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

Benjamin_ToddJul 29, 2021, 11:47 AM
307 points
105 comments21 min readEA link

All Pos­si­ble Views About Hu­man­ity’s Fu­ture Are Wild

Holden KarnofskyJul 13, 2021, 4:57 PM
219 points
48 comments8 min readEA link
(www.cold-takes.com)

A per­sonal take on longter­mist AI governance

lukeprogJul 16, 2021, 10:08 PM
173 points
6 comments7 min readEA link

Open Philan­thropy is seek­ing pro­pos­als for out­reach projects

abergalJul 16, 2021, 8:34 PM
171 points
13 comments10 min readEA link

A do-gooder’s safari

Owen Cotton-BarrattJul 3, 2021, 11:03 AM
168 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

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

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jul 3, 2021, 9:47 PM
168 points
19 comments4 min readEA link

The case against “EA cause ar­eas”

nadavbJul 17, 2021, 6:37 AM
148 points
24 comments13 min readEA link

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

Anthony DiGiovanniJul 1, 2021, 9:01 PM
145 points
10 comments32 min readEA link

Matt Lev­ine on the Arche­gos failure

Kelsey PiperJul 29, 2021, 7:36 PM
141 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

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

Patrick Brinich-Langlois 🔸Jul 17, 2021, 4:18 PM
107 points
52 comments5 min readEA link

Funds are available to fund non-EA-branded groups

BuckJul 21, 2021, 1:08 AM
104 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2020: Cause Prioritization

David_MossJul 29, 2021, 6:06 PM
100 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

You should write about your job

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jul 19, 2021, 1:26 AM
97 points
22 comments3 min readEA link

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

Tom_DavidsonJul 19, 2021, 9:47 PM
96 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

Towards a longter­mist frame­work for eval­u­at­ing democ­racy-re­lated interventions

Tom Barnes🔸Jul 28, 2021, 1:23 PM
96 points
5 comments30 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Re­search Fel­low, FHI

rgbJul 29, 2021, 1:53 PM
96 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Eco­nomics Professor

Kevin KurucJul 28, 2021, 7:41 PM
89 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

The Du­pli­ca­tor: In­stant Clon­ing Would Make the World Econ­omy Explode

Holden KarnofskyJul 20, 2021, 4:41 PM
88 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: In­ter­net Blogger

AppliedDivinityStudiesJul 19, 2021, 8:24 PM
88 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

New blog: Cold Takes

Holden KarnofskyJul 13, 2021, 5:14 PM
85 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

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

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

Fur­ther thoughts on char­ter cities and effec­tive altruism

marklutterJul 20, 2021, 7:56 PM
78 points
13 comments7 min readEA link

Ap­ply to the new Open Philan­thropy Tech­nol­ogy Policy Fel­low­ship!

lukeprogJul 20, 2021, 6:41 PM
78 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

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

PeterSlatteryJul 26, 2021, 2:05 AM
71 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

An eval­u­a­tion of Mind Ease, an anti-anx­iety app

Hauke HillebrandtJul 26, 2021, 11:35 AM
70 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

In­ter­ven­tion re­port: Agri­cul­tural land redistribution

David BernardJul 14, 2021, 2:29 PM
65 points
6 comments38 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Con­tent Spe­cial­ist, CEA

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

Writ­ing about my job: Data Scientist

technicalitiesJul 19, 2021, 10:26 AM
63 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Book Give­away Im­pact Anal­y­sis (Do­ing Good Bet­ter in NZ)

Ivan BurdukJul 13, 2021, 1:52 PM
62 points
14 comments8 min readEA link

Con­sider can­cel­ing your WiFi

Kevin KurucJul 29, 2021, 8:19 PM
62 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Eco­nomics PhD ap­pli­ca­tion sup­port—be­come a mentee!

LuziaJul 8, 2021, 3:40 PM
60 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

The EA Fo­rum Pod­cast is up and running

D0TheMathJul 5, 2021, 1:42 AM
60 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

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

ArepoJul 25, 2021, 1:03 PM
59 points
13 comments14 min readEA link

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

Peter WildefordJul 5, 2021, 5:20 PM
59 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

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

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jul 18, 2021, 11:00 PM
58 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

Pre­dict­ing Open Phil Grants

Charles Dillon 🔸Jul 23, 2021, 2:00 PM
57 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

Vox’s Fu­ture Perfect is hiring

Kelsey PiperJul 16, 2021, 7:50 AM
57 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

An End to Cages in Europe?

EA Forum ArchivesJul 23, 2021, 12:32 AM
56 points
2 comments5 min readEA link
(mailchi.mp)

Deep­Mind: Gen­er­ally ca­pa­ble agents emerge from open-ended play

kokotajlodJul 27, 2021, 7:35 PM
56 points
10 comments2 min readEA link
(deepmind.com)

Writ­ing about my job: phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal chemist

Indrek KivirikJul 22, 2021, 7:48 AM
55 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

EA Creatives and Com­mu­ni­ca­tors Slack

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

Digi­tal Peo­ple Would Be An Even Big­ger Deal

Holden KarnofskyJul 27, 2021, 5:19 PM
54 points
14 comments12 min readEA link

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

Owen Cotton-BarrattJul 3, 2021, 5:10 PM
52 points
22 comments1 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 FreemanJul 30, 2021, 3:32 AM
52 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

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

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

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

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

World fed­er­al­ism and EA

Eevee🔹14 Jul 2021 5:53 UTC
47 points
4 comments1 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
44 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(scholars-stage.org)