New blog: Cold Takes

Holden Karnofsky13 Jul 2021 17:14 UTC
85 points
17 comments1 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)

Nar­ra­tion: Re­port on Run­ning a Fore­cast­ing Tour­na­ment at an EA Re­treat, part 1

D0TheMath13 Jul 2021 16:21 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

Book Give­away Im­pact Anal­y­sis (Do­ing Good Bet­ter in NZ)

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

[Question] What would a cheap, nu­tri­tious and en­joy­able diet for the world’s ex­treme poor peo­ple like?

Xing Shi Cai13 Jul 2021 0:15 UTC
6 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are the long term con­se­quences of poverty alle­vi­a­tion?

Mati_Roy12 Jul 2021 18:14 UTC
18 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How to ex­plain AI risk/​EA con­cepts to fam­ily and friends?

CBiddulph12 Jul 2021 7:36 UTC
9 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Diminish­ing marginal impact

EA Handbook11 Jul 2021 23:00 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

In­breed­ing and global health & development

pafnuty11 Jul 2021 6:32 UTC
40 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Re­search Topics in Non­profit Operations

sk11 Jul 2021 6:32 UTC
10 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Tran­script] Emer­gence, shared suc­cess, and you

Cienna10 Jul 2021 23:31 UTC
4 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

[Question] Jump­ing in Front of Bul­lets vs. Or­gan Donation

The_Lord's_Servant_28010 Jul 2021 22:50 UTC
2 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Nar­ra­tion: “Against neu­tral­ity about cre­at­ing happy lives”

D0TheMath10 Jul 2021 19:13 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

Effec­tive Altru­ism Polls: A re­source that exists

Aaron Gertler 🔸10 Jul 2021 6:15 UTC
25 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing the lives of mil­lions of Latin Amer­i­cans through bet­ter welfare tar­get­ing algorithms

NORIEGA10 Jul 2021 5:39 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Wild An­i­mal Ini­ti­a­tive is launch­ing a re­search fund

Wild_Animal_Initiative9 Jul 2021 21:45 UTC
26 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.wildanimalinitiative.org)

Les­sons from Strangers Drown­ing by Larissa MacFarquhar

Xing Shi Cai9 Jul 2021 19:35 UTC
13 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Re­v­erse-Eng­ineer­ing the Philan­thropic Dis­count Rate

MichaelDickens9 Jul 2021 18:32 UTC
30 points
0 comments19 min readEA link

Nar­ra­tion: “[New org] Can­ning What We Give”

D0TheMath9 Jul 2021 17:57 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Some 2021 CEA Re­ten­tion Statistics

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

[Question] Pas­cal’s Mug­ging and aban­don­ing credences

AndreaSR9 Jul 2021 10:18 UTC
6 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

A Sim­ple Model of AGI De­ploy­ment Risk

djbinder9 Jul 2021 9:44 UTC
30 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

[linkpost] EA Fo­rum Pod­cast: Nar­ra­tion of “Why EA groups should not use ‘Effec­tive Altru­ism’ in their name.”

D0TheMath8 Jul 2021 22:43 UTC
6 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Em­per­ors, Witches & Vege­tar­i­ans: Guilt & Virtue Aggression

Ben Evans8 Jul 2021 16:05 UTC
27 points
0 comments19 min readEA link

Eco­nomics PhD ap­pli­ca­tion sup­port—be­come a mentee!

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

[linkpost] EA Fo­rum Pod­cast: Nar­ra­tion of “How to run a high-en­ergy read­ing group”

D0TheMath7 Jul 2021 20:21 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

In­spiring oth­ers to do good

Laurin7 Jul 2021 12:41 UTC
14 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What would you ask a poli­cy­maker about ex­is­ten­tial risks?

James Nicholas Bryant6 Jul 2021 23:53 UTC
24 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Con­sumer ac­cep­tance of al­ter­na­tive pro­teins: A sum­mary of Red to Green Sea­son 3

Neil_Dullaghan🔹 6 Jul 2021 22:44 UTC
20 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

[Pod­cast] EA Fo­rum Pod­cast: Nar­ra­tion of “How much does perfor­mance differ be­tween peo­ple?”

D0TheMath6 Jul 2021 20:48 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Pod­cast] Suggest a ques­tion for Ben Todd

Luca Righetti 🔸6 Jul 2021 17:16 UTC
17 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Get­ting started in­de­pen­dently in AI Safety

JJ Hepburn6 Jul 2021 15:20 UTC
41 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

The prob­lem of pos­si­ble pop­u­la­tions: an­i­mal farm­ing, sus­tain­abil­ity, ex­tinc­tion and the re­pug­nant conclusion

Stijn6 Jul 2021 13:17 UTC
7 points
9 comments16 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

You are al­lowed to edit Wikipedia

ChristianKleineidam5 Jul 2021 9:57 UTC
35 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Peo­ple work­ing on x-risks: what emo­tion­ally mo­ti­vates you?

Vael Gates5 Jul 2021 3:16 UTC
16 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

The EA Fo­rum Pod­cast is up and running

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

How to Stop The Dead­liest An­i­mal on Earth (A Hap­pier World video)

Jeroen Willems🔸4 Jul 2021 15:55 UTC
16 points
7 comments8 min readEA link

The Multi-Class Op­ti­mizer’s Curse

FeelingSentient4 Jul 2021 12:04 UTC
23 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Do in­co­her­ent en­tities have stronger rea­son to be­come more co­her­ent than less?

Katja_Grace4 Jul 2021 10:56 UTC
24 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

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

Tan­ner Greer on So­cial Movements

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

[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

In­ter­view with Lu­cia Coulter: Lead Ex­po­sure, Effec­tive Altru­ism, Progress in Malawi

Erich_Grunewald 🔸3 Jul 2021 14:32 UTC
25 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

A do-gooder’s safari

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

Ex­am­ple syl­labus “Ex­is­ten­tial Risks”

simonfriederich3 Jul 2021 9:23 UTC
15 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

Book recom­men­da­tion—The Ci­ti­zen’s Guide to Cli­mate Suc­cess by Mark Jaccard

Xing Shi Cai2 Jul 2021 22:58 UTC
15 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Does Mo­ral Philos­o­phy Drive Mo­ral Progress?

AppliedDivinityStudies2 Jul 2021 21:22 UTC
38 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

EA Up­dates for July 2021

DavidNash2 Jul 2021 14:39 UTC
37 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

[Fu­ture Perfect] How to be a good ancestor

Pablo2 Jul 2021 13:17 UTC
41 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)