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

evhub10 Nov 2022 23:31 UTC
712 points
86 comments3 min readEA link

The FTX Fu­ture Fund team has resigned

Nick_Beckstead11 Nov 2022 2:04 UTC
680 points
287 comments1 min readEA link

Some com­ments on re­cent FTX-re­lated events

Holden Karnofsky10 Nov 2022 22:23 UTC
644 points
79 comments4 min readEA link

Bad Omens in Cur­rent Com­mu­nity Building

Theo Hawking12 May 2022 15:41 UTC
581 points
132 comments18 min readEA link

EA and the cur­rent fund­ing situation

William_MacAskill10 May 2022 2:26 UTC
566 points
185 comments24 min readEA link

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

George Rosenfeld12 Apr 2022 20:30 UTC
563 points
186 comments8 min readEA link

“Long-Ter­mism” vs. “Ex­is­ten­tial Risk”

Scott Alexander6 Apr 2022 21:41 UTC
519 points
81 comments3 min readEA link

Peter Eck­er­sley (1979-2022)

Gavin3 Sep 2022 10:45 UTC
497 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

EA is about max­i­miza­tion, and max­i­miza­tion is perilous

Holden Karnofsky2 Sep 2022 17:13 UTC
488 points
59 comments7 min readEA link

EA for dumb peo­ple?

Olivia Addy11 Jul 2022 10:46 UTC
485 points
160 comments2 min readEA link

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

HaydnBelfield19 May 2022 8:42 UTC
482 points
44 comments18 min readEA link

Power dy­nam­ics be­tween peo­ple in EA

Julia_Wise🔸1 Jun 2022 20:50 UTC
478 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

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

EliezerYudkowsky12 Nov 2022 4:51 UTC
466 points
43 comments8 min readEA link

Cri­tiques of EA that I want to read

abrahamrowe19 Jun 2022 22:22 UTC
463 points
85 comments11 min readEA link

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

Fods1214 Nov 2022 12:43 UTC
452 points
55 comments4 min readEA link

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

patio119 Dec 2022 20:13 UTC
435 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

Open EA Global

Scott Alexander1 Sep 2022 4:26 UTC
434 points
154 comments5 min readEA link

Lean­ing into EA Disillusionment

Helen21 Jul 2022 17:06 UTC
425 points
61 comments13 min readEA link

Open Phil is seek­ing ap­pli­ca­tions from grantees im­pacted by re­cent events

Bastian_Stern16 Nov 2022 5:10 UTC
415 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

Con­crete Biose­cu­rity Pro­jects (some of which could be big)

ASB11 Jan 2022 3:46 UTC
405 points
71 comments5 min readEA link

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

Holden Karnofsky18 Nov 2022 23:57 UTC
389 points
35 comments5 min readEA link

The Span­ish-Speak­ing Effec­tive Altru­ism com­mu­nity is awesome

Jaime Sevilla7 Dec 2022 17:54 UTC
380 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Alvea—A COVID Vac­cine Project

kyle_fish16 Feb 2022 13:50 UTC
372 points
25 comments2 min readEA link

Thoughts on le­gal con­cerns sur­round­ing the FTX situation

Molly13 Nov 2022 17:01 UTC
367 points
65 comments4 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Fu­ture Fund

Nick_Beckstead28 Feb 2022 17:26 UTC
366 points
185 comments4 min readEA link
(ftxfuturefund.org)

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

Nathan Young8 Nov 2022 19:16 UTC
366 points
321 comments3 min readEA link

The Welfare Range Table

Bob Fischer7 Nov 2022 10:19 UTC
365 points
17 comments8 min readEA link

What hap­pens on the av­er­age day?

rosehadshar17 Aug 2022 10:09 UTC
358 points
33 comments6 min readEA link

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

Jakub Stencel30 Dec 2022 17:47 UTC
356 points
24 comments14 min readEA link
(animainternational.org)

My take on What We Owe the Future

elifland1 Sep 2022 18:07 UTC
353 points
51 comments26 min readEA link

Some un­fun les­sons I learned as a ju­nior grantmaker

Linch23 May 2022 16:31 UTC
352 points
58 comments13 min readEA link

A Let­ter to the Bul­letin of Atomic Scientists

John G. Halstead23 Nov 2022 20:06 UTC
347 points
58 comments2 min readEA link

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

Luke Freeman20 May 2022 3:39 UTC
342 points
77 comments6 min readEA link

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

Shakeel Hashim15 Nov 2022 19:42 UTC
342 points
42 comments1 min readEA link

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

Tyler Whitmer21 Nov 2022 1:47 UTC
340 points
58 comments5 min readEA link

Moder­a­tor Ap­pre­ci­a­tion Thread

Ben_West🔸18 Nov 2022 22:51 UTC
337 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Let’s think about slow­ing down AI

Katja_Grace23 Dec 2022 19:56 UTC
334 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

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

Simon_M27 Dec 2022 23:53 UTC
334 points
129 comments6 min readEA link
(simonm.substack.com)

Some clar­ifi­ca­tions on the Fu­ture Fund’s ap­proach to grantmaking

Nick_Beckstead10 May 2022 2:42 UTC
327 points
61 comments3 min readEA link

My re­ac­tion to FTX: appalled

Robert_Wiblin11 Nov 2022 18:08 UTC
325 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 Barugh12 Nov 2022 14:22 UTC
322 points
68 comments2 min readEA link

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

MathiasKB🔸27 Apr 2022 14:30 UTC
319 points
42 comments5 min readEA link

Cli­mate Change & Longter­mism: new book-length report

John G. Halstead26 Aug 2022 9:13 UTC
318 points
160 comments13 min readEA link

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

JoelMcGuire25 Jul 2022 20:26 UTC
307 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 D2 Dec 2022 4:04 UTC
304 points
172 comments7 min readEA link

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

NunoSempere16 Jun 2022 16:40 UTC
302 points
97 comments26 min readEA link

Some po­ten­tial les­sons from Car­rick’s Con­gres­sional bid

Daniel_Eth18 May 2022 5:58 UTC
301 points
94 comments10 min readEA link

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

AnonymousThrowAway9 Jul 2022 10:47 UTC
301 points
32 comments11 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing What We Owe The Future

William_MacAskill30 Mar 2022 19:37 UTC
300 points
36 comments5 min readEA link

My EA Failure Story

semicycle11 Jul 2022 9:22 UTC
299 points
32 comments4 min readEA link