[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

[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