My cur­rent im­pres­sions on ca­reer choice for longtermists

Holden Karnofsky4 Jun 2021 17:07 UTC
444 points
37 comments26 min readEA link

EA needs consultancies

lukeprog28 Jun 2021 15:18 UTC
240 points
88 comments8 min readEA link

Opinion: Digi­tal mar­ket­ing is un­der-uti­lized in EA

JSWinchell21 Jun 2021 16:53 UTC
195 points
29 comments3 min readEA link

2018-2019 Long-Term Fu­ture Fund Gran­tees: How did they do?

NunoSempere16 Jun 2021 17:31 UTC
194 points
23 comments5 min readEA link

Shal­low eval­u­a­tions of longter­mist organizations

NunoSempere24 Jun 2021 15:31 UTC
192 points
34 comments34 min readEA link

Ta­boo “Out­side View”

kokotajlod17 Jun 2021 9:39 UTC
177 points
26 comments8 min readEA link

Sur­vey on AI ex­is­ten­tial risk scenarios

Sam Clarke8 Jun 2021 17:12 UTC
154 points
11 comments6 min readEA link

Hu­man­i­ties Re­search Ideas for Longtermists

Lizka9 Jun 2021 4:39 UTC
151 points
13 comments13 min readEA link

GCRs miti­ga­tion: the miss­ing Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goal

AmAristizabal8 Jun 2021 13:55 UTC
131 points
7 comments26 min readEA link

In­ter­ven­tion Re­port: Char­ter Cities

David Rhys Bernard12 Jun 2021 13:54 UTC
126 points
19 comments51 min readEA link

Help me find the crux be­tween EA/​XR and Progress Studies

jasoncrawford2 Jun 2021 18:47 UTC
119 points
37 comments3 min readEA link

Anki deck for “Some key num­bers that (al­most) ev­ery EA should know”

Pablo29 Jun 2021 22:13 UTC
114 points
33 comments1 min readEA link

Type Check­ing GiveWell’s GiveDirectly Cost Effec­tive Analysis

SamNolan23 Jun 2021 6:35 UTC
109 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Why sci­en­tific re­search is less effec­tive in pro­duc­ing value than it could be: a mapping

C Tilli14 Jun 2021 8:24 UTC
109 points
33 comments19 min readEA link

[Question] What are some key num­bers that (al­most) ev­ery EA should know?

Linch18 Jun 2021 0:37 UTC
105 points
36 comments1 min readEA link

Some AI Gover­nance Re­search Ideas

MarkusAnderljung3 Jun 2021 10:51 UTC
101 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] How well did EA-funded biorisk or­gani­sa­tions do on Covid?

John G. Halstead2 Jun 2021 17:25 UTC
101 points
51 comments1 min readEA link

You can now ap­ply to EA Funds any­time! (LTFF & EAIF only)

Jonas V17 Jun 2021 20:06 UTC
97 points
34 comments1 min readEA link

US bill limit­ing pa­tient philan­thropy?

Max_Daniel24 Jun 2021 22:14 UTC
95 points
11 comments4 min readEA link
(www.nytimes.com)

A bunch of rea­sons why you might have low en­ergy (or other vague health prob­lems) and what to do about it

alexlintz8 Jun 2021 18:58 UTC
93 points
18 comments14 min readEA link

EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund: May 2021 grant recommendations

Jonas V3 Jun 2021 1:01 UTC
92 points
99 comments42 min readEA link

Shelly Ka­gan—read­ings for Ethics and the Fu­ture sem­i­nar (spring 2021)

james29 Jun 2021 9:59 UTC
91 points
7 comments5 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

On the limits of ideal­ized values

Joe_Carlsmith22 Jun 2021 2:00 UTC
80 points
9 comments35 min readEA link

“Ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI” sur­vey results

RobBensinger1 Jun 2021 20:19 UTC
80 points
35 comments11 min readEA link

Be­com­ing a Mem­ber of Par­li­a­ment: po­ten­tial routes & impact

DavidZhang28 Jun 2021 14:14 UTC
74 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

Welfare Foot­print Pro­ject—a blueprint for quan­tify­ing an­i­mal pain

MichaelStJules26 Jun 2021 20:05 UTC
73 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

EA needs out­siders with a greater di­ver­sity of skills

Lotte_de_Lint2 Jun 2021 8:40 UTC
71 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund: Ask us any­thing!

