How Epicte­tus May Help an Effec­tive Altruist

Xing Shi CaiMay 8, 2021, 5:18 PM
12 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Be­ing Vo­cal About What Works

aaronmayerMay 8, 2021, 4:59 PM
46 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

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

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

Mar­ket de­sign to ac­cel­er­ate COVID-19 vac­cine supply

VictorSintNicolaasMay 8, 2021, 9:18 AM
6 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

An­i­mal Welfare Fund: Ask us any­thing!

kierangreig🔸May 7, 2021, 7:54 PM
61 points
130 comments2 min readEA link

Re­quest For Pro­pos­als: EA An­i­mal Welfare Fund

kierangreig🔸May 7, 2021, 7:50 PM
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 DockerMay 7, 2021, 2:32 PM
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?

freedomandutilityMay 6, 2021, 11:48 PM
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?

mifeetMay 6, 2021, 11:11 PM
13 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Has any­one checked out Noora Health?

dspeyerMay 6, 2021, 9:49 PM
53 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Best places to donate?

TomAtlantaMay 6, 2021, 5:07 PM
6 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

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

MichaelPlantMay 6, 2021, 1:18 PM
123 points
20 comments2 min readEA link
(www.newstatesman.com)

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

PabloMay 6, 2021, 10:39 AM
26 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Should you do a PhD in sci­ence?

Xing Shi CaiMay 5, 2021, 10:35 PM
8 points
19 comments2 min readEA link

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

80000_HoursMay 5, 2021, 7:38 PM
7 points
0 comments113 min readEA link

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

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

Three char­i­ta­ble recom­men­da­tions for COVID-19 in India

Tejas SubramaniamMay 5, 2021, 8:23 AM
71 points
28 comments9 min readEA link

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

Mahendra PrasadMay 5, 2021, 5:33 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

GabMay 4, 2021, 6:54 PM
73 points
6 comments8 min readEA link

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

ecaMay 4, 2021, 3:34 PM
16 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Open Thread: May 2021

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

Five Books of Peter Singer which Changed My Life

Xing Shi CaiMay 4, 2021, 8:07 AM
23 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

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

gotechMay 4, 2021, 7:42 AM
34 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

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

abrahamroweMay 3, 2021, 8:26 PM
24 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

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

MichaelA🔸May 3, 2021, 2:22 PM
39 points
33 comments2 min readEA link

Small and Vulnerable

sapphireMay 3, 2021, 6:08 AM
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_GaensbauerMay 3, 2021, 12:35 AM
14 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

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

MichaelA🔸May 2, 2021, 6:00 PM
30 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

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

Dawn DrescherMay 2, 2021, 2:22 PM
18 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

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

JSODMay 2, 2021, 10:49 AM
7 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

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

Felix RudfeldtMay 2, 2021, 9:11 AM
1 point
2 comments1 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: April 2021

NunoSempereMay 1, 2021, 3:58 PM
21 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

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

imp4rtial 🔸May 1, 2021, 7:34 AM
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🔹May 1, 2021, 12:27 AM
13 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Effec­tive dona­tions for COVID-19 in India

Tejas SubramaniamApr 30, 2021, 8:30 PM
32 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

EA Up­dates for May 2021

DavidNashApr 30, 2021, 4:50 PM
29 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities InstituteApr 30, 2021, 1:26 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Eco­nomic in­equal­ity and the long-term future

Global Priorities InstituteApr 30, 2021, 1:26 PM
11 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

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

spreadlove5683Apr 30, 2021, 5:53 AM
−6 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Thoughts on be­ing overqual­ified for EA positions

Ben_West🔸Apr 30, 2021, 3:19 AM
121 points
24 comments3 min readEA link

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

Harry TaussigApr 29, 2021, 6:19 PM
29 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

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

axiomanApr 29, 2021, 4:47 PM
16 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

BERI seek­ing new collaborators

sawyer🔸Apr 29, 2021, 4:34 PM
25 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Why We Need Abun­dant Housing

leonoraahlaApr 29, 2021, 7:45 AM
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 PrasadApr 29, 2021, 3:25 AM
6 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

De­fus­ing the miti­ga­tion ob­struc­tion ar­gu­ment against geo­eng­ineer­ing and car­bon diox­ide removal

kbogApr 29, 2021, 3:20 AM
20 points
8 comments11 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

Pro­ject: An on­line Mar­ket­place built on an Altru­isitc Profit Model

FelixMooApr 28, 2021, 3:53 PM
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?

freedomandutilityApr 28, 2021, 12:02 PM
7 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: April 2021

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