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

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸Oct 11, 2024, 4:22 AM
295 points
29 comments3 min readEA link

The de­fault tra­jec­tory for an­i­mal welfare means vastly more suffering

JamesÖz 🔸Oct 11, 2024, 5:51 AM
272 points
18 comments5 min readEA link

Our fight for the fu­ture of one billion chick­ens.

Molly Archer-ZeffOct 22, 2024, 1:29 PM
241 points
18 comments4 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing my de­par­ture from CEA (& shar­ing as­sorted notes)

LizkaOct 3, 2024, 6:30 PM
192 points
8 comments12 min readEA link

Mul­ti­plier Ar­gu­ments are of­ten flawed

AGB 🔸Oct 13, 2024, 9:25 PM
192 points
64 comments4 min readEA link

Reflec­tions and les­sons from Effec­tive Ventures

Zachary Robinson🔸Oct 28, 2024, 4:01 PM
190 points
18 comments47 min readEA link

[Trig­ger warn­ing: vi­o­lence] An­i­mal vs hu­man welfare: shar­ing some per­sonal reflections

ForumiteOct 10, 2024, 11:49 AM
176 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

What do RP’s tools tell us about giv­ing $100m to AW or GHD?

Hayley ClatterbuckOct 7, 2024, 8:41 PM
167 points
21 comments9 min readEA link

Ex­plain­ing the dis­crep­an­cies in cost effec­tive­ness rat­ings: A repli­ca­tion and break­down of RP’s an­i­mal welfare cost effec­tive­ness calcu­la­tions

titotalOct 14, 2024, 11:34 AM
158 points
28 comments12 min readEA link

New Open Ac­cess Book: Weigh­ing An­i­mal Welfare, ed­ited by Bob Fischer

Bob FischerOct 22, 2024, 11:25 AM
145 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

Ret­ro­spec­tive on EA Nige­ria Sum­mit: Our Suc­cesses and Learnings

EA NigeriaOct 11, 2024, 8:37 AM
144 points
14 comments8 min readEA link

Is RP’s Mo­ral Weights Pro­ject too an­i­mal friendly? Four crit­i­cal junctures

NickLaingOct 11, 2024, 12:03 PM
132 points
56 comments5 min readEA link

Three jour­neys for effec­tive altruism

Zachary Robinson🔸Oct 22, 2024, 3:45 PM
129 points
3 comments13 min readEA link

The goal isn’t ‘end fac­tory farm­ing’, but re­duce as much suffer­ing as possible

ElliotTepOct 30, 2024, 4:08 PM
127 points
44 comments4 min readEA link

Up­date on the wild an­i­mal welfare fund­ing landscape

Cameron Meyer Shorb 🔸Oct 2, 2024, 11:56 PM
116 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

We should pre­vent the cre­ation of ar­tifi­cial sen­tience

RichardPOct 29, 2024, 12:22 PM
114 points
12 comments15 min readEA link

Challenges in Aquatic An­i­mal Stunning

KvPelt🔹Oct 24, 2024, 6:32 AM
114 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Giv­ing Sea­son 2024 Announcement

Toby Tremlett🔹Oct 22, 2024, 9:28 AM
109 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Op­por­tu­ni­ties to im­prove EA com­mu­ni­ca­tions

Good ImpressionsOct 15, 2024, 8:49 PM
109 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

What is malev­olence? On the na­ture, mea­sure­ment, and dis­tri­bu­tion of dark traits

David_AlthausOct 23, 2024, 8:41 AM
107 points
6 comments52 min readEA link

Help in­crease the effec­tive­ness of UK aid

Ben AndersonOct 2, 2024, 6:27 PM
107 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Build­ing back­wards: How to get more peo­ple into im­pact­ful, high ab­sorbency careers

Joey🔸Oct 17, 2024, 1:43 PM
106 points
2 comments31 min readEA link

Some rea­sons for not pri­ori­tis­ing an­i­mal welfare very strongly

Engin ArıkanOct 11, 2024, 7:43 PM
103 points
16 comments9 min readEA link

Ex­pe­rience size

trammellOct 7, 2024, 9:43 PM
101 points
14 comments20 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis of Lafiya Nige­ria intervention

Rethink PrioritiesOct 23, 2024, 10:41 PM
99 points
14 comments2 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

