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

finmSep 17, 2021, 3:51 PM
320 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

The mo­ti­vated rea­son­ing cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

LinchSep 14, 2021, 8:43 PM
286 points
59 comments23 min readEA link

Why I am prob­a­bly not a longtermist

Denise_MelchinSep 23, 2021, 5:24 PM
260 points
49 comments8 min readEA link

Snap­shot of a ca­reer choice 10 years ago

Julia_Wise🔸Sep 23, 2021, 7:05 PM
237 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

Cul­tured meat pre­dic­tions were overly optimistic

Neil_Dullaghan🔹 Sep 15, 2021, 12:32 PM
195 points
14 comments4 min readEA link

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

HmashSep 11, 2021, 10:05 PM
195 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

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

tsSep 7, 2021, 11:19 AM
192 points
31 comments8 min readEA link

Cul­tured meat: A com­par­i­son of techno-eco­nomic analyses

LinchSep 24, 2021, 10:20 PM
165 points
39 comments22 min readEA link

Frank Feed­back Given To Very Ju­nior Researchers

NunoSempereSep 1, 2021, 10:55 AM
158 points
23 comments5 min readEA link

In­de­pen­dent impressions

MichaelA🔸Sep 26, 2021, 6:43 PM
157 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Why AI al­ign­ment could be hard with mod­ern deep learning

AjeyaSep 21, 2021, 3:35 PM
156 points
17 comments14 min readEA link
(www.cold-takes.com)

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

Aaron Gertler 🔸Sep 12, 2021, 9:15 PM
149 points
65 comments6 min readEA link

When pool­ing fore­casts, use the ge­o­met­ric mean of odds

Jaime SevillaSep 3, 2021, 9:58 AM
125 points
63 comments8 min readEA link

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

Tom Barnes🔸Sep 15, 2021, 2:52 PM
124 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

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

MathiasKB🔸Sep 10, 2021, 7:47 AM
117 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

Clar­ify­ing the Petrov Day Exercise

KirstenSep 26, 2021, 10:39 PM
111 points
53 comments3 min readEA link

[Creative Writ­ing Con­test] The Re­set Button

Joshua IngleSep 16, 2021, 10:08 AM
109 points
16 comments7 min readEA link

You can talk to EA Funds be­fore applying

evhubSep 28, 2021, 8:39 PM
104 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

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

kuhanjSep 21, 2021, 9:42 PM
102 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

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

GiveDirectlySep 15, 2021, 7:13 AM
97 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

Disen­tan­gling “Im­prov­ing In­sti­tu­tional De­ci­sion-Mak­ing”

LizkaSep 13, 2021, 11:50 PM
96 points
16 comments19 min readEA link

Call to Vigilance

Holden KarnofskySep 15, 2021, 6:46 PM
92 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

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

Holden KarnofskySep 7, 2021, 5:35 PM
89 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

Honor­ing Petrov Day on the EA Fo­rum: 2021

Aaron Gertler 🔸Sep 25, 2021, 11:27 PM
88 points
96 comments3 min readEA link

Ev­i­dence from two stud­ies of EA ca­reers ad­vice interventions

Jamie_HarrisSep 29, 2021, 3:47 PM
84 points
7 comments10 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing TEAMWORK—an EA Cowork­ing Space in Berlin

Sebastian SchwieckerSep 15, 2021, 5:53 PM
83 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

WANBAM: Suc­cesses and challenges from our first two years

KMFSep 16, 2021, 10:16 PM
80 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Plan Your Ca­reer on Paper

aogSep 23, 2021, 3:04 PM
74 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

[Creative writ­ing con­test] Blue bird and black bird

LizkaSep 16, 2021, 11:56 PM
74 points
35 comments2 min readEA link

Suggested norms about fi­nan­cial aid for EAG(x)

richard_ngoSep 20, 2021, 3:13 PM
73 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Guard­ing Against Pandemics

Guarding Against PandemicsSep 18, 2021, 11:15 AM
72 points
15 comments4 min readEA link

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

noraSep 29, 2021, 8:48 PM
72 points
2 comments24 min readEA link

Crazy ideas some­times do work

Aryeh EnglanderSep 4, 2021, 3:27 AM
71 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

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

JeremiahJohnsonSep 28, 2021, 4:08 PM
71 points
69 comments1 min readEA link

Click­hole’s take on cause prioritization

Aaron Gertler 🔸Sep 16, 2021, 7:33 AM
69 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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

Mats OlsenSep 8, 2021, 1:20 PM
68 points
13 comments9 min readEA link

Avoid­ing Group­think in In­tro Fel­low­ships (and Diver­sify­ing Longter­mism)

seanrsonSep 14, 2021, 9:00 PM
67 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Trans­for­ma­tive AI and Com­pute [Sum­mary]

lennartSep 23, 2021, 1:53 PM
65 points
5 comments9 min readEA link

Univer­sity EA Groups Should Form Re­gional Groups

akrivkaSep 5, 2021, 4:59 PM
64 points
18 comments11 min readEA link

Sum­mary of his­tory (em­pow­er­ment and well-be­ing lens)

Holden KarnofskySep 28, 2021, 5:48 PM
62 points
11 comments11 min readEA link

The Im­por­tance of Those Who Aren’t Here

Davis_KingsleySep 4, 2021, 10:39 PM
62 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Vi­talik Bu­terin Fel­low­ships in AI Ex­is­ten­tial Safety!

DanielFilanSep 21, 2021, 12:41 AM
62 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(grants.futureoflife.org)

Some Thoughts on Cul­tured Meat Feasibility

avacynSep 27, 2021, 3:36 AM
60 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

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

ajmfisherSep 20, 2021, 4:41 PM
59 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

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

Vael GatesSep 24, 2021, 9:56 PM
58 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

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

Corrina ValiSep 15, 2021, 12:00 PM
57 points
2 comments14 min readEA link

How to make the best of the most im­por­tant cen­tury?

Holden KarnofskySep 14, 2021, 9:05 PM
57 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

Guide to talk­ing about effec­tive al­tru­ism and effec­tive giving

Luke FreemanSep 10, 2021, 5:15 AM
57 points
0 comments21 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

Robin Han­son’s Grabby Aliens model ex­plained—part 1

WriterSep 22, 2021, 6:50 PM
57 points
7 comments8 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

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

JuanGarciaSep 27, 2021, 3:53 PM
56 points
0 comments5 min readEA link