Ma­jor UN re­port dis­cusses ex­is­ten­tial risk and fu­ture gen­er­a­tions (sum­mary)

finm17 Sep 2021 15:51 UTC
320 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

The mo­ti­vated rea­son­ing cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

Linch14 Sep 2021 20:43 UTC
285 points
59 comments23 min readEA link

Snap­shot of a ca­reer choice 10 years ago

Julia_Wise🔸23 Sep 2021 19:05 UTC
237 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

Why I am prob­a­bly not a longtermist

Denise_Melchin23 Sep 2021 17:24 UTC
234 points
47 comments8 min readEA link

Effec­tiveAltru­is­mData.com: A Web­site for Ag­gre­gat­ing and Vi­su­al­is­ing EA Data

Hmash11 Sep 2021 22:05 UTC
195 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

Cul­tured meat pre­dic­tions were overly optimistic

Neil_Dullaghan🔹 15 Sep 2021 12:32 UTC
192 points
14 comments4 min readEA link

How to suc­ceed as an early-stage re­searcher: the “lean startup” approach

ts7 Sep 2021 11:19 UTC
182 points
31 comments8 min readEA link

Cul­tured meat: A com­par­i­son of techno-eco­nomic analyses

Linch24 Sep 2021 22:20 UTC
163 points
38 comments22 min readEA link

Frank Feed­back Given To Very Ju­nior Researchers

NunoSempere1 Sep 2021 10:55 UTC
157 points
23 comments5 min readEA link

Why AI al­ign­ment could be hard with mod­ern deep learning

Ajeya21 Sep 2021 15:35 UTC
153 points
17 comments14 min readEA link
(www.cold-takes.com)

In­de­pen­dent impressions

MichaelA🔸26 Sep 2021 18:43 UTC
152 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

EA Fo­rum Creative Writ­ing Con­test: $22,000 in prizes for good stories

Aaron Gertler 🔸12 Sep 2021 21:15 UTC
149 points
65 comments6 min readEA link

Canva CEO com­mits at least $6 billion “to do the most good”

Tom Barnes15 Sep 2021 14:52 UTC
124 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

When pool­ing fore­casts, use the ge­o­met­ric mean of odds

Jaime Sevilla3 Sep 2021 9:58 UTC
124 points
62 comments8 min readEA link

What is the EU AI Act and why should you care about it?

MathiasKB🔸10 Sep 2021 7:47 UTC
116 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

Clar­ify­ing the Petrov Day Exercise

Kirsten26 Sep 2021 22:39 UTC
111 points
53 comments3 min readEA link

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] The Re­set Button

Joshua Ingle16 Sep 2021 10:08 UTC
108 points
16 comments7 min readEA link

You can talk to EA Funds be­fore applying

evhub28 Sep 2021 20:39 UTC
104 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

The im­por­tance of op­ti­miz­ing the first few weeks of uni for EA groups

kuhanj21 Sep 2021 21:42 UTC
102 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

Work­ing in the U.S. helped us get more money to in­ter­na­tional recipients

GiveDirectly15 Sep 2021 7:13 UTC
97 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

Disen­tan­gling “Im­prov­ing In­sti­tu­tional De­ci­sion-Mak­ing”

Lizka13 Sep 2021 23:50 UTC
92 points
16 comments19 min readEA link

Call to Vigilance

Holden Karnofsky15 Sep 2021 18:46 UTC
90 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Honor­ing Petrov Day on the EA Fo­rum: 2021

Aaron Gertler 🔸25 Sep 2021 23:27 UTC
88 points
96 comments3 min readEA link

AI Timelines: Where the Ar­gu­ments, and the “Ex­perts,” Stand

Holden Karnofsky7 Sep 2021 17:35 UTC
88 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

Ev­i­dence from two stud­ies of EA ca­reers ad­vice interventions

Jamie_Harris29 Sep 2021 15:47 UTC
84 points
7 comments10 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing TEAMWORK—an EA Cowork­ing Space in Berlin

