EA for dumb peo­ple?

Olivia Addy11 Jul 2022 10:46 UTC
490 points
160 comments2 min readEA link

Lean­ing into EA Disillusionment

Helen21 Jul 2022 17:06 UTC
429 points
61 comments13 min readEA link

De­worm­ing and de­cay: repli­cat­ing GiveWell’s cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis

JoelMcGuire25 Jul 2022 20:26 UTC
307 points
38 comments11 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Se­nior EA ‘ops’ roles: if you want to undo the bot­tle­neck, hire differently

AnonymousThrowAway9 Jul 2022 10:47 UTC
301 points
32 comments11 min readEA link

My EA Failure Story

semicycle11 Jul 2022 9:22 UTC
300 points
32 comments4 min readEA link

Why EAs are skep­ti­cal about AI Safety

Lukas Trötzmüller🔸18 Jul 2022 19:01 UTC
290 points
31 comments29 min readEA link

Fu­ture Fund June 2022 Update

Nick_Beckstead1 Jul 2022 0:50 UTC
279 points
24 comments21 min readEA link
(ftxfuturefund.org)

Mus­lims for Effec­tive Altruism

Ahmed Ghoor27 Jul 2022 16:54 UTC
239 points
18 comments5 min readEA link

My Most Likely Rea­son to Die Young is AI X-Risk

AISafetyIsNotLongtermist4 Jul 2022 15:34 UTC
237 points
62 comments4 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Without spe­cific coun­ter­mea­sures, the eas­iest path to trans­for­ma­tive AI likely leads to AI takeover

Ajeya18 Jul 2022 19:07 UTC
217 points
12 comments84 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

List of Lists of Con­crete Biose­cu­rity Pro­ject Ideas

Tessa A 🔸16 Jul 2022 15:57 UTC
212 points
6 comments9 min readEA link

Rea­sons I’ve been hes­i­tant about high lev­els of near-ish AI risk

elifland22 Jul 2022 1:32 UTC
208 points
16 comments7 min readEA link
(www.foxy-scout.com)

The value of con­tent density

Joey🔸20 Jul 2022 15:34 UTC
207 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Us­ing the “ex­ec­u­tive sum­mary” style: writ­ing that re­spects your reader’s time

deep22 Jul 2022 0:17 UTC
198 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

EA in the main­stream me­dia: if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu

Jack Lewars30 Jul 2022 16:55 UTC
196 points
57 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Non-triv­ial, an EA learn­ing plat­form for teenagers

Peter McIntyre12 Jul 2022 13:19 UTC
184 points
48 comments3 min readEA link

Mak­ing Effec­tive Altru­ism Enormous

Davidmanheim24 Jul 2022 13:29 UTC
172 points
37 comments9 min readEA link

Le­gal Im­pact for Chick­ens files its first law­suit! Costco share­holder deriva­tive case

alene7 Jul 2022 18:01 UTC
165 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing: the Prague Fall Season

IrenaK29 Jul 2022 18:31 UTC
163 points
10 comments6 min readEA link

How EA is per­ceived is cru­cial to its fu­ture trajectory

Gidi Kadosh23 Jul 2022 3:24 UTC
162 points
22 comments14 min readEA link

A philo­soph­i­cal re­view of Open Philan­thropy’s Cause Pri­ori­ti­sa­tion Framework

MichaelPlant15 Jul 2022 8:21 UTC
160 points
11 comments29 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Re­duc­ing night­mares as a cause area

Drew Housman18 Jul 2022 20:29 UTC
159 points
45 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing: EA Engineers

Jessica Wen4 Jul 2022 4:04 UTC
159 points
25 comments5 min readEA link

EA Shouldn’t Try to Ex­er­cise Direct Poli­ti­cal Power

iamasockpuppet21 Jul 2022 10:29 UTC
156 points
31 comments10 min readEA link

Em­pha­siz­ing emo­tional al­tru­ism in effec­tive altruism

michel5 Jul 2022 19:47 UTC
149 points
23 comments11 min readEA link

Crypto mar­kets, EA fund­ing and optics

SaraAzubuike14 Jul 2022 15:46 UTC
144 points
24 comments4 min readEA link

The most im­por­tant cli­mate change uncertainty

cwa26 Jul 2022 15:15 UTC
144 points
28 comments13 min readEA link

An up­date on GiveWell’s fund­ing projections

GiveWell5 Jul 2022 21:56 UTC
140 points
15 comments4 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

