The Un­weav­ing of a Beau­tiful Thing

atbDec 26, 2021, 10:24 AM
371 points
47 comments23 min readEA link

Democratis­ing Risk—or how EA deals with critics

CarlaZoeCDec 28, 2021, 3:05 PM
268 points
311 comments4 min readEA link

Re­sponse to Re­cent Crit­i­cisms of Longtermism

abDec 13, 2021, 1:36 PM
249 points
31 comments28 min readEA link

Aiming for the min­i­mum of self-care is dangerous

Tessa A 🔸Dec 9, 2021, 9:27 PM
237 points
32 comments6 min readEA link

Flimsy Pet The­o­ries, Enor­mous Initiatives

Ozzie GooenDec 9, 2021, 3:10 PM
213 points
57 comments4 min readEA link

EA megapro­jects continued

mariushobbhahnDec 3, 2021, 10:33 AM
183 points
48 comments7 min readEA link

High School Se­niors Re­act to 80k Advice

johnburidanDec 16, 2021, 5:46 PM
178 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

A huge op­por­tu­nity for im­pact: move­ment build­ing at top universities

Alex HTDec 14, 2021, 2:37 PM
178 points
50 comments12 min readEA link

2021 AI Align­ment Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

LarksDec 23, 2021, 2:06 PM
176 points
18 comments73 min readEA link

Biose­cu­rity needs en­g­ineers and ma­te­ri­als scientists

Will BradshawDec 16, 2021, 11:37 AM
161 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

How to Get an EA-al­igned Job: My Experience

SofiaBaldersonDec 3, 2021, 4:08 PM
152 points
15 comments17 min readEA link

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

Habiba BanuDec 14, 2021, 10:21 AM
134 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

World’s First Oc­to­pus Farm—Linkpost

CatGoddessDec 22, 2021, 1:35 AM
130 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

Creative Writ­ing Con­test: The Win­ning Entries

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

EA In­tern­ship & Re­search Op­por­tu­ni­ties for Un­der­grad­u­ates

emma-w1Dec 6, 2021, 2:18 AM
122 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Sci-Hub sued in India

cflexmanDec 30, 2021, 2:48 AM
114 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

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

Jackson WagnerDec 25, 2021, 4:48 AM
108 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Con­ver­gence the­sis be­tween longter­mism and neartermism

weeatquinceDec 30, 2021, 4:03 PM
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🔸Dec 16, 2021, 11:33 AM
94 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Fish Welfare Ini­ti­a­tive: The 2.5 Year Retrospective

havenDec 18, 2021, 9:07 AM
94 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism: The First Decade (Fo­rum Re­view)

Aaron Gertler 🔸Dec 1, 2021, 10:18 PM
93 points
45 comments6 min readEA link

ARC is hiring al­ign­ment the­ory researchers

Paul_ChristianoDec 14, 2021, 8:17 PM
89 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Coun­ter­mea­sures & sub­sti­tu­tion effects in biosecurity

ASBDec 16, 2021, 9:40 PM
87 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

An Emer­gency Fund for Effec­tive Altruists

bobDec 11, 2021, 4:49 AM
86 points
26 comments1 min readEA link

EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund: May–Au­gust 2021 grant recommendations

Max_DanielDec 24, 2021, 10:42 AM
85 points
19 comments21 min readEA link
(funds.effectivealtruism.org)

In­tro­duc­ing a New Course on the Eco­nomics of AI

akorinekDec 21, 2021, 4:55 AM
84 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

13 Very Differ­ent Stances on AGI

Ozzie GooenDec 27, 2021, 11:30 PM
84 points
23 comments3 min readEA link

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

Julia_Wise🔸Dec 28, 2021, 3:50 PM
83 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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

Ozzie GooenDec 23, 2021, 7:08 AM
82 points
49 comments2 min readEA link

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

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

Mon­i­tor­ing Wild An­i­mal Welfare via Vocalizations

Hannah McKay🔸Dec 10, 2021, 12:37 AM
79 points
1 comment24 min readEA link

Ex­ter­nal Eval­u­a­tion of the EA Wiki

NunoSempereDec 13, 2021, 5:09 PM
78 points
18 comments19 min readEA link

Stress—effec­tive ways to re­duce it

Ben WilliamsonDec 21, 2021, 2:50 PM
78 points
22 comments11 min readEA link

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

GiveDirectlyDec 25, 2021, 3:47 AM
77 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

Are we go­ing to run out of phos­pho­rous?

John G. HalsteadDec 7, 2021, 2:09 PM
75 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

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

Joan RohlfingDec 6, 2021, 8:58 PM
74 points
35 comments1 min readEA link

Bayesian Mindset

Holden KarnofskyDec 21, 2021, 7:54 PM
73 points
19 comments25 min readEA link

The EA An­i­mal Welfare Fund Has Sig­nifi­cant Room For More Funding

kierangreig🔸Dec 1, 2021, 12:10 AM
73 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

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

LizkaDec 27, 2021, 2:01 AM
72 points
11 comments4 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing High-Im­pact Medicine (Hi-Med)

High Impact MedicineDec 5, 2021, 9:10 PM
71 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

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

Joe_CarlsmithDec 16, 2021, 8:50 PM
71 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Want To Be An Ex­pert? Build Deep Models

lynettebyeDec 4, 2021, 10:20 PM
70 points
6 comments18 min readEA link

EA/​Ra­tion­al­ist Safety Nets: Promis­ing, but Arduous

Ozzie GooenDec 29, 2021, 6:41 PM
69 points
36 comments4 min readEA link

Two Pod­cast Opportunities

finmDec 29, 2021, 2:03 PM
68 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

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

freedomandutilityDec 29, 2021, 3:08 AM
68 points
27 comments3 min readEA link

[Book rec] The War with the Newts as “EA fic­tion”

LizkaDec 22, 2021, 4:10 AM
67 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Bibli­cal ad­vice for peo­ple with short AI timelines

KirstenDec 5, 2021, 3:38 PM
67 points
23 comments2 min readEA link

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

PatrickLDec 9, 2021, 4:48 PM
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 SekarDec 1, 2021, 8:51 PM
66 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

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

C TilliDec 20, 2021, 10:20 AM
65 points
13 comments15 min readEA link