How the FTX crash dam­aged the Altru­is­tic Agency

Markus Amalthea MagnusonNov 13, 2022, 9:38 PM
78 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

In Defence of Tem­po­ral Dis­count­ing in Longter­mist Ethics

𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆Nov 13, 2022, 9:30 PM
17 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

The FTX Si­tu­a­tion: Wait for more in­for­ma­tion be­fore propos­ing solutions

D0TheMathNov 13, 2022, 8:28 PM
109 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

X-risk Miti­ga­tion Does Ac­tu­ally Re­quire Longter­mism

𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆Nov 13, 2022, 7:40 PM
35 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

A pos­i­tive per­spec­tive on the fu­ture of the movement

Gidi KadoshNov 13, 2022, 6:39 PM
21 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

The Most Cost-Effec­tive Ways to Treat De­pres­sion Globally

Barry GrimesNov 13, 2022, 6:34 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Best Courses for an Un­der­grad­u­ate Eco­nomics Ma­jor to Get a Job as an Un­der­grad Re­search As­sis­tant?

Jeff ANov 13, 2022, 6:16 PM
10 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Heroic—a free re­souce of per­sonal de­vel­op­ment and prac­ti­cal wisdom

SebastianSchmidtNov 13, 2022, 6:02 PM
−26 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Non­lin­ear Emer­gency Funding

Kat WoodsNov 13, 2022, 6:02 PM
192 points
59 comments1 min readEA link

SBF, ex­treme risk-tak­ing, ex­pected value, and effec­tive altruism

vipulnaikNov 13, 2022, 5:44 PM
73 points
17 comments26 min readEA link

[Question] Will AI Wor­ld­view Prize Fund­ing Be Re­placed?

Jordan ArelNov 13, 2022, 5:10 PM
26 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Thoughts on le­gal con­cerns sur­round­ing the FTX situation

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

Tainted dona­tions: a his­tor­i­cal per­spec­tive from Rho­dri Davies

SanjayNov 13, 2022, 4:37 PM
24 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.philanthropisms.com)

An Out­sider’s View on the FTX Crash

Jeroen De Ryck 🔹Nov 13, 2022, 3:25 PM
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Hubris and cold­ness within EA (my ex­pe­rience)

James GoughNov 13, 2022, 2:54 PM
94 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

Re­spon­si­bil­ity and Re­form: Are we learn­ing the right les­sons from FTX?

hawkebiaNov 13, 2022, 2:48 PM
1 point
3 comments4 min readEA link

You *should* have ca­pac­ity for more trans­parency and accountability

freedomandutilityNov 13, 2022, 11:52 AM
22 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

In favour of ‘per­sonal poli­cies’

Michelle_HutchinsonNov 13, 2022, 10:15 AM
94 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

Equa­nim­ity: a word of hope, for hope.

tzukitchanNov 13, 2022, 6:22 AM
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Giv­ing away a fully reg­istered Texas non­profit en­tity (C-Corp) in good stand­ing with a Form 1023 (501(c)(3) ap­pli­ca­tion) on file with the IRS.

Ross H.Nov 13, 2022, 5:38 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Not­ing an un­sub­stan­ti­ated be­lief about the FTX disaster

YitzNov 13, 2022, 5:37 AM
93 points
34 comments1 min readEA link

FTX FAQ

Hamish McDoodlesNov 13, 2022, 5:00 AM
144 points
79 comments4 min readEA link

FTX prob re­lated: Strongly Recom­mend­ing Creat­ing An In­ter­nal Au­dit Com­mit­tee that will Pe­ri­od­i­cally Assess EA Or­ga­ni­za­tions, Its Ob­jec­tives And Pro­cesses Based on IIA Standards

MiguelNov 13, 2022, 1:42 AM
10 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(www.theiia.org)

In favour of com­pas­sion, and against band­wag­ons of outrage

EmrikNov 13, 2022, 12:42 AM
154 points
33 comments2 min readEA link

Read­ing sug­ges­tions for how reg­u­la­tory bod­ies can do bet­ter on vac­cine ap­proval in a pan­demic?

freedomandutilityNov 12, 2022, 11:38 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Will MacAskill’s role in con­nect­ing SBF to Elon Musk for a po­ten­tial Twit­ter deal

dyj34650Nov 12, 2022, 11:37 PM
60 points
24 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] FTX Cri­sis: how should EA groups’ lead­ers and board mem­bers act in the con­text of the cur­rent situ­a­tion?

LivNov 12, 2022, 11:36 PM
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

A New­comer’s Cri­tique of EA—Un­der­pri­ori­tiz­ing Sys­tems Change?

Sam BattisNov 12, 2022, 11:04 PM
27 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

Claw­backs: Prob­a­bly don’t spend FTX grantee money for the next few days(?)

Error404Nov 12, 2022, 9:04 PM
30 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Ways to buy time

AkashNov 12, 2022, 7:31 PM
47 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

EA should con­sider ex­plic­itly re­ject­ing *pure* clas­si­cal to­tal utilitarianism

freedomandutilityNov 12, 2022, 5:52 PM
−13 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] After re­cent FTX events, what are al­ter­na­tive sources of fund­ing for longter­mist pro­jects?

CaroNov 12, 2022, 4:51 PM
56 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

A per­sonal state­ment on FTX

William_MacAskillNov 12, 2022, 4:40 PM
289 points
144 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

[Question] How could we have avoided this?

Nathan YoungNov 12, 2022, 12:45 PM
116 points
111 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Know­ing the cost of SBF’s fraud, what size dona­tion to effec­tive causes would have made it eth­i­cal? $1B? $5B?

qiaochu_fanNov 12, 2022, 10:48 AM
−25 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Which core com­pe­ten­cies should an EA re­fresh?

Tom Gardiner 🔸Nov 12, 2022, 10:14 AM
25 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

The Mess we are in and what we could do

Trev PrewNov 12, 2022, 8:22 AM
−12 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

Time con­sis­tency for the EA com­mu­nity: Pro­jects that bridge the gap be­tween near-term boot­strap­ping and long-term targets

Arturo MaciasNov 12, 2022, 7:44 AM
7 points
0 comments7 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

GiveWell is hiring a Re­search An­a­lyst (ap­ply by Novem­ber 20)

GiveWellNov 12, 2022, 4:30 AM
43 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(www.givewell.org)

Poster Ses­sion on AI Safety

Neil CrawfordNov 12, 2022, 3:50 AM
8 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Naïve vs Pru­dent Utilitarianism

Richard Y Chappell🔸Nov 11, 2022, 11:53 PM
97 points
42 comments5 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

In­ter­nal­iz­ing the dam­age of bad-act­ing part­ners cre­ates in­cen­tives for due diligence

tailcalledNov 11, 2022, 10:52 PM
33 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Anat­o­miz­ing Chem­i­cal and Biolog­i­cal Non-State Adversaries

ncmouliosNov 11, 2022, 9:23 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Spec­u­la­tion on Cur­rent Op­por­tu­ni­ties for Unusu­ally High Im­pact in Global Health

johnswentworthNov 11, 2022, 8:47 PM
25 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

Thoughts on FTX and re­turn­ing to our ideals

michelNov 11, 2022, 8:17 PM
177 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

New story on SBF + the fu­ture of his philan­thropy /​ politics

teddyschleiferNov 11, 2022, 8:12 PM
50 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(puck.news)

My re­ac­tion to FTX: appalled

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

Game: I Find Three Er­rors in Your Fa­vorite Text

Elliot TempleNov 11, 2022, 5:56 PM
15 points
29 comments2 min readEA link