Ob­jec­tions to Value-Align­ment be­tween Effec­tive Altruists

CarlaZoeC15 Jul 2020 16:07 UTC
225 points
49 comments17 min readEA link

Col­lec­tion of good 2012-2017 EA fo­rum posts

saulius10 Jul 2020 16:35 UTC
202 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

3 sug­ges­tions about jar­gon in EA

MichaelA🔸5 Jul 2020 3:37 UTC
131 points
18 comments5 min readEA link

Re­port on ca­reers in poli­tics and policy in Ger­many

careersthrowaway12 Jul 2020 16:54 UTC
121 points
4 comments43 min readEA link

The aca­demic con­tri­bu­tion to AI safety seems large

Gavin30 Jul 2020 10:30 UTC
117 points
28 comments9 min readEA link

EA Fo­cus­mate Group Announcement

annaleptikon3 Jul 2020 9:41 UTC
115 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

The Sub­jec­tive Ex­pe­rience of Time: Welfare Implications

Jason Schukraft27 Jul 2020 13:24 UTC
113 points
21 comments63 min readEA link

Con­cern, and hope

Will Bradshaw5 Jul 2020 15:08 UTC
109 points
27 comments2 min readEA link

Cru­cial ques­tions for longtermists

MichaelA🔸29 Jul 2020 9:39 UTC
104 points
17 comments19 min readEA link

Use re­silience, in­stead of im­pre­ci­sion, to com­mu­ni­cate uncertainty

Gregory Lewis🔸18 Jul 2020 12:09 UTC
103 points
34 comments7 min readEA link

Some his­tory top­ics it might be very valuable to investigate

MichaelA🔸8 Jul 2020 2:40 UTC
91 points
34 comments6 min readEA link

AMA or dis­cuss my 80K pod­cast epi­sode: Ben Garfinkel, FHI researcher

bgarfinkel13 Jul 2020 16:17 UTC
87 points
140 comments1 min readEA link

Mo­ral cir­cles: De­grees, di­men­sions, visuals

MichaelA🔸24 Jul 2020 4:04 UTC
87 points
10 comments13 min readEA link

Democ­racy Pro­mo­tion as an EA Cause Area

bryanschonfeld1 Jul 2020 1:56 UTC
84 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

Com­mon ground for longtermists

Tobias_Baumann29 Jul 2020 10:26 UTC
83 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

Venn di­a­grams of ex­is­ten­tial, global, and suffer­ing catastrophes

MichaelA🔸15 Jul 2020 12:28 UTC
81 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

A love let­ter to civilian OSINT, and pos­si­bil­ities as a tool in EA

eukaryote10 Jul 2020 20:55 UTC
81 points
4 comments9 min readEA link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Es­ti­mat­ing the Philan­thropic Dis­count Rate

MichaelDickens3 Jul 2020 16:58 UTC
81 points
21 comments40 min readEA link

[Question] Will Three Gorges Dam Col­lapse And Kill Millions?

DC26 Jul 2020 2:43 UTC
80 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing the fu­ture by in­fluenc­ing ac­tors’ benev­olence, in­tel­li­gence, and power

MichaelA🔸20 Jul 2020 10:00 UTC
76 points
15 comments17 min readEA link

In­for­ma­tional Lob­by­ing: The­ory and Effectiveness

Matt_Lerner30 Jul 2020 22:02 UTC
75 points
20 comments32 min readEA link

The Im­por­tance of Un­known Ex­is­ten­tial Risks

MichaelDickens23 Jul 2020 19:09 UTC
72 points
11 comments12 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing Luke Free­man as head of Giv­ing What We Can

Julia_Wise🔸27 Jul 2020 20:35 UTC
69 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

Are we ne­glect­ing ed­u­ca­tion? Philos­o­phy in schools as a longter­mist area

JackM30 Jul 2020 16:31 UTC
68 points
29 comments17 min readEA link

Cost-Effec­tive­ness of Air Puri­fiers against Pollution

Lukas Trötzmüller🔸30 Jul 2020 8:37 UTC
67 points
11 comments14 min readEA link

Stripe’s first nega­tive emis­sions purchases

Aaron Gertler 🔸16 Jul 2020 1:13 UTC
65 points
2 comments5 min readEA link
(stripe.com)

[Question] New mem­ber—es­sen­tial read­ing and un­writ­ten rules?

Lumpyproletariat13 Jul 2020 5:54 UTC
65 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

EA Giv­ing Tues­day Dona­tion Match­ing Ini­ti­a­tive 2019 Retrospective

Avi Norowitz3 Jul 2020 20:09 UTC
65 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

In­for­ma­tion haz­ards: a very sim­ple typology

Will Bradshaw13 Jul 2020 16:54 UTC
65 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] How Much Does New Re­search In­form Us About Ex­is­ten­tial Cli­mate Risk?

zdgroff22 Jul 2020 23:47 UTC
63 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Ret­ro­spec­tive on think­ing about my ca­reer for a year

careersthrowaway18 Jul 2020 13:24 UTC
62 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

EA Cameroon—COVID-19 Aware­ness and Preven­tion in the Santa Divi­sion of Cameroon Pro­ject Proposal

brb24325 Jul 2020 20:19 UTC
62 points
12 comments13 min readEA link

The 80,000 Hours pod­cast should host debates

JackM10 Jul 2020 16:42 UTC
61 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

High stakes in­stru­men­tal­ism and billion­aire philanthropy

John G. Halstead19 Jul 2020 19:19 UTC
61 points
10 comments4 min readEA link

An­no­tated List of Pro­ject Ideas & Vol­un­teer­ing Re­sources

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸6 Jul 2020 3:29 UTC
57 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

The case for in­vest­ing to give later

Sjir Hoeijmakers🔸3 Jul 2020 15:23 UTC
54 points
30 comments14 min readEA link

[Question] Sys­temic change, global poverty erad­i­ca­tion, and a ca­reer plan re­think: am I right?

NoteworthyTrain14 Jul 2020 7:54 UTC
54 points
48 comments13 min readEA link

[Question] Do re­search or­gani­sa­tions make the­ory of change di­a­grams? Should they?

MichaelA🔸22 Jul 2020 4:58 UTC
52 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

Should you do a PhD?

Linda Linsefors24 Jul 2020 10:15 UTC
49 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

A Step-by-Step Guide to Run­ning In­de­pen­dent Projects

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸15 Jul 2020 11:49 UTC
49 points
3 comments15 min readEA link

Move­ment build­ing and in­vest­ing to give later

abergal15 Jul 2020 22:46 UTC
48 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey Series 2019: EA cities and the cost of living

David_Moss6 Jul 2020 8:39 UTC
48 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Cus­tomized COVID-19 risk anal­y­sis as a high value area

Askell23 Jul 2020 20:28 UTC
48 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey Series 2019: How many EAs live in the main EA hubs?

David_Moss6 Jul 2020 8:39 UTC
47 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

Ex­plor­ing the Streisand Effect

Will Bradshaw6 Jul 2020 7:00 UTC
46 points
4 comments20 min readEA link

Cli­mate change dona­tion recommendations

Sanjay16 Jul 2020 21:17 UTC
46 points
7 comments14 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: June 2020.

NunoSempere1 Jul 2020 9:32 UTC
45 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

Karolina Sarek: How to do re­search that matters

EA Global27 Jul 2020 14:55 UTC
43 points
0 comments16 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

An­no­tated List of EA Ca­reer Ad­vice Resources

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸13 Jul 2020 6:12 UTC
43 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Ca­reers advice

Jamie_Harris6 Jul 2020 12:56 UTC
43 points
2 comments1 min readEA link