Is effec­tive al­tru­ism grow­ing? An up­date on the stock of fund­ing vs. people

Benjamin_Todd29 Jul 2021 11:47 UTC
301 points
105 comments21 min readEA link

All Pos­si­ble Views About Hu­man­ity’s Fu­ture Are Wild

Holden Karnofsky13 Jul 2021 16:57 UTC
217 points
47 comments8 min readEA link
(www.cold-takes.com)

A per­sonal take on longter­mist AI governance

lukeprog16 Jul 2021 22:08 UTC
173 points
6 comments7 min readEA link

Open Philan­thropy is seek­ing pro­pos­als for out­reach projects

abergal16 Jul 2021 20:34 UTC
171 points
13 comments10 min readEA link

A do-gooder’s safari

Owen Cotton-Barratt3 Jul 2021 11:03 UTC
168 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

The most suc­cess­ful EA pod­cast of all time: Sam Har­ris and Will MacAskill (2020)

Aaron Gertler 🔸3 Jul 2021 21:47 UTC
168 points
19 comments4 min readEA link

The case against “EA cause ar­eas”

nadavb17 Jul 2021 6:37 UTC
144 points
24 comments13 min readEA link

Matt Lev­ine on the Arche­gos failure

Kelsey Piper29 Jul 2021 19:36 UTC
139 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

A longter­mist cri­tique of “The ex­pected value of ex­tinc­tion risk re­duc­tion is pos­i­tive”

Anthony DiGiovanni1 Jul 2021 21:01 UTC
129 points
10 comments32 min readEA link

What would you do if you had half a mil­lion dol­lars?

Patrick17 Jul 2021 16:18 UTC
107 points
52 comments5 min readEA link

Funds are available to fund non-EA-branded groups

Buck21 Jul 2021 1:08 UTC
104 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2020: Cause Prioritization

David_Moss29 Jul 2021 18:06 UTC
100 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Re­search Fel­low, FHI

rgb29 Jul 2021 13:53 UTC
96 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

Towards a longter­mist frame­work for eval­u­at­ing democ­racy-re­lated interventions

Tom Barnes28 Jul 2021 13:23 UTC
96 points
5 comments30 min readEA link

Some thoughts on David Rood­man’s model of eco­nomic growth and its re­la­tion to AI timelines

Tom_Davidson19 Jul 2021 21:47 UTC
96 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

You should write about your job

Aaron Gertler 🔸19 Jul 2021 1:26 UTC
95 points
22 comments3 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: In­ter­net Blogger

AppliedDivinityStudies19 Jul 2021 20:24 UTC
88 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

The Du­pli­ca­tor: In­stant Clon­ing Would Make the World Econ­omy Explode

Holden Karnofsky20 Jul 2021 16:41 UTC
88 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Eco­nomics Professor

Kevin Kuruc28 Jul 2021 19:41 UTC
88 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

New blog: Cold Takes

Holden Karnofsky13 Jul 2021 17:14 UTC
85 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

An ex­am­i­na­tion of Me­tac­u­lus’ re­solved AI pre­dic­tions and their im­pli­ca­tions for AI timelines

Charles Dillon 🔸20 Jul 2021 9:07 UTC
81 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

Ap­ply to the new Open Philan­thropy Tech­nol­ogy Policy Fel­low­ship!

lukeprog20 Jul 2021 18:41 UTC
78 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Fur­ther thoughts on char­ter cities and effec­tive altruism

marklutter20 Jul 2021 19:56 UTC
78 points
13 comments7 min readEA link

A spread­sheet with ti­tles and links for over 1900 YouTube EA videos

PeterSlattery26 Jul 2021 2:05 UTC
71 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

An eval­u­a­tion of Mind Ease, an anti-anx­iety app

Hauke Hillebrandt26 Jul 2021 11:35 UTC
70 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Con­tent Spe­cial­ist, CEA

