Don’t Be Bycatch

DirectedEvolutionMar 10, 2021, 5:28 AM
369 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

What Makes Outreach to Pro­gres­sives Hard

Cullen 🔸Mar 14, 2021, 12:32 AM
302 points
76 comments9 min readEA link

Some quick notes on “effec­tive al­tru­ism”

Jonas VMar 24, 2021, 3:30 PM
209 points
89 comments3 min readEA link

Is Democ­racy a Fad?

bgarfinkelMar 13, 2021, 12:40 PM
165 points
36 comments18 min readEA link

I scraped all pub­lic “Effec­tive Altru­ists” Goodreads read­ing lists

MaxRaMar 23, 2021, 8:28 PM
160 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

EA Funds is more flex­ible than you might think

Jonas VMar 5, 2021, 9:35 AM
158 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

How to run a high-en­ergy read­ing group

Tessa A 🔸Mar 1, 2021, 2:38 AM
146 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

Re­sponse to Tor­res’ ‘The Case Against Longter­mism’

HaydnBelfieldMar 8, 2021, 6:09 PM
138 points
73 comments5 min readEA link

A Biose­cu­rity and Biorisk Read­ing+ List

Tessa A 🔸Mar 14, 2021, 2:30 AM
135 points
13 comments12 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing Metafore­cast: A Fore­cast Ag­gre­ga­tor and Search Tool

NunoSempereMar 7, 2021, 7:03 PM
132 points
17 comments4 min readEA link

Our plans for host­ing an EA wiki on the Forum

Aaron Gertler 🔸Mar 2, 2021, 12:45 PM
127 points
74 comments5 min readEA link

The Long-Term Fu­ture Fund has room for more fund­ing, right now

abergalMar 29, 2021, 1:46 AM
127 points
22 comments1 min readEA link

How much does perfor­mance differ be­tween peo­ple?

Max_DanielMar 25, 2021, 10:56 PM
119 points
77 comments6 min readEA link

How to PhD

ecaMar 28, 2021, 7:56 PM
118 points
28 comments11 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the Si­mon In­sti­tute for Longterm Gover­nance (SI)

maximeMar 29, 2021, 6:10 PM
116 points
23 comments11 min readEA link

Early Alpha Ver­sion of the Prob­a­bly Good Website

omernevoMar 1, 2021, 3:13 PM
114 points
18 comments1 min readEA link

A full syl­labus on longtermism

jtmMar 5, 2021, 10:57 PM
110 points
13 comments8 min readEA link

What drew me to EA: Reflec­tions on EA as re­lief, growth, and community

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸Mar 26, 2021, 3:04 AM
103 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

On fu­ture peo­ple, look­ing back at 21st cen­tury longtermism

Joe_CarlsmithMar 22, 2021, 8:21 AM
102 points
13 comments12 min readEA link

For­mal­is­ing the “Wash­ing Out Hy­poth­e­sis”

dwebbMar 25, 2021, 11:40 AM
101 points
27 comments12 min readEA link

Notes on EA-re­lated re­search, writ­ing, test­ing fit, learn­ing, and the Forum

MichaelA🔸Mar 27, 2021, 9:52 AM
98 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

Against neu­tral­ity about cre­at­ing happy lives

Joe_CarlsmithMar 15, 2021, 1:54 AM
95 points
37 comments11 min readEA link

Why I pre­fer “Effec­tive Altru­ism” to “Global Pri­ori­ties”

DirectedEvolutionMar 25, 2021, 6:23 PM
95 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

To­tal Fund­ing by Cause Area

TylerMauleMar 7, 2021, 10:06 PM
94 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

ESG in­vest­ing isn’t high-im­pact, but it could be

SanjayMar 18, 2021, 2:07 PM
92 points
6 comments29 min readEA link

[Question] What are your main reser­va­tions about iden­ti­fy­ing as an effec­tive al­tru­ist?

richard_ngoMar 30, 2021, 9:55 AM
91 points
24 comments1 min readEA link

Pos­si­ble mis­con­cep­tions about (strong) longtermism

JackMMar 9, 2021, 5:58 PM
90 points
43 comments19 min readEA link

Rel­a­tive Im­pact of the First 10 EA Fo­rum Prize Winners

NunoSempereMar 16, 2021, 5:11 PM
88 points
35 comments18 min readEA link

Pro­ject For Awe­some 2021 was a suc­cess!

