Power dy­nam­ics be­tween peo­ple in EA

Julia_Wise🔸Jun 1, 2022, 8:50 PM
486 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

Cri­tiques of EA that I want to read

abrahamroweJun 19, 2022, 10:22 PM
460 points
85 comments11 min readEA link

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

NunoSempereJun 16, 2022, 4:40 PM
303 points
97 comments26 min readEA link

On Defer­ence and Yud­kowsky’s AI Risk Estimates

bgarfinkelJun 19, 2022, 2:35 PM
285 points
194 comments17 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing a con­test: EA Crit­i­cism and Red Teaming

LizkaJun 1, 2022, 6:58 PM
276 points
64 comments13 min readEA link

New cause area: Violence against women and girls

AkhilJun 6, 2022, 2:48 PM
268 points
61 comments11 min readEA link

Me­gapro­jects for animals

JamesÖz 🔸Jun 13, 2022, 9:20 AM
265 points
25 comments16 min readEA link

How to pur­sue a ca­reer in tech­ni­cal AI alignment

Charlie Rogers-SmithJun 4, 2022, 9:36 PM
265 points
9 comments39 min readEA link

Com­mu­nity Builders Spend Too Much Time Com­mu­nity Building

emma-w1Jun 28, 2022, 7:08 PM
263 points
38 comments10 min readEA link

Steer­ing AI to care for an­i­mals, and soon

Andrew CritchJun 14, 2022, 1:13 AM
233 points
37 comments1 min readEA link

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

80000_HoursJun 21, 2022, 10:49 PM
219 points
37 comments2 min readEA link

Michael Niel­sen’s “Notes on effec­tive al­tru­ism”

PabloJun 3, 2022, 8:20 AM
219 points
49 comments5 min readEA link
(michaelnotebook.com)

Re­sults of a sur­vey of in­ter­na­tional de­vel­op­ment pro­fes­sors on EA

ryancbriggsJun 22, 2022, 3:49 PM
183 points
17 comments3 min readEA link

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

Jaime SevillaJun 27, 2022, 1:39 PM
183 points
11 comments2 min readEA link
(epochai.org)

Un­flat­ter­ing rea­sons why I’m at­tracted to EA

dotsamJun 3, 2022, 2:27 PM
177 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

EA-break, EA-slow

Rémi TJun 22, 2022, 12:27 PM
170 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Leav­ing Google, Join­ing the Nu­cleic Acid Observatory

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

EA Dedicates

ozymandiasJun 23, 2022, 7:32 PM
168 points
20 comments6 min readEA link
(thingofthings.substack.com)

Ways money can make things worse

Jan_KulveitJun 21, 2022, 3:26 PM
167 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

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

Owen Cotton-BarrattJun 29, 2022, 11:59 AM
166 points
32 comments3 min readEA link

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

Owen Cotton-BarrattJun 2, 2022, 1:57 PM
163 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

How ac­cu­rate are Open Phil’s pre­dic­tions?

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

AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities

EliezerYudkowskyJun 6, 2022, 11:28 PM
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

MichaelPlantJun 24, 2022, 12:29 PM
158 points
28 comments21 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Defer­ence Cul­ture in EA

Joey🔸Jun 7, 2022, 2:21 PM
153 points
23 comments5 min readEA link

Ter­mi­nate de­liber­a­tion based on re­silience, not certainty

Gregory Lewis🔸Jun 5, 2022, 8:08 PM
152 points
16 comments12 min readEA link

Kurzge­sagt—The Last Hu­man (Longter­mist video)

LizkaJun 28, 2022, 8:16 PM
150 points
17 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

You Don’t Need To Jus­tify Everything

TW123Jun 12, 2022, 6:36 PM
144 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

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

Michelle_HutchinsonJun 21, 2022, 6:02 PM
143 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

AI Could Defeat All Of Us Combined

Holden KarnofskyJun 10, 2022, 11:25 PM
143 points
14 comments17 min readEA link

Be­fore There Was Effec­tive Altru­ism, There Was Effec­tive Philanthropy

ColdButtonIssuesJun 26, 2022, 6:09 PM
138 points
7 comments12 min readEA link

Seven (more) learn­ings from LEEP

ClareDonaldsonJun 17, 2022, 8:32 AM
131 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

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

Owen Cotton-BarrattJun 19, 2022, 10:47 PM
130 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

You don’t have to re­spond to ev­ery comment

LizkaJun 20, 2022, 4:58 PM
128 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

Per­ils of op­ti­miz­ing in so­cial contexts

Owen Cotton-BarrattJun 16, 2022, 5:23 PM
124 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

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

Stuart BuckJun 25, 2022, 7:17 PM
118 points
15 comments11 min readEA link

User-Friendly In­tro Post

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

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

Anonymous_EAJun 16, 2022, 8:48 PM
115 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

Launch­ing a donor cir­cle for men­tal health

Joey🔸Jun 24, 2022, 2:44 PM
114 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Im­pact mar­kets may in­cen­tivize pre­dictably net-nega­tive projects

OferJun 21, 2022, 1:00 PM
113 points
76 comments4 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

What suc­cess looks like

mariushobbhahn28 Jun 2022 14:30 UTC
112 points
20 comments19 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

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

Limits to Legibility

Jan_Kulveit29 Jun 2022 17:45 UTC
104 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

A database of effec­tive pro­duc­tivity recommendations

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