Peter Eck­er­sley (1979-2022)

Gavin3 Sep 2022 10:45 UTC
497 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

EA is about max­i­miza­tion, and max­i­miza­tion is perilous

Holden Karnofsky2 Sep 2022 17:13 UTC
492 points
59 comments7 min readEA link

Open EA Global

Scott Alexander1 Sep 2022 4:26 UTC
436 points
154 comments5 min readEA link

My take on What We Owe the Future

elifland1 Sep 2022 18:07 UTC
354 points
51 comments26 min readEA link

Red Team­ing CEA’s Com­mu­nity Build­ing Work

AnonymousEAForumAccount1 Sep 2022 14:42 UTC
296 points
68 comments66 min readEA link

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

Vadim Albinsky27 Sep 2022 16:28 UTC
258 points
45 comments12 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Fu­ture Fund’s AI Wor­ld­view Prize

Nick_Beckstead23 Sep 2022 16:28 UTC
255 points
125 comments13 min readEA link
(ftxfuturefund.org)

Case Study of EA Global Re­jec­tion + Crit­i­cisms/​Solutions

Constance Li23 Sep 2022 11:38 UTC
232 points
157 comments24 min readEA link

EA is too re­li­ant on per­sonal connections

sawyer🔸1 Sep 2022 14:26 UTC
231 points
27 comments8 min readEA link

Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes: An­nounc­ing our prizes

ChrisSmith9 Sep 2022 13:47 UTC
221 points
28 comments2 min readEA link

The Base Rate of Longter­mism Is Bad

ColdButtonIssues5 Sep 2022 13:29 UTC
220 points
27 comments7 min readEA link

21 crit­i­cisms of EA I’m think­ing about

Peter Wildeford1 Sep 2022 19:28 UTC
209 points
26 comments9 min readEA link

CEA Ops is now EV Ops

EV Ops13 Sep 2022 13:11 UTC
185 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

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

Eleos Arete Citrini25 Sep 2022 19:25 UTC
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 Freeman16 Sep 2022 4:43 UTC
183 points
17 comments4 min readEA link

Samotsvety’s AI risk forecasts

elifland9 Sep 2022 4:01 UTC
175 points
30 comments4 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing EA Pulse, large monthly US sur­veys on EA

David_Moss20 Sep 2022 16:49 UTC
165 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

Lev­el­ling Up in AI Safety Re­search Engineering

GabeM2 Sep 2022 4:59 UTC
165 points
21 comments17 min readEA link

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

James Odene [User-Friendly]15 Sep 2022 14:07 UTC
161 points
19 comments5 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Re­think Pri­ori­ties Spe­cial Pro­jects Program

Rethink Priorities21 Sep 2022 18:34 UTC
147 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Cel­e­bra­tions and grat­i­tude thread

Lizka2 Sep 2022 16:25 UTC
145 points
44 comments1 min readEA link

“Agency” needs nuance

Evie12 Sep 2022 16:52 UTC
144 points
34 comments14 min readEA link

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

Lizka7 Sep 2022 11:07 UTC
142 points
23 comments5 min readEA link

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

GiveWell6 Sep 2022 18:10 UTC
142 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

The Next EA Global Should Have Safe Air

joshcmorrison19 Sep 2022 5:04 UTC
137 points
43 comments2 min readEA link

Much EA value comes from be­ing a Schel­ling point

L Rudolf L10 Sep 2022 7:26 UTC
133 points
9 comments10 min readEA link
(www.strataoftheworld.com)

William MacAskill—The Daily Show

Tyner28 Sep 2022 19:31 UTC
132 points
27 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

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

Thomas Kwa24 Sep 2022 22:24 UTC
130 points
46 comments2 min readEA link

Igor Kiriluk (1974-2022)

turchin3 Sep 2022 17:37 UTC
128 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

“Do­ing Good Best” isn’t the EA ideal

Davidmanheim16 Sep 2022 12:06 UTC
128 points
17 comments6 min readEA link

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

NunoSempere23 Sep 2022 11:32 UTC
126 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

My emo­tional re­ac­tion to the cur­rent fund­ing situation

Sam Brown11 Sep 2022 22:07 UTC
125 points
13 comments5 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Smart Move­ments Start Aca­demic Dis­ci­plines

ColdButtonIssues25 Sep 2022 15:58 UTC
121 points
18 comments5 min readEA link

ETGP 2022: ma­te­ri­als, feed­back, and les­sons for 2023

trammell22 Sep 2022 13:12 UTC
118 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

AI Gover­nance Needs Tech­ni­cal Work

Mau5 Sep 2022 22:25 UTC
118 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

Rea­son­ing Transparency

Lizka28 Sep 2022 12:22 UTC
117 points
8 comments17 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

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

Yonatan Cale9 Sep 2022 7:38 UTC
117 points
20 comments5 min readEA link

Puz­zles for Everyone

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

The Mis­takes of Fo­cus­ing on Stu­dent Outreach in EA

DavidNash20 Sep 2022 17:48 UTC
115 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

Crit­i­cism of the 80k job board list­ing strategy

Yonatan Cale21 Sep 2022 9:36 UTC
114 points
50 comments3 min readEA link

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

Inga29 Sep 2022 13:08 UTC
113 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

Save the Date: EAGx LatAm

LGlez8 Sep 2022 18:22 UTC
112 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

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

NunoSempere12 Sep 2022 11:19 UTC
111 points
16 comments13 min readEA link

Let’s ad­ver­tise in­fras­truc­ture projects

Arepo23 Sep 2022 14:01 UTC
109 points
24 comments3 min readEA link

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

Sofia_Fogel19 Sep 2022 14:33 UTC
107 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

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

West21 Sep 2022 17:46 UTC
106 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

My clos­ing talk at EAGxSingapore

Dion12 Sep 2022 11:24 UTC
103 points
11 comments5 min readEA link

The dis­count rate is not zero

Thomaaas3 Sep 2022 14:30 UTC
102 points
28 comments12 min readEA link

EA for peo­ple with non-tech­ni­cal skillsets

Ronja20 Sep 2022 8:33 UTC
102 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

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

L Rudolf L26 Sep 2022 15:29 UTC
102 points
11 comments15 min readEA link