Virtues for Real-World Utilitarians

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

[Question] How to Train Bet­ter EAs?

Davis_Kingsley5 Aug 2021 11:12 UTC
30 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

An en­g­ineer’s ap­proach to per­sonal fi­nance for effec­tive altruists

SamNolan5 Aug 2021 8:16 UTC
16 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

PhD Schol­ar­ships for EA pro­jects in psy­chol­ogy, health, IIDM, or education

Michael Noetel 🔸5 Aug 2021 6:49 UTC
37 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] How do you de­cide how much to donate in “user fees” for free ser­vices?

Cameron Meyer Shorb 🔸5 Aug 2021 5:29 UTC
26 points
4 comments1 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

The Sur­vival and Flour­ish­ing Fund grant ap­pli­ca­tions open un­til Au­gust 23rd ($8m-$12m planned for dis­per­sal)

Larks4 Aug 2021 19:00 UTC
21 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Chris Olah on what the hell is go­ing on in­side neu­ral networks

80000_Hours4 Aug 2021 15:13 UTC
5 points
0 comments133 min readEA link

Mush­room Thoughts on Ex­is­ten­tial Risk. No Magic.

CarlaZoeC4 Aug 2021 8:47 UTC
33 points
15 comments9 min readEA link

Con­tri­bu­tion-Ad­justed Utility Max­i­miza­tion Funds: An Early Proposal

Ozzie Gooen3 Aug 2021 23:01 UTC
14 points
4 comments12 min readEA link

This Can’t Go On

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

The Cry­on­ics re­duc­tio against pure time prefer­ence: a rhetor­i­cal low-hang­ing fruit—or “Do we dis­count the fu­ture only be­cause we won’t live in it?”

Ramiro3 Aug 2021 15:06 UTC
9 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

Im­pact Cer­tifi­cates on a Blockchain

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

Please Wel­come and Con­grat­u­late Our In­com­ing UC Berkeley EA Chap­ter President

Mahendra Prasad3 Aug 2021 7:32 UTC
−3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

How Do AI Timelines Affect Giv­ing Now vs. Later?

MichaelDickens3 Aug 2021 3:36 UTC
36 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

Recom­mended Char­ity Fund: Six-Month Update

Animal Charity Evaluators2 Aug 2021 23:57 UTC
10 points
0 comments13 min readEA link
(animalcharityevaluators.org)

(Video) How to be a less crappy person

cryptopsyfan694202 Aug 2021 19:32 UTC
5 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Per­spec­tives on an­i­mal ad­vo­cacy in China

Animal_Ethics2 Aug 2021 18:05 UTC
26 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

[Question] Ques­tions on “hu­mane” farms

JaimeRV2 Aug 2021 14:29 UTC
7 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Give in Public Beta is live

Laurin2 Aug 2021 14:07 UTC
16 points
7 comments1 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

Open Thread: Au­gust 2021

Aaron Gertler 🔸2 Aug 2021 10:04 UTC
12 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

Depart­ment Voting

Bob Jacobs 🔸2 Aug 2021 9:42 UTC
12 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Col­lec­tive in­tel­li­gence as in­fras­truc­ture for re­duc­ing broad ex­is­ten­tial risks

vickyCYang2 Aug 2021 6:00 UTC
30 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

Hack4Im­pact Cor­nell is offer­ing cus­tom soft­ware de­vel­op­ment for non-profits

Anusha Choudhury1 Aug 2021 19:05 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing Newslet­ter: July 2021

NunoSempere1 Aug 2021 15:07 UTC
19 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

The Harsanyi-Rawls de­bate: poli­ti­cal philos­o­phy as de­ci­sion the­ory un­der uncertainty

Ramiro1 Aug 2021 14:04 UTC
19 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Dy­namic Public Good Pro­vi­sion un­der Time Prefer­ence Hetero­gene­ity: The­ory and Ap­pli­ca­tions to Philanthropy

Global Priorities Institute1 Aug 2021 13:13 UTC
4 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Cal­ibra­tion dilem­mas in the ethics of distribution

Global Priorities Institute1 Aug 2021 13:12 UTC
8 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Nick Bostrom: An In­tro­duc­tion [early draft]

peterhartree31 Jul 2021 17:04 UTC
38 points
0 comments19 min readEA link

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: July 2021

Aaron Gertler 🔸31 Jul 2021 12:20 UTC
16 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Effec­tive Th­e­sis is hiring for the Head of Coaching

DavidJanku30 Jul 2021 17:03 UTC
30 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing our 2021 ACE Move­ment Grants

Animal Charity Evaluators30 Jul 2021 7:00 UTC
10 points
0 comments16 min readEA link
(animalcharityevaluators.org)

Global Health In­no­va­tion In­cen­tives, Pa­tent Trolls, and Ever­green­ing: Dis­cus­sion of Subtopics within US Pa­tent Policy

schethik30 Jul 2021 5:40 UTC
15 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

Stephen Fry nar­rat­ing a video on effec­tive al­tru­ism, ex­plain­ing the cause-pri­ori­ti­sa­tion frame­work while giv­ing us the ap­pro­pri­ate emo­tional re­sponse to helping others

Luke Freeman30 Jul 2021 3:32 UTC
52 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Con­sider can­cel­ing your WiFi

Kevin Kuruc29 Jul 2021 20:19 UTC
62 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Matt Lev­ine on the Arche­gos failure

Kelsey Piper29 Jul 2021 19:36 UTC
139 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2020: Cause Prioritization

David_Moss29 Jul 2021 18:06 UTC
100 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

Tom Moynihan on why prior gen­er­a­tions missed some of the biggest pri­ori­ties of all

80000_Hours29 Jul 2021 16:38 UTC
20 points
0 comments156 min readEA link

Max Roser on build­ing the world’s first great source of COVID-19 data at Our World in Data

80000_Hours29 Jul 2021 16:37 UTC
19 points
1 comment101 min readEA link

Pardis Sa­beti on the Sen­tinel sys­tem for de­tect­ing and stop­ping pandemics

80000_Hours29 Jul 2021 16:36 UTC
13 points
0 comments101 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Re­search Fel­low, FHI

rgb29 Jul 2021 13:53 UTC
96 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] How to as­sign nu­mer­i­cal val­ues to in­di­vi­d­ual welfare?

Frank_R29 Jul 2021 13:52 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Is effec­tive al­tru­ism grow­ing? An up­date on the stock of fund­ing vs. people

Benjamin_Todd29 Jul 2021 11:47 UTC
301 points
105 comments21 min readEA link

CEA Up­date: Q2 2021

MaxDalton29 Jul 2021 9:14 UTC
27 points
5 comments14 min readEA link
(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

GWWC July 2021 Newsletter

Luke Freeman29 Jul 2021 5:24 UTC
6 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

Mem­ber mo­ti­va­tions sur­vey: Why peo­ple pledged to give 10% of their in­come to effec­tive charities

Luke Freeman29 Jul 2021 5:04 UTC
11 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

Our plan to share “PR FAQs” for new Fo­rum features

Ben_West🔸29 Jul 2021 4:10 UTC
48 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

EA Fo­rum Prize: Win­ners for April 2021

Aaron Gertler 🔸29 Jul 2021 1:12 UTC
26 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Eco­nomics Professor

Kevin Kuruc28 Jul 2021 19:41 UTC
88 points
12 comments5 min readEA link