Les­sons from my time in Effec­tive Altruism

richard_ngoJan 15, 2021, 9:54 PM
291 points
24 comments8 min readEA link

Why I’m con­cerned about Giv­ing Green

alex lawsenJan 20, 2021, 10:59 PM
231 points
49 comments13 min readEA link

Can I have im­pact if I’m av­er­age?

FabienneJan 3, 2021, 9:20 AM
214 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

Every­day Longtermism

Owen Cotton-BarrattJan 1, 2021, 5:39 PM
159 points
29 comments9 min readEA link

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

TW123Jan 28, 2021, 2:50 AM
148 points
26 comments8 min readEA link

Scope-sen­si­tive ethics: cap­tur­ing the core in­tu­ition mo­ti­vat­ing utilitarianism

richard_ngoJan 15, 2021, 4:22 PM
141 points
19 comments5 min readEA link

Rank­ing an­i­mal foods based on suffer­ing and GHG emissions

VilleSokkJan 20, 2021, 8:21 PM
117 points
36 comments2 min readEA link

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

JackMJan 28, 2021, 7:56 PM
112 points
28 comments12 min readEA link

Creepy Crawlies (an EA poem)

MHarrisJan 23, 2021, 11:31 AM
104 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

What is go­ing on in the world?

Katja_GraceJan 18, 2021, 4:47 AM
103 points
26 comments3 min readEA link
(meteuphoric.com)

My Ca­reer De­ci­sion-Mak­ing Process

ShayBenMosheJan 21, 2021, 8:17 PM
103 points
17 comments31 min readEA link

Pos­si­ble gaps in the EA community

Michelle_HutchinsonJan 23, 2021, 6:56 PM
97 points
19 comments8 min readEA link

AMA: Eliz­a­beth Ed­wards-Ap­pell, former State Representative

ElizabethEJan 9, 2021, 6:05 PM
94 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

Things CEA is not doing

MaxDaltonJan 15, 2021, 9:33 AM
92 points
22 comments4 min readEA link
(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

10 Habits I recom­mend (2020)

Michelle_HutchinsonJan 2, 2021, 5:15 PM
90 points
17 comments3 min readEA link

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

Joey🔸Jan 6, 2021, 3:47 PM
88 points
20 comments10 min readEA link

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

TophJan 9, 2021, 4:15 AM
87 points
10 comments11 min readEA link

Ac­tu­ally pos­si­ble: thoughts on Utopia

Joe_CarlsmithJan 18, 2021, 8:27 AM
86 points
5 comments13 min readEA link

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

riceissaJan 25, 2021, 2:53 AM
85 points
21 comments4 min readEA link

AMA: Ajeya Co­tra, re­searcher at Open Phil

AjeyaJan 28, 2021, 5:38 PM
84 points
105 comments1 min readEA link

Qualia Re­search In­sti­tute: His­tory & 2021 Strategy

andzuckJan 25, 2021, 9:38 PM
81 points
11 comments11 min readEA link

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

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸Jan 8, 2021, 6:06 PM
79 points
6 comments12 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­tion to Longtermism

finmJan 27, 2021, 4:01 PM
79 points
13 comments11 min readEA link
(effectivealtruism.org)

The Folly of “EAs Should”

DavidmanheimJan 6, 2021, 7:04 AM
75 points
47 comments4 min readEA link

Tommy Raskin: In Memoriam

JessieJan 12, 2021, 6:16 AM
71 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Train­ing Bot­tle­necks in EA (pro­fes­sional skills)

Michelle_HutchinsonJan 17, 2021, 7:29 PM
67 points
24 comments7 min readEA link

Some Scat­tered Thoughts on Operations

Eli_NathanJan 4, 2021, 11:35 PM
61 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Kel­sey Piper on “The Life You Can Save”

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jan 4, 2021, 8:58 PM
60 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

Thoughts on be­ing mortal

Joe_CarlsmithJan 1, 2021, 7:16 PM
60 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Re­search: A Re­search Agenda

jonasschuettJan 6, 2021, 9:47 PM
58 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Web of virtue the­sis [re­search note]

Owen Cotton-BarrattJan 1, 2021, 4:21 PM
57 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Pro­ject for Awe­some 2021: Early coordination

MichaelStJulesJan 27, 2021, 7:11 PM
57 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

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

Eevee🔹Jan 22, 2021, 11:57 PM
57 points
20 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

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

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

Money Can’t (Easily) Buy Talent

Mark XuJan 22, 2021, 2:56 AM
56 points
29 comments11 min readEA link
(markxu.com)

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

DerekJan 3, 2021, 3:08 PM
56 points
3 comments73 min readEA link

The ten most-viewed posts of 2020

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

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

Arden KoehlerJan 5, 2021, 2:18 AM
55 points
30 comments11 min readEA link

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

Jack LewarsJan 12, 2021, 3:15 AM
54 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

Clar­ify­ing the core of Effec­tive Altruism

richard_ngoJan 15, 2021, 11:02 PM
54 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

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

Flo 🔸Jan 16, 2021, 5:15 PM
50 points
17 comments12 min readEA link

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

michael.andreggJan 14, 2021, 7:29 AM
50 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Group Dis­cus­sion Fa­cil­i­ta­tor Train­ing Guide

jessica_mccurdy🔸Jan 24, 2021, 5:19 PM
49 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Why are party poli­tics not an EA pri­or­ity?

ChantalJan 2, 2021, 6:52 PM
49 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

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

LinchJan 12, 2021, 10:51 PM
46 points
0 comments9 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🔸Jan 15, 2021, 6:56 AM
46 points
19 comments2 min readEA link

Ret­ro­spec­tive on Teach­ing Ra­tion­al­ity Workshops

Neel NandaJan 3, 2021, 5:15 PM
42 points
9 comments30 min readEA link

How can we re­duce s-risks?

Tobias_BaumannJan 29, 2021, 3:46 PM
42 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

Effec­tive Altru­ism Coach­ing 2020 An­nual Re­view

lynettebyeJan 26, 2021, 10:52 PM
41 points
6 comments9 min readEA link

In­ter­na­tional Co­op­er­a­tion Against Ex­is­ten­tial Risks: In­sights from In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions Theory

Jenny_XiaoJan 11, 2021, 7:10 AM
41 points
7 comments6 min readEA link