Don’t Be Bycatch

DirectedEvolution10 Mar 2021 5:28 UTC
366 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

What Makes Outreach to Pro­gres­sives Hard

Cullen 🔸14 Mar 2021 0:32 UTC
301 points
76 comments9 min readEA link

Some quick notes on “effec­tive al­tru­ism”

Jonas V24 Mar 2021 15:30 UTC
208 points
89 comments3 min readEA link

Is Democ­racy a Fad?

bgarfinkel13 Mar 2021 12:40 UTC
165 points
36 comments18 min readEA link

EA Funds is more flex­ible than you might think

Jonas V5 Mar 2021 9:35 UTC
158 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

I scraped all pub­lic “Effec­tive Altru­ists” Goodreads read­ing lists

MaxRa23 Mar 2021 20:28 UTC
157 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

How to run a high-en­ergy read­ing group

Tessa A 🔸1 Mar 2021 2:38 UTC
145 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

Re­sponse to Tor­res’ ‘The Case Against Longter­mism’

HaydnBelfield8 Mar 2021 18:09 UTC
138 points
73 comments5 min readEA link

A Biose­cu­rity and Biorisk Read­ing+ List

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

In­tro­duc­ing Metafore­cast: A Fore­cast Ag­gre­ga­tor and Search Tool

NunoSempere7 Mar 2021 19:03 UTC
132 points
17 comments4 min readEA link

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

abergal29 Mar 2021 1:46 UTC
127 points
22 comments1 min readEA link

Our plans for host­ing an EA wiki on the Forum

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

How much does perfor­mance differ be­tween peo­ple?

Max_Daniel25 Mar 2021 22:56 UTC
119 points
77 comments6 min readEA link

How to PhD

eca28 Mar 2021 19:56 UTC
118 points
28 comments11 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the Si­mon In­sti­tute for Longterm Gover­nance (SI)

maxime29 Mar 2021 18:10 UTC
116 points
23 comments11 min readEA link

Early Alpha Ver­sion of the Prob­a­bly Good Website

omernevo1 Mar 2021 15:13 UTC
114 points
18 comments1 min readEA link

A full syl­labus on longtermism

jtm5 Mar 2021 22:57 UTC
110 points
13 comments8 min readEA link

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

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

On fu­ture peo­ple, look­ing back at 21st cen­tury longtermism

Joe_Carlsmith22 Mar 2021 8:21 UTC
102 points
13 comments12 min readEA link

For­mal­is­ing the “Wash­ing Out Hy­poth­e­sis”

dwebb25 Mar 2021 11:40 UTC
101 points
27 comments12 min readEA link

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

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

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

DirectedEvolution25 Mar 2021 18:23 UTC
95 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

Against neu­tral­ity about cre­at­ing happy lives

Joe_Carlsmith15 Mar 2021 1:54 UTC
95 points
37 comments11 min readEA link

To­tal Fund­ing by Cause Area

TylerMaule7 Mar 2021 22:06 UTC
94 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

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

Sanjay18 Mar 2021 14:07 UTC
92 points
6 comments29 min readEA link

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

richard_ngo30 Mar 2021 9:55 UTC
91 points
24 comments1 min readEA link

Pos­si­ble mis­con­cep­tions about (strong) longtermism

JackM9 Mar 2021 17:58 UTC
90 points
43 comments19 min readEA link

Rel­a­tive Im­pact of the First 10 EA Fo­rum Prize Winners

NunoSempere16 Mar 2021 17:11 UTC
88 points
35 comments18 min readEA link

Pro­ject For Awe­some 2021 was a suc­cess!

AnnieAB24 Mar 2021 20:45 UTC
78 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

EA Funds has ap­pointed new fund managers

Jonas V23 Mar 2021 10:55 UTC
76 points
33 comments11 min readEA link

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

EdoArad4 Mar 2021 16:57 UTC
75 points
16 comments7 min readEA link

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

Tom Chivers10 Mar 2021 10:15 UTC
73 points
82 comments1 min readEA link

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

Sanjay18 Mar 2021 13:54 UTC
72 points
5 comments7 min readEA link

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

Kat Woods18 Mar 2021 14:07 UTC
71 points
32 comments5 min readEA link

The Im­por­tance of Ar­tifi­cial Sentience

Jamie_Harris3 Mar 2021 17:17 UTC
70 points
10 comments11 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Can a Ve­gan Diet Be Healthy? A Liter­a­ture Review

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

EA for Jews—Pro­posal and Re­quest for Comment

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

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

Tom_Davidson26 Mar 2021 17:46 UTC
62 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Poli­tics is far too meta

RobBensinger17 Mar 2021 23:57 UTC
58 points
9 comments12 min readEA link

Why Hasn’t Effec­tive Altru­ism Grown Since 2015?

AppliedDivinityStudies9 Mar 2021 14:43 UTC
58 points
35 comments9 min readEA link

[Link post] Co­or­di­na­tion challenges for pre­vent­ing AI conflict

stefan.torges9 Mar 2021 9:39 UTC
58 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(longtermrisk.org)

FAQ: UK Civil Ser­vice Job Applications

Kirsten27 Mar 2021 18:34 UTC
56 points
28 comments3 min readEA link

Some blindspots in ra­tio­nal­ity and effec­tive altruism

Remmelt21 Mar 2021 18:01 UTC
54 points
6 comments14 min readEA link

Care and demandingness

Joe_Carlsmith8 Mar 2021 6:59 UTC
54 points
2 comments11 min readEA link

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

JP Addison🔸12 Mar 2021 22:54 UTC
53 points
56 comments1 min readEA link

Strong Ev­i­dence is Common

Mark Xu14 Mar 2021 1:19 UTC
50 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(markxu.com)

Miss­ing Mar­ket: Sus­tain­able Afri­can ETF

James Bailey3 Mar 2021 14:57 UTC
50 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

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

FGH28 Mar 2021 7:27 UTC
47 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Some thoughts on Pa­tient Longtermism

nora15 Mar 2021 9:13 UTC
46 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

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

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