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)

Mauhn Re­leases AI Safety Documentation

Berg Severens2 Jul 2021 12:19 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Which EA fo­rum posts would you most like nar­rated?

D0TheMath1 Jul 2021 22:05 UTC
14 points
12 comments1 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

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: June 2021

NunoSempere1 Jul 2021 20:59 UTC
29 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

[Link post] Pa­ram­e­ter counts in Ma­chine Learning

Jaime Sevilla1 Jul 2021 15:44 UTC
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Open Thread: July 2021

Aaron Gertler 🔸1 Jul 2021 9:16 UTC
11 points
36 comments1 min readEA link

A Para­dox for Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities and Enor­mous Values

Global Priorities Institute1 Jul 2021 7:00 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

A (free) weekly ca­reer plan­ning course for pos­i­tive impact

80000_Hours1 Jul 2021 7:00 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

[Question] How large can the so­lar sys­tem’s econ­omy get?

WilliamKiely1 Jul 2021 2:29 UTC
9 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Thought ex­per­i­ment—Does it still make sense to be an al­tru­ist if the world is com­ing to an end.

Xing Shi Cai1 Jul 2021 2:17 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[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