An­nounc­ing “Nam­ing What We Can”!

Gidi KadoshApr 1, 2021, 10:17 AM
367 points
73 comments2 min readEA link

Con­cerns with ACE’s Re­cent Behavior

HypatiaApr 17, 2021, 5:00 PM
274 points
149 comments11 min readEA link

“Hinge of His­tory” Refuted

Thomas KwaApr 1, 2021, 7:00 AM
174 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

[New org] Can­ning What We Give

BenApr 1, 2021, 6:32 AM
128 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

How I got an en­try-level role in Congress

new_stafferApr 12, 2021, 4:10 AM
121 points
6 comments9 min readEA link

Avoid­ing the Repug­nant Con­clu­sion is not nec­es­sary for pop­u­la­tion ethics: new many-au­thor col­lab­o­ra­tion.

deanspearsApr 14, 2021, 12:48 AM
114 points
16 comments1 min readEA link
(deanspears.medium.com)

Strate­gic con­sid­er­a­tions for up­com­ing EU farmed an­i­mal legislation

Neil_Dullaghan🔹 Apr 13, 2021, 3:00 PM
111 points
2 comments42 min readEA link

The EA Fo­rum Edit­ing Fes­ti­val has be­gun!

Aaron Gertler 🔸Apr 7, 2021, 10:28 AM
97 points
29 comments5 min readEA link

CEA up­date: Q1 2021

MaxDaltonApr 22, 2021, 5:36 AM
93 points
29 comments14 min readEA link
(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

Biol­ogy pro­ject in search of first au­thor: imag­ing the brain of pop­u­lar farmed in­sect Black Soldier Fly

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸Apr 9, 2021, 6:19 PM
90 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Draft re­port on ex­is­ten­tial risk from power-seek­ing AI

Joe_CarlsmithApr 28, 2021, 9:41 PM
88 points
34 comments1 min readEA link

2020 An­nual Re­view from the Hap­pier Lives Institute

ClareDonaldsonApr 26, 2021, 1:25 PM
85 points
10 comments19 min readEA link

The Epistemic Challenge to Longter­mism (Tarsney, 2020)

MichaelA🔸Apr 4, 2021, 3:09 AM
79 points
27 comments2 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

RCTs in Devel­op­ment Eco­nomics, Their Crit­ics and Their Evolu­tion (Og­den, 2020) [linkpost]

KarolinaSarek🔸Apr 6, 2021, 12:29 PM
78 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

On the longter­mist case for work­ing on farmed an­i­mals [Uncer­tain­ties & re­search ideas]

MichaelA🔸Apr 11, 2021, 6:49 AM
78 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

Get­ting a feel for changes of karma and con­tro­versy in the EA Fo­rum over time

FJehnApr 7, 2021, 7:49 AM
75 points
20 comments4 min readEA link

Silk pro­duc­tion: global scale and an­i­mal welfare is­sues

abrahamroweApr 20, 2021, 1:38 AM
75 points
9 comments16 min readEA link

Why we want to start a char­ity for­tify­ing feed for hens (founders needed)

KarolinaSarek🔸Apr 19, 2021, 4:47 PM
74 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

Wild An­i­mal Ini­ti­a­tive fea­tured in Vox

Wild_Animal_InitiativeApr 21, 2021, 5:58 PM
70 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(www.wildanimalinitiative.org)

Sum­mer Re­search In­tern­ship: Stan­ford Ex­is­ten­tial Risks Ini­ti­a­tive, Dead­line April 21st

kuhanjApr 16, 2021, 10:33 PM
68 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] New Oxford Malaria Vac­cine Shows ~75% Effi­cacy in Ini­tial Trial with Infants

LinchApr 23, 2021, 11:50 PM
62 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(papers.ssrn.com)

Spears & Bu­dolf­son, ‘Repug­nant con­clu­sions’

PabloApr 4, 2021, 4:09 PM
61 points
14 comments1 min readEA link
(doi.org)

[Question] Is there ev­i­dence that recom­mender sys­tems are chang­ing users’ prefer­ences?

zdgroffApr 12, 2021, 7:11 PM
60 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Why we want to start a shrimp welfare char­ity (founders needed)

KarolinaSarek🔸Apr 16, 2021, 3:57 PM
60 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Real­ity has a sur­pris­ing amount of detail

