[Question] Is an in­crease in at­ten­tion to the idea that ‘suffer­ing is bad’ likely to in­crease ex­is­ten­tial risk?

dotsam30 Jun 2021 19:41 UTC
2 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Key Les­sons From So­cial Move­ment History

Jamie_Harris30 Jun 2021 17:05 UTC
122 points
24 comments11 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

[Question] What is life like at the me­dian global in­come?

JP Addison🔸30 Jun 2021 14:09 UTC
51 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Dooms­day and ob­jec­tive chance

Global Priorities Institute30 Jun 2021 13:14 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

COVID: How did we do? How can we know?

Ghost_of_Li_Wenliang30 Jun 2021 12:29 UTC
170 points
47 comments9 min readEA link

How to get tech­nolog­i­cal knowl­edge on AI/​ML (for non-tech peo­ple)

FangFang30 Jun 2021 7:53 UTC
62 points
7 comments5 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

[Link] Read­ing the EA Fo­rum; au­dio content

david_reinstein29 Jun 2021 21:29 UTC
31 points
13 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)

[Question] Which cause should I choose—Cli­mate Change or Global Poverty?

Xing Shi Cai29 Jun 2021 17:23 UTC
13 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How do you track your dona­tions?

Laurin29 Jun 2021 11:10 UTC
13 points
17 comments1 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)

[Question] [Meta] Is it le­gi­t­i­mate to ask peo­ple to up­vote posts on this fo­rum?

Ofer29 Jun 2021 7:42 UTC
27 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

GWWC June 2021 Newsletter

Luke Freeman29 Jun 2021 4:11 UTC
14 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

The Life You Can Save’s 2020 An­nual Report

Jon_Behar28 Jun 2021 21:39 UTC
24 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(cdn.thelifeyoucansave.org)

[Question] What are some skills use­ful for EA that one could learn in ~6 months?

Jordan Pieters 🔸28 Jun 2021 17:43 UTC
20 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Nu­clear Strat­egy in a Semi-Vuln­er­a­ble World

Jackson Wagner28 Jun 2021 17:35 UTC
27 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

$3M XPRIZE for a com­pany fight­ing Malaria

EdoArad28 Jun 2021 15:24 UTC
21 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

How teams went about their re­search at AI Safety Camp edi­tion 5

Remmelt28 Jun 2021 15:18 UTC
24 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

EA needs consultancies

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

Be­com­ing a Mem­ber of Par­li­a­ment: po­ten­tial routes & impact

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

[Question] Are there any eval­u­a­tions or im­pact as­sess­ments of cir­cu­lar econ­omy or re­lated ini­ti­a­tives?

Erich_Grunewald 🔸28 Jun 2021 9:41 UTC
20 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

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)

The health of millennials

Michael_2358 🔸28 Jun 2021 0:39 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Why You Should Donate a Kid­ney—The Ne­oliberal Podcast

Eevee🔹27 Jun 2021 4:01 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(podcasts.apple.com)

Welfare Foot­print Pro­ject—a blueprint for quan­tify­ing an­i­mal pain

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

Cliffnotes to Craft of Re­search parts I, II, and III

quinn26 Jun 2021 14:04 UTC
16 points
0 comments17 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

[Question] Is­sues with Us­ing Willing­ness-to-Pay as a Pri­mary Tool for Welfare Analysis

charrin26 Jun 2021 7:26 UTC
30 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

In­tac­tivism as a po­ten­tial Effec­tive Altru­ist cause area?

Question Mark26 Jun 2021 7:21 UTC
1 point
8 comments3 min readEA link

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: June 2021

Aaron Gertler 🔸26 Jun 2021 0:37 UTC
29 points
0 comments8 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)

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

[Pod­cast] Tom Moynihan on why prior gen­er­a­tions missed some of the biggest pri­ori­ties of all

Eevee🔹25 Jun 2021 15:39 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

[Question] What would an en­tity with GiveWell’s de­ci­sion-mak­ing pro­cess have recom­mended in the past?

Mati_Roy25 Jun 2021 6:12 UTC
28 points
11 comments1 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

US bill limit­ing pa­tient philan­thropy?

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

Open, rigor­ous and re­pro­ducible re­search: A prac­ti­tioner’s handbook

Eevee🔹24 Jun 2021 21:20 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(stanforddatascience.github.io)

Shal­low eval­u­a­tions of longter­mist organizations

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

Should We Be Pri­vate or Public About Giv­ing to Char­ity?

JulianHazell23 Jun 2021 20:54 UTC
13 points
0 comments4 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

[Question] What are the ‘PlayPumps’ of cause pri­ori­ti­sa­tion?

DavidZhang23 Jun 2021 10:23 UTC
25 points
31 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

[Question] What are some ex­am­ples of suc­cess­ful so­cial change?

Aaron Gertler 🔸22 Jun 2021 22:51 UTC
31 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What effec­tively al­tru­is­tic in­duce­ment prize con­test would you like to be funded?

Mati_Roy22 Jun 2021 21:35 UTC
21 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

What Is It Like For An­i­mals To Suffer?

ozymandias22 Jun 2021 7:00 UTC
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(thingofthings.substack.com)

[Question] What are some moral catas­tro­phes events in his­tory?

Adriana Arauzo22 Jun 2021 6:37 UTC
29 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

On the limits of ideal­ized values

Joe_Carlsmith22 Jun 2021 2:00 UTC
80 points
9 comments35 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)