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

evhub10 Nov 2022 23:31 UTC
711 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

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

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

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

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

Thoughts on le­gal con­cerns sur­round­ing the FTX situation

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

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

A Let­ter to the Bul­letin of Atomic Scientists

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

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

NY Times on the FTX im­plo­sion’s im­pact on EA

DirectedEvolution14 Nov 2022 3:51 UTC
293 points
19 comments3 min readEA link
(www.nytimes.com)

Kel­sey Piper’s re­cent in­ter­view of SBF

Agustín Covarrubias 🔸16 Nov 2022 20:30 UTC
292 points
155 comments2 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

Pre-An­nounc­ing the 2023 Open Philan­thropy AI Wor­ld­views Contest

Jason Schukraft21 Nov 2022 21:45 UTC
291 points
26 comments1 min readEA link

A per­sonal state­ment on FTX

William_MacAskill12 Nov 2022 16:40 UTC
289 points
144 comments2 min readEA link

Why Neu­ron Counts Shouldn’t Be Used as Prox­ies for Mo­ral Weight

Adam Shriver28 Nov 2022 12:07 UTC
288 points
45 comments9 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Wrong les­sons from the FTX catastrophe

burner14 Nov 2022 0:39 UTC
282 points
20 comments4 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the first is­sue of Asterisk

Clara Collier21 Nov 2022 18:51 UTC
275 points
47 comments1 min readEA link

On EA mes­sag­ing—be­ing a doc­tor in a poorer country

Luke Eure20 Nov 2022 10:16 UTC
273 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ Lead­er­ship State­ment on the FTX situation

abrahamrowe23 Nov 2022 22:54 UTC
266 points
77 comments2 min readEA link

Com­mu­nity sup­port given FTX situation

Julia_Wise🔸10 Nov 2022 11:51 UTC
265 points
52 comments1 min readEA link

Pro­pos­als for re­form should come with de­tailed stories

Eric Neyman14 Nov 2022 18:46 UTC
262 points
16 comments2 min readEA link

Some im­por­tant ques­tions for the EA Leadership

Gideon Futerman16 Nov 2022 17:10 UTC
243 points
113 comments3 min readEA link

What mat­ters to shrimps? Fac­tors af­fect­ing shrimp welfare in aquaculture

Lucas Lewit-Mendes3 Nov 2022 10:31 UTC
238 points
14 comments23 min readEA link
(www.shrimpwelfareproject.org)

Short Re­search Sum­mary: Can in­sects feel pain? A re­view of the neu­ral and be­havi­oural ev­i­dence by Gib­bons et al. 2022

Meghan Barrett22 Nov 2022 16:46 UTC
214 points
21 comments3 min readEA link
(authors.elsevier.com)

What might FTX mean for effec­tive giv­ing and EA funding

Jack Lewars15 Nov 2022 13:24 UTC
204 points
26 comments9 min readEA link

Eirik Mofoss named “Young leader of the year” in Norway

Jørgen Ljønes🔸16 Nov 2022 13:31 UTC
202 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

EA is a global com­mu­nity—but should it be?

Davidmanheim18 Nov 2022 8:23 UTC
200 points
72 comments10 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Non­lin­ear Emer­gency Funding

Kat Woods13 Nov 2022 18:02 UTC
192 points
59 comments1 min readEA link

If Pro­fes­sional In­vestors Missed This...

Jeff Kaufman 🔸16 Nov 2022 15:00 UTC
192 points
40 comments3 min readEA link
(www.jefftk.com)

Some feel­ings, and what’s keep­ing me going

Michelle_Hutchinson25 Nov 2022 12:42 UTC
187 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

De­lay, De­tect, Defend: Prepar­ing for a Fu­ture in which Thou­sands Can Re­lease New Pan­demics by Kevin Esvelt

Jeremy15 Nov 2022 16:23 UTC
177 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(dam.gcsp.ch)

Thoughts on FTX and re­turn­ing to our ideals

michel11 Nov 2022 20:17 UTC
176 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

Stop Think­ing about FTX. Think About Get­ting Zika In­stead.

jeeebz14 Nov 2022 19:32 UTC
176 points
5 comments11 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing new lead­er­ship in An­i­mal Char­ity Eval­u­a­tors’ Re­search team

Animal Charity Evaluators17 Nov 2022 20:55 UTC
174 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Who’s at fault for FTX’s wrongdoing

EliezerYudkowsky16 Nov 2022 4:47 UTC
172 points
88 comments6 min readEA link

Me­dia at­ten­tion on EA (again)

Julia_Wise🔸17 Nov 2022 18:22 UTC
170 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism: Not as bad as you think

JamesÖz24 Nov 2022 13:11 UTC
169 points
18 comments10 min readEA link
(jamesozden.substack.com)

Don’t just give well, give WELLBYs: HLI’s 2022 char­ity recommendation

MichaelPlant24 Nov 2022 9:56 UTC
167 points
50 comments9 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Re­view: What We Owe The Future

Kelsey Piper21 Nov 2022 21:41 UTC
165 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(asteriskmag.com)

“Eval­u­at­ing the eval­u­a­tors”: GWWC’s re­search direction

Sjir Hoeijmakers🔸24 Nov 2022 6:08 UTC
165 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

CE: Who un­der­rates their like­li­hood of suc­cess. Why ap­ply­ing is worth­while.

SteveThompson3 Nov 2022 10:17 UTC
162 points
21 comments4 min readEA link

EA should blurt

RobBensinger22 Nov 2022 21:57 UTC
155 points
26 comments5 min readEA link

In favour of com­pas­sion, and against band­wag­ons of outrage

Emrik13 Nov 2022 0:42 UTC
154 points
33 comments2 min readEA link

The elephant in the bed­net: the im­por­tance of philos­o­phy when choos­ing be­tween ex­tend­ing and im­prov­ing lives

MichaelPlant18 Nov 2022 12:09 UTC
153 points
40 comments24 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)