Cen­ter for Effec­tive Aid Policy has shut down

MathiasKB🔸2 Jul 2024 16:54 UTC
539 points
40 comments9 min readEA link

Marisa, the Co-Founder of EA Any­where, Has Passed Away

carrickflynn17 May 2024 22:49 UTC
514 points
31 comments1 min readEA link

Step­ping down from GWWC: So long, and thanks for all the shrimp

Luke Freeman10 Sep 2024 21:02 UTC
412 points
26 comments8 min readEA link
(www.lukefreeman.com.au)

Can we help in­di­vi­d­ual peo­ple cost-effec­tively? Our trial with three sick kids

NickLaing20 Feb 2024 9:43 UTC
396 points
35 comments10 min readEA link

AMA: Beast Philan­thropy’s Dar­ren Margolias

Beast Philanthropy9 Jul 2024 13:15 UTC
394 points
58 comments1 min readEA link

Ma­ter­nal Health Ini­ti­a­tive is Shut­ting Down

Ben Williamson15 Mar 2024 17:19 UTC
385 points
19 comments20 min readEA link

Maybe let the non-EA world train you

ElliotTep14 Jun 2024 14:45 UTC
377 points
30 comments8 min readEA link

The Cen­tre for Effec­tive Altru­ism is spin­ning out of the Cen­tre for Effec­tive Altruism

OllieBase1 Apr 2024 12:15 UTC
372 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Quick Up­date on Leav­ing the Board of EV

Rebecca Kagan3 Apr 2024 0:13 UTC
357 points
117 comments1 min readEA link

CEA will con­tinue to take a “prin­ci­ples-first” ap­proach to EA

Zachary Robinson🔸20 Aug 2024 11:15 UTC
352 points
62 comments14 min readEA link

I dou­bled the world record cy­cling with­out hands for AMF

Vincent van der Holst11 Jun 2024 8:57 UTC
339 points
11 comments5 min readEA link

New video: You’re richer than you realise

GraceAdams🔸13 Mar 2024 0:14 UTC
320 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Prac­ti­cally A Book Re­view: Ap­pendix to “Non­lin­ear’s Ev­i­dence: De­bunk­ing False and Mislead­ing Claims”

Rafael Harth3 Jan 2024 23:16 UTC
314 points
33 comments28 min readEA link
(thingofthings.substack.com)

On Own­ing Our EA Affiliation

Alix Pham5 Aug 2024 14:46 UTC
299 points
41 comments4 min readEA link

EA “Wor­ld­views” Need Rethinking

Richard Y Chappell🔸18 Mar 2024 15:10 UTC
290 points
82 comments3 min readEA link

[April Fools’ Day] In­tro­duc­ing Open As­teroid Impact

Linch1 Apr 2024 8:14 UTC
286 points
13 comments1 min readEA link
(openasteroidimpact.org)

Crit­i­cism is sanc­tified in EA, but, like any in­ter­ven­tion, crit­i­cism needs to pay rent

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸11 Oct 2024 4:22 UTC
285 points
28 comments3 min readEA link

The Precipice Revisited

Toby_Ord12 Jul 2024 14:06 UTC
279 points
41 comments17 min readEA link

Sam Alt­man’s Chip Am­bi­tions Un­der­cut OpenAI’s Safety Strategy

Garrison10 Feb 2024 19:52 UTC
279 points
20 comments3 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

The de­fault tra­jec­tory for an­i­mal welfare means vastly more suffering

JamesÖz11 Oct 2024 5:51 UTC
264 points
16 comments5 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Lead Ex­po­sure Ac­tion Fund

Alexander_Berger23 Sep 2024 19:04 UTC
259 points
7 comments4 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

80,000 hours should re­move OpenAI from the Job Board (and similar EA orgs should do similarly)

Raemon3 Jul 2024 20:34 UTC
258 points
79 comments3 min readEA link

How to help cru­cial AI safety leg­is­la­tion pass with 10 min­utes of effort

ThomasW11 Sep 2024 19:14 UTC
258 points
33 comments3 min readEA link

Pri­ors and Prejudice

MathiasKB🔸22 Apr 2024 14:59 UTC
256 points
14 comments7 min readEA link

This chart is right. Most in­ter­ven­tions don’t do much. (Cameroon ex­pe­rience)

EffectiveHelp - Cameroon16 Aug 2024 14:29 UTC
255 points
25 comments4 min readEA link