AnnieABMar 24, 2021, 8:45 PM
78 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

EA Funds has ap­pointed new fund managers

Jonas VMar 23, 2021, 10:55 AM
76 points
33 comments11 min readEA link

Do­ing Good Badly? - Michael Plant’s the­sis, Chap­ters 5,6 on Cause Pri­ori­ti­za­tion

EdoAradMar 4, 2021, 4:57 PM
75 points
16 comments7 min readEA link

AMA: Tom Chivers, sci­ence writer, sci­ence ed­i­tor at UnHerd

Tom ChiversMar 10, 2021, 10:15 AM
73 points
82 comments1 min readEA link

The $100trn op­por­tu­nity: ESG in­vest­ing should be a top pri­or­ity for EA careers

SanjayMar 18, 2021, 1:54 PM
72 points
5 comments7 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing The Non­lin­ear Fund: AI Safety re­search, in­cu­ba­tion, and funding

Kat WoodsMar 18, 2021, 2:07 PM
71 points
32 comments5 min readEA link

The Im­por­tance of Ar­tifi­cial Sentience

Jamie_HarrisMar 3, 2021, 5:17 PM
70 points
10 comments11 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Can a Ve­gan Diet Be Healthy? A Liter­a­ture Review

Erich_Grunewald 🔸Mar 12, 2021, 12:47 PM
65 points
21 comments11 min readEA link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

EA for Jews—Pro­posal and Re­quest for Comment

🔸✨BSman ✨🔸Mar 28, 2021, 12:42 PM
62 points
29 comments5 min readEA link

Re­port on Semi-in­for­ma­tive Pri­ors for AI timelines (Open Philan­thropy)

Tom_DavidsonMar 26, 2021, 5:46 PM
62 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Poli­tics is far too meta

RobBensingerMar 17, 2021, 11:57 PM
58 points
9 comments12 min readEA link

Why Hasn’t Effec­tive Altru­ism Grown Since 2015?

AppliedDivinityStudiesMar 9, 2021, 2:43 PM
58 points
35 comments9 min readEA link

[Link post] Co­or­di­na­tion challenges for pre­vent­ing AI conflict

stefan.torgesMar 9, 2021, 9:39 AM
58 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(longtermrisk.org)

FAQ: UK Civil Ser­vice Job Applications

KirstenMar 27, 2021, 6:34 PM
56 points
28 comments3 min readEA link

Some blindspots in ra­tio­nal­ity and effec­tive altruism

RemmeltMar 21, 2021, 6:01 PM
55 points
6 comments14 min readEA link

Care and demandingness

Joe_CarlsmithMar 8, 2021, 6:59 AM
54 points
2 comments11 min readEA link

AMA: JP Ad­di­son and Sam Deere on soft­ware en­g­ineer­ing at CEA

JP Addison🔸Mar 12, 2021, 10:54 PM
53 points
56 comments1 min readEA link

Strong Ev­i­dence is Common

Mark XuMar 14, 2021, 1:19 AM
50 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(markxu.com)

Miss­ing Mar­ket: Sus­tain­able Afri­can ETF

James BaileyMar 3, 2021, 2:57 PM
50 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

An­i­mal-free pro­teins: A bright out­look and a to-do list (BCG re­port)

FGHMar 28, 2021, 7:27 AM
47 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Some thoughts on Pa­tient Longtermism

noraMar 15, 2021, 9:13 AM
46 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Lay­man’s Sum­mary of Re­solv­ing Pas­cal­lian De­ci­sion Prob­lems with Stochas­tic Dominance

Ben_West🔸Mar 12, 2021, 3:51 AM
45 points
11 comments5 min readEA link