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Bad Omens in Current Community Building
Theo Hawking
12 May 2022 15:41 UTC
582
points
132
comments
18
min read
EA
link
EA and the current funding situation
William_MacAskill
10 May 2022 2:26 UTC
566
points
185
comments
24
min read
EA
link
Are you really in a race? The Cautionary Tales of Szilárd and Ellsberg
HaydnBelfield
19 May 2022 8:42 UTC
486
points
44
comments
18
min read
EA
link
Some unfun lessons I learned as a junior grantmaker
Linch
23 May 2022 16:31 UTC
352
points
58
comments
13
min read
EA
link
“Big tent” effective altruism is very important (particularly right now)
Luke Freeman
20 May 2022 3:39 UTC
343
points
77
comments
6
min read
EA
link
Some clarifications on the Future Fund’s approach to grantmaking
Nick_Beckstead
10 May 2022 2:42 UTC
327
points
61
comments
3
min read
EA
link
Some potential lessons from Carrick’s Congressional bid
Daniel_Eth
18 May 2022 5:58 UTC
301
points
94
comments
10
min read
EA
link
Introducing Asterisk
Clara Collier
26 May 2022 5:54 UTC
286
points
33
comments
3
min read
EA
link
Most students who would agree with EA ideas haven’t heard of EA yet (results of a large-scale survey)
Lucius Caviola
19 May 2022 17:24 UTC
270
points
31
comments
37
min read
EA
link
Messy personal stuff that affected my cause prioritization (or: how I started to care about AI safety)
Julia_Wise🔸
5 May 2022 17:59 UTC
265
points
14
comments
2
min read
EA
link
Demandingness and Time/Money Tradeoffs are Orthogonal
CarolineEllison
5 May 2022 19:19 UTC
250
points
37
comments
3
min read
EA
link
How I torched my biggest career opportunity so far
Vilfredo's Ghost
11 May 2022 6:09 UTC
228
points
6
comments
5
min read
EA
link
EA will likely get more attention soon
Julia_Wise🔸
12 May 2022 2:01 UTC
225
points
28
comments
2
min read
EA
link
Should we buy coal mines?
John G. Halstead
4 May 2022 7:28 UTC
216
points
31
comments
7
min read
EA
link
An easy win for hard decisions.
alex lawsen
4 May 2022 18:13 UTC
195
points
12
comments
3
min read
EA
link
Open Philanthropy’s Cause Exploration Prizes: $120k for written work on global health and wellbeing
ChrisSmith
25 May 2022 12:06 UTC
190
points
22
comments
1
min read
EA
link
How many people have heard of effective altruism?
David_Moss
20 May 2022 17:49 UTC
185
points
14
comments
26
min read
EA
link
The biggest risk of free-spending EA is not optics or motivated cognition, but grift
Ben Kuhn
14 May 2022 2:13 UTC
181
points
27
comments
4
min read
EA
link
On being ambitious: failing successfully & less unnecessarily
Luke Freeman
26 May 2022 7:21 UTC
171
points
10
comments
25
min read
EA
link
On funding, trust relationships, and scaling our community [PalmCone memo]
Habryka
28 May 2022 18:01 UTC
167
points
15
comments
6
min read
EA
link
Against “longtermist” as an identity
Lizka
13 May 2022 19:17 UTC
166
points
23
comments
6
min read
EA
link
Guided by the Beauty of One’s Philosophies: Why Aesthetics Matter
Étienne Fortier-Dubois
15 May 2022 16:38 UTC
165
points
51
comments
15
min read
EA
link
(classicalfuturist.substack.com)
Results from the First Decade Review
Lizka
13 May 2022 15:01 UTC
163
points
11
comments
17
min read
EA
link
EA is more than longtermism
frances_lorenz
3 May 2022 15:18 UTC
160
points
99
comments
5
min read
EA
link
Introducing the ML Safety Scholars Program
TW123
4 May 2022 13:14 UTC