Sebastian Schwiecker15 Sep 2021 17:53 UTC
83 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

WANBAM: Suc­cesses and challenges from our first two years

KMF16 Sep 2021 22:16 UTC
80 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Plan Your Ca­reer on Paper

aogara23 Sep 2021 15:04 UTC
74 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

[Creative writ­ing con­test] Blue bird and black bird

Lizka16 Sep 2021 23:56 UTC
74 points
35 comments2 min readEA link

Suggested norms about fi­nan­cial aid for EAG(x)

richard_ngo20 Sep 2021 15:13 UTC
73 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Guard­ing Against Pandemics

Guarding Against Pandemics18 Sep 2021 11:15 UTC
72 points
15 comments4 min readEA link

The role of tribes in achiev­ing last­ing im­pact and how to cre­ate them

nora29 Sep 2021 20:48 UTC
72 points
2 comments24 min readEA link

Crazy ideas some­times do work

Aryeh Englander4 Sep 2021 3:27 UTC
71 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Jeremiah John­son, Direc­tor/​Founder of the Ne­oliberal Project

JeremiahJohnson28 Sep 2021 16:08 UTC
71 points
69 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the launch of EA Im­pact CoLabs (beta) + re­quest for pro­jects, vol­un­teers and feedback

Mats Olsen8 Sep 2021 13:20 UTC
68 points
13 comments9 min readEA link

Click­hole’s take on cause prioritization

Aaron Gertler 🔸16 Sep 2021 7:33 UTC
68 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Avoid­ing Group­think in In­tro Fel­low­ships (and Diver­sify­ing Longter­mism)

seanrson14 Sep 2021 21:00 UTC
67 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Univer­sity EA Groups Should Form Re­gional Groups

akrivka5 Sep 2021 16:59 UTC
64 points
18 comments11 min readEA link

Sum­mary of his­tory (em­pow­er­ment and well-be­ing lens)

Holden Karnofsky28 Sep 2021 17:48 UTC
62 points
11 comments11 min readEA link

The Im­por­tance of Those Who Aren’t Here

Davis_Kingsley4 Sep 2021 22:39 UTC
62 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Vi­talik Bu­terin Fel­low­ships in AI Ex­is­ten­tial Safety!

DanielFilan21 Sep 2021 0:41 UTC
62 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(grants.futureoflife.org)

Trans­for­ma­tive AI and Com­pute [Sum­mary]

lennart23 Sep 2021 13:53 UTC
60 points
5 comments9 min readEA link

Some Thoughts on Cul­tured Meat Feasibility

avacyn27 Sep 2021 3:36 UTC
60 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

Promis­ing ways to im­prove the lives of ur­ban rats in South Africa

ajmfisher20 Sep 2021 16:41 UTC
59 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

Seek­ing so­cial sci­ence stu­dents /​ col­lab­o­ra­tors in­ter­ested in AI ex­is­ten­tial risks

Vael Gates24 Sep 2021 21:56 UTC
58 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

In search of sys­tems change that lasts: 3 les­sons we’ve learned at For­tify Health

Corrina Vali15 Sep 2021 12:00 UTC
57 points
2 comments14 min readEA link

Guide to talk­ing about effec­tive al­tru­ism and effec­tive giving

Luke Freeman10 Sep 2021 5:15 UTC
57 points
0 comments21 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

Robin Han­son’s Grabby Aliens model ex­plained—part 1

Writer22 Sep 2021 18:50 UTC
57 points
7 comments8 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

The catas­trophic pri­macy of re­ac­tivity over proac­tivity in gov­ern­men­tal risk as­sess­ment: brief UK case study

JuanGarcia27 Sep 2021 15:53 UTC
56 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Deep­Mind is hiring Long-term Strat­egy & Gover­nance researchers

vishal13 Sep 2021 18:44 UTC
54 points
1 comment1 min readEA link