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[Question] Is anyone in EA currently looking at short-term famine alleviation as a possible high-impact opportunity this year?

Ben_Harack6 Aug 2021 22:14 UTC

14 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Writing about my job: Web Developer

mrk6 Aug 2021 17:09 UTC

22 points

5 comments9 min readEA link

EA Updates for August 2021

DavidNash6 Aug 2021 13:21 UTC

21 points

0 comments5 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

Phil Torres’ article: “The Dangerous Ideas of ‘Longtermism’ and ‘Existential Risk’”

Ben_Eisenpress6 Aug 2021 7:19 UTC

6 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

Engineering the Apocalypse: Rob Reid and Sam Harris on engineered pandemics (transcript)

Aaron Gertler 🔸6 Aug 2021 3:31 UTC

33 points

1 comment120 min readEA link

Survey-Proposal: Cause-Area Switching

QubitSwarm996 Aug 2021 2:23 UTC

18 points

1 comment9 min readEA link

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