Aaron Gertler 🔸Apr 11, 2021, 9:41 PM
57 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(johnsalvatier.org)

Case stud­ies of self-gov­er­nance to re­duce tech­nol­ogy risk

jiaApr 6, 2021, 8:49 AM
55 points
6 comments7 min readEA link

My per­sonal cruxes for fo­cus­ing on ex­is­ten­tial risks /​ longter­mism /​ any­thing other than just video games

MichaelA🔸Apr 13, 2021, 5:50 AM
55 points
28 comments3 min readEA link

Mea­sur­ing An­i­mal Welfare: Philo­soph­i­cal Foun­da­tions, Prac­ti­cal Indi­ca­tors, and Over­all Assess­ments

Animal AskApr 15, 2021, 10:33 AM
53 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Sta­tus up­date: Get­ting money out of poli­tics and into charity

Eric NeymanApr 7, 2021, 10:31 PM
52 points
16 comments2 min readEA link

Non-phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal in­ter­ven­tions in pan­demic pre­pared­ness and response

Anon-biosec-accountApr 8, 2021, 2:13 PM
51 points
16 comments12 min readEA link

Share your views on the scope of im­prov­ing in­sti­tu­tional de­ci­sion-mak­ing as a cause area

Vicky ClaytonApr 14, 2021, 6:06 PM
49 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

On Sleep Pro­cras­ti­na­tion: Go­ing To Bed At A Rea­son­able Hour

emily.fanApr 16, 2021, 11:31 PM
47 points
9 comments8 min readEA link

Launch­ing a new re­source: ‘Effec­tive Altru­ism: An In­tro­duc­tion’

80000_HoursApr 15, 2021, 9:01 PM
47 points
54 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] New Top EA Causes for 2021?

MichaelA🔸Apr 1, 2021, 6:50 AM
47 points
29 comments1 min readEA link

EA Malaysia Cause Pri­ori­ti­sa­tion Re­port (2021)

Yi-YangApr 24, 2021, 5:48 AM
45 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

Why AI is Harder Than We Think—Me­lanie Mitchell

Eevee🔹Apr 28, 2021, 8:19 AM
45 points
7 comments2 min readEA link
(arxiv.org)

Talk­ing With a Biose­cu­rity Pro­fes­sional (Quick Notes)

DirectedEvolutionApr 10, 2021, 4:23 AM
45 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

So­cial Move­ment Les­sons from the Fair Trade Movement

Jamie_HarrisApr 2, 2021, 10:51 AM
44 points
0 comments41 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

[Question] Is the cur­rent defi­ni­tion of EA not rep­re­sen­ta­tive of hits-based giv­ing?

VenkateshApr 26, 2021, 4:37 AM
44 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

EA Fo­rum Prize: Win­ners for Jan­uary 2021

Aaron Gertler 🔸Apr 2, 2021, 2:58 AM
43 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Tips for Choos­ing En­ter­prise Software

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸Apr 9, 2021, 1:37 PM
42 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

(Closed) Seek­ing (paid) vol­un­teers to test in­tro­duc­tory EA content

Aaron Gertler 🔸Apr 22, 2021, 12:10 PM
41 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

How we averted 130,000 an­i­mal deaths (in ex­pec­ta­tion) with a vol­un­teer cam­paign.

JamesÖz 🔸Apr 5, 2021, 7:50 AM
41 points
19 comments11 min readEA link

Meta-EA Needs Models

Mark XuApr 5, 2021, 9:59 PM
39 points
7 comments4 min readEA link
(markxu.com)

[Question] Mun­dane trou­ble with EV /​ utility

Ben EscheApr 3, 2021, 7:51 AM
38 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

A new pro­posal for reg­u­lat­ing AI in the EU

EdoAradApr 26, 2021, 5:25 PM
37 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.bbc.com)

Why SoGive is not up­dat­ing char­ity rat­ings af­ter malaria vac­cine news

SanjayApr 23, 2021, 8:39 PM
36 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: April 2021

Aaron Gertler 🔸Apr 28, 2021, 10:52 AM
32 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] What does failure look like?

Eevee🔹Apr 9, 2021, 10:05 PM
32 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

EA Fo­rum Prize: Win­ners for Fe­bru­ary 2021

Aaron Gertler 🔸Apr 27, 2021, 9:32 AM
32 points
1 comment7 min readEA link