Les­sons from Run­ning Stan­ford EA and SERI

kuhanjAug 20, 2021, 2:51 PM
267 points
26 comments23 min readEA link

What we learned from a year in­cu­bat­ing longter­mist entrepreneurship

rebeccaAug 30, 2021, 8:39 AM
199 points
28 comments17 min readEA link

The psy­chol­ogy of pop­u­la­tion ethics

Lucius CaviolaAug 30, 2021, 5:33 PM
173 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

Virtues for Real-World Utilitarians

Stefan_SchubertAug 5, 2021, 10:56 PM
152 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(psyarxiv.com)

More EAs should con­sider “non-EA” jobs

Sarah Eustis-GuthrieAug 19, 2021, 9:18 PM
143 points
21 comments7 min readEA link

How are re­sources in EA al­lo­cated across is­sues?

Benjamin_ToddAug 8, 2021, 12:52 PM
133 points
27 comments9 min readEA link

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

Nathan YoungAug 6, 2021, 11:24 AM
131 points
173 comments1 min readEA link

This Can’t Go On

Holden KarnofskyAug 3, 2021, 3:53 PM
130 points
35 comments10 min readEA link

Most re­search/​ad­vo­cacy char­i­ties are not scalable

KirstenAug 7, 2021, 11:26 AM
116 points
48 comments2 min readEA link

Eco­nomic policy in poor countries

John G. HalsteadAug 7, 2021, 3:16 PM
108 points
26 comments2 min readEA link

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

MauAug 26, 2021, 2:45 AM
107 points
2 comments27 min readEA link

Towards a Weaker Longtermism

DavidmanheimAug 8, 2021, 8:31 AM
106 points
72 comments3 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Open Philan­thropy Un­der­grad­u­ate Scholarship

Bastian_SternAug 28, 2021, 4:53 PM
102 points
31 comments4 min readEA link

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

BenWilderAug 30, 2021, 8:39 AM
102 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

Out­line of Galef’s “Scout Mind­set”

RobBensingerAug 10, 2021, 12:18 AM
100 points
9 comments14 min readEA link

[PR FAQ] Shar­ing read­er­ship data with Fo­rum authors

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

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

Eli RoseAug 19, 2021, 1:01 AM
91 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

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

IanDavidMossAug 23, 2021, 2:26 AM
86 points
7 comments34 min readEA link

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

Philip Hall AndersenAug 15, 2021, 5:48 PM
84 points
11 comments30 min readEA link

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

Jason BrennanAug 17, 2021, 7:19 PM
76 points
92 comments2 min readEA link

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

Holden KarnofskyAug 17, 2021, 5:14 PM
72 points
17 comments16 min readEA link

Who do in­tel­lec­tual prizewin­ners fol­low on Twit­ter?

Ben_West🔸Aug 25, 2021, 3:26 PM
72 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

Some men­tal health re­sources tai­lored for EAs

Miranda_ZhangAug 20, 2021, 4:04 PM
70 points
5 comments7 min readEA link

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

AppliedDivinityStudiesAug 4, 2021, 8:15 PM
69 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

How stu­dents, groups, and com­mu­nity mem­bers can use funding

kuhanjAug 11, 2021, 11:35 AM
64 points
13 comments3 min readEA link

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

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

Fore­cast­ing Trans­for­ma­tive AI: What Kind of AI?

Holden KarnofskyAug 10, 2021, 9:38 PM
62 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

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

FJehnAug 2, 2021, 12:18 PM
62 points
17 comments11 min readEA link

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

Eli RoseAug 29, 2021, 7:00 AM
60 points
0 comments29 min readEA link

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

nymAug 14, 2021, 12:29 PM
58 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

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

pseudobisonAug 17, 2021, 9:47 AM
57 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

How can economists best con­tribute to pan­demic pre­ven­tion and pre­pared­ness?

Rémi TAug 22, 2021, 8:49 PM
56 points
3 comments23 min readEA link

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

Holden KarnofskyAug 24, 2021, 5:15 PM
56 points
12 comments10 min readEA link

Con­sid­er­a­tions and ad­vice on en­ter­ing man­age­ment consulting

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸Aug 11, 2021, 1:06 PM
51 points
9 comments15 min readEA link

Ex­am­ples of Suc­cess­ful Selec­tive Dis­clo­sure in the Life Sciences

Tessa A 🔸Aug 19, 2021, 6:38 PM
51 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

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

Yi-YangAug 12, 2021, 10:20 AM
49 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Can you con­trol the past?

Joe_CarlsmithAug 27, 2021, 7:34 PM
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 InstituteAug 9, 2021, 4:57 PM
46 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

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

Nathan YoungAug 26, 2021, 11:08 AM
45 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

Im­pact Cer­tifi­cates on a Blockchain

RowanBDonovanAug 3, 2021, 2:57 PM
44 points
31 comments21 min readEA link

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

PeterSlatteryAug 13, 2021, 6:46 AM
44 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

EA Any­where: A Year in Review

MarisaAug 8, 2021, 11:30 PM
43 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2020: Engagement

David_MossAug 19, 2021, 3:14 PM
42 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

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

80000_HoursAug 12, 2021, 3:46 PM
42 points
1 comment137 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2020: Com­mu­nity Information

David_MossAug 16, 2021, 9:33 AM
41 points
15 comments18 min readEA link

An­i­mal Welfare Fund: July 2021 grant recommendations

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

Per­verse Ex­cited Failure & Jus­tified Gen­eral Frustration

Josh JacobsonAug 13, 2021, 11:42 PM
40 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Open Phil EA/​LT Sur­vey 2020: Methodology

Eli RoseAug 23, 2021, 1:01 AM
39 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Soft­ware Eng­ineer at Wave

David ShepherdAug 13, 2021, 5:20 PM
39 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Observatory

OttoAug 12, 2021, 3:51 PM
39 points
0 comments5 min readEA link