Les­sons from Run­ning Stan­ford EA and SERI

kuhanj20 Aug 2021 14:51 UTC
263 points
26 comments23 min readEA link

What we learned from a year in­cu­bat­ing longter­mist entrepreneurship

Rebecca Kagan30 Aug 2021 8:39 UTC
199 points
28 comments17 min readEA link

The psy­chol­ogy of pop­u­la­tion ethics

Lucius Caviola30 Aug 2021 17:33 UTC
173 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

Virtues for Real-World Utilitarians

Stefan_Schubert5 Aug 2021 22:56 UTC
152 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(psyarxiv.com)

More EAs should con­sider “non-EA” jobs

Sarah Eustis-Guthrie19 Aug 2021 21:18 UTC
143 points
21 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] What EA pro­jects could grow to be­come megapro­jects, even­tu­ally spend­ing $100m per year?

Nathan Young6 Aug 2021 11:24 UTC
131 points
173 comments1 min readEA link

How are re­sources in EA al­lo­cated across is­sues?

Benjamin_Todd8 Aug 2021 12:52 UTC
131 points
27 comments9 min readEA link

This Can’t Go On

Holden Karnofsky3 Aug 2021 15:53 UTC
129 points
35 comments10 min readEA link

Most re­search/​ad­vo­cacy char­i­ties are not scalable

Kirsten7 Aug 2021 11:26 UTC
116 points
48 comments2 min readEA link

Eco­nomic policy in poor countries

John G. Halstead7 Aug 2021 15:16 UTC
108 points
26 comments2 min readEA link

Take­aways on US Policy Ca­reers (Part 1): Paths to Im­pact and Per­sonal Fit

Mau26 Aug 2021 2:45 UTC
107 points
2 comments27 min readEA link

Towards a Weaker Longtermism

Davidmanheim8 Aug 2021 8:31 UTC
106 points
72 comments3 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Open Philan­thropy Un­der­grad­u­ate Scholarship

Bastian_Stern28 Aug 2021 16:53 UTC
102 points
31 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Gifted $1 mil­lion. What to do? (Not hy­po­thet­i­cal)

BenWilder30 Aug 2021 8:39 UTC
102 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

Out­line of Galef’s “Scout Mind­set”

RobBensinger10 Aug 2021 0:18 UTC
96 points
9 comments14 min readEA link

[PR FAQ] Shar­ing read­er­ship data with Fo­rum authors

Aaron Gertler 🔸9 Aug 2021 10:47 UTC
95 points
14 comments4 min readEA link

Open Phil EA/​LT Sur­vey 2020: In­tro­duc­tion & Sum­mary of Takeaways

Eli Rose19 Aug 2021 1:01 UTC
91 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

Why scale is over­rated: The case for in­creas­ing EA policy efforts in smaller countries

Philip Hall Andersen15 Aug 2021 17:48 UTC
84 points
11 comments30 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing In­sti­tu­tional De­ci­sion-Mak­ing: Which In­sti­tu­tions? (A Frame­work)

IanDavidMoss23 Aug 2021 2:26 UTC
81 points
7 comments34 min readEA link

AMA: Ja­son Bren­nan, au­thor of “Against Democ­racy” and cre­ator of a Ge­orge­town course on EA

Jason Brennan17 Aug 2021 19:19 UTC
76 points
92 comments2 min readEA link

Who do in­tel­lec­tual prizewin­ners fol­low on Twit­ter?

Ben_West🔸25 Aug 2021 15:26 UTC
72 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing trans­for­ma­tive AI: what’s the bur­den of proof?

Holden Karnofsky17 Aug 2021 17:14 UTC
71 points
17 comments16 min readEA link

Some men­tal health re­sources tai­lored for EAs

Miranda_Zhang20 Aug 2021 16:04 UTC
70 points
5 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] What is the role of pub­lic dis­cus­sion for hits-based Open Philan­thropy causes?

AppliedDivinityStudies4 Aug 2021 20:15 UTC
69 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

How stu­dents, groups, and com­mu­nity mem­bers can use funding

kuhanj11 Aug 2021 11:35 UTC
64 points
13 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] What are the EA move­ment’s most no­table ac­com­plish­ments?

