[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)

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
139 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 (free) weekly ca­reer plan­ning course for pos­i­tive impact

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

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)

[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)