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My current impressions on career choice for longtermists

Holden Karnofsky4 Jun 2021 17:07 UTC

459 points

37 comments26 min readEA link

Don’t Be Bycatch

DirectedEvolution10 Mar 2021 5:28 UTC

388 points

20 comments3 min readEA link

Announcing my retirement

Aaron Gertler 🔸25 Nov 2021 13:55 UTC

379 points

29 comments1 min readEA link

The Unweaving of a Beautiful Thing

atb26 Dec 2021 10:24 UTC

378 points

47 comments23 min readEA link

Announcing “Naming What We Can”!

Gidi Kadosh1 Apr 2021 10:17 UTC

376 points

73 comments2 min readEA link

Major UN report discusses existential risk and future generations (summary)

finm17 Sep 2021 15:51 UTC

322 points

5 comments12 min readEA link

The Cost of Rejection

Daystar Eld8 Oct 2021 12:35 UTC

308 points

48 comments8 min readEA link

Is effective altruism growing? An update on the stock of funding vs. people

Benjamin_Todd29 Jul 2021 11:47 UTC

307 points

105 comments21 min readEA link

What Makes Outreach to Progressives Hard

Cullen 🔸14 Mar 2021 0:32 UTC

303 points

76 comments9 min readEA link

Lessons from my time in Effective Altruism

richard_ngo15 Jan 2021 21:54 UTC

292 points

24 comments8 min readEA link

The motivated reasoning critique of effective altruism

Linch14 Sep 2021 20:43 UTC

287 points

59 comments18 min readEA link

Small and Vulnerable

sapphire3 May 2021 6:08 UTC

278 points

13 comments4 min readEA link

Concerns with ACE’s Recent Behavior

Hypatia17 Apr 2021 17:00 UTC

276 points

149 comments11 min readEA link

Lessons from Running Stanford EA and SERI

kuhanj20 Aug 2021 14:51 UTC

271 points

26 comments23 min readEA link

Why I am probably not a longtermist

D_M_x23 Sep 2021 17:24 UTC

270 points

50 comments8 min readEA link

Democratising Risk—or how EA deals with critics

CarlaZoeC28 Dec 2021 15:05 UTC

268 points

311 comments4 min readEA link

Response to Recent Criticisms of Longtermism

ab13 Dec 2021 13:36 UTC

249 points

31 comments28 min readEA link

Seven things that surprised us in our first year working in policy—Lead Exposure Elimination Project

Jack14 May 2021 9:40 UTC

248 points

8 comments7 min readEA link

Aiming for the minimum of self-care is dangerous

Tessa A 🔸9 Dec 2021 21:27 UTC

245 points

32 comments6 min readEA link

EA needs consultancies

lukeprog28 Jun 2021 15:18 UTC

243 points

88 comments8 min readEA link

Snapshot of a career choice 10 years ago

Julia_Wise🔸23 Sep 2021 19:05 UTC

238 points

12 comments3 min readEA link

Killing the ants

Joe_Carlsmith7 Feb 2021 23:16 UTC

237 points

18 comments8 min readEA link

Good news on climate change

John G. Halstead28 Oct 2021 14:04 UTC

236 points

35 comments12 min readEA link

Why I’m concerned about Giving Green

alex lawsen20 Jan 2021 22:59 UTC

231 points

49 comments13 min readEA link

Why I find longtermism hard, and what keeps me motivated

Michelle_Hutchinson22 Feb 2021 23:01 UTC

228 points

17 comments7 min readEA link

All Possible Views About Humanity’s Future Are Wild

Holden Karnofsky13 Jul 2021 16:57 UTC

220 points

48 comments8 min readEA link

(www.cold-takes.com)

Can I have impact if I’m average?

Fabienne3 Jan 2021 9:20 UTC

215 points

19 comments2 min readEA link

Flimsy Pet Theories, Enormous Initiatives

Ozzie Gooen9 Dec 2021 15:10 UTC

213 points

57 comments4 min readEA link

Some quick notes on “effective altruism”

Jonas_24 Mar 2021 15:30 UTC

212 points

89 comments3 min readEA link

What gives me hope

Michelle_Hutchinson19 May 2021 10:00 UTC

210 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

Notes on “Managing to Change the World”

Peter Wildeford9 Oct 2021 2:17 UTC

204 points

30 comments26 min readEA link

Wikipedia editing is important, tractable, and neglected

imp4rtial 🔸28 Nov 2021 15:47 UTC

201 points

43 comments17 min readEA link

How to succeed as an early-stage researcher: the “lean startup” approach

ts7 Sep 2021 11:19 UTC

196 points

31 comments8 min readEA link

Opinion: Digital marketing is under-utilized in EA

JSWinchell21 Jun 2021 16:53 UTC

196 points

31 comments3 min readEA link

Cultured meat predictions were overly optimistic

Neil_Dullaghan🔹 15 Sep 2021 12:32 UTC

195 points

14 comments4 min readEA link

EffectiveAltruismData.com: A Website for Aggregating and Visualising EA Data

h.hugrd11 Sep 2021 22:05 UTC

195 points

13 comments4 min readEA link

2018-2019 Long-Term Future Fund Grantees: How did they do?

NunoSempere16 Jun 2021 17:31 UTC

194 points

23 comments5 min readEA link

Shallow evaluations of longtermist organizations

NunoSempere24 Jun 2021 15:31 UTC

193 points

34 comments34 min readEA link

The Explanatory Obstacle of EA

Gidi Kadosh27 Nov 2021 14:20 UTC

191 points

27 comments14 min readEA link

Listen to more EA content with The Nonlinear Library

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️19 Oct 2021 12:24 UTC

188 points

94 comments8 min readEA link

Make a $100 donation into $200 (or more)

WilliamKiely🔸1 Nov 2021 5:07 UTC

186 points

94 comments2 min readEA link

Many Undergrads Should Take Light Courseloads

Mau25 Oct 2021 0:12 UTC

185 points

23 comments3 min readEA link

A Red-Team Against the Impact of Small Donations

AppliedDivinityStudies24 Nov 2021 16:03 UTC

183 points

53 comments8 min readEA link

EA megaprojects continued

mariushobbhahn3 Dec 2021 10:33 UTC

183 points

48 comments7 min readEA link

Taboo “Outside View”

kokotajlod17 Jun 2021 9:39 UTC

178 points

26 comments8 min readEA link

High School Seniors React to 80k Advice

johnburidan16 Dec 2021 17:46 UTC

178 points

9 comments3 min readEA link

A huge opportunity for impact: movement building at top universities

AHT14 Dec 2021 14:37 UTC

178 points

50 comments12 min readEA link

2021 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

Larks23 Dec 2021 14:06 UTC

176 points

18 comments73 min readEA link

FTX EA Fellowships

FTX Foundation25 Oct 2021 4:32 UTC

174 points

75 comments1 min readEA link

“Hinge of History” Refuted

Thomas Kwa🔹1 Apr 2021 7:00 UTC

174 points

6 comments6 min readEA link