My cur­rent im­pres­sions on ca­reer choice for longtermists

Holden Karnofsky4 Jun 2021 17:07 UTC
444 points
37 comments26 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing my retirement

Aaron Gertler 🔸25 Nov 2021 13:55 UTC
379 points
29 comments1 min readEA link

Don’t Be Bycatch

DirectedEvolution10 Mar 2021 5:28 UTC
363 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

The Un­weav­ing of a Beau­tiful Thing

atb26 Dec 2021 10:24 UTC
358 points
46 comments23 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing “Nam­ing What We Can”!

Gidi Kadosh1 Apr 2021 10:17 UTC
358 points
73 comments2 min readEA link

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

finm17 Sep 2021 15:51 UTC
320 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

The Cost of Rejection

Daystar Eld8 Oct 2021 12:35 UTC
304 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
301 points
105 comments21 min readEA link

What Makes Outreach to Pro­gres­sives Hard

Cullen 🔸14 Mar 2021 0:32 UTC
301 points
76 comments9 min readEA link

Les­sons from my time in Effec­tive Altruism

richard_ngo15 Jan 2021 21:54 UTC
287 points
24 comments8 min readEA link

The mo­ti­vated rea­son­ing cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

Linch14 Sep 2021 20:43 UTC
285 points
59 comments23 min readEA link

Con­cerns with ACE’s Re­cent Behavior

Hypatia17 Apr 2021 17:00 UTC
274 points
149 comments11 min readEA link

Small and Vulnerable

sapphire3 May 2021 6:08 UTC
274 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

Democratis­ing Risk—or how EA deals with critics

CarlaZoeC28 Dec 2021 15:05 UTC
273 points
311 comments4 min readEA link

Les­sons from Run­ning Stan­ford EA and SERI

kuhanj20 Aug 2021 14:51 UTC
263 points
26 comments23 min readEA link

EA needs consultancies

lukeprog28 Jun 2021 15:18 UTC
257 points
88 comments8 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
243 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

Snap­shot of a ca­reer choice 10 years ago

Julia_Wise🔸23 Sep 2021 19:05 UTC
237 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

Good news on cli­mate change

John G. Halstead28 Oct 2021 14:04 UTC
236 points
34 comments12 min readEA link

Why I am prob­a­bly not a longtermist

Denise_Melchin23 Sep 2021 17:24 UTC
234 points
47 comments8 min readEA link

Why I’m con­cerned about Giv­ing Green

alex lawsen20 Jan 2021 22:59 UTC
231 points
49 comments13 min readEA link

Aiming for the min­i­mum of self-care is dangerous

Tessa A 🔸9 Dec 2021 21:27 UTC
230 points
32 comments6 min readEA link

Killing the ants

Joe_Carlsmith7 Feb 2021 23:16 UTC
228 points
18 comments8 min readEA link

All Pos­si­ble Views About Hu­man­ity’s Fu­ture Are Wild

Holden Karnofsky13 Jul 2021 16:57 UTC
217 points
47 comments8 min readEA link
(www.cold-takes.com)

Why I find longter­mism hard, and what keeps me motivated

Michelle_Hutchinson22 Feb 2021 23:01 UTC
216 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

Can I have im­pact if I’m av­er­age?

Fabienne3 Jan 2021 9:20 UTC
213 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

Flimsy Pet The­o­ries, Enor­mous Initiatives

Ozzie Gooen9 Dec 2021 15:10 UTC
212 points
57 comments4 min readEA link

What gives me hope

Michelle_Hutchinson19 May 2021 10:00 UTC
209 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Some quick notes on “effec­tive al­tru­ism”

Jonas V24 Mar 2021 15:30 UTC
207 points
89 comments3 min readEA link

Wikipe­dia edit­ing is im­por­tant, tractable, and neglected

DM28 Nov 2021 15:47 UTC
200 points
43 comments17 min readEA link

What we learned from a year in­cu­bat­ing longter­mist entrepreneurship

Rebecca Kagan30 Aug 2021 8:39 UTC
199 points
28 comments17 min readEA link

Notes on “Manag­ing to Change the World”

Peter Wildeford9 Oct 2021 2:17 UTC
195 points
27 comments26 min readEA link

Opinion: Digi­tal mar­ket­ing is un­der-uti­lized in EA

JSWinchell21 Jun 2021 16:53 UTC
195 points
29 comments3 min readEA link

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

Hmash11 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
192 points
34 comments34 min readEA link

Cul­tured meat pre­dic­tions were overly optimistic

Neil_Dullaghan🔹 15 Sep 2021 12:32 UTC
192 points
14 comments4 min readEA link

Listen to more EA con­tent with The Non­lin­ear Library

Kat Woods19 Oct 2021 12:24 UTC
187 points
94 comments8 min readEA link

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

WilliamKiely1 Nov 2021 5:07 UTC
186 points
94 comments2 min readEA link

The Ex­plana­tory Ob­sta­cle of EA

Gidi Kadosh27 Nov 2021 14:20 UTC
186 points
27 comments14 min readEA link

Many Un­der­grads Should Take Light Courseloads

Mau25 Oct 2021 0:12 UTC
185 points
23 comments3 min readEA link

EA megapro­jects continued

mariushobbhahn3 Dec 2021 10:33 UTC
183 points
49 comments7 min readEA link

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

ts7 Sep 2021 11:19 UTC
182 points
31 comments8 min readEA link

A Red-Team Against the Im­pact of Small Donations

AppliedDivinityStudies24 Nov 2021 16:03 UTC
182 points
53 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

Alex HT14 Dec 2021 14:37 UTC
178 points
50 comments12 min readEA link

Ta­boo “Out­side View”

kokotajlod17 Jun 2021 9:39 UTC
177 points
26 comments8 min readEA link

2021 AI Align­ment Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

Larks23 Dec 2021 14:06 UTC
176 points
18 comments73 min readEA link

“Hinge of His­tory” Refuted

Thomas Kwa1 Apr 2021 7:00 UTC
174 points
6 comments6 min readEA link