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

The Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity & The Meth­ods of Ethics: A dis­cus­sion of Bostrom, Sidg­wick and Scheffler (Thurs­day 22 July, 6:30pm UK)

peterhartreeJul 18, 2021, 6:58 PM
23 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Books and lec­ture se­ries rele­vant to AI gov­er­nance?

MichaelA🔸Jul 18, 2021, 3:54 PM
22 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is im­per­sonal benev­olence a virtue?

Xing Shi CaiJul 18, 2021, 8:24 AM
8 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

A Gen­eral Treat­ment of the Mo­ral Value of Information

SamNolanJul 17, 2021, 10:50 PM
16 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

The act of giv­ing it­self has pos­i­tive impact

Henry Howard🔸Jul 17, 2021, 4:27 PM
4 points
4 comments1 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

[Question] On what kinds of Twit­ter ac­counts would you be most in­ter­ested in see­ing re­search?

Miranda_ZhangJul 17, 2021, 12:27 PM
15 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

EA cause ar­eas are just ar­eas where great in­ter­ven­tions should be eas­ier to find

freedomandutilityJul 17, 2021, 12:16 PM
37 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

The case against “EA cause ar­eas”

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

There will now be EA Vir­tual Pro­grams ev­ery month!

Yi-YangJul 17, 2021, 4:35 AM
34 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

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

[Question] EA Su­per­power?! 😋

aaronmayerJul 16, 2021, 7:16 PM
6 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Build­ing my Scout Mind­set: #1

Miranda_ZhangJul 16, 2021, 6:55 PM
25 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

Build­ing my Scout Mind­set: Introduction

Miranda_ZhangJul 16, 2021, 6:15 PM
19 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Vox’s Fu­ture Perfect is hiring

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

Nar­ra­tion: Re­duc­ing long-term risks from malev­olent actors

D0TheMathJul 15, 2021, 4:26 PM
23 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

[Question] How do you com­mu­ni­cate that you like to op­ti­mise pro­cesses with­out peo­ple as­sum­ing you like tricks /​ hacks /​ short­cuts?

Madhav MalhotraJul 15, 2021, 3:11 PM
3 points
8 commentsEA link

[Question] Stud­ies /​ re­ports on in­creased wellbe­ing for ex­treme poor

Aryeh EnglanderJul 15, 2021, 1:47 PM
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Nar­ra­tion: Re­port on Run­ning a Fore­cast­ing Tour­na­ment at an EA Re­treat, part 2

D0TheMathJul 14, 2021, 7:41 PM
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

In­ter­ven­tion re­port: Agri­cul­tural land redistribution

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

Com­mu­ni­cate your epistemic sta­tus shifts

Stijn Bruers 🔸Jul 14, 2021, 2:07 PM
31 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

World fed­er­al­ism and EA

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

[Question] Can some­one ver­ify offset­ting or tree plant­ing NGOs are bad?

SaraAzubuikeJul 14, 2021, 4:03 AM
8 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

New blog: Cold Takes

Holden KarnofskyJul 13, 2021, 5:14 PM
85 points
17 comments1 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)

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

D0TheMathJul 13, 2021, 4:21 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

Book Give­away Im­pact Anal­y­sis (Do­ing Good Bet­ter in NZ)

Ivan BurdukJul 13, 2021, 1:52 PM
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 CaiJul 13, 2021, 12:15 AM
6 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

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

Mati_RoyJul 12, 2021, 6:14 PM
18 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

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

CBiddulphJul 12, 2021, 7:36 AM
9 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Diminish­ing marginal impact

EA HandbookJul 11, 2021, 11:00 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

In­breed­ing and global health & development

pafnutyJul 11, 2021, 6:32 AM
40 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Re­search Topics in Non­profit Operations

skJul 11, 2021, 6:32 AM
10 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Tran­script] Emer­gence, shared suc­cess, and you

CiennaJul 10, 2021, 11:31 PM
4 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

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

The_Lord's_Servant_280Jul 10, 2021, 10:50 PM
2 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Nar­ra­tion: “Against neu­tral­ity about cre­at­ing happy lives”

D0TheMathJul 10, 2021, 7:13 PM
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

Effec­tive Altru­ism Polls: A re­source that exists

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

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

NORIEGAJul 10, 2021, 5:39 AM
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Wild An­i­mal Ini­ti­a­tive is launch­ing a re­search fund

Wild_Animal_InitiativeJul 9, 2021, 9:45 PM
26 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.wildanimalinitiative.org)

Les­sons from Strangers Drown­ing by Larissa MacFarquhar

Xing Shi CaiJul 9, 2021, 7:35 PM
14 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Re­v­erse-Eng­ineer­ing the Philan­thropic Dis­count Rate

MichaelDickensJul 9, 2021, 6:32 PM
30 points
0 comments19 min readEA link

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

D0TheMathJul 9, 2021, 5:57 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Some 2021 CEA Re­ten­tion Statistics

Ben_West🔸Jul 9, 2021, 5:11 PM
45 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

[Question] Pas­cal’s Mug­ging and aban­don­ing credences

AndreaSRJul 9, 2021, 10:18 AM
6 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

A Sim­ple Model of AGI De­ploy­ment Risk

djbinderJul 9, 2021, 9:44 AM
30 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

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

D0TheMathJul 8, 2021, 10:43 PM
6 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Em­per­ors, Witches & Vege­tar­i­ans: Guilt & Virtue Aggression

Ben EvansJul 8, 2021, 4:05 PM
27 points
0 comments19 min readEA link

Eco­nomics PhD ap­pli­ca­tion sup­port—be­come a mentee!

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