Re­duc­ing long-term risks from malev­olent actors

David_Althaus29 Apr 2020 8:55 UTC
341 points
93 comments37 min readEA link

A cen­tral di­rec­tory for open re­search questions

MichaelA🔸19 Apr 2020 23:47 UTC
163 points
26 comments6 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 comments6 min readEA link

A cause can be too neglected

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

Database of ex­is­ten­tial risk estimates

MichaelA🔸15 Apr 2020 12:43 UTC
130 points
37 comments5 min readEA link

Hiring Pro­cess and Take­aways from Fish Welfare Initiative

haven6 Apr 2020 5:30 UTC
114 points
12 comments11 min readEA link

How good is The Hu­mane League com­pared to the Against Malaria Foun­da­tion?

Stephen Clare29 Apr 2020 13:40 UTC
107 points
30 comments12 min readEA link

Food Cri­sis—Cas­cad­ing Events from COVID-19 & Locusts

AronM29 Apr 2020 22:02 UTC
100 points
14 comments12 min readEA link

My ex­pe­rience as a CLR grantee and vis­it­ing re­searcher at CSER

Jaime Sevilla29 Apr 2020 19:03 UTC
99 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

If you value fu­ture peo­ple, why do you con­sider near term effects?

Alex HT8 Apr 2020 15:21 UTC
95 points
79 comments14 min readEA link

Fo­cus­ing on Ca­reer & Cause Move­ment Building

DavidNash17 Apr 2020 12:17 UTC
89 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Pangea: The Worst of Times

John G. Halstead5 Apr 2020 15:13 UTC
88 points
7 comments8 min readEA link

Paul Chris­ti­ano: Cur­rent work in AI alignment

EA Global3 Apr 2020 7:06 UTC
80 points
3 comments24 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

How hot will it get?

John G. Halstead18 Apr 2020 20:29 UTC
73 points
24 comments9 min readEA link

US Non-Profit? Get Free* Money From the Gov on 3 Apr!

Peter Wildeford1 Apr 2020 18:07 UTC
72 points
24 comments3 min readEA link

Coron­avirus and non-hu­mans: How is the pan­demic af­fect­ing an­i­mals used for hu­man con­sump­tion?

Daniela Waldhorn7 Apr 2020 8:40 UTC
72 points
7 comments20 min readEA link

Dis­con­tin­u­ous progress in his­tory: an update

AI Impacts17 Apr 2020 16:28 UTC
69 points
3 comments24 min readEA link

Some thoughts on Toby Ord’s ex­is­ten­tial risk estimates

MichaelA🔸7 Apr 2020 2:19 UTC
67 points
33 comments9 min readEA link

Lewis Bol­lard on self-ex­per­i­men­ta­tion, zero dis­trac­tions, and hy­per focus

lynettebye27 Apr 2020 23:46 UTC
59 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

CEA’s Plans for 2020

MaxDalton23 Apr 2020 7:50 UTC
58 points
20 comments10 min readEA link
(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

Re­spond­ing to COVID-19 in India

Suvita26 Apr 2020 19:07 UTC
57 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship’s 2020 re­search plans

KarolinaSarek🔸3 Apr 2020 3:33 UTC
55 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

Coron­avirus and long term policy [UK fo­cus]

weeatquince5 Apr 2020 8:29 UTC
52 points
3 comments17 min readEA link

COVID-19 re­sponse as XRisk intervention

tyleralterman10 Apr 2020 6:16 UTC
51 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

The Case for Im­pact Pur­chase | Part 1

Linda Linsefors14 Apr 2020 13:08 UTC
51 points
39 comments8 min readEA link

Tara Mac Au­lay on Hap­piness and Work, Self-Ex­per­i­men­ta­tion, and Prioritization

lynettebye4 Apr 2020 17:58 UTC
50 points
0 comments28 min readEA link

Differ­en­tial progress /​ in­tel­lec­tual progress /​ tech­nolog­i­cal development

MichaelA🔸24 Apr 2020 14:08 UTC
47 points
16 comments7 min readEA link

COVID-19 in de­vel­op­ing countries

rootpi22 Apr 2020 22:13 UTC
45 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

“Mu­sic we lack the ears to hear”

Ben19 Apr 2020 14:23 UTC
43 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Con­nect­ing with On­line EA Events

Catherine Low🔸16 Apr 2020 2:01 UTC
42 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­tion to wild an­i­mal suffer­ing: A guide to the issues

Animal_Ethics3 Apr 2020 20:53 UTC
41 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Bind­ing Fuzzies and Utilons Together

eleni25 Apr 2020 16:28 UTC
40 points
9 comments8 min readEA link

Mar­ket-shap­ing ap­proaches to ac­cel­er­ate COVID-19 re­sponse: a role for op­tion-based guaran­tees?

Derek28 Apr 2020 10:10 UTC
39 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Clar­ify­ing ex­is­ten­tial risks and ex­is­ten­tial catastrophes

MichaelA🔸24 Apr 2020 13:27 UTC
39 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

Book Re­view: The Precipice

Aaron Gertler 🔸9 Apr 2020 21:21 UTC
39 points
0 comments17 min readEA link
(slatestarcodex.com)

CEA’s 2019 An­nual Review

MaxDalton23 Apr 2020 7:39 UTC
38 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

New Top EA Cause: Politics

Davidmanheim1 Apr 2020 7:53 UTC
38 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Case Study: Vol­un­teer Re­search and Man­age­ment at ALLFED

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸25 Apr 2020 7:12 UTC
37 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Three grants in re­sponse to the COVID-19 pandemic

GiveWell24 Apr 2020 4:52 UTC
37 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

In­tro to Con­scious­ness + QRI Read­ing List

andzuck7 Apr 2020 19:00 UTC
35 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.andzuck.com)

Ex­is­ten­tial risks are not just about humanity

MichaelA🔸28 Apr 2020 0:09 UTC
35 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Atari early

AI Impacts2 Apr 2020 23:28 UTC
34 points
2 comments5 min readEA link
(aiimpacts.org)

New Cause Pro­posal: In­ter­na­tional Sup­ply Chain Accountability

NunoSempere1 Apr 2020 7:56 UTC
32 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

[U.S. Spe­cific] Free money (~$5k-$30k) for In­de­pen­dent Con­trac­tors and grant re­cip­i­ents from U.S. government

Elityre10 Apr 2020 4:54 UTC
32 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] What is a good donor ad­vised fund for small UK donors?

John G. Halstead29 Apr 2020 9:56 UTC
30 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Adapt­ing the ITN frame­work for poli­ti­cal in­ter­ven­tions & anal­y­sis of poli­ti­cal polarisation

OlafvdVeen27 Apr 2020 10:05 UTC
30 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

EA Up­dates for March 2020

DavidNash1 Apr 2020 14:05 UTC
29 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Idea for a YouTube show about effec­tive altruism

Eevee🔹24 Apr 2020 5:00 UTC
28 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Ni­cole_Ross’s Quick takes

Nicole_Ross21 Apr 2020 22:00 UTC
28 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Why Don’t We Use Chem­i­cal Weapons Any­more?

Dale23 Apr 2020 1:25 UTC
28 points
4 comments3 min readEA link
(acoup.blog)