EA is about max­i­miza­tion, and max­i­miza­tion is perilous

Holden KarnofskySep 2, 2022, 5:13 PM
498 points
59 comments7 min readEA link

Peter Eck­er­sley (1979-2022)

technicalitiesSep 3, 2022, 10:45 AM
497 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Open EA Global

Scott AlexanderSep 1, 2022, 4:26 AM
439 points
154 comments5 min readEA link

My take on What We Owe the Future

eliflandSep 1, 2022, 6:07 PM
357 points
51 comments26 min readEA link

Red Team­ing CEA’s Com­mu­nity Build­ing Work

AnonymousEAForumAccountSep 1, 2022, 2:42 PM
298 points
68 comments66 min readEA link

Does Eco­nomic Growth Mean­ingfully Im­prove Well-be­ing? An Op­ti­mistic Re-Anal­y­sis of Easter­lin’s Re­search: Founders Pledge

Vadim AlbinskySep 27, 2022, 4:28 PM
258 points
45 comments12 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Fu­ture Fund’s AI Wor­ld­view Prize

Nick_BecksteadSep 23, 2022, 4:28 PM
255 points
125 comments13 min readEA link
(ftxfuturefund.org)

Case Study of EA Global Re­jec­tion + Crit­i­cisms/​Solutions

Constance LiSep 23, 2022, 11:38 AM
239 points
158 comments24 min readEA link

EA is too re­li­ant on per­sonal connections

sawyer🔸Sep 1, 2022, 2:26 PM
235 points
27 comments8 min readEA link

The Base Rate of Longter­mism Is Bad

ColdButtonIssuesSep 5, 2022, 1:29 PM
227 points
27 comments7 min readEA link

Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes: An­nounc­ing our prizes

ChrisSmithSep 9, 2022, 1:47 PM
221 points
28 comments2 min readEA link

21 crit­i­cisms of EA I’m think­ing about

Peter WildefordSep 1, 2022, 7:28 PM
210 points
26 comments9 min readEA link

CEA Ops is now EV Ops

EV OpsSep 13, 2022, 1:11 PM
185 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

Switzer­land fails to ban fac­tory farm­ing – les­sons for the pur­suit of EA-in­spired poli­cies?

Eleos Arete CitriniSep 25, 2022, 7:25 PM
184 points
29 comments2 min readEA link

We’re still (ex­tremely) fund­ing con­strained (but don’t let fear of get­ting fund­ing stop you try­ing).

Luke FreemanSep 16, 2022, 4:43 AM
183 points
17 comments4 min readEA link

Samotsvety’s AI risk forecasts

eliflandSep 9, 2022, 4:01 AM
175 points
30 comments4 min readEA link

It’s not effec­tive to call ev­ery­thing effec­tive and how (not) to name a new organisation

James Odene [User-Friendly]Sep 15, 2022, 2:07 PM
166 points
19 comments5 min readEA link

Lev­el­ling Up in AI Safety Re­search Engineering

GabeMSep 2, 2022, 4:59 AM
166 points
21 comments17 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing EA Pulse, large monthly US sur­veys on EA

David_MossSep 20, 2022, 4:49 PM
165 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Re­think Pri­ori­ties Spe­cial Pro­jects Program

Rethink PrioritiesSep 21, 2022, 6:34 PM
147 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Cel­e­bra­tions and grat­i­tude thread

LizkaSep 2, 2022, 4:25 PM
145 points
44 comments1 min readEA link

Agree/​dis­agree vot­ing (& other new fea­tures Septem­ber 2022)

LizkaSep 7, 2022, 11:07 AM
142 points
23 comments5 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Change Our Mind Con­test for cri­tiques of our cost-effec­tive­ness analyses

GiveWellSep 6, 2022, 6:10 PM
142 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

The Next EA Global Should Have Safe Air

joshcmorrisonSep 19, 2022, 5:04 AM
137 points
45 comments2 min readEA link

Much EA value comes from be­ing a Schel­ling point

L Rudolf LSep 10, 2022, 7:26 AM
135 points
9 comments10 min readEA link
(www.strataoftheworld.com)

William MacAskill—The Daily Show

TynerSep 28, 2022, 7:31 PM
132 points
27 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

EA fo­rum con­tent might be de­clin­ing in qual­ity. Here are some pos­si­ble mechanisms.