Aaron Gertler 🔸23 Aug 2021 3:51 UTC
63 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing Trans­for­ma­tive AI: What Kind of AI?

Holden Karnofsky10 Aug 2021 21:38 UTC
62 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

Bet­ting on the best case: higher end warm­ing is un­der­rep­re­sented in research

FJehn2 Aug 2021 12:18 UTC
62 points
17 comments11 min readEA link

Fore­sight for Govern­ments: Sin­ga­pore’s Long-ter­mist Policy Tools & Les­sons

nym14 Aug 2021 12:29 UTC
58 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

Open Phil EA/​LT Sur­vey 2020: What Helped and Hin­dered Our Respondents

Eli Rose29 Aug 2021 7:00 UTC
58 points
0 comments29 min readEA link

Time-sen­si­tive, po­ten­tially high-im­pact op­por­tu­nity to help get pass­port hold­ers out of Afghanistan

pseudobison17 Aug 2021 9:47 UTC
57 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

How can economists best con­tribute to pan­demic pre­ven­tion and pre­pared­ness?

Rémi T22 Aug 2021 20:49 UTC
56 points
3 comments23 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing Trans­for­ma­tive AI: Are we “trend­ing to­ward” trans­for­ma­tive AI? (How would we know?)

Holden Karnofsky24 Aug 2021 17:15 UTC
56 points
12 comments10 min readEA link

Con­sid­er­a­tions and ad­vice on en­ter­ing man­age­ment consulting

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸11 Aug 2021 13:06 UTC
51 points
9 comments15 min readEA link

Ex­am­ples of Suc­cess­ful Selec­tive Dis­clo­sure in the Life Sciences

Tessa A 🔸19 Aug 2021 18:38 UTC
51 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Can you con­trol the past?

Joe_Carlsmith27 Aug 2021 19:34 UTC
46 points
21 comments47 min readEA link

New Global Pri­ori­ties In­sti­tute work­ing pa­pers—and an up­dated ver­sion of “The case for strong longter­mism”

Global Priorities Institute9 Aug 2021 16:57 UTC
46 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Should you or­ganise your own in­tro­duc­tory EA pro­gram or out­source it to EA Vir­tual Pro­grams?

Yi-Yang12 Aug 2021 10:20 UTC
46 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

If You’re So Smart, Why Aren’t You Gover­nor Of Cal­ifor­nia? (Scott Alexan­der: As­tral Codex Ten)

Nathan Young26 Aug 2021 11:08 UTC
45 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

Im­pact Cer­tifi­cates on a Blockchain

RowanBDonovan3 Aug 2021 14:57 UTC
44 points
31 comments21 min readEA link

Re­search sum­mary: A Meta-Re­view of In­ter­ven­tions that In­fluence An­i­mal-Product Con­sump­tion

PeterSlattery13 Aug 2021 6:46 UTC
44 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

EA Any­where: A Year in Review

Marisa8 Aug 2021 23:30 UTC
43 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2020: Engagement

David_Moss19 Aug 2021 15:14 UTC
42 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

Alexan­der Berger on im­prov­ing global health and wellbe­ing in clear and di­rect ways

80000_Hours12 Aug 2021 15:46 UTC
42 points
1 comment137 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2020: Com­mu­nity Information

David_Moss16 Aug 2021 9:33 UTC
41 points
15 comments18 min readEA link

Per­verse Ex­cited Failure & Jus­tified Gen­eral Frustration

Josh Jacobson13 Aug 2021 23:42 UTC
40 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

An­i­mal Welfare Fund: July 2021 grant recommendations

kierangreig🔸26 Aug 2021 9:29 UTC
40 points
6 comments13 min readEA link
(funds.effectivealtruism.org)

Open Phil EA/​LT Sur­vey 2020: Methodology

Eli Rose23 Aug 2021 1:01 UTC
39 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Soft­ware Eng­ineer at Wave

David Shepherd13 Aug 2021 17:20 UTC
39 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Observatory

Otto12 Aug 2021 15:51 UTC
39 points
0 comments5 min readEA link