Hav­ing a suc­cess­ful ca­reer with de­pres­sion, anx­iety and im­poster syndrome

80000_Hours19 May 2021 20:31 UTC
13 points
0 comments131 min readEA link

New In­ter­dis­ci­plinary Con­fer­ence on Un­der­stand­ing and Pro­mot­ing Effec­tive Altru­ism—Register now!

RationalityEnhancementGroup19 May 2021 17:03 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

‘Are We Doomed?’ Memos

Miranda_Zhang19 May 2021 13:51 UTC
27 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

What gives me hope

Michelle_Hutchinson19 May 2021 10:00 UTC
209 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Dou­ble crux: a strat­egy for mu­tual understanding

Jesse Rothman18 May 2021 23:00 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] What are things ev­ery­one here should (maybe) read?

Max_Daniel18 May 2021 18:34 UTC
18 points
48 comments1 min readEA link

My at­tempt to think about AI timelines

Ben Snodin18 May 2021 17:05 UTC
53 points
20 comments9 min readEA link

Move­ment Build­ing: Char­ity Elec­tions for High Schoolers

greg.gianopoulos18 May 2021 14:33 UTC
18 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Should Chronic Pain be a cause area?

mariushobbhahn18 May 2021 11:31 UTC
69 points
12 comments12 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the UK Covid-19 Crowd Fore­cast­ing Challenge

nikos17 May 2021 19:28 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

In­sights into men­tor­ing from WANBAM

KMF17 May 2021 17:46 UTC
78 points
11 comments4 min readEA link

New Job: Man­ager at Giv­ing Green

Dan Stein17 May 2021 4:24 UTC
32 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Don’t we need poli­ti­cal ac­tion rather than char­ity?

Luke Freeman17 May 2021 1:13 UTC
11 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

[Question] Should aid or­ga­ni­za­tions ac­cept ETH dona­tions?

Xing Shi Cai16 May 2021 23:48 UTC
−11 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Sav­ing Aver­age Utili­tar­i­anism from Tarsney - Self-Indi­ca­tion As­sump­tion can­cels solip­sis­tic swamp­ing.

wuschel16 May 2021 13:47 UTC
10 points
13 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Why should we *not* put effort into AI safety re­search?

Ben Thompson16 May 2021 5:11 UTC
15 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is cap­i­tal­ism the root of all evil?

Ayman15 May 2021 16:32 UTC
−17 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

[Link] 80,000 Hours Nov 2020 an­nual review

Benjamin_Todd15 May 2021 16:28 UTC
37 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] What harm could AI safety do?

SeanEngelhart15 May 2021 1:11 UTC
12 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

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