The case for strong longter­mism—June 2021 update

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

[Question] Has any­one found an effec­tive way to scrub in­door CO2?

eca21 Jun 2021 21:21 UTC
11 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

An an­i­mated in­tro­duc­tion to longter­mism (feat. Robert Miles)

Writer21 Jun 2021 19:24 UTC
25 points
36 comments4 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Africa: Re­search Out­comes and Pilot Plans

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

Opinion: Digi­tal mar­ket­ing is un­der-uti­lized in EA

JSWinchell21 Jun 2021 16:53 UTC
195 points
29 comments3 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

Why did EA or­ga­ni­za­tions fail at fight­ing to pre­vent the COVID-19 pan­demic?

ChristianKleineidam19 Jun 2021 15:32 UTC
5 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Die­tary habits – Another po­ten­tial Cause Area?

peter_janicki19 Jun 2021 9:16 UTC
14 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

New skil­led vol­un­teer­ing board for effec­tive an­i­mal advocacy

Jamie_Harris18 Jun 2021 12:27 UTC
31 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(www.animaladvocacycareers.org)

[Question] Know any­one in­ter­ested in liti­ga­tion?

aanello18 Jun 2021 5:54 UTC
20 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Suggest ac­tivi­ties for the EA Picnic

Barry Grimes18 Jun 2021 1:22 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 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

[Question] Can “pride” be used as a sub­jec­tive mea­sure like “hap­piness”?

jkmh18 Jun 2021 0:26 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[By June 21] Win fund­ing for wild animals

Wild_Animal_Initiative17 Jun 2021 22:55 UTC
28 points
3 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

Ta­boo “Out­side View”

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

Fo­rum up­date: New fea­tures (June 2021)

Aaron Gertler 🔸17 Jun 2021 5:01 UTC
32 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Book Re­view: Prin­ci­ples of Mo­rals and Leg­is­la­tion by Jeremy Bentham

ketchupduck17 Jun 2021 1:49 UTC
20 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Pros and cons of work­ing on near-term tech­ni­cal AI safety and assurance

Aryeh Englander16 Jun 2021 23:23 UTC
19 points
1 comment2 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

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

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

An­nounc­ing the Nu­clear Risk Fore­cast­ing Tournament

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

My New Game On An­i­mal Welfare Just Came Out!

scottxmulligan15 Jun 2021 23:56 UTC
19 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Seek­ing ex­pla­na­tions of com­par­a­tive rank­ings in 80k pri­ori­ties list

OmariZi15 Jun 2021 19:56 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What should CEEALAR be called?

CEEALAR15 Jun 2021 14:29 UTC
24 points
62 comments1 min readEA link

Vignettes Work­shop (AI Im­pacts)

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

[Question] How Should Free Will The­o­ries Im­pact Effec­tive Altru­ism?

OscarD🔸15 Jun 2021 1:35 UTC
16 points
12 comments1 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

A lat­eral way of think­ing about Cause X: barely visi­ble but po­ten­tially enor­mous cat­e­gories of value

Writer14 Jun 2021 11:43 UTC
23 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

[Pod­cast] Suggest a ques­tion for Jeffrey Sachs

Luca Righetti 🔸14 Jun 2021 8:45 UTC
31 points
8 comments1 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 high-im­pact paths for a young per­son in the de­vel­op­ing world?

Aaron Gertler 🔸14 Jun 2021 5:45 UTC
31 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What is an ex­am­ple of re­cent, tan­gible progress in AI safety re­search?

Aaron Gertler 🔸14 Jun 2021 5:29 UTC
35 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Are there any ‘max­i­mum ego­ism’ pledges?

VictorSintNicolaas13 Jun 2021 18:46 UTC
20 points
5 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

An­i­mal Test­ing Is Ex­ploita­tive and Largely Ineffective

Erich_Grunewald 🔸13 Jun 2021 10:46 UTC
27 points
3 comments11 min readEA link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Why EAs re­search­ing main­stream top­ics can be useful

MichaelA🔸13 Jun 2021 10:14 UTC
37 points
5 comments14 min readEA link

[Question] Where I can prac­tice judg­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties to lend or donate or in­vest, for $25 per de­ci­sion?

Cienna12 Jun 2021 14:09 UTC
19 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

In­ter­ven­tion Re­port: Char­ter Cities

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

[Question] Should 80,000 hours run a tik­tok ac­count?

Nathan Young12 Jun 2021 12:41 UTC
1 point
8 comments1 min readEA link

Kar­da­shev for Kindness

Mary Stowers11 Jun 2021 22:22 UTC
30 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Shouldn’t ‘Effec­tive Altru­ism’ be cap­i­tal­ized?

aaronmayer11 Jun 2021 21:48 UTC
18 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Astro­nom­i­cal Waste: The Op­por­tu­nity Cost of De­layed Tech­nolog­i­cal Devel­op­ment—Nick Bostrom (2003)

james10 Jun 2021 21:21 UTC
10 points
0 comments8 min readEA link
(www.nickbostrom.com)

Overview of Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ work on risks from nu­clear weapons

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

Hu­man­i­ties Re­search Ideas for Longtermists

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

[Question] Mat­sés—Are lan­guages pro­vid­ing epistemic cer­tainty of state­ments not of the in­ter­est of the EA com­mu­nity?

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)8 Jun 2021 19:25 UTC
15 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

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

Sur­vey on AI ex­is­ten­tial risk scenarios

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

GCRs miti­ga­tion: the miss­ing Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goal

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