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Bad Omens in Current Community Building

Theo Hawking12 May 2022 15:41 UTC

582 points

132 comments18 min readEA link

EA and the current funding situation

William_MacAskill10 May 2022 2:26 UTC

566 points

185 comments24 min readEA link

Are you really in a race? The Cautionary Tales of Szilárd and Ellsberg

HaydnBelfield19 May 2022 8:42 UTC

487 points

44 comments18 min readEA link

Some unfun lessons I learned as a junior grantmaker

Linch23 May 2022 16:31 UTC

352 points

58 comments13 min readEA link

“Big tent” effective altruism is very important (particularly right now)

Luke Freeman20 May 2022 3:39 UTC

343 points

77 comments6 min readEA link

Some clarifications on the Future Fund’s approach to grantmaking

Nick_Beckstead10 May 2022 2:42 UTC

327 points

61 comments3 min readEA link

Some potential lessons from Carrick’s Congressional bid

Daniel_Eth18 May 2022 5:58 UTC

301 points

94 comments10 min readEA link

Introducing Asterisk

Clara Collier26 May 2022 5:54 UTC

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 Caviola19 May 2022 17:24 UTC

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🔸5 May 2022 17:59 UTC

265 points

14 comments2 min readEA link

Demandingness and Time/Money Tradeoffs are Orthogonal

CarolineEllison5 May 2022 19:19 UTC

250 points

37 comments3 min readEA link

How I torched my biggest career opportunity so far

Vilfredo's Ghost11 May 2022 6:09 UTC

228 points

6 comments5 min readEA link

EA will likely get more attention soon

Julia_Wise🔸12 May 2022 2:01 UTC

225 points

28 comments2 min readEA link

Should we buy coal mines?

John G. Halstead4 May 2022 7:28 UTC

216 points

31 comments7 min readEA link

An easy win for hard decisions.

alex lawsen4 May 2022 18:13 UTC

195 points

12 comments3 min readEA link

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

ChrisSmith25 May 2022 12:06 UTC

190 points

22 comments1 min readEA link

How many people have heard of effective altruism?

David_Moss20 May 2022 17:49 UTC

185 points

14 comments26 min readEA link

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

Ben Kuhn14 May 2022 2:13 UTC

181 points

27 comments4 min readEA link

On being ambitious: failing successfully & less unnecessarily

Luke Freeman26 May 2022 7:21 UTC

171 points

10 comments25 min readEA link

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

Habryka28 May 2022 18:01 UTC

168 points

15 comments6 min readEA link

Against “longtermist” as an identity

Lizka13 May 2022 19:17 UTC

166 points

23 comments6 min readEA link

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

Étienne Fortier-Dubois15 May 2022 16:38 UTC

165 points

51 comments15 min readEA link

(classicalfuturist.substack.com)

Results from the First Decade Review

Lizka13 May 2022 15:01 UTC

163 points

11 comments17 min readEA link

EA is more than longtermism

frances_lorenz3 May 2022 15:18 UTC

160 points

99 comments5 min readEA link

Introducing the ML Safety Scholars Program

TW1234 May 2022 13:14 UTC

157 points

42 comments3 min readEA link

EA Forum Lowdown: April 2022

NunoSempere1 May 2022 14:48 UTC

154 points

8 comments6 min readEA link

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

t4612 May 2022 13:01 UTC

153 points

15 comments5 min readEA link

Rational predictions often update predictably*

Gregory Lewis🔸15 May 2022 16:09 UTC

144 points

13 comments9 min readEA link

Organizational alignment

CarolineEllison17 May 2022 0:48 UTC

143 points

10 comments2 min readEA link

Introducing EAecon: Community-Building Project

Brian Jabarian30 May 2022 8:06 UTC

143 points

19 comments3 min readEA link

EA can sound less weird, if we want it to

Ines25 May 2022 1:24 UTC

142 points

35 comments3 min readEA link

Transcripts of interviews with AI researchers

Vael Gates9 May 2022 6:03 UTC

140 points

14 comments2 min readEA link

A tale of 2.5 orthogonality theses

Arepo1 May 2022 13:53 UTC

140 points

31 comments11 min readEA link

Request for proposals: Help Open Philanthropy quantify biological risk

djbinder12 May 2022 21:28 UTC

137 points

10 comments7 min readEA link

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

Ben_West🔸4 May 2022 14:52 UTC

137 points

46 comments4 min readEA link

My thoughts on nanotechnology strategy research as an EA cause area

Ben Snodin2 May 2022 9:41 UTC

137 points

17 comments33 min readEA link

My Job: EA Office Manager

Jonathan Michel2 May 2022 18:18 UTC

136 points

7 comments6 min readEA link

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

Marisa24 May 2022 0:31 UTC

136 points

16 comments2 min readEA link

Try working on something random with someone cool

eca18 May 2022 6:23 UTC

130 points

6 comments3 min readEA link

Quantifying Uncertainty in GiveWell’s GiveDirectly Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

SamNolan27 May 2022 3:10 UTC

130 points

19 comments6 min readEA link

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

frances_lorenz16 May 2022 21:19 UTC

128 points

13 comments6 min readEA link

Information security considerations for AI and the long term future

Jeffrey Ladish2 May 2022 20:53 UTC

127 points

8 comments11 min readEA link

Potatoes: A Critical Review

Pablo Villalobos10 May 2022 15:27 UTC

120 points

27 comments9 min readEA link

(docs.google.com)

We should expect to worry more about speculative risks

bgarfinkel29 May 2022 21:08 UTC

120 points

14 comments3 min readEA link

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

Lorenzo Buonanno🔸27 May 2022 9:49 UTC

118 points

99 comments1 min readEA link

New forum feature: Map of Community Members

Sarah Cheng4 May 2022 14:18 UTC

117 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

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

Lorenzo Buonanno🔸27 May 2022 9:49 UTC

117 points

131 comments1 min readEA link

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

Thomas Kwa4 May 2022 0:06 UTC

116 points

25 comments4 min readEA link

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

abiolvera17 May 2022 17:14 UTC

115 points

22 comments8 min readEA link

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

Sebastian Schwiecker28 May 2022 15:30 UTC

115 points

17 comments1 min readEA link