Les­sons from my time in Effec­tive Altruism

richard_ngo15 Jan 2021 21:54 UTC
291 points
24 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

Can I have im­pact if I’m av­er­age?

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

Every­day Longtermism

Owen Cotton-Barratt1 Jan 2021 17:39 UTC
159 points
29 comments9 min readEA link

Yale EA’s Fel­low­ship Ap­pli­ca­tion Scores were not Pre­dic­tive of Even­tual En­gage­ment

TW12328 Jan 2021 2:50 UTC
148 points
26 comments8 min readEA link

Scope-sen­si­tive ethics: cap­tur­ing the core in­tu­ition mo­ti­vat­ing utilitarianism

richard_ngo15 Jan 2021 16:22 UTC
141 points
19 comments5 min readEA link

Rank­ing an­i­mal foods based on suffer­ing and GHG emissions

VilleSokk20 Jan 2021 20:21 UTC
117 points
36 comments2 min readEA link

Im­por­tant Between-Cause Con­sid­er­a­tions: things ev­ery EA should know about

JackM28 Jan 2021 19:56 UTC
112 points
28 comments12 min readEA link

Creepy Crawlies (an EA poem)

MHarris23 Jan 2021 11:31 UTC
104 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

What is go­ing on in the world?

Katja_Grace18 Jan 2021 4:47 UTC
103 points
26 comments3 min readEA link
(meteuphoric.com)

My Ca­reer De­ci­sion-Mak­ing Process

ShayBenMoshe21 Jan 2021 20:17 UTC
102 points
17 comments31 min readEA link

Pos­si­ble gaps in the EA community

Michelle_Hutchinson23 Jan 2021 18:56 UTC
97 points
19 comments8 min readEA link

AMA: Eliz­a­beth Ed­wards-Ap­pell, former State Representative

ElizabethE9 Jan 2021 18:05 UTC
94 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

Things CEA is not doing

MaxDalton15 Jan 2021 9:33 UTC
92 points
22 comments4 min readEA link
(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

10 Habits I recom­mend (2020)

Michelle_Hutchinson2 Jan 2021 17:15 UTC
90 points
17 comments3 min readEA link

Why EA meta, and the top 3 char­ity ideas in the space

Joey🔸6 Jan 2021 15:47 UTC
88 points
20 comments10 min readEA link

What does it mean to be­come an ex­pert in AI Hard­ware?

Toph9 Jan 2021 4:15 UTC
87 points
10 comments11 min readEA link

Ac­tu­ally pos­si­ble: thoughts on Utopia

Joe_Carlsmith18 Jan 2021 8:27 UTC
86 points
5 comments13 min readEA link

[Question] Why “cause area” as the unit of anal­y­sis?

riceissa25 Jan 2021 2:53 UTC
85 points
21 comments4 min readEA link

AMA: Ajeya Co­tra, re­searcher at Open Phil

Ajeya28 Jan 2021 17:38 UTC
84 points
105 comments1 min readEA link

Qualia Re­search In­sti­tute: His­tory & 2021 Strategy

andzuck25 Jan 2021 21:38 UTC
81 points
11 comments11 min readEA link

The fun­nel or the in­di­vi­d­ual: Two ap­proaches to un­der­stand­ing EA en­gage­ment

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸8 Jan 2021 18:06 UTC
79 points
6 comments12 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­tion to Longtermism

finm27 Jan 2021 16:01 UTC
79 points
13 comments11 min readEA link
(effectivealtruism.org)

The Folly of “EAs Should”

Davidmanheim6 Jan 2021 7:04 UTC
75 points
47 comments4 min readEA link

Tommy Raskin: In Memoriam

Jessie12 Jan 2021 6:16 UTC
71 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Train­ing Bot­tle­necks in EA (pro­fes­sional skills)

Michelle_Hutchinson17 Jan 2021 19:29 UTC
67 points
24 comments7 min readEA link

Some Scat­tered Thoughts on Operations

Eli_Nathan4 Jan 2021 23:35 UTC
61 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Kel­sey Piper on “The Life You Can Save”

Aaron Gertler 🔸4 Jan 2021 20:58 UTC
60 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

Thoughts on be­ing mortal

Joe_Carlsmith1 Jan 2021 19:16 UTC
60 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Re­search: A Re­search Agenda

jonasschuett6 Jan 2021 21:47 UTC
58 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Pod­cast] Ajeya Co­tra on wor­ld­view di­ver­sifi­ca­tion and how big the fu­ture could be

Eevee🔹22 Jan 2021 23:57 UTC
57 points
20 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Web of virtue the­sis [re­search note]

Owen Cotton-Barratt1 Jan 2021 16:21 UTC
57 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Pro­ject for Awe­some 2021: Early coordination

MichaelStJules27 Jan 2021 19:11 UTC
57 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

EA and the Pos­si­ble De­cline of the US: Very Rough Thoughts

Cullen 🔸8 Jan 2021 7:30 UTC
56 points
19 comments4 min readEA link

Health and hap­piness re­search top­ics—Part 2: The HALY+: Im­prov­ing prefer­ence-based health metrics

Derek3 Jan 2021 15:08 UTC
56 points
3 comments73 min readEA link

The ten most-viewed posts of 2020

Aaron Gertler 🔸13 Jan 2021 12:21 UTC
55 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Crit­i­cal sum­mary of Meacham’s “Per­son-Affect­ing Views and Sat­u­rat­ing Coun­ter­part Re­la­tions”

Arden Koehler5 Jan 2021 2:18 UTC
55 points
30 comments11 min readEA link

How we pro­moted EA at a large tech com­pany (v2.0)

Jack Lewars12 Jan 2021 3:15 UTC
54 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

Clar­ify­ing the core of Effec­tive Altruism

richard_ngo15 Jan 2021 23:02 UTC
54 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

Money Can’t (Easily) Buy Talent

Mark Xu22 Jan 2021 2:56 UTC
51 points
29 comments11 min readEA link
(markxu.com)

New in­fo­graphic based on “The Precipice”. any feed­back?

michael.andregg14 Jan 2021 7:29 UTC
50 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Group Dis­cus­sion Fa­cil­i­ta­tor Train­ing Guide

jessica_mccurdy🔸24 Jan 2021 17:19 UTC
49 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Why are party poli­tics not an EA pri­or­ity?

Chantal2 Jan 2021 18:52 UTC
49 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

Pri­vacy as a Blind Spot: Are There Long Term Harms in Us­ing Face­book, Google, Slack etc.?

florian-az16 Jan 2021 17:15 UTC
48 points
17 comments12 min readEA link

[Question] Should pretty much all con­tent that’s EA-rele­vant and/​or cre­ated by EAs be (link)posted to the Fo­rum?

MichaelA🔸15 Jan 2021 6:56 UTC
46 points
19 comments2 min readEA link

RP Work Trial Out­put: How to Pri­ori­tize Anti-Aging Pri­ori­ti­za­tion—A Light Investigation

Linch12 Jan 2021 22:51 UTC
46 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

How can we re­duce s-risks?

Tobias_Baumann29 Jan 2021 15:46 UTC
42 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

Ret­ro­spec­tive on Teach­ing Ra­tion­al­ity Workshops

Neel Nanda3 Jan 2021 17:15 UTC
42 points
9 comments30 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Coach­ing 2020 An­nual Re­view

lynettebye26 Jan 2021 22:52 UTC
41 points
6 comments9 min readEA link

In­ter­na­tional Co­op­er­a­tion Against Ex­is­ten­tial Risks: In­sights from In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions Theory

Jenny_Xiao11 Jan 2021 7:10 UTC
41 points
7 comments6 min readEA link