Vi­su­al­iz­ing EA ideas

Alex Savard 🔸31 Oct 2024 21:57 UTC
252 points
13 comments5 min readEA link

The Char­ity Com­mis­sion has con­cluded its in­quiry into Effec­tive Ven­tures Foun­da­tion UK

Rob Gledhill22 May 2024 8:17 UTC
250 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Émile P. Tor­res’s his­tory of dishon­esty and harassment

anonymous-for-obvious-reasons1 May 2024 12:47 UTC
249 points
95 comments40 min readEA link

I have stepped aside from my role as Ex­ec­u­tive Direc­tor be­cause I think it will help more animals

KirstyHenderson3 Sep 2024 14:33 UTC
246 points
3 comments7 min readEA link
(animainternational.org)

This is why we can’t have nice laws

LewisBollard28 Feb 2024 18:44 UTC
241 points
25 comments5 min readEA link

Our fight for the fu­ture of one billion chick­ens.

Molly Archer-Zeff22 Oct 2024 13:29 UTC
240 points
18 comments4 min readEA link

Un­der­stand­ing FTX’s crimes

FTXwatcher11 Apr 2024 9:14 UTC
238 points
32 comments19 min readEA link

Against Aschen­bren­ner: How ‘Si­tu­a­tional Aware­ness’ con­structs a nar­ra­tive that un­der­mines safety and threat­ens humanity

Gideon Futerman15 Jul 2024 16:21 UTC
238 points
22 comments21 min readEA link

Ex­cerpts From The EA Talmud

Scott Alexander1 Apr 2024 8:08 UTC
237 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

Per­sonal re­flec­tions on FTX

William_MacAskill18 Apr 2024 9:37 UTC
235 points
90 comments1 min readEA link

Killing the moths

Bella25 Mar 2024 16:20 UTC
234 points
17 comments5 min readEA link

Help Fund In­sect Welfare Science

Bob Fischer14 Jun 2024 21:11 UTC
234 points
30 comments2 min readEA link

EA is now scan­dal-constrained

Guy Raveh1 Apr 2024 7:26 UTC
231 points
22 comments1 min readEA link

Join­ing the Carnegie En­dow­ment for In­ter­na­tional Peace

Holden Karnofsky29 Apr 2024 15:45 UTC
228 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

Case-con­trol sur­vey of EAGx at­ten­dees finds no be­havi­oural or at­ti­tu­di­nal changes af­ter six months

Fods1227 Jul 2024 7:01 UTC
226 points
47 comments15 min readEA link

Fu­ture of Hu­man­ity In­sti­tute 2005-2024: Fi­nal Report

Pablo17 Apr 2024 14:25 UTC
224 points
89 comments5 min readEA link
(static1.squarespace.com)

The Scale of Fe­tal Suffer­ing in Late-Term Abortions

Ariel Simnegar 🔸17 Mar 2024 19:46 UTC
222 points
25 comments3 min readEA link

What’s Go­ing on With OpenAI’s Mes­sag­ing?

Ozzie Gooen21 May 2024 2:22 UTC
213 points
28 comments3 min readEA link

Most smart and skil­led peo­ple are out­side of the EA/​ra­tio­nal­ist com­mu­nity: an analysis

titotal12 Jul 2024 12:13 UTC
213 points
25 comments14 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

Mo­ti­va­tion gaps: Why so much EA crit­i­cism is hos­tile and lazy

titotal22 Apr 2024 11:49 UTC
211 points
44 comments19 min readEA link
(titotal.substack.com)

We Did It! - Vic­tory for Oc­to­pus in Wash­ing­ton State

Tessa @ ALI15 Mar 2024 14:28 UTC
211 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Re­view of Past Grants: The $100,000 Grant for a Video Game?

Nicolae3 Jun 2024 14:28 UTC
210 points
64 comments2 min readEA link

The US Pres­i­den­tial Elec­tion is Tractable, Very Im­por­tant, and Urgent

kuhanj29 May 2024 17:09 UTC
208 points
31 comments3 min readEA link

[Linkpost] An up­date from Good Ventures

Alexander_Berger14 Jun 2024 20:59 UTC
204 points
145 comments2 min readEA link
(www.goodventures.org)

Rates of Crim­i­nal­ity Amongst Giv­ing Pledge Signatories

Ben_West🔸22 Jan 2024 17:42 UTC
203 points
31 comments6 min readEA link