 UTC
11 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

[Cross Post] Why I don’t give money to beg­gars on the street

pixel_brownie_software2 Mar 2020 18:07 UTC
0 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

[Cross Post] How cryp­tocur­rency could be­come the evolu­tion to cash

pixel_brownie_software2 Mar 2020 13:40 UTC
4 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Where to find EA-re­lated videos

MichaelA🔸2 Mar 2020 13:40 UTC
33 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

Cortés, Pizarro, and Afonso as Prece­dents for Takeover

AI Impacts2 Mar 2020 12:25 UTC
27 points
17 comments11 min readEA link
(aiimpacts.org)

EA Fo­rum Prize: Win­ners for Jan­uary 2020

Aaron Gertler 🔸2 Mar 2020 12:02 UTC
26 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

A re­view of two books on sur­vey-making

NunoSempere1 Mar 2020 19:11 UTC
33 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Will EA Global San Fran­cisco be can­cel­led or resched­uled due to COVID-19?

user1231 Mar 2020 16:28 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Causal di­a­grams of the paths to ex­is­ten­tial catastrophe

MichaelA🔸1 Mar 2020 14:08 UTC
51 points
11 comments13 min readEA link

Rus­sian x-risks newslet­ter win­ter 2019-2020

avturchin1 Mar 2020 12:51 UTC
10 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Re­duc­ing global catas­trophic biolog­i­cal risks

Gregory Lewis🔸1 Mar 2020 8:00 UTC
10 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Ac­tivism for COVID-19 Lo­cal Pre­pared­ness

tusk28911 Mar 2020 6:11 UTC
9 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

UConn Effec­tive Altruism

jcz2081 Mar 2020 6:11 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How to per­suade peo­ple who donate to char­ity already vs. don’t donate at all?

warrenjordan1 Mar 2020 4:52 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Cross Post] Why China could be a very im­por­tant coun­try.

pixel_brownie_software29 Feb 2020 23:42 UTC
−1 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Why aren’t we talk­ing about per­sonal de­vel­op­ment?

DirectedEvolution29 Feb 2020 20:23 UTC
37 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

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