COVID Pro­ject idea: Tran­scrip­tion, trans­la­tion, con­tent re­for­mat­ting, and summarization

nonzerosumApr 26, 2020, 9:23 PM
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Which per­son-per­son in­tro­duc­tions could be highly im­pact­ful, COVID re­lated and oth­er­wise?

nonzerosumApr 26, 2020, 9:18 PM
4 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The Fu­ture of Life In­sti­tute is Hiring

Palus AstraApr 26, 2020, 8:59 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are you work­ing on, and how could peo­ple help?

nonzerosumApr 26, 2020, 7:10 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Re­spond­ing to COVID-19 in India

SuvitaApr 26, 2020, 7:07 PM
57 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Plain(er) English Rewrite of ‘Dis­count­ing for Public Policy: A Sur­vey’ by Hilary Greaves

jojo_leeApr 26, 2020, 3:34 AM
13 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Which peo­ple and in­sti­tu­tions are cur­rently mak­ing in­fluen­tial de­ci­sions re­lated to COVID re­sponse, and how could they be helped to have a bet­ter de­ci­sion mak­ing pro­cess?

nonzerosumApr 25, 2020, 7:36 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What do you be­lieve are the most crit­i­cal open ques­tions/​hy­pothe­ses that could in­form a more effec­tive COVID re­sponse?

nonzerosumApr 25, 2020, 7:33 PM
5 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are some tractable ap­proaches for figur­ing out if COVID causes long term dam­age to those who re­cover?

nonzerosumApr 25, 2020, 7:27 PM
0 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] If you had $10-100mm and a skil­led team to im­prove the COVID re­sponse to min­i­mize eco­nomic and hu­man dam­age, what would you do? Or, how would you de­cide what to do?

nonzerosumApr 25, 2020, 7:22 PM
0 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Bind­ing Fuzzies and Utilons Together

eleniApr 25, 2020, 4:28 PM
40 points
9 comments8 min readEA link

Case Study: Vol­un­teer Re­search and Man­age­ment at ALLFED

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

[Question] If it’s true that Coron­avirus is “close to patholog­i­cally mis­al­igned with some of our in­for­ma­tion dis­tri­bu­tion and de­ci­sion­mak­ing rit­u­als”, then what things would help the re­sponse?

nonzerosumApr 24, 2020, 9:04 PM
18 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Does Utili­tar­ian Longter­mism Im­ply Directed Pansper­mia?

AhrenbachApr 24, 2020, 6:15 PM
4 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

Differ­en­tial progress /​ in­tel­lec­tual progress /​ tech­nolog­i­cal development

MichaelA🔸Apr 24, 2020, 2:08 PM
47 points
16 comments7 min readEA link

Clar­ify­ing ex­is­ten­tial risks and ex­is­ten­tial catastrophes

MichaelA🔸Apr 24, 2020, 1:27 PM
39 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

Idea for a YouTube show about effec­tive altruism

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

Three grants in re­sponse to the COVID-19 pandemic

GiveWellApr 24, 2020, 4:52 AM
37 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

Wild An­i­mal Welfare Meetup (Spring 2020)

Wild_Animal_InitiativeApr 23, 2020, 1:53 PM
28 points
3 comments14 min readEA link

Mo­du­lar em­piri­cal science

yhoisethApr 23, 2020, 11:23 AM
9 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(yngve.hoiseth.net)

De­scrip­tion vs. simu­lated prediction

AI ImpactsApr 23, 2020, 9:37 AM
5 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

CEA’s Plans for 2020

MaxDaltonApr 23, 2020, 7:50 AM
58 points
20 comments10 min readEA link
(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

CEA’s 2019 An­nual Review

MaxDaltonApr 23, 2020, 7:39 AM
38 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

Why Don’t We Use Chem­i­cal Weapons Any­more?

DaleApr 23, 2020, 1:25 AM
28 points
4 comments3 min readEA link
(acoup.blog)

COVID-19 in de­vel­op­ing countries

rootpiApr 22, 2020, 10:13 PM
45 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What would “do­ing enough” to safe­guard the long-term fu­ture look like?

HStencilApr 22, 2020, 9:47 PM
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Policy idea: In­cen­tiviz­ing COVID-19 track­ing app use with lot­tery tickets

pmkApr 22, 2020, 3:15 PM
13 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Ni­cole_Ross’s Quick takes

Nicole_RossApr 21, 2020, 10:00 PM
28 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are high-lev­er­age in­ter­ven­tions to in­crease/​de­crease the global com­mu­ni­ca­tion in­dex?

Mati_RoyApr 21, 2020, 6:09 PM
12 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Essen­tial facts and figures—COVID-19

Arden KoehlerApr 20, 2020, 6:33 PM
19 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Re­ject­ing Supererogationism

Gordon Seidoh WorleyApr 20, 2020, 4:19 PM
11 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

[Question] How to pro­mote wide­spread us­age of high qual­ity, reusable masks

TsunayoshiApr 20, 2020, 9:47 AM
10 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What ca­reer ad­vice gaps are you try­ing to fill?

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸Apr 20, 2020, 2:57 AM
24 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

A cen­tral di­rec­tory for open re­search questions

MichaelA🔸Apr 19, 2020, 11:47 PM
163 points
27 comments6 min readEA link

PAF: Brain Science Research

egastfriendApr 19, 2020, 4:28 PM
9 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.harvardea.org)

[Question] How do you talk about AI safety?

Eevee🔹Apr 19, 2020, 4:15 PM
10 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

“Mu­sic we lack the ears to hear”

BenApr 19, 2020, 2:23 PM
43 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

How hot will it get?

John G. HalsteadApr 18, 2020, 8:29 PM
73 points
24 comments9 min readEA link

France’s pres­i­dent says US and China back a world truce—and he thinks Putin will ‘definitely agree’

JohnCDraperApr 18, 2020, 9:16 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Mak­ing Im­pact Pur­chases Viable

Chris LeongApr 17, 2020, 11:01 PM
23 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

Covid Philan­thropy Idea—Build­ing Soft­ware Solu­tions for Peo­ple Impacted

nonzerosumApr 17, 2020, 10:25 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

What will 80,000 Hours provide (and not provide) within the effec­tive al­tru­ism com­mu­nity?

Benjamin_ToddApr 17, 2020, 6:36 PM
157 points
30 comments6 min readEA link

Dis­con­tin­u­ous progress in his­tory: an update

AI ImpactsApr 17, 2020, 4:28 PM
69 points
3 comments24 min readEA link

Fo­cus­ing on Ca­reer & Cause Move­ment Building

DavidNashApr 17, 2020, 12:17 PM
91 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: March 2020

Aaron Gertler 🔸Apr 17, 2020, 11:28 AM
24 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] How to share the ba­sic con­cept of EA on so­cial me­dia? (Face­book in my case)

Matt PutzApr 16, 2020, 6:43 PM
7 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Lead­ers sup­port global truce to turn fire on coronavirus

JohnCDraperApr 16, 2020, 3:30 PM
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Con­nect­ing with On­line EA Events

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

Mea­sur­ing hap­piness in­creases happiness

Alexander Herwix 🔸Apr 15, 2020, 3:08 PM
8 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(link.springer.com)

Database of ex­is­ten­tial risk estimates

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