Power dy­nam­ics be­tween peo­ple in EA

Julia_Wise🔸1 Jun 2022 20:50 UTC
478 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

Cri­tiques of EA that I want to read

abrahamrowe19 Jun 2022 22:22 UTC
463 points
85 comments11 min readEA link

A Crit­i­cal Re­view of Open Philan­thropy’s Bet On Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Reform

NunoSempere16 Jun 2022 16:40 UTC
302 points
97 comments26 min readEA link

On Defer­ence and Yud­kowsky’s AI Risk Estimates

bgarfinkel19 Jun 2022 14:35 UTC
285 points
194 comments17 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing a con­test: EA Crit­i­cism and Red Teaming

Lizka1 Jun 2022 18:58 UTC
276 points
64 comments13 min readEA link

New cause area: Violence against women and girls

Akhil6 Jun 2022 14:48 UTC
268 points
61 comments11 min readEA link

How to pur­sue a ca­reer in tech­ni­cal AI alignment

Charlie Rogers-Smith4 Jun 2022 21:36 UTC
265 points
9 comments39 min readEA link

Com­mu­nity Builders Spend Too Much Time Com­mu­nity Building

emma-w128 Jun 2022 19:08 UTC
262 points
38 comments10 min readEA link

Me­gapro­jects for animals

JamesÖz13 Jun 2022 9:20 UTC
258 points
25 comments16 min readEA link

Steer­ing AI to care for an­i­mals, and soon

Andrew Critch14 Jun 2022 1:13 UTC
224 points
37 comments1 min readEA link

Michael Niel­sen’s “Notes on effec­tive al­tru­ism”

Pablo3 Jun 2022 8:20 UTC
219 points
49 comments5 min readEA link
(michaelnotebook.com)

Fill out this cen­sus of ev­ery­one who could ever see them­selves do­ing longter­mist work — it’ll only take a few mins

80000_Hours21 Jun 2022 22:49 UTC
219 points
37 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Epoch: A re­search or­ga­ni­za­tion in­ves­ti­gat­ing the road to Trans­for­ma­tive AI

Jaime Sevilla27 Jun 2022 13:39 UTC
183 points
11 comments2 min readEA link
(epochai.org)

Re­sults of a sur­vey of in­ter­na­tional de­vel­op­ment pro­fes­sors on EA

ryancbriggs22 Jun 2022 15:49 UTC
183 points
17 comments3 min readEA link

Un­flat­ter­ing rea­sons why I’m at­tracted to EA

dotsam3 Jun 2022 14:27 UTC
175 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

Leav­ing Google, Join­ing the Nu­cleic Acid Observatory

Jeff Kaufman 🔸11 Jun 2022 1:37 UTC
170 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

EA-break, EA-slow

Rémi T22 Jun 2022 12:27 UTC
170 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Ways money can make things worse

Jan_Kulveit21 Jun 2022 15:26 UTC
167 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

EA Dedicates

ozymandias23 Jun 2022 19:32 UTC
167 points
20 comments6 min readEA link
(thingofthings.substack.com)

Let’s not have a sep­a­rate “com­mu­nity build­ing” camp

Owen Cotton-Barratt29 Jun 2022 11:59 UTC
165 points
32 comments3 min readEA link

Global health is im­por­tant for the epistemic foun­da­tions of EA, even for longtermists

Owen Cotton-Barratt2 Jun 2022 13:57 UTC
163 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

How ac­cu­rate are Open Phil’s pre­dic­tions?