Aaron Gertler 🔸19 Jul 2021 1:56 UTC
65 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

In­ter­ven­tion re­port: Agri­cul­tural land redistribution

David Rhys Bernard14 Jul 2021 14:29 UTC
65 points
6 comments38 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Data Scientist

Gavin19 Jul 2021 10:26 UTC
63 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Book Give­away Im­pact Anal­y­sis (Do­ing Good Bet­ter in NZ)

Ivan Burduk13 Jul 2021 13:52 UTC
62 points
14 comments8 min readEA link

Con­sider can­cel­ing your WiFi

Kevin Kuruc29 Jul 2021 20:19 UTC
62 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

The EA Fo­rum Pod­cast is up and running

D0TheMath5 Jul 2021 1:42 UTC
60 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Eco­nomics PhD ap­pli­ca­tion sup­port—be­come a mentee!

Luzia8 Jul 2021 15:40 UTC
60 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Help Re­think Pri­ori­ties Use Data for An­i­mals, Longter­mism, and EA

Peter Wildeford5 Jul 2021 17:20 UTC
59 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Part 1: EA tech work is in­effi­ciently al­lo­cated & bad for tech­ni­cal ca­reer cap­i­tal

Arepo25 Jul 2021 13:03 UTC
59 points
13 comments14 min readEA link

Lant Pritch­ett on the fu­til­ity of “smart buys” in de­vel­op­ing-world education

Aaron Gertler 🔸18 Jul 2021 23:00 UTC
58 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

Pre­dict­ing Open Phil Grants

Charles Dillon 🔸23 Jul 2021 14:00 UTC
57 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

Vox’s Fu­ture Perfect is hiring

Kelsey Piper16 Jul 2021 7:50 UTC
57 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Deep­Mind: Gen­er­ally ca­pa­ble agents emerge from open-ended play

kokotajlod27 Jul 2021 19:35 UTC
56 points
10 comments2 min readEA link
(deepmind.com)

An End to Cages in Europe?

EA Forum Archives23 Jul 2021 0:32 UTC
56 points
2 comments5 min readEA link
(mailchi.mp)

Writ­ing about my job: phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal chemist

Indrek Kivirik22 Jul 2021 7:48 UTC
55 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

EA Creatives and Com­mu­ni­ca­tors Slack

Jeroen Willems🔸22 Jul 2021 10:22 UTC
55 points
31 comments1 min readEA link

Digi­tal Peo­ple Would Be An Even Big­ger Deal

Holden Karnofsky27 Jul 2021 17:19 UTC
53 points
14 comments12 min readEA link

Stephen Fry nar­rat­ing a video on effec­tive al­tru­ism, ex­plain­ing the cause-pri­ori­ti­sa­tion frame­work while giv­ing us the ap­pro­pri­ate emo­tional re­sponse to helping others

Luke Freeman30 Jul 2021 3:32 UTC
52 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] What should we call the other prob­lem of clue­less­ness?

Owen Cotton-Barratt3 Jul 2021 17:10 UTC
52 points
22 comments1 min readEA link

Our plan to share “PR FAQs” for new Fo­rum features

Ben_West🔸29 Jul 2021 4:10 UTC
48 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

World fed­er­al­ism and EA

Eevee🔹14 Jul 2021 5:53 UTC
47 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

De­creas­ing pop­ulism and im­prov­ing democ­racy, ev­i­dence-based policy, and rationality

Hauke Hillebrandt27 Jul 2021 18:14 UTC
47 points
11 comments26 min readEA link

Some 2021 CEA Re­ten­tion Statistics

Ben_West🔸9 Jul 2021 17:11 UTC
45 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Work­shops to Im­prove In­sti­tu­tional De­ci­sion-Mak­ing in Government

Jan-Willem28 Jul 2021 17:39 UTC
44 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Tan­ner Greer on So­cial Movements

Edgar Lin3 Jul 2021 20:46 UTC
43 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(scholars-stage.org)