EA is a Ca­reer Endpoint

DirectedEvolution14 May 2021 23:58 UTC
109 points
36 comments4 min readEA link

What’s wrong with the EA-al­igned re­search pipeline?

MichaelA🔸14 May 2021 18:38 UTC
70 points
21 comments7 min readEA link

Seven things that sur­prised us in our first year work­ing in policy—Lead Ex­po­sure Elimi­na­tion Pro­ject

Jack14 May 2021 9:40 UTC
243 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

Limited-tenure con­ces­sions for col­lec­tive goods

VictorSintNicolaas14 May 2021 9:03 UTC
7 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Vi­talik Bu­terin just donated $54M (in ETH) to GiveWell

IanDavidMoss14 May 2021 1:30 UTC
72 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Tim Fer­riss, Michael Pol­lan, and Dr. Matthew W. John­son on psychedelics re­search and philanthropy

Aaron Gertler 🔸13 May 2021 17:48 UTC
149 points
181 comments3 min readEA link

Leah Gar­cés on turn­ing ad­ver­saries into al­lies to change the chicken industry

80000_Hours13 May 2021 16:04 UTC
8 points
0 comments103 min readEA link

Effec­tive Th­e­sis is hiring pro­ject man­ager and con­tent manager

DavidJanku13 May 2021 12:53 UTC
30 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Would any­one be able to help me de­cide be­tween Eco­nomics PhD offers?

anonymousecon13 May 2021 11:47 UTC
6 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

CEA’s Com­mu­nity Build­ing Grants are be­com­ing more tar­geted; the EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund will start eval­u­at­ing grants for some EA groups

Uni Groups Team12 May 2021 16:20 UTC
33 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

The Im­pos­si­bil­ity of a Satis­fac­tory Pop­u­la­tion Prospect Axiology

EJT12 May 2021 15:35 UTC
36 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(link.springer.com)

UK gov­ern­ment plan for an­i­mal welfare

Matt_Sharp12 May 2021 13:50 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

EA Groups Sur­vey 2020

David_Moss12 May 2021 8:36 UTC
61 points
13 comments14 min readEA link

Wild An­i­mal Ini­ti­a­tive is hiring a Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Manager

Wild_Animal_Initiative11 May 2021 23:04 UTC
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Look­ing for: post-COVID pan­demic pre­pared­ness initiatives

jmw11 May 2021 18:34 UTC
14 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing the EA-al­igned re­search pipeline: Se­quence introduction

MichaelA🔸11 May 2021 17:57 UTC
63 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

Should some­one start a grass­roots cam­paign for USA to recog­nise the State of Pales­tine?

freedomandutility11 May 2021 15:29 UTC
−2 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Epistemic Trade: A quick proof sketch with one example

Linch11 May 2021 9:05 UTC
19 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

Early signs show that you gave more in 2020 than 2019—thank you!

GiveWell11 May 2021 7:00 UTC
7 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

The Promise and Per­ils of In­sect Farming

EA Forum Archives10 May 2021 7:00 UTC
18 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(eepurl.com)

Is SARS-CoV-2 a mod­ern Greek Tragedy?

Matt Boyd10 May 2021 4:25 UTC
8 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Cleaner Fish: A Ne­glected Is­sue Within A Ne­glected Issue

Martine Klock Fleten9 May 2021 9:32 UTC
53 points
0 comments10 min readEA link
(faunalytics.org)

How Epicte­tus May Help an Effec­tive Altruist

Xing Shi Cai8 May 2021 17:18 UTC
12 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Be­ing Vo­cal About What Works

aaronmayer8 May 2021 16:59 UTC
46 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

In­ter­view with Chris­tine M. Kors­gaard: An­i­mal Ethics, Kan­ti­anism, Utilitarianism

Erich_Grunewald 🔸8 May 2021 11:44 UTC
16 points
10 comments1 min readEA link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Mar­ket de­sign to ac­cel­er­ate COVID-19 vac­cine supply

