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

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

“Long-Ter­mism” vs. “Ex­is­ten­tial Risk”

Scott Alexander6 Apr 2022 21:41 UTC
522 points
81 comments3 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

My bar­gain with the EA machine

Eric Neyman27 Apr 2022 19:14 UTC
292 points
42 comments7 min readEA link

My ex­pe­rience with im­poster syn­drome — and how to (partly) over­come it

Luisa_Rodriguez21 Apr 2022 19:55 UTC
289 points
20 comments23 min readEA link

Case for emer­gency re­sponse teams

technicalities5 Apr 2022 11:08 UTC
249 points
50 comments5 min readEA link

The case for in­fant outreach

Thomas Kwa1 Apr 2022 4:25 UTC
246 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Im­pact Is­land: A New EA Real­ity TV Show

Linch1 Apr 2022 5:37 UTC
245 points
16 comments4 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Longter­mist EA needs more Phase 2 work

Owen Cotton-Barratt20 Apr 2022 14:42 UTC
241 points
34 comments5 min readEA link

EA Houses: Live or Stay with EAs Around The World

Kat Woods15 Apr 2022 18:51 UTC
223 points
39 comments3 min readEA link

Liars

Kelsey Piper5 Apr 2022 18:08 UTC
213 points
27 comments4 min readEA link

How I failed to form views on AI safety

Ada-Maaria Hyvärinen17 Apr 2022 11:05 UTC
213 points
72 comments40 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Nu­cleic Acid Ob­ser­va­tory pro­ject for early de­tec­tion of catas­trophic biothreats

Will Bradshaw29 Apr 2022 19:30 UTC
213 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

EA Fo­rum’s in­ter­est in cause-ar­eas over time and other statistics

MathiasKB🔸10 Apr 2022 13:49 UTC
205 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

The Vul­tures Are Circling

CitizenTen6 Apr 2022 5:57 UTC
199 points
60 comments3 min readEA link

High ab­sorbency ca­reer paths

Joey🔸11 Apr 2022 14:07 UTC
197 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Three in­tu­itions about EA: re­spon­si­bil­ity, scale, self-improvement

richard_ngo15 Apr 2022 7:55 UTC
196 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

Mid-ca­reer peo­ple: strongly con­sider switch­ing to EA work

Ben Snodin26 Apr 2022 11:22 UTC
196 points
34 comments9 min readEA link

EA cowork­ing/​lounge space on gather.town

Arepo26 Apr 2022 10:57 UTC
191 points
22 comments2 min readEA link

A re­view of Our Fi­nal Warn­ing: Six De­grees of Cli­mate Emer­gency by Mark Lynas

John G. Halstead15 Apr 2022 13:43 UTC
176 points
6 comments13 min readEA link

Altru­ism as a cen­tral purpose

Joey🔸7 Apr 2022 14:21 UTC
170 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

FTX/​CEA—show us your num­bers!

Jack Lewars18 Apr 2022 12:05 UTC
159 points
109 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing What The Fu­ture Owes Us

peterbarnett1 Apr 2022 15:08 UTC
151 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Is­sues with cen­tral­ised grantmaking

MathiasKB🔸4 Apr 2022 10:45 UTC
149 points
56 comments3 min readEA link

Save the Date: EAGxMars

OllieBase1 Apr 2022 11:44 UTC
148 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

In­creas­ing De­mand­ing­ness in EA

Jeff Kaufman 🔸29 Apr 2022 1:20 UTC
142 points
22 comments3 min readEA link
(www.jefftk.com)

Don’t think, just ap­ply! (usu­ally)

MichaelA🔸12 Apr 2022 8:06 UTC
141 points
22 comments7 min readEA link

Ul­tra-Near-Ter­mism: Liter­ally An Idea Whose Time Has Come

FOUNT Staff1 Apr 2022 19:07 UTC
140 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

Against the “smarts fetish”

Magnus Vinding8 Apr 2022 7:54 UTC
140 points
38 comments7 min readEA link

The FDA de­manded my em­ployer bury in­con­ve­nient clini­cal trial data. What should I do?

Throwaway64115 Apr 2022 12:47 UTC
139 points
13 comments6 min readEA link

Repli­cat­ing and ex­tend­ing the grabby aliens model

Tristan Cook23 Apr 2022 0:36 UTC
137 points
27 comments51 min readEA link

Tips for ask­ing peo­ple for things

Ben Kuhn5 Apr 2022 20:30 UTC
135 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Com­par­a­tive ad­van­tage does not mean do­ing the thing you’re best at

Ben_West🔸29 Apr 2022 15:49 UTC
134 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

Three Reflec­tions from 101 EA Global Conversations

Akash25 Apr 2022 22:02 UTC
128 points
16 comments6 min readEA link

What do we want the world to look like in 10 years?

Owen Cotton-Barratt20 Apr 2022 14:34 UTC
126 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Go Repub­li­can, Young EA!

ColdButtonIssues13 Apr 2022 4:43 UTC
124 points
41 comments4 min readEA link

Covid memo­rial: 1ppm

technicalities2 Apr 2022 18:27 UTC
123 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

Open Philan­thropy Shal­low In­ves­ti­ga­tion: Civil Con­flict Reduction

Lauren Gilbert12 Apr 2022 18:18 UTC
122 points
12 comments24 min readEA link

Help us make civ­i­liza­tional re­fuges happen

Linch13 Apr 2022 12:57 UTC
120 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

I burnt out at EAG. Let’s talk about it.

Alastair Fraser-Urquhart23 Apr 2022 12:25 UTC
120 points
33 comments4 min readEA link

The EA Train­ing Board is now live

AndreFerretti5 Apr 2022 13:26 UTC
119 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

EA needs money more than ever

Alexandre Zajic25 Apr 2022 15:38 UTC
119 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Use­ful Vices for Wicked Problems

Holden Karnofsky12 Apr 2022 19:19 UTC
115 points
3 comments16 min readEA link

Mak­ing Com­mu­nity Build­ing a more at­trac­tive ca­reer path

Vilhelm Skoglund6 Apr 2022 19:28 UTC
113 points
34 comments15 min readEA link

How to be­come an AI safety researcher

peterbarnett12 Apr 2022 11:33 UTC
113 points
15 comments14 min readEA link

The ro­dent birth con­trol landscape

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸29 Apr 2022 20:00 UTC
113 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(doi.org)

CEA is dis­con­tin­u­ing its fo­cus uni­ver­sity pro­gram­ming, pass­ing fund­ing to Open Philanthropy

Uni Groups Team13 Apr 2022 11:25 UTC
111 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Open Philan­thropy is hiring more peo­ple than ever this year

Anya Hunt8 Apr 2022 23:54 UTC
110 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Against im­mor­tal­ity?

Owen Cotton-Barratt28 Apr 2022 11:51 UTC
110 points
40 comments3 min readEA link

My GWWC dona­tions: Switch­ing from long- to near-ter­mist op­por­tu­ni­ties?

Tom Gardiner23 Apr 2022 17:22 UTC
108 points
19 comments2 min readEA link