What hap­pens on the av­er­age day?

rosehadsharAug 17, 2022, 10:09 AM
361 points
33 comments6 min readEA link

Cli­mate Change & Longter­mism: new book-length report

John G. HalsteadAug 26, 2022, 9:13 AM
319 points
160 comments13 min readEA link

What We Owe The Fu­ture is out today

William_MacAskillAug 16, 2022, 3:13 PM
293 points
68 comments2 min readEA link

The com­mu­nity health team’s work on in­ter­per­sonal harm in the com­mu­nity

Julia_Wise🔸Aug 19, 2022, 2:58 AM
277 points
16 comments9 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Longter­mism Fund

Michael Townsend🔸Aug 11, 2022, 1:06 PM
276 points
20 comments5 min readEA link

His­tor­i­cal EA fund­ing data

TylerMauleAug 14, 2022, 1:21 PM
267 points
49 comments2 min readEA link

A crit­i­cal re­view of GiveWell’s 2022 cost-effec­tive­ness model

FroolowAug 25, 2022, 3:35 PM
234 points
20 comments38 min readEA link

Driv­ing Ed­u­ca­tion on EA Topics Through Khan Academy

Hailey DicksonAug 27, 2022, 8:28 AM
231 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

Cri­tique of MacAskill’s “Is It Good to Make Happy Peo­ple?”

Magnus VindingAug 23, 2022, 9:21 AM
225 points
115 comments8 min readEA link

Most Ivy-smart stu­dents aren’t at Ivy-tier schools

Aaron BergmanAug 7, 2022, 1:49 AM
218 points
57 comments9 min readEA link
(www.aaronbergman.net)

Most* small prob­a­bil­ities aren’t pas­calian

Gregory Lewis🔸Aug 7, 2022, 4:17 PM
212 points
20 comments6 min readEA link

An­i­mal rights ini­ti­a­tive with far-reach­ing con­se­quences and pos­si­bly high chance of success

MartinBAug 11, 2022, 9:29 PM
203 points
23 comments1 min readEA link

Some up­dates in EA communications

abierAug 2, 2022, 8:13 PM
201 points
30 comments2 min readEA link

The most im­por­tant les­son I learned af­ter ten years in EA

Kat WoodsAug 3, 2022, 12:28 PM
193 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

Pri­ori­tiz­ing x-risks may re­quire car­ing about fu­ture people

eliflandAug 14, 2022, 12:55 AM
182 points
38 comments6 min readEA link
(www.foxy-scout.com)

Mili­tary Ser­vice as an Op­tion to Build Ca­reer Capital

MollyAug 9, 2022, 8:22 PM
180 points
33 comments17 min readEA link

Ex­is­ten­tial risk pes­simism and the time of perils

David ThorstadAug 12, 2022, 2:42 PM
177 points
67 comments20 min readEA link

How and when should we in­cen­tivize peo­ple to leave EA bub­bles and ex­plore?

Owen Cotton-BarrattAug 17, 2022, 8:34 PM
165 points
20 comments2 min readEA link

How might we al­ign trans­for­ma­tive AI if it’s de­vel­oped very soon?

Holden KarnofskyAug 29, 2022, 3:48 PM
163 points
17 comments44 min readEA link

[Question] Gran­tees: how do you struc­ture your fi­nances & ca­reer?

Jackson WagnerAug 4, 2022, 10:21 PM
159 points
15 comments4 min readEA link

EA on nu­clear war and expertise

beanAug 28, 2022, 4:59 AM
154 points
17 comments4 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Squig­gle: Early Access

Ozzie GooenAug 3, 2022, 12:23 AM
147 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

Feed­back I’ve been giv­ing to ju­nior x-risk researchers

Will AldredAug 15, 2022, 8:46 PM
146 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

EA & LW Fo­rums Weekly Sum­mary (21 Aug − 27 Aug 22’)

Zoe WilliamsAug 30, 2022, 1:37 AM
144 points
14 comments11 min readEA link

Protest move­ments: How effec­tive are they?