Jonas V3 Jun 2021 1:06 UTC
70 points
117 comments3 min readEA link

A pro­posal for a small in­duce­ment prize platform

Matthew_Barnett5 Jun 2021 19:06 UTC
66 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] What should the norms around pri­vacy and eval­u­a­tion in the EA com­mu­nity be?

NunoSempere16 Jun 2021 17:31 UTC
66 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

The EA Hub: What’s New in 2021

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸13 Jun 2021 13:30 UTC
64 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The case for strong longter­mism—June 2021 update

JackM21 Jun 2021 21:30 UTC
64 points
12 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

What com­plex­ity sci­ence and simu­la­tion have to offer effec­tive altruism

Rory Greig8 Jun 2021 9:50 UTC
64 points
15 comments22 min readEA link

Re­port on Whether AI Could Drive Ex­plo­sive Eco­nomic Growth

Tom_Davidson25 Jun 2021 23:02 UTC
63 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

EA Giv­ing Tues­day Dona­tion Match­ing Ini­ti­a­tive: 2020 retrospective

mjamer 🔸25 Jun 2021 17:53 UTC
55 points
0 comments30 min readEA link

The un­think­able ur­gency of suffering

Aaron Bergman26 Jun 2021 0:14 UTC
54 points
9 comments6 min readEA link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Can money buy hap­piness? A re­view of new data

JulianHazell28 Jun 2021 1:48 UTC
53 points
11 comments5 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

Ex­plor­ing Ex­is­ten­tial Risk—us­ing Con­nected Papers to find Effec­tive Altru­ism al­igned ar­ti­cles and researchers

Maris Sala23 Jun 2021 17:03 UTC
52 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Fi­nal Re­port of the Na­tional Se­cu­rity Com­mis­sion on Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence (NSCAI, 2021)

MichaelA🔸1 Jun 2021 8:19 UTC
51 points
3 comments4 min readEA link
(www.nscai.gov)

What is meta Effec­tive Altru­ism?

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸2 Jun 2021 6:47 UTC
49 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

Refin­ing im­prov­ing in­sti­tu­tional de­ci­sion-mak­ing as a cause area: re­sults from a scop­ing survey

Vicky Clayton26 Jun 2021 10:42 UTC
48 points
13 comments21 min readEA link

Event-driven mis­sion cor­re­lated in­vest­ing and the 2020 US election

jh14 Jun 2021 15:06 UTC
48 points
11 comments4 min readEA link

Vignettes Work­shop (AI Im­pacts)

kokotajlod15 Jun 2021 11:02 UTC
43 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Overview of Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ work on risks from nu­clear weapons

MichaelA🔸10 Jun 2021 18:48 UTC
43 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

[Question] The pos­i­tive case for a fo­cus on achiev­ing safe AI?

vipulnaik25 Jun 2021 4:01 UTC
41 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Africa: Re­search Out­comes and Pilot Plans

AnimalAdvocacyAfrica21 Jun 2021 17:10 UTC
41 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Maybe An­tivirals aren’t a Use­ful Pri­or­ity for Pan­demics?

Davidmanheim20 Jun 2021 10:04 UTC
40 points
22 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Which non-EA-funded or­gani­sa­tions did well on Covid?

RyanCarey8 Jun 2021 14:19 UTC
39 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

New Roles in Global Health and Wel­lbe­ing (Open Philan­thropy)

Aaron Gertler 🔸29 Jun 2021 19:48 UTC
38 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

An­nounc­ing the Nu­clear Risk Fore­cast­ing Tournament

MichaelA🔸16 Jun 2021 16:12 UTC
38 points
0 comments2 min readEA link