The Un­weav­ing of a Beau­tiful Thing

atb26 Dec 2021 10:24 UTC
367 points
47 comments23 min readEA link

Democratis­ing Risk—or how EA deals with critics

CarlaZoeC28 Dec 2021 15:05 UTC
273 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

Aiming for the min­i­mum of self-care is dangerous

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

Flimsy Pet The­o­ries, Enor­mous Initiatives

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

EA megapro­jects continued

mariushobbhahn3 Dec 2021 10:33 UTC
183 points
48 comments7 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

2021 AI Align­ment Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

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

Biose­cu­rity needs en­g­ineers and ma­te­ri­als scientists

Will Bradshaw16 Dec 2021 11:37 UTC
161 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

How to Get an EA-al­igned Job: My Experience

SofiaBalderson3 Dec 2021 16:08 UTC
152 points
15 comments17 min readEA link

80,000 Hours wants to talk to more peo­ple than ever

Habiba Banu14 Dec 2021 10:21 UTC
134 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

World’s First Oc­to­pus Farm—Linkpost

CatGoddess22 Dec 2021 1:35 UTC
130 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

Creative Writ­ing Con­test: The Win­ning Entries

Aaron Gertler 🔸26 Dec 2021 10:43 UTC
124 points
12 comments2 min readEA link

EA In­tern­ship & Re­search Op­por­tu­ni­ties for Un­der­grad­u­ates

emma-w16 Dec 2021 2:18 UTC
122 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Sci-Hub sued in India

cflexman30 Dec 2021 2:48 UTC
114 points
5 comments7 min readEA link

Longter­mism in 1888: fermi es­ti­mate of heaven’s size.

Jackson Wagner25 Dec 2021 4:48 UTC
108 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Con­ver­gence the­sis be­tween longter­mism and neartermism

weeatquince30 Dec 2021 16:03 UTC
100 points
31 comments9 min readEA link

Op­por­tu­nity to start a high-im­pact non­profit—ap­pli­ca­tions for the 2022-23 Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship In­cu­ba­tion Pro­grams are now open!

KarolinaSarek🔸16 Dec 2021 11:33 UTC
94 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Fish Welfare Ini­ti­a­tive: The 2.5 Year Retrospective

haven18 Dec 2021 9:07 UTC
94 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism: The First Decade (Fo­rum Re­view)

Aaron Gertler 🔸1 Dec 2021 22:18 UTC
93 points
45 comments6 min readEA link

ARC is hiring al­ign­ment the­ory researchers

Paul_Christiano14 Dec 2021 20:17 UTC
89 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Coun­ter­mea­sures & sub­sti­tu­tion effects in biosecurity

ASB16 Dec 2021 21:40 UTC
87 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

An Emer­gency Fund for Effec­tive Altruists

bob11 Dec 2021 4:49 UTC
86 points
26 comments1 min readEA link

EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund: May–Au­gust 2021 grant recommendations

Max_Daniel24 Dec 2021 10:42 UTC
85 points
19 comments21 min readEA link
(funds.effectivealtruism.org)

In­tro­duc­ing a New Course on the Eco­nomics of AI

akorinek21 Dec 2021 4:55 UTC
84 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

13 Very Differ­ent Stances on AGI

Ozzie Gooen27 Dec 2021 23:30 UTC
84 points
23 comments3 min readEA link

Run­ning an EA out­reach pro­ject in­volv­ing high school stu­dents? Let us know!

Julia_Wise🔸28 Dec 2021 15:50 UTC
83 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Why don’t gov­ern­ments seem to mind that com­pa­nies are ex­plic­itly try­ing to make AGIs?

Ozzie Gooen23 Dec 2021 7:08 UTC
82 points
49 comments2 min readEA link

Zvi’s Thoughts on the Sur­vival and Flour­ish­ing Fund (SFF)

Zvi 15 Dec 2021 2:44 UTC
81 points
8 comments65 min readEA link

Mon­i­tor­ing Wild An­i­mal Welfare via Vocalizations

Hannah McKay🔸10 Dec 2021 0:37 UTC
79 points
1 comment24 min readEA link

Stress—effec­tive ways to re­duce it

Ben Williamson21 Dec 2021 14:50 UTC
78 points
22 comments11 min readEA link

Ex­ter­nal Eval­u­a­tion of the EA Wiki

NunoSempere13 Dec 2021 17:09 UTC
78 points
18 comments19 min readEA link

I was a COVID-19 re­cip­i­ent. Now, I’m an employee

GiveDirectly25 Dec 2021 3:47 UTC
77 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

Are we go­ing to run out of phos­pho­rous?

John G. Halstead7 Dec 2021 14:09 UTC
75 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

AMA: Joan Rohlfing, Pres­i­dent and COO of the Nu­clear Threat Initiative

Joan Rohlfing6 Dec 2021 20:58 UTC
74 points
35 comments1 min readEA link

Bayesian Mindset

Holden Karnofsky21 Dec 2021 19:54 UTC
73 points
19 comments25 min readEA link

The EA An­i­mal Welfare Fund Has Sig­nifi­cant Room For More Funding

kierangreig🔸1 Dec 2021 0:10 UTC
73 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Na­tive lan­guages in the EA com­mu­nity (and is­sues with as­sess­ing promis­ing­ness)

Lizka27 Dec 2021 2:01 UTC
72 points
11 comments4 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing High-Im­pact Medicine (Hi-Med)

High Impact Medicine5 Dec 2021 21:10 UTC
71 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Re­views of “Is power-seek­ing AI an ex­is­ten­tial risk?”

Joe_Carlsmith16 Dec 2021 20:50 UTC
71 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Want To Be An Ex­pert? Build Deep Models

lynettebye4 Dec 2021 22:20 UTC
69 points
5 comments18 min readEA link

EA/​Ra­tion­al­ist Safety Nets: Promis­ing, but Arduous

Ozzie Gooen29 Dec 2021 18:41 UTC
69 points
36 comments4 min readEA link

Tech­noc­racy vs pop­ulism (in­clud­ing thoughts on the democratis­ing risk pa­per and its re­sponses)

freedomandutility29 Dec 2021 3:08 UTC
68 points
27 comments3 min readEA link

Two Pod­cast Opportunities

finm29 Dec 2021 14:03 UTC
68 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

Ret­ro­spec­tive on the Sum­mer 2021 AGI Safety Fundamentals

Dewi6 Dec 2021 20:10 UTC
67 points
3 comments37 min readEA link

Bibli­cal ad­vice for peo­ple with short AI timelines

Kirsten5 Dec 2021 15:38 UTC
67 points
23 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Ex­po­sure to 3m Pointless view­ers- what to pro­mote?

PatrickL9 Dec 2021 16:48 UTC
67 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: I’ve au­thored a new book (After Meat) about the tech­nolog­i­cal limits of an­i­mals for pro­duc­tion and why we’ll do better

Karthik Sekar1 Dec 2021 20:51 UTC
66 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing sci­ence: In­fluenc­ing the di­rec­tion of re­search and the choice of re­search questions

C Tilli20 Dec 2021 10:20 UTC
65 points
13 comments15 min readEA link