157
points
42
comments
3
min read
EA
link
EA Forum Lowdown: April 2022
NunoSempere
1 May 2022 14:48 UTC
154
points
8
comments
6
min read
EA
link
Becoming an EA Architect: My First Month as an Independent Researcher
t46
12 May 2022 13:01 UTC
153
points
15
comments
5
min read
EA
link
Rational predictions often update predictably*
Gregory Lewis🔸
15 May 2022 16:09 UTC
144
points
13
comments
9
min read
EA
link
Organizational alignment
CarolineEllison
17 May 2022 0:48 UTC
143
points
10
comments
2
min read
EA
link
Introducing EAecon: Community-Building Project
Brian Jabarian
30 May 2022 8:06 UTC
143
points
19
comments
3
min read
EA
link
EA can sound less weird, if we want it to
Ines
25 May 2022 1:24 UTC
142
points
35
comments
3
min read
EA
link
Transcripts of interviews with AI researchers
Vael Gates
9 May 2022 6:03 UTC
140
points
14
comments
2
min read
EA
link
A tale of 2.5 orthogonality theses
Arepo
1 May 2022 13:53 UTC
140
points
31
comments
11
min read
EA
link
Request for proposals: Help Open Philanthropy quantify biological risk
djbinder
12 May 2022 21:28 UTC
137
points
10
comments
7
min read
EA
link
Why CEA Online doesn’t outsource more work to non-EA freelancers
Ben_West🔸
4 May 2022 14:52 UTC
137
points
46
comments
4
min read
EA
link
My thoughts on nanotechnology strategy research as an EA cause area
Ben Snodin
2 May 2022 9:41 UTC
137
points
17
comments
33
min read
EA
link
My Job: EA Office Manager
Jonathan Michel
2 May 2022 18:18 UTC
136
points
7
comments
6
min read
EA
link
The EA movement’s values are drifting. You’re allowed to stay put.
Marisa
24 May 2022 0:31 UTC
136
points
16
comments
2
min read
EA
link
Try working on something random with someone cool
eca
18 May 2022 6:23 UTC
130
points
6
comments
3
min read
EA
link
Quantifying Uncertainty in GiveWell’s GiveDirectly Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
SamNolan
27 May 2022 3:10 UTC
130
points
19
comments
6
min read
EA
link
DeepMind’s generalist AI, Gato: A non-technical explainer
frances_lorenz
16 May 2022 21:19 UTC
128
points
13
comments
6
min read
EA
link
Information security considerations for AI and the long term future
Jeffrey Ladish
2 May 2022 20:53 UTC
127
points
8
comments
11
min read
EA
link
Potatoes: A Critical Review
Pablo Villalobos
10 May 2022 15:27 UTC
120
points
27
comments
9
min read
EA
link
(docs.google.com)
We should expect to worry more about speculative risks
bgarfinkel
29 May 2022 21:08 UTC
120
points
14
comments
3
min read
EA
link
[Question]
Who wants to be hired? (May-September 2022)
Lorenzo Buonanno🔸
27 May 2022 9:49 UTC
118
points
99
comments
1
min read
EA
link
New forum feature: Map of Community Members
Sarah Cheng
4 May 2022 14:18 UTC
117
points
10
comments
1
min read
EA
link
[Question]
Who’s hiring? (May-September 2022) [closed]
Lorenzo Buonanno🔸
27 May 2022 9:49 UTC
117
points
131
comments
1
min read
EA
link
Most problems fall within a 100x tractability range (under certain assumptions)
Thomas Kwa
4 May 2022 0:06 UTC
116
points
25
comments
4
min read
EA
link
U.S. EAs Should Consider Applying to Join U.S. Diplomacy
abiolvera
17 May 2022 17:14 UTC
115
points
22
comments
8
min read
EA
link
Will there be an EA answer to the predictable famines later this year?
Sebastian Schwiecker
28 May 2022 15:30 UTC
115
points
17
comments
1
min read
EA
link
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