Thomas KwaSep 24, 2022, 10:24 PM
130 points
46 comments2 min readEA link

Igor Kiriluk (1974-2022)

turchinSep 3, 2022, 5:37 PM
128 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

“Do­ing Good Best” isn’t the EA ideal

DavidmanheimSep 16, 2022, 12:06 PM
128 points
17 comments6 min readEA link

$5k challenge to quan­tify the im­pact of 80,000 hours’ top ca­reer paths

NunoSempereSep 23, 2022, 11:32 AM
126 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

My emo­tional re­ac­tion to the cur­rent fund­ing situation

Sam BrownSep 11, 2022, 10:07 PM
125 points
13 comments5 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Smart Move­ments Start Aca­demic Dis­ci­plines

ColdButtonIssuesSep 25, 2022, 3:58 PM
121 points
18 comments5 min readEA link

AI Gover­nance Needs Tech­ni­cal Work

MauSep 5, 2022, 10:25 PM
121 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

ETGP 2022: ma­te­ri­als, feed­back, and les­sons for 2023

trammellSep 22, 2022, 1:12 PM
119 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

Rea­son­ing Transparency

LizkaSep 28, 2022, 12:22 PM
117 points
8 comments17 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Zzapp Malaria: More effec­tive than bed nets? (Wanted: CTO, COO & Fund­ing)

Yonatan CaleSep 9, 2022, 7:38 AM
117 points
20 comments5 min readEA link

Puz­zles for Everyone

Richard Y Chappell🔸Sep 10, 2022, 2:11 AM
116 points
38 comments5 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

The Mis­takes of Fo­cus­ing on Stu­dent Outreach in EA

DavidNashSep 20, 2022, 5:48 PM
115 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

Crit­i­cism of the 80k job board list­ing strategy

Yonatan CaleSep 21, 2022, 9:36 AM
114 points
50 comments3 min readEA link

High-Im­pact Psy­chol­ogy (HIPsy): Pilot­ing a Global Network

IngaSep 29, 2022, 1:08 PM
113 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

Save the Date: EAGx LatAm

LGlezSep 8, 2022, 6:22 PM
112 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

An ex­per­i­ment elic­it­ing rel­a­tive es­ti­mates for Open Philan­thropy’s 2018 AI safety grants

NunoSempereSep 12, 2022, 11:19 AM
111 points
16 comments13 min readEA link

Let’s ad­ver­tise in­fras­truc­ture projects

ArepoSep 23, 2022, 2:01 PM
109 points
24 comments3 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Launch of the NYU Mind, Ethics, and Policy Program

Sofia_FogelSep 19, 2022, 2:33 PM
107 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Sum­ma­riz­ing the com­ments on William MacAskill’s NYT opinion piece on longtermism

WestSep 21, 2022, 5:46 PM
106 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

My clos­ing talk at EAGxSingapore

Dion🔸Sep 12, 2022, 11:24 AM
104 points
11 comments5 min readEA link

An Eval­u­a­tion of An­i­mal Char­ity Eval­u­a­tors

eaanonymous1234Sep 2, 2022, 4:33 AM
103 points
6 comments43 min readEA link

EA for peo­ple with non-tech­ni­cal skillsets

RonjaSep 20, 2022, 8:33 AM
102 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

The dis­count rate is not zero

ThomaaasSep 3, 2022, 2:30 PM
102 points
28 comments12 min readEA link

Assess­ing SERI/​CHERI/​CERI sum­mer pro­gram im­pact by sur­vey­ing fellows

L Rudolf LSep 26, 2022, 3:29 PM
102 points
11 comments15 min readEA link