[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

[Question] How do you stay emo­tion­ally mo­ti­vated while work­ing on highly spe­cific prob­lems?

Dawn Drescher2 May 2021 14:22 UTC
18 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

The State of the World — and Why Mon­keys are Smarter than You

JSOD2 May 2021 10:49 UTC
7 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Should al­tru­is­tic health be at the fore­front of our so­ciety?

Felix Rudfeldt2 May 2021 9:11 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: April 2021

NunoSempere1 May 2021 15:58 UTC
21 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

[Linkpost] How Hu­man­ity Gave It­self an Ex­tra Life—NYT

DM1 May 2021 7:34 UTC
10 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] If you had a large amount of money (at least $1M) to spend on philan­thropy, how would you spend it?

Eevee🔹1 May 2021 0:27 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Effec­tive dona­tions for COVID-19 in India

Tejas Subramaniam30 Apr 2021 20:30 UTC
32 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

EA Up­dates for May 2021

DavidNash30 Apr 2021 16:50 UTC
29 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Do not go gen­tle: why the Asym­me­try does not sup­port anti-natalism

Global Priorities Institute30 Apr 2021 13:26 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Eco­nomic in­equal­ity and the long-term future

Global Priorities Institute30 Apr 2021 13:26 UTC
11 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Could GiveWell cre­ate a cryp­tocur­rency to raise a lot of money?

spreadlove568330 Apr 2021 5:53 UTC
−6 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Thoughts on be­ing overqual­ified for EA positions

Ben_West🔸30 Apr 2021 3:19 UTC
118 points
24 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] How do you com­pare hu­man and an­i­mal suffer­ing?

Harry Taussig29 Apr 2021 18:19 UTC
29 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost]: Ger­man judges or­der gov­ern­ment to strengthen leg­is­la­tion be­fore end of year to pro­tect fu­ture generations

axioman29 Apr 2021 16:47 UTC
16 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

BERI seek­ing new collaborators

sawyer🔸29 Apr 2021 16:34 UTC
25 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Why We Need Abun­dant Housing

leonoraahla29 Apr 2021 7:45 UTC
4 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

4/​29/​2021: GiveWell Board Mem­ber, EA Global Speaker, & Hewlett Foun­da­tion Pro­gram Officer, Norma Alt­shuler, is Giv­ing Ca­reer Ad­vice & Q&A for those in­ter­ested in Philan­thropy or Global Devel­op­ment Ca­reers

Mahendra Prasad29 Apr 2021 3:25 UTC
6 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

De­fus­ing the miti­ga­tion ob­struc­tion ar­gu­ment against geo­eng­ineer­ing and car­bon diox­ide removal

kbog29 Apr 2021 3:20 UTC
20 points
8 comments11 min readEA link

Draft re­port on ex­is­ten­tial risk from power-seek­ing AI

Joe_Carlsmith28 Apr 2021 21:41 UTC
88 points
34 comments1 min readEA link

Pro­ject: An on­line Mar­ket­place built on an Altru­isitc Profit Model

FelixMoo28 Apr 2021 15:53 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Has any­one done any work on how donat­ing to lab grown meat re­search (https://​new-har­vest.org/​) might com­pare to Giv­ing Green’s recom­men­da­tions for fight­ing cli­mate change?

freedomandutility28 Apr 2021 12:02 UTC
6 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: April 2021

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

Why AI is Harder Than We Think—Me­lanie Mitchell

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

[Question] What pre­vi­ous work has been done on fac­tors that af­fect the pace of tech­nolog­i­cal de­vel­op­ment?

Megan Kinniment27 Apr 2021 18:43 UTC
21 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Are mice or rats (as pests) a po­ten­tial area of an­i­mal welfare im­prove­ment?

Ben27 Apr 2021 11:30 UTC
17 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

EA Fo­rum Prize: Win­ners for Fe­bru­ary 2021

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

A new pro­posal for reg­u­lat­ing AI in the EU

EdoArad26 Apr 2021 17:25 UTC
37 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.bbc.com)

[Question] What are your fa­vorite ex­am­ples of moral hero­ism/​al­tru­ism in movies and books?

Caro26 Apr 2021 16:26 UTC
26 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

2020 An­nual Re­view from the Hap­pier Lives Institute

ClareDonaldson26 Apr 2021 13:25 UTC
85 points
10 comments19 min readEA link

Which helped more? (Donat­ing to AMF in 2010 or 2020)

ethankennerly26 Apr 2021 4:39 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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

Venkatesh26 Apr 2021 4:37 UTC
44 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Nat­u­ral­ism and AI alignment

Michele Campolo24 Apr 2021 16:20 UTC
17 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

EA Malaysia Cause Pri­ori­ti­sa­tion Re­port (2021)

Yi-Yang24 Apr 2021 5:48 UTC
45 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Re­search Fund: Pro­ject Highlights

Animal Charity Evaluators24 Apr 2021 1:05 UTC
11 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(animalcharityevaluators.org)

Our in­no­va­tions in Togo and the fu­ture of cash distribution

GiveDirectly24 Apr 2021 0:52 UTC
29 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

Up­date on Board meet­ing transparency

GiveWell24 Apr 2021 0:49 UTC
13 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

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

Linch23 Apr 2021 23:50 UTC
62 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(papers.ssrn.com)

Why SoGive is not up­dat­ing char­ity rat­ings af­ter malaria vac­cine news

Sanjay23 Apr 2021 20:39 UTC
36 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Have an idea for an in­ter­ac­tive learn­ing mod­ule? Con­sider ap­ply­ing for a Clear­erThink­ing.org micro grant!

spencerg22 Apr 2021 18:19 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

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

GWWC April 2021 Newsletter

Luke Freeman22 Apr 2021 7:09 UTC
9 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

CEA up­date: Q1 2021

MaxDalton22 Apr 2021 5:36 UTC
93 points
29 comments14 min readEA link
(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

“Teach­ing to Give” Idea

Noah Starbuck22 Apr 2021 1:51 UTC
8 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Wild An­i­mal Ini­ti­a­tive fea­tured in Vox

Wild_Animal_Initiative21 Apr 2021 17:58 UTC
70 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(www.wildanimalinitiative.org)

The wild fron­tier of an­i­mal welfare

EA Handbook21 Apr 2021 7:00 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)