We must be very clear: fraud in the ser­vice of effec­tive al­tru­ism is unacceptable

evhubNov 10, 2022, 11:31 PM
713 points
86 comments3 min readEA link

The FTX Fu­ture Fund team has resigned

Nick_BecksteadNov 11, 2022, 2:04 AM
680 points
287 comments1 min readEA link

Some com­ments on re­cent FTX-re­lated events

Holden KarnofskyNov 10, 2022, 10:23 PM
644 points
79 comments4 min readEA link

Bad Omens in Cur­rent Com­mu­nity Building

Theo HawkingMay 12, 2022, 3:41 PM
589 points
132 comments18 min readEA link

EA and the cur­rent fund­ing situation

William_MacAskillMay 10, 2022, 2:26 AM
567 points
185 comments24 min readEA link

Free-spend­ing EA might be a big prob­lem for op­tics and epistemics

George RosenfeldApr 12, 2022, 8:30 PM
562 points
186 comments8 min readEA link

“Long-Ter­mism” vs. “Ex­is­ten­tial Risk”

Scott AlexanderApr 6, 2022, 9:41 PM
526 points
81 comments3 min readEA link

EA for dumb peo­ple?

Olivia AddyJul 11, 2022, 10:46 AM
500 points
160 comments2 min readEA link

Peter Eck­er­sley (1979-2022)

technicalitiesSep 3, 2022, 10:45 AM
497 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

EA is about max­i­miza­tion, and max­i­miza­tion is perilous

Holden KarnofskySep 2, 2022, 5:13 PM
494 points
59 comments7 min readEA link

Are you re­ally in a race? The Cau­tion­ary Tales of Szilárd and Ellsberg

HaydnBelfieldMay 19, 2022, 8:42 AM
489 points
44 comments18 min readEA link

Power dy­nam­ics be­tween peo­ple in EA

Julia_Wise🔸Jun 1, 2022, 8:50 PM
485 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

Cri­tiques of EA that I want to read

abrahamroweJun 19, 2022, 10:22 PM
468 points
85 comments11 min readEA link

IMPCO, don’t in­jure your­self by re­turn­ing FTXFF money for ser­vices you already provided

EliezerYudkowskyNov 12, 2022, 4:51 AM
466 points
43 comments8 min readEA link

The FTX crisis high­lights a deeper cul­tural prob­lem within EA—we don’t suffi­ciently value good governance

James FodorNov 14, 2022, 12:43 PM
452 points
55 comments4 min readEA link

Open EA Global

Scott AlexanderSep 1, 2022, 4:26 AM
439 points
154 comments5 min readEA link

Some ob­ser­va­tions from an EA-ad­ja­cent (?) char­i­ta­ble effort

patio11Dec 9, 2022, 8:13 PM
436 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

Lean­ing into EA Disillusionment

HelenJul 21, 2022, 5:06 PM
432 points
61 comments13 min readEA link

Open Phil is seek­ing ap­pli­ca­tions from grantees im­pacted by re­cent events

Bastian_SternNov 16, 2022, 5:10 AM
415 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

Con­crete Biose­cu­rity Pro­jects (some of which could be big)

ASBJan 11, 2022, 3:46 AM
410 points
71 comments5 min readEA link

My takes on the FTX situ­a­tion will (mostly) be cold, not hot

Holden KarnofskyNov 18, 2022, 11:57 PM
389 points
35 comments5 min readEA link

The Span­ish-Speak­ing Effec­tive Altru­ism com­mu­nity is awesome

Jaime SevillaDec 7, 2022, 5:54 PM
381 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Alvea—A COVID Vac­cine Project

kyle_fishFeb 16, 2022, 1:50 PM
372 points
25 comments2 min readEA link

FTX Cri­sis. What we know and some fore­casts on what will hap­pen next

Nathan YoungNov 8, 2022, 7:16 PM
368 points
321 comments3 min readEA link

Thoughts on le­gal con­cerns sur­round­ing the FTX situation

MollyNov 13, 2022, 5:01 PM
367 points
65 comments4 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Fu­ture Fund

Nick_BecksteadFeb 28, 2022, 5:26 PM
366 points
185 comments4 min readEA link
(ftxfuturefund.org)

