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
486 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
167 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