Killing the ants

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

Why I find longter­mism hard, and what keeps me motivated

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

Why EA groups should not use “Effec­tive Altru­ism” in their name.

KoenSchoen19 Feb 2021 22:00 UTC
147 points
29 comments12 min readEA link

A ranked list of all EA-rele­vant (au­dio)books I’ve read

MichaelA🔸17 Feb 2021 10:18 UTC
116 points
60 comments11 min readEA link

Pro­ject Ideas in Biose­cu­rity for EAs

Davidmanheim16 Feb 2021 21:01 UTC
106 points
19 comments7 min readEA link

Some global catas­trophic risk estimates

Tamay10 Feb 2021 19:32 UTC
106 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Re­sources On Men­tal Health And Find­ing A Therapist

lynettebye22 Feb 2021 3:31 UTC
103 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

Defer­ence for Bayesians

John G. Halstead13 Feb 2021 12:33 UTC
102 points
30 comments7 min readEA link

Some EA Fo­rum Posts I’d like to write

Linch23 Feb 2021 5:27 UTC
100 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

Kessler Syn­drome in Effec­tive Altruism

aaronmayer7 Feb 2021 18:46 UTC
94 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Be Spe­cific About Your Career

Mark Xu24 Feb 2021 7:24 UTC
94 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(markxu.com)

Men­tor­ship, Man­age­ment, and Mys­te­ri­ous Old Wizards

Raemon24 Feb 2021 21:58 UTC
92 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

A ranked list of all EA-rele­vant doc­u­men­taries, movies, and TV se­ries I’ve watched

BrianTan21 Feb 2021 11:00 UTC
81 points
22 comments8 min readEA link

Ecosys­tems vs Pro­jects in EA Move­ment Building

DavidNash8 Feb 2021 14:40 UTC
80 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

Ap­ply to EA Funds now

Jonas_13 Feb 2021 13:36 UTC
79 points
15 comments4 min readEA link

AMA: We Work in Oper­a­tions at EA-al­igned or­ga­ni­za­tions. Ask Us Any­thing.

Marisa3 Feb 2021 20:14 UTC
78 points
35 comments3 min readEA link

An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Ca­reers 2021 Plans and 2020 Review

lauren_mee 🔸17 Feb 2021 13:32 UTC
71 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(www.animaladvocacycareers.org)

AMA: Lewis Bol­lard, Open Philanthropy

LewisBollard24 Feb 2021 18:02 UTC
69 points
123 comments1 min readEA link

80,000 Hours one-on-one team plans, plus pro­jects we’d like to see

Michelle_Hutchinson9 Feb 2021 19:57 UTC
69 points
22 comments6 min readEA link

For Bet­ter Com­ment­ing, Avoid PONDS

DirectedEvolution5 Feb 2021 0:29 UTC
68 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Join our col­lab­o­ra­tion for high qual­ity EA out­reach events (OFTW + GWWC + EA Com­mu­nity)

Jack Lewars23 Feb 2021 2:49 UTC
62 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

Su­perfore­cast­ing in a nutshell

lukeprog25 Feb 2021 6:11 UTC
60 points
4 comments3 min readEA link
(lukemuehlhauser.com)

Com­plex clue­less­ness as credal fragility

Gregory Lewis🔸8 Feb 2021 16:59 UTC
57 points
50 comments23 min readEA link

What I learned from work­ing at GiveWell

Ben Kuhn22 Feb 2021 6:31 UTC
55 points
1 comment7 min readEA link
(www.benkuhn.net)

Many (many!) char­i­ties are too small to mea­sure their own impact

Aaron Gertler 🔸15 Feb 2021 6:39 UTC
55 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(giving-evidence.com)

Wel­come to our 978 new giv­ing pledges!

Luke Freeman8 Feb 2021 1:19 UTC
54 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

Ob­jec­tives of longter­mist policy making

Henrik Øberg Myhre10 Feb 2021 18:26 UTC
54 points
7 comments22 min readEA link

Re­port on Run­ning a Fore­cast­ing Tour­na­ment at an EA Retreat

Hmash20 Feb 2021 5:55 UTC
52 points
4 comments17 min readEA link

A frame­work for dis­cussing EA with peo­ple out­side the community

Aaron Boddy🔸1 Feb 2021 16:11 UTC
48 points
10 comments9 min readEA link

Se­cond Ci­ti­zen­ships, Res­i­den­cies, and/​or Tem­po­rary Relocation

Josh Jacobson16 Feb 2021 19:23 UTC
48 points
3 comments35 min readEA link

[Link post] Are we ap­proach­ing the sin­gu­lar­ity?

John G. Halstead13 Feb 2021 11:04 UTC
48 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Con­tact with reality

Joe_Carlsmith15 Feb 2021 4:53 UTC
47 points
4 comments21 min readEA link

Dutch anti-trust reg­u­la­tor bans pro-an­i­mal welfare chicken cartel

Dale24 Feb 2021 15:44 UTC
47 points
13 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lexology.com)

Fore­cast­ing Prize Results

NunoSempere19 Feb 2021 19:07 UTC
44 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Open thread: Get/​give feed­back on ca­reer plans

MichaelA🔸12 Feb 2021 7:35 UTC
43 points
19 comments2 min readEA link

The Trou­bling Ethics of Writ­ing (A Speech from An­cient Sumer)

Cullen 🔸15 Feb 2021 20:17 UTC
43 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Re­ten­tion in EA—Part I: Sur­vey Data

Ben_West🔸5 Feb 2021 19:09 UTC
41 points
16 comments6 min readEA link

Run­ning an AMA on the EA Forum

Aaron Gertler 🔸18 Feb 2021 1:44 UTC
38 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Blame­wor­thi­ness for Avoid­able Psy­cholog­i­cal Harms

Cullen 🔸9 Feb 2021 2:46 UTC
38 points
13 comments9 min readEA link

EA Up­dates for March 2021

DavidNash26 Feb 2021 11:35 UTC
37 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Re­ten­tion in EA—Part III: Re­ten­tion Comparisons

Ben_West🔸5 Feb 2021 19:02 UTC
37 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

Re­ten­tion in EA—Part II: Pos­si­ble Projects

Ben_West🔸5 Feb 2021 19:09 UTC
36 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Ex­pe­ri­en­tial­ist The­o­ries of Well-Being

andzuck19 Feb 2021 20:26 UTC
34 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Vot­ing open for Pro­ject for Awe­some 2021!

Michael St Jules 🔸12 Feb 2021 2:22 UTC
33 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

A brief ex­pla­na­tion of the Myan­mar coup

Timothy_Liptrot2 Feb 2021 15:47 UTC
32 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Let’s Fund Liv­ing re­view: 2020 update

Hauke Hillebrandt12 Feb 2021 18:49 UTC
31 points
12 comments6 min readEA link

My job is available: Fi­nance and Data Lead at CEA!

Ben5 Feb 2021 17:23 UTC
28 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Alter­na­tives to donor lotteries

HaydnBelfield14 Feb 2021 18:02 UTC
27 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

Assess­ing Cli­mate Change’s Con­tri­bu­tion to Global Catas­trophic Risk

HaydnBelfield19 Feb 2021 16:26 UTC
27 points
8 comments37 min readEA link

EA Fo­rum Prize: Win­ners for De­cem­ber 2020

Aaron Gertler 🔸16 Feb 2021 8:46 UTC
26 points
1 comment7 min readEA link