If you’re un­happy, con­sider leaving

Justis20 Jul 2022 15:49 UTC
139 points
13 comments5 min readEA link

Chang­ing the world through slack & hobbies

Steven Byrnes21 Jul 2022 18:01 UTC
130 points
10 comments10 min readEA link

Pass­ing Up Pay

Jeff Kaufman 🔸13 Jul 2022 14:10 UTC
129 points
25 comments5 min readEA link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] Did OpenPhil ever pub­lish their in-depth re­view of their three-year OpenAI grant?

Markus Amalthea Magnuson4 Jul 2022 14:11 UTC
128 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

On how var­i­ous plans miss the hard bits of the al­ign­ment challenge

So8res12 Jul 2022 5:35 UTC
126 points
13 comments29 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the AI Safety Field Build­ing Hub, a new effort to provide AISFB pro­jects, men­tor­ship, and funding

Vael Gates28 Jul 2022 21:29 UTC
126 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

Why AGI Timeline Re­search/​Dis­course Might Be Overrated

Miles_Brundage3 Jul 2022 8:04 UTC
122 points
28 comments10 min readEA link

Wild an­i­mal welfare in the far future

saulius8 Jul 2022 14:02 UTC
122 points
11 comments26 min readEA link

Strate­gic Per­spec­tives on Trans­for­ma­tive AI Gover­nance: Introduction

MMMaas2 Jul 2022 11:20 UTC
115 points
18 comments4 min readEA link

In­ter­est­ing vs. Im­por­tant Work—A Place EA is Pri­ori­tiz­ing Poorly

Davidmanheim28 Jul 2022 10:08 UTC
115 points
52 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] How would a lan­guage model be­come goal-di­rected?

David M16 Jul 2022 14:50 UTC
113 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

Re­mu­ner­a­tion In Effec­tive Altruism

Stefan_Schubert25 Jul 2022 12:35 UTC
112 points
11 comments2 min readEA link
(stefanschubert.substack.com)

Im­pact Mar­kets: The An­noy­ing Details

Scott Alexander15 Jul 2022 5:34 UTC
112 points
46 comments26 min readEA link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties 2022 Mid-Year Up­date: Progress, Plans, Funding

Rethink Priorities26 Jul 2022 14:33 UTC
112 points
6 comments8 min readEA link

[AMA] An­nounc­ing Open Phil’s Univer­sity Group Or­ga­nizer and Cen­tury Fellowships

abergal29 Jul 2022 18:38 UTC
111 points
22 comments13 min readEA link

How moral progress hap­pens: the de­cline of foot­bind­ing as a case study

rosehadshar26 Jul 2022 9:18 UTC
105 points
10 comments13 min readEA link

Crit­i­cism of EA Crit­i­cism Contest

Zvi 14 Jul 2022 14:20 UTC
101 points
34 comments31 min readEA link

Some ad­vice the CEA groups team gives to new uni­ver­sity group organizers

jessica_mccurdy🔸29 Jul 2022 15:18 UTC
100 points
6 comments8 min readEA link

Let’s stop say­ing ‘fund­ing over­hang’

Benjamin_Todd10 Jul 2022 16:58 UTC
98 points
18 comments3 min readEA link

EA’s Cul­ture and Think­ing are Severely Limit­ing its Impact

Peter Elam26 Jul 2022 11:10 UTC
97 points
48 comments22 min readEA link

Per­son-af­fect­ing in­tu­itions can of­ten be money pumped

Rohin Shah7 Jul 2022 12:23 UTC
94 points
69 comments3 min readEA link

AI timelines by bio an­chors: the de­bate in one place

Will Aldred30 Jul 2022 23:04 UTC
93 points
6 comments2 min readEA link