Javier Prieto🔸16 Jun 2022 9:15 UTC
162 points
21 comments12 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities

EliezerYudkowsky6 Jun 2022 23:28 UTC
162 points
53 comments30 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Will faster eco­nomic growth make us hap­pier? The rele­vance of the Easter­lin Para­dox to Progress Studies

MichaelPlant24 Jun 2022 12:29 UTC
158 points
28 comments21 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Ter­mi­nate de­liber­a­tion based on re­silience, not certainty

Gregory Lewis🔸5 Jun 2022 20:08 UTC
152 points
16 comments12 min readEA link

Defer­ence Cul­ture in EA

Joey 🔸7 Jun 2022 14:21 UTC
151 points
23 comments5 min readEA link

Kurzge­sagt—The Last Hu­man (Longter­mist video)

Lizka28 Jun 2022 20:16 UTC
150 points
17 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

AI Could Defeat All Of Us Combined

Holden Karnofsky10 Jun 2022 23:25 UTC
143 points
14 comments17 min readEA link

80k would be happy to see more pro­jects in the ca­reers space

Michelle_Hutchinson21 Jun 2022 18:02 UTC
143 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

You Don’t Need To Jus­tify Everything

TW12312 Jun 2022 18:36 UTC
139 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

Seven ways to be­come un­stop­pably agentic

Evie18 Jun 2022 9:30 UTC
136 points
28 comments9 min readEA link

Be­fore There Was Effec­tive Altru­ism, There Was Effec­tive Philanthropy

ColdButtonIssues26 Jun 2022 18:09 UTC
133 points
7 comments12 min readEA link

Seven (more) learn­ings from LEEP

ClareDonaldson17 Jun 2022 8:32 UTC
131 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

[linkpost] Chris­ti­ano on agree­ment/​dis­agree­ment with Yud­kowsky’s “List of Lethal­ities”

Owen Cotton-Barratt19 Jun 2022 22:47 UTC
130 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

You don’t have to re­spond to ev­ery comment

Lizka20 Jun 2022 16:58 UTC
128 points
18 comments3 min readEA link

Per­ils of op­ti­miz­ing in so­cial contexts

Owen Cotton-Barratt16 Jun 2022 17:23 UTC
124 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Why Effec­tive Altru­ists Should Put a Higher Pri­or­ity on Fund­ing Aca­demic Research

Stuart Buck25 Jun 2022 19:17 UTC
118 points
15 comments11 min readEA link

User-Friendly In­tro Post

James Odene [User-Friendly]23 Jun 2022 11:26 UTC
117 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Are too many young, highly-en­gaged longter­mist EAs do­ing move­ment-build­ing?

Anonymous_EA16 Jun 2022 20:48 UTC
115 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

Launch­ing a donor cir­cle for men­tal health

Joey 🔸24 Jun 2022 14:44 UTC
114 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Im­pact mar­kets may in­cen­tivize pre­dictably net-nega­tive projects

Ofer21 Jun 2022 13:00 UTC
113 points
76 comments4 min readEA link

What suc­cess looks like

mariushobbhahn28 Jun 2022 14:30 UTC
112 points
20 comments19 min readEA link

In­ter­ested in EA/​longter­mist re­search ca­reers? Here are my top recom­mended resources

MichaelA🔸26 Jun 2022 17:13 UTC
112 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Non­profit Boards are Weird

Holden Karnofsky28 Jun 2022 10:17 UTC
111 points
7 comments20 min readEA link
(www.cold-takes.com)

Ap­ply to join SHELTER Week­end this August

Joel Becker15 Jun 2022 14:21 UTC
108 points
19 comments2 min readEA link

New Har­vest, the non­profit nu­cleus of cel­lu­lar agri­cul­ture, is in crisis. Emer­gency town hall on 6/​10.

IshaDatar2 Jun 2022 14:08 UTC
107 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Stuff I buy and use: a lis­ti­cle to boost your con­sumer sur­plus and productivity

Aaron Bergman1 Jun 2022 0:09 UTC
106 points
34 comments12 min readEA link

A database of effec­tive pro­duc­tivity recommendations

Ben Williamson17 Jun 2022 15:42 UTC
104 points
11 comments5 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Pro­ject Writ­ing Com­pe­ti­tion: Im­prov­ing Cost-Benefit Anal­y­sis to Ac­count for Ex­is­ten­tial and Catas­trophic Risks

Mackenzie7 Jun 2022 9:37 UTC
104 points
8 comments9 min readEA link

How to kick-start 10 uni­ver­sity groups in 6 months

Amarins9 Jun 2022 17:47 UTC
104 points
7 comments9 min readEA link