The Ex­tent of An­i­mal Suffering

Björn ÓlafssonOct 7, 2024, 10:36 AM
97 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Dis­cus­sion thread: An­i­mal Welfare vs. Global Health De­bate Week

Toby Tremlett🔹Oct 7, 2024, 8:05 AM
94 points
379 comments1 min readEA link

The Mo­ral Two En­velopes Prob­lem and the Mo­ral Weights Project

Derek ShillerOct 15, 2024, 6:12 PM
92 points
20 comments14 min readEA link

We’re launch­ing a new pro­gram for eco­nomic growth in LMICs (and look­ing for a pro­gram officer)

Open PhilanthropyOct 16, 2024, 10:52 PM
90 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Is Paus­ing AI Pos­si­ble?

Richard AnniloOct 9, 2024, 1:22 PM
89 points
4 comments18 min readEA link

[Question] Whose trans­parency can we cel­e­brate?

leillustrations🔸Oct 12, 2024, 3:35 AM
87 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Egre­gious Cru­elty: Hum­boldt Farm Sued for Put­ting Salt in Cows’ Eyes, Starv­ing Cattle

Sage MaxOct 1, 2024, 10:38 PM
86 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing: biose­cu­rity.world

Alix PhamOct 21, 2024, 7:43 AM
84 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

The Marginal $100m Would Be Far Bet­ter Spent on An­i­mal Welfare Than Global Health

Ariel Simnegar 🔸Oct 9, 2024, 8:45 PM
79 points
19 comments4 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing Kairos: a new AI safety field­build­ing or­ga­ni­za­tion (the new home for SPAR and FSP)

Agustín Covarrubias 🔸Oct 25, 2024, 9:59 PM
79 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Ways I see the global health → an­i­mal welfare shift backfiring

Henry Howard🔸Oct 9, 2024, 10:47 AM
77 points
46 comments6 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of Shrimp Welfare Pro­ject’s Hu­mane Slaugh­ter Initiative

Vasco Grilo🔸Oct 6, 2024, 8:25 AM
76 points
28 comments5 min readEA link

Fund­ing Cir­cles: An AIM Guide to im­prov­ing donor coordination

Joey🔸Oct 23, 2024, 3:33 PM
70 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Lives not worth liv­ing?

Moritz Stumpe 🔸Oct 8, 2024, 3:29 PM
67 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

Finish­ing The SB-1047 Documentary

Michaël TrazziOct 28, 2024, 8:26 PM
67 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Dario Amodei — Machines of Lov­ing Grace

Matrice JacobineOct 11, 2024, 9:39 PM
66 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(darioamodei.com)

If far-UV is so great, why isn’t it ev­ery­where?

AustinOct 19, 2024, 6:56 PM
66 points
3 comments9 min readEA link
(strainhardening.substack.com)

Seek­ing Rip­ple Effects

Richard Y Chappell🔸Oct 8, 2024, 2:00 PM
66 points
20 comments2 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

[Linkpost] A Nar­row Path—How to Se­cure our Future

MathiasKB🔸Oct 2, 2024, 10:50 PM
63 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.narrowpath.co)

Abun­dance Es­ti­mates of Three Wild Populations

Rethink PrioritiesOct 28, 2024, 8:26 PM
62 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

Think­ing About De­ci­sions as a Weighted Fac­tor Model

Joey🔸Oct 30, 2024, 3:29 PM
62 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

How Likely Are Var­i­ous Pre­cur­sors of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk?

NunoSempereOct 22, 2024, 4:51 PM
61 points
7 comments15 min readEA link
(samotsvety.org)

Read­ing glasses might be one of the best buys in global health.

Lauren GilbertOct 15, 2024, 3:39 PM
60 points
14 comments1 min readEA link
(laurenpolicy.substack.com)

Weighted Fac­tor Models: Con­sider us­ing the ge­o­met­ric mean in­stead of the ar­ith­metic mean

Soemano ZeijlmansOct 21, 2024, 7:57 PM
59 points
13 comments10 min readEA link

Why is it so hard to know if you’re helping?

Vasco Grilo🔸Oct 16, 2024, 4:08 PM
59 points
6 comments12 min readEA link
(www.theintrinsicperspective.com)