JamesÖz 🔸Aug 22, 2022, 11:28 AM
143 points
27 comments10 min readEA link

Mex­ico EA Fellowship

SMalagonAug 30, 2022, 4:29 AM
139 points
22 comments3 min readEA link

Prevent­ing an AI-re­lated catas­tro­phe—Prob­lem profile

Benjamin HiltonAug 29, 2022, 6:49 PM
137 points
18 comments4 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

An­nounc­ing the In­tro­duc­tion to ML Safety Course

TW123Aug 6, 2022, 2:50 AM
136 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

[link post] The Case for Longter­mism in The New York Times

abierAug 5, 2022, 4:27 PM
133 points
14 comments1 min readEA link
(www.nytimes.com)

How to do the­o­ret­i­cal re­search, a per­sonal perspective

Mark XuAug 19, 2022, 7:43 PM
132 points
7 comments15 min readEA link

How tech­ni­cal safety stan­dards could pro­mote TAI safety

Cullen 🔸Aug 8, 2022, 4:57 PM
128 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

Meth­ods for im­prov­ing un­cer­tainty anal­y­sis in EA cost-effec­tive­ness models

FroolowAug 29, 2022, 6:07 PM
127 points
8 comments37 min readEA link

Some con­cerns about policy work fund­ing and the Long Term Fu­ture Fund

weeatquinceAug 12, 2022, 1:54 PM
124 points
49 comments6 min readEA link

The Oper­a­tions team at CEA trans­forms

Josh AxfordAug 2, 2022, 4:47 PM
123 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

Gaps and op­por­tu­ni­ties in the EA tal­ent & re­cruit­ing landscape

Anya HuntAug 26, 2022, 9:15 PM
121 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

EAs un­der­es­ti­mate un­cer­tainty in cause prioritisation

freedomandutilityAug 23, 2022, 2:04 PM
120 points
20 comments2 min readEA link

The world is much bet­ter. The world is awful. The world can be much bet­ter.

Max RoserAug 22, 2022, 2:33 PM
119 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

Cause ex­plo­ra­tion prize: organophos­phate pes­ti­cides and other neurotoxicants

Ben StewartAug 9, 2022, 10:24 AM
116 points
11 comments41 min readEA link

What We Owe the Fu­ture is an NYT bestseller

Anonymous_EAAug 25, 2022, 12:18 AM
114 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Open Phil is seek­ing bil­in­gual peo­ple to help trans­late web con­tent re­lated to AI safety, global catas­trophic risks, effec­tive al­tru­ism and ad­ja­cent top­ics into non-English languages

Eli RoseAug 23, 2022, 11:52 PM
111 points
37 comments8 min readEA link

To WELLBY or not to WELLBY? Mea­sur­ing non-health, non-pe­cu­niary benefits us­ing sub­jec­tive wellbeing

JoelMcGuireAug 11, 2022, 11:43 PM
110 points
28 comments13 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

An­nounc­ing a new in­tro­duc­tion to effec­tive altruism

CliffordAug 23, 2022, 7:59 AM
110 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Sup­ple­ment to “The Brus­sels Effect and AI: How EU AI reg­u­la­tion will im­pact the global AI mar­ket”

MarkusAnderljungAug 16, 2022, 8:55 PM
109 points
7 comments8 min readEA link

Com­mon-sense cases where “hy­po­thet­i­cal fu­ture peo­ple” matter

tlevinAug 12, 2022, 2:05 PM
107 points
21 comments4 min readEA link

[Cross­post]: Huge vol­canic erup­tions: time to pre­pare (Na­ture)

Mike CassidyAug 19, 2022, 12:02 PM
107 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.nature.com)

An­nounc­ing the GovAI Policy Team

MarkusAnderljungAug 1, 2022, 10:46 PM
107 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

Should GiveWell still recom­mend GiveDirectly?

Shakeel HashimAug 29, 2022, 6:34 AM
106 points
11 comments2 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

Rho­dri Davies on why he’s not an EA

SanjayAug 18, 2022, 11:50 AM
105 points
19 comments2 min readEA link
(whyphilanthropymatters.com)

30 sec­ond ac­tion you could take

Michelle_HutchinsonAug 2, 2022, 4:06 PM
104 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Find­ing be­fore fund­ing: Why EA should prob­a­bly in­vest more in research

Falk LiederAug 17, 2022, 8:48 AM
102 points
11 comments10 min readEA link