VictorSintNicolaas8 May 2021 9:18 UTC
6 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

An­i­mal Welfare Fund: Ask us any­thing!

kierangreig🔸7 May 2021 19:54 UTC
63 points
130 comments2 min readEA link

Re­quest For Pro­pos­als: EA An­i­mal Welfare Fund

kierangreig🔸7 May 2021 19:50 UTC
67 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

[3-hour pod­cast]: Milan Cirkovic on the ethics of aliens, as­tro­biol­ogy and civ­i­liza­tions el­se­where in the universe

Gus Docker7 May 2021 14:32 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

[Question] Are global pan­demics go­ing to be more likely or less likely over the next 100 years?

freedomandutility6 May 2021 23:48 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Who could ad­vise on eval­u­at­ing and driv­ing so­cial im­pact for a high-lev­er­age tech­nol­ogy provider for non-prof­its?

mifeet6 May 2021 23:11 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Has any­one checked out Noora Health?

dspeyer6 May 2021 21:49 UTC
53 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Best places to donate?

TomAtlanta6 May 2021 17:07 UTC
6 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

End­ing The War on Drugs—A New Cause For Effec­tive Altru­ists?

MichaelPlant6 May 2021 13:18 UTC
123 points
20 comments2 min readEA link
(www.newstatesman.com)

Chris­tian Tarsney on fu­ture bias and a pos­si­ble solu­tion to moral fanaticism

Pablo6 May 2021 10:39 UTC
26 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Should you do a PhD in sci­ence?

Xing Shi Cai5 May 2021 22:35 UTC
8 points
19 comments2 min readEA link

Chris­tian Tarsney on fu­ture bias and a pos­si­ble solu­tion to moral fanaticism

80000_Hours5 May 2021 19:38 UTC
7 points
0 comments113 min readEA link

[Question] Should EAs in the U.S. fo­cus more on fed­eral or state/​lo­cal poli­tics?

Eevee🔹5 May 2021 8:33 UTC
12 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Three char­i­ta­ble recom­men­da­tions for COVID-19 in India

Tejas Subramaniam5 May 2021 8:23 UTC
71 points
28 comments9 min readEA link

May 5th Event: Democ­racy, Altru­ism, & the Ethics of Transna­tional Aid

Mahendra Prasad5 May 2021 5:33 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

How to iden­tify your lo­cal high im­pact ca­reer op­por­tu­ni­ties—pro­cess and tips from EA Sweden

Gab4 May 2021 18:54 UTC
73 points
6 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] How many times would nu­clear weapons have been used if ev­ery state had them since 1950?

eca4 May 2021 15:34 UTC
16 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Open Thread: May 2021

Aaron Gertler 🔸4 May 2021 8:26 UTC
14 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Five Books of Peter Singer which Changed My Life

Xing Shi Cai4 May 2021 8:07 UTC
23 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

Try­ing to as­sess the effec­tive­ness of COVID-19 char­i­ties in India

gotech4 May 2021 7:42 UTC
34 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Re­think Pri­ori­ties is hiring a Re­search Pro­ject and Hiring Man­ager to ac­cel­er­ate its research

abrahamrowe3 May 2021 20:26 UTC
24 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Thoughts on “A case against strong longter­mism” (Mas­rani)

MichaelA🔸3 May 2021 14:22 UTC
39 points
33 comments2 min readEA link

Small and Vulnerable

sapphire3 May 2021 6:08 UTC
278 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] What is your per­spec­tive on the on­go­ing farmer protests and strikes in In­dia over the dra­matic changes the gov­ern­ment has in­tro­duced into the econ­omy?

Evan_Gaensbauer3 May 2021 0:35 UTC
14 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Thoughts on “The Case for Strong Longter­mism” (Greaves & MacAskill)

MichaelA🔸2 May 2021 18:00 UTC
30 points
21 comments2 min readEA link