The Welfare Range Table

Bob FischerNov 7, 2022, 10:19 AM
365 points
17 comments8 min readEA link

What hap­pens on the av­er­age day?

rosehadsharAug 17, 2022, 10:09 AM
361 points
33 comments6 min readEA link

Why An­ima In­ter­na­tional sus­pended the cam­paign to end live fish sales in Poland

Jakub StencelDec 30, 2022, 5:47 PM
360 points
24 comments14 min readEA link
(animainternational.org)

My take on What We Owe the Future

eliflandSep 1, 2022, 6:07 PM
357 points
51 comments26 min readEA link

Some un­fun les­sons I learned as a ju­nior grantmaker

LinchMay 23, 2022, 4:31 PM
352 points
58 comments13 min readEA link

A Let­ter to the Bul­letin of Atomic Scientists

John G. HalsteadNov 23, 2022, 8:06 PM
347 points
58 comments2 min readEA link

“Big tent” effec­tive al­tru­ism is very im­por­tant (par­tic­u­larly right now)

Luke FreemanMay 20, 2022, 3:39 AM
343 points
77 comments6 min readEA link

The rel­a­tive silence on FTX/​SBF is likely the re­sult of sound le­gal advice

Tyler WhitmerNov 21, 2022, 1:47 AM
340 points
58 comments5 min readEA link

Moder­a­tor Ap­pre­ci­a­tion Thread

Ben_West🔸Nov 18, 2022, 10:51 PM
337 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

StrongMinds should not be a top-rated char­ity (yet)

Simon_MDec 27, 2022, 11:53 PM
337 points
129 comments6 min readEA link
(simonm.substack.com)

Let’s think about slow­ing down AI

Katja_GraceDec 23, 2022, 7:56 PM
334 points
9 commentsEA link

Why you’re not hear­ing as much from EA orgs as you’d like

Shakeel HashimNov 15, 2022, 7:42 PM
333 points
42 comments1 min readEA link

Some clar­ifi­ca­tions on the Fu­ture Fund’s ap­proach to grantmaking

Nick_BecksteadMay 10, 2022, 2:42 AM
327 points
61 comments3 min readEA link

My re­ac­tion to FTX: appalled

Robert_WiblinNov 11, 2022, 6:08 PM
326 points
73 comments2 min readEA link

CEA/​EV + OP + RP should en­gage an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tor to de­ter­mine whether key figures in EA knew about the (likely) fraud at FTX

Tyrone-Jay Barugh 🔸Nov 12, 2022, 2:22 PM
322 points
68 comments2 min readEA link

Cli­mate Change & Longter­mism: new book-length report

John G. HalsteadAug 26, 2022, 9:13 AM
319 points
160 comments13 min readEA link

Snakebites kill 100,000 peo­ple ev­ery year, here’s what you should know

MathiasKB🔸Apr 27, 2022, 2:30 PM
319 points
42 comments5 min readEA link

De­worm­ing and de­cay: repli­cat­ing GiveWell’s cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis

JoelMcGuireJul 25, 2022, 8:26 PM
308 points
38 comments11 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

I’m a 22-year-old woman in­volved in Effec­tive Altru­ism. I’m sad, dis­ap­pointed, and scared.

Maya DDec 2, 2022, 4:04 AM
306 points
172 comments7 min readEA link

A Crit­i­cal Re­view of Open Philan­thropy’s Bet On Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Reform

NunoSempereJun 16, 2022, 4:40 PM
303 points
97 comments26 min readEA link

Se­nior EA ‘ops’ roles: if you want to undo the bot­tle­neck, hire differently

AnonymousThrowAwayJul 9, 2022, 10:47 AM
302 points
32 comments11 min readEA link

My EA Failure Story

semicycleJul 11, 2022, 9:22 AM
302 points
32 comments4 min readEA link

Some po­ten­tial les­sons from Car­rick’s Con­gres­sional bid

Daniel_EthMay 18, 2022, 5:58 AM
301 points
94 comments10 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing What We Owe The Future

William_MacAskillMar 30, 2022, 7:37 PM
300 points
36 comments5 min readEA link