‘Psy­chol­ogy of Effec­tive Altru­ism’ course syllabus

Geoffrey MillerSep 7, 2022, 5:31 PM
50 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

New Fau­n­a­lyt­ics’ Study On The Bar­ri­ers And Strate­gies For Suc­cess When Go­ing Ve­gan or Vegetarian

JLRiediSep 7, 2022, 4:20 PM
42 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

It’s (not) how you use it

Eleni_ASep 7, 2022, 1:28 PM
6 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Bernard Willi­ams: Ethics and the limits of impartiality

peterhartreeSep 7, 2022, 11:26 AM
4 points
8 comments6 min readEA link
(notes.pjh.is)

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

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

Fundrais­ing Cam­paigns at Your Or­ga­ni­za­tion: A Reli­able Path to Coun­ter­fac­tual Impact

High Impact ProfessionalsSep 7, 2022, 10:40 AM
94 points
10 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Is there more guidance/​re­sources on what to do if one feels like they are part of a sug­nifi­cant minor­ity that should fo­cus on po­ten­tially press­ing global is­sues be­yond cur­rent 80 000h pri­ori­ties?

ElskiviSep 7, 2022, 9:24 AM
14 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What highly-im­pact­ful work is the most similar to solv­ing fun math puz­zles (if any)?

oh54321Sep 7, 2022, 6:16 AM
5 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] EA jobs for peo­ple with dyslexia?

YitzSep 7, 2022, 5:56 AM
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

13 back­ground claims about EA

AkashSep 7, 2022, 3:54 AM
70 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Would cre­at­ing and bury­ing a se­ries of dooms­day chests to re­boot civ­i­liza­tion be a wor­thy use of re­sources?

ewuSep 7, 2022, 2:45 AM
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Link post] Op­ti­mistic “Longter­mism” Is Ter­rible For Animals

BrianKSep 6, 2022, 10:38 PM
50 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(www.forbes.com)

Im­pact Shares For Spec­u­la­tive Projects

ElizabethSep 6, 2022, 9:20 PM
20 points
7 comments7 min readEA link
(acesounderglass.com)

Like The Set­ting Sun

Conor Barnes 🔶Sep 6, 2022, 7:23 PM
9 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(conorbarnes.com)

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)

De­sign­ing Effec­tive Crowd­fund­ing Campaigns

Creator2022Sep 6, 2022, 4:17 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

The dis­count rate effec­tively de­ter­mines whether long- or near-ter­mism is the best use of philan­thropic resources

FroolowSep 6, 2022, 2:52 PM
15 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] How can we se­cure more re­search po­si­tions at our uni­ver­si­ties for x-risk re­searchers?

Neil CrawfordSep 6, 2022, 2:41 PM
3 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Value of Life: VSL Es­ti­mates vs Com­mu­nity Per­spec­tive Evaluations

Joel Tan🔸Sep 6, 2022, 2:35 PM
53 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Who are some less-known peo­ple like Petrov?

LizkaSep 6, 2022, 1:22 PM
54 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

Say “nay!” to the Bay (as the de­fault)!

KaleemSep 6, 2022, 12:58 PM
89 points
26 comments9 min readEA link

EAGx Ber­lin Warmup @ TEAMWORK

Antonia BSep 6, 2022, 12:32 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Would you like to host an effec­tive giv­ing talk in your work­place this Giv­ing Sea­son?

Jack LewarsSep 6, 2022, 11:04 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

EA & LW Fo­rums Weekly Sum­mary (28 Aug − 3 Sep 22’)

Zoe WilliamsSep 6, 2022, 10:46 AM
42 points
1 comment14 min readEA link

Alex Lawsen On Fore­cast­ing AI Progress

Michaël TrazziSep 6, 2022, 9:53 AM
38 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(theinsideview.ai)

Time/​Ta­lent/​Money Con­trib­u­tors to Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Ventures

RubyTSep 6, 2022, 9:52 AM
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

AI Safety Ex­ec­u­tive Summary

Sean OsierSep 6, 2022, 8:26 AM
20 points
2 comments5 min readEA link
(seanosier.notion.site)

How to Prevent Wars—Defluffed

Trev PrewSep 6, 2022, 7:14 AM
−8 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

LW4EA: Science in a High-Di­men­sional World

JeremySep 6, 2022, 3:06 AM
11 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

A New York Times ar­ti­cle on AI risk

Eleni_ASep 6, 2022, 12:46 AM
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.nytimes.com)

AI Gover­nance Needs Tech­ni­cal Work

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

When should you trust your in­tu­ition/​gut check/​hunch over ex­plicit rea­son­ing?

SharmakeSep 5, 2022, 10:18 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Selfish Rea­sons to Move to DC

Anonymous_EASep 5, 2022, 9:30 PM
96 points
14 comments3 min readEA link

Three sce­nar­ios of pseudo-al­ign­ment

Eleni_ASep 5, 2022, 8:26 PM
7 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Policy en­trepreneur­ship: the ne­glected EA policy arm

AlishaandomedaSep 5, 2022, 5:25 PM
23 points
2 comments11 min readEA link

Fo­rum rank­ing sys­tem pro­to­type: Cause Pri­orit­sa­tion Con­test posts ranked by pre­dic­tion markets

Nathan YoungSep 5, 2022, 3:55 PM
18 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

An en­tire cat­e­gory of risks is un­der­val­ued by EA [Sum­mary of pre­vi­ous fo­rum post]

Richard RSep 5, 2022, 3:07 PM
79 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Do AI com­pa­nies make their safety re­searchers sign a non-dis­par­age­ment clause?

OferSep 5, 2022, 1:40 PM
73 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

The Base Rate of Longter­mism Is Bad

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

[Question] What are VISAs available for non-profit/​char­ity founders in the U.S?

effectiveutilsSep 5, 2022, 10:41 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

EA is too fo­cused on the Man­hat­tan Project

trevor1Sep 5, 2022, 2:00 AM
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

In­ter­re­lat­ed­ness of x-risks and sys­temic fragilities

NaryanSep 4, 2022, 9:36 PM
26 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Valu­ing lives in­stru­men­tally leads to un­com­fortable conclusions

Karthik TadepalliSep 4, 2022, 9:32 PM
17 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Two Types of Aver­age Utilitarianism

GilSep 4, 2022, 5:15 PM
18 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Seek­ing feed­back/​gaug­ing in­ter­est: Crowd­sourc­ing x crowd­fund­ing for ex­is­ten­tial risk ven­tures

RubyTSep 4, 2022, 4:18 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Style Writ­ing Prej­u­dice At EA

Trev PrewSep 4, 2022, 8:06 AM
−5 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Neu­ro­science of time per­cep­tion?

TerracottaKleinBottleSep 4, 2022, 4:07 AM
14 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Sen­tience or Silos?

Jeffrey KursonisSep 4, 2022, 4:03 AM
2 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

EV Max­i­miza­tion for Humans

SharmakeSep 3, 2022, 11:44 PM
12 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

An Episte­molog­i­cal Ac­count of In­tu­itions in Science

Eleni_ASep 3, 2022, 11:21 PM
5 points
0 comments17 min readEA link