Bad Omens in Cur­rent Com­mu­nity Building

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

EA and the cur­rent fund­ing situation

William_MacAskillMay 10, 2022, 2:26 AM
568 points
185 comments24 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

Some un­fun les­sons I learned as a ju­nior grantmaker

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

Some clar­ifi­ca­tions on the Fu­ture Fund’s ap­proach to grantmaking

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

In­tro­duc­ing Asterisk

Clara CollierMay 26, 2022, 5:54 AM
286 points
33 comments3 min readEA link

Most stu­dents who would agree with EA ideas haven’t heard of EA yet (re­sults of a large-scale sur­vey)

Lucius CaviolaMay 19, 2022, 5:24 PM
270 points
31 comments37 min readEA link

Messy per­sonal stuff that af­fected my cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion (or: how I started to care about AI safety)

Julia_Wise🔸May 5, 2022, 5:59 PM
265 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

De­mand­ing­ness and Time/​Money Trade­offs are Orthogonal

CarolineEllisonMay 5, 2022, 7:19 PM
251 points
37 comments3 min readEA link

How I torched my biggest ca­reer op­por­tu­nity so far

Vilfredo's GhostMay 11, 2022, 6:09 AM
229 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

EA will likely get more at­ten­tion soon

Julia_Wise🔸May 12, 2022, 2:01 AM
225 points
28 comments2 min readEA link

Should we buy coal mines?

John G. HalsteadMay 4, 2022, 7:28 AM
216 points
31 comments7 min readEA link

An easy win for hard de­ci­sions.

alex lawsenMay 4, 2022, 6:13 PM
200 points
13 comments3 min readEA link

Open Philan­thropy’s Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes: $120k for writ­ten work on global health and wellbeing

ChrisSmithMay 25, 2022, 12:06 PM
190 points
22 comments1 min readEA link

How many peo­ple have heard of effec­tive al­tru­ism?

David_MossMay 20, 2022, 5:49 PM
185 points
14 comments26 min readEA link

The biggest risk of free-spend­ing EA is not op­tics or mo­ti­vated cog­ni­tion, but grift

Ben KuhnMay 14, 2022, 2:13 AM
181 points
27 comments4 min readEA link

On be­ing am­bi­tious: failing suc­cess­fully & less unnecessarily

Luke FreemanMay 26, 2022, 7:21 AM
173 points
10 comments25 min readEA link

On fund­ing, trust re­la­tion­ships, and scal­ing our com­mu­nity [PalmCone memo]

Habryka [Deactivated]May 28, 2022, 6:01 PM
168 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

Against “longter­mist” as an identity

LizkaMay 13, 2022, 7:17 PM
166 points
23 comments6 min readEA link

Guided by the Beauty of One’s Philoso­phies: Why Aes­thet­ics Matter

Étienne Fortier-DuboisMay 15, 2022, 4:38 PM
165 points
52 comments15 min readEA link
(classicalfuturist.substack.com)

Re­sults from the First Decade Review

LizkaMay 13, 2022, 3:01 PM
164 points
11 comments17 min readEA link

EA is more than longtermism

frances_lorenzMay 3, 2022, 3:18 PM
160 points
99 comments5 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the ML Safety Schol­ars Program

TW123May 4, 2022, 1:14 PM
157 points
42 comments3 min readEA link

EA Fo­rum Low­down: April 2022

NunoSempereMay 1, 2022, 2:48 PM
154 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

Be­com­ing an EA Ar­chi­tect: My First Month as an In­de­pen­dent Researcher

t46May 12, 2022, 1:01 PM
153 points
15 comments5 min readEA link

A tale of 2.5 or­thog­o­nal­ity theses

ArepoMay 1, 2022, 1:53 PM
145 points
31 comments11 min readEA link

EA can sound less weird, if we want it to

InesMay 25, 2022, 1:24 AM
144 points
35 comments3 min readEA link

Ra­tional pre­dic­tions of­ten up­date pre­dictably*

Gregory Lewis🔸May 15, 2022, 4:09 PM
144 points
13 comments9 min readEA link

Or­ga­ni­za­tional alignment

CarolineEllisonMay 17, 2022, 12:48 AM
143 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing EAe­con: Com­mu­nity-Build­ing Project

Brian JabarianMay 30, 2022, 8:06 AM
143 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

Tran­scripts of in­ter­views with AI researchers

Vael GatesMay 9, 2022, 6:03 AM
140 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

Why CEA On­line doesn’t out­source more work to non-EA freelancers

Ben_West🔸May 4, 2022, 2:52 PM
137 points
46 comments4 min readEA link

My thoughts on nan­otech­nol­ogy strat­egy re­search as an EA cause area

Ben SnodinMay 2, 2022, 9:41 AM
137 points
17 comments33 min readEA link

Re­quest for pro­pos­als: Help Open Philan­thropy quan­tify biolog­i­cal risk

djbinderMay 12, 2022, 9:28 PM
137 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

My Job: EA Office Manager

Jonathan MichelMay 2, 2022, 6:18 PM
136 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

The EA move­ment’s val­ues are drift­ing. You’re al­lowed to stay put.

MarisaMay 24, 2022, 12:31 AM
136 points
16 comments2 min readEA link

In­for­ma­tion se­cu­rity con­sid­er­a­tions for AI and the long term future

Jeffrey LadishMay 2, 2022, 8:53 PM
134 points
8 comments11 min readEA link

Try work­ing on some­thing ran­dom with some­one cool

ecaMay 18, 2022, 6:23 AM
130 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Quan­tify­ing Uncer­tainty in GiveWell’s GiveDirectly Cost-Effec­tive­ness Analysis

SamNolanMay 27, 2022, 3:10 AM
130 points
19 comments6 min readEA link

Deep­Mind’s gen­er­al­ist AI, Gato: A non-tech­ni­cal explainer

frances_lorenzMay 16, 2022, 9:19 PM
128 points
13 comments6 min readEA link

Po­ta­toes: A Crit­i­cal Review

Pablo VillalobosMay 10, 2022, 3:27 PM
120 points
27 comments9 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

We should ex­pect to worry more about spec­u­la­tive risks

bgarfinkelMay 29, 2022, 9:08 PM
120 points
14 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Who wants to be hired? (May-Septem­ber 2022)

Lorenzo Buonanno🔸May 27, 2022, 9:49 AM
118 points
99 comments1 min readEA link

New fo­rum fea­ture: Map of Com­mu­nity Members

Sarah ChengMay 4, 2022, 2:18 PM
117 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Who’s hiring? (May-Septem­ber 2022) [closed]

Lorenzo Buonanno🔸May 27, 2022, 9:49 AM
117 points
131 comments1 min readEA link

Most prob­lems fall within a 100x tractabil­ity range (un­der cer­tain as­sump­tions)

Thomas KwaMay 4, 2022, 12:06 AM
116 points
25 comments4 min readEA link

U.S. EAs Should Con­sider Ap­ply­ing to Join U.S. Diplomacy

abiolveraMay 17, 2022, 5:14 PM
115 points
22 comments8 min readEA link

Will there be an EA an­swer to the pre­dictable famines later this year?

Sebastian SchwieckerMay 28, 2022, 3:30 PM
115 points
17 comments1 min readEA link