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

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

The de­fault tra­jec­tory for an­i­mal welfare means vastly more suffering

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

Our fight for the fu­ture of one billion chick­ens.

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

An­nounc­ing my de­par­ture from CEA (& shar­ing as­sorted notes)

Lizka3 Oct 2024 18:30 UTC
191 points
8 comments12 min readEA link

Mul­ti­plier Ar­gu­ments are of­ten flawed

AGB 🔸13 Oct 2024 21:25 UTC
188 points
64 comments4 min readEA link

Reflec­tions and les­sons from Effec­tive Ventures

Zachary Robinson🔸28 Oct 2024 16:01 UTC
186 points
18 comments47 min readEA link

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

Forumite10 Oct 2024 11:49 UTC
171 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

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

Hayley Clatterbuck7 Oct 2024 20:41 UTC
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

titotal14 Oct 2024 11:34 UTC
149 points
28 comments12 min readEA link

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

NickLaing11 Oct 2024 12:03 UTC
146 points
56 comments5 min readEA link

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

Bob Fischer22 Oct 2024 11:25 UTC
145 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Ret­ro­spec­tive on EA Nige­ria Sum­mit: Our Suc­cesses and Learnings

EA Nigeria11 Oct 2024 8:37 UTC
142 points
14 comments8 min readEA link

Three jour­neys for effec­tive altruism

Zachary Robinson🔸22 Oct 2024 15:45 UTC
129 points
3 comments13 min readEA link

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

ElliotTep30 Oct 2024 16:08 UTC
119 points
43 comments4 min readEA link

Up­date on the wild an­i­mal welfare fund­ing landscape

Cameron Meyer Shorb 🔸2 Oct 2024 23:56 UTC
116 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Challenges in Aquatic An­i­mal Stunning

KvPelt🔹24 Oct 2024 6:32 UTC
109 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Op­por­tu­ni­ties to im­prove EA com­mu­ni­ca­tions

Good Impressions15 Oct 2024 20:49 UTC
108 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

Help in­crease the effec­tive­ness of UK aid

Ben Anderson2 Oct 2024 18:27 UTC
107 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

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

David_Althaus23 Oct 2024 8:41 UTC
106 points
5 comments52 min readEA link

We should pre­vent the cre­ation of ar­tifi­cial sen­tience

RichardP29 Oct 2024 12:22 UTC
106 points
11 comments15 min readEA link

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

Joey🔸17 Oct 2024 13:43 UTC
106 points
2 comments31 min readEA link

Giv­ing Sea­son 2024 Announcement

Toby Tremlett🔹22 Oct 2024 9:28 UTC
104 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Some rea­sons for not pri­ori­tis­ing an­i­mal welfare very strongly

Engin Arıkan11 Oct 2024 19:43 UTC
102 points
16 comments9 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis of Lafiya Nige­ria intervention

Rethink Priorities23 Oct 2024 22:41 UTC
99 points
14 comments2 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

Ex­pe­rience size

trammell7 Oct 2024 21:43 UTC
98 points
14 comments20 min readEA link

The Ex­tent of An­i­mal Suffering

Björn Ólafsson7 Oct 2024 10:36 UTC
95 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Dis­cus­sion thread: An­i­mal Welfare vs. Global Health De­bate Week

Toby Tremlett🔹7 Oct 2024 8:05 UTC
94 points
378 comments1 min readEA link

The Mo­ral Two En­velopes Prob­lem and the Mo­ral Weights Project

Derek Shiller15 Oct 2024 18:12 UTC
91 points
20 comments14 min readEA link

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

Open Philanthropy16 Oct 2024 22:52 UTC
90 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Whose trans­parency can we cel­e­brate?

leillustrations🔸12 Oct 2024 3:35 UTC
87 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

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

Sage Max1 Oct 2024 22:38 UTC
86 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Is Paus­ing AI Pos­si­ble?

Richard Annilo9 Oct 2024 13:22 UTC
86 points
4 comments18 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing: biose­cu­rity.world

Alix Pham21 Oct 2024 7:43 UTC
84 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Ways I see the global health → an­i­mal welfare shift backfiring

Henry Howard🔸9 Oct 2024 10:47 UTC
82 points
46 comments6 min readEA link

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

Ariel Simnegar 🔸9 Oct 2024 20:45 UTC
77 points
19 comments4 min readEA link

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

Agustín Covarrubias 🔸25 Oct 2024 21:59 UTC
71 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Fund­ing Cir­cles: An AIM Guide to im­prov­ing donor coordination

Joey🔸23 Oct 2024 15:33 UTC
70 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Finish­ing The SB-1047 Doc­u­men­tary In 6 Weeks

Michaël Trazzi28 Oct 2024 20:26 UTC
67 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Seek­ing Rip­ple Effects

Richard Y Chappell🔸8 Oct 2024 14:00 UTC
66 points
19 comments2 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Dario Amodei — Machines of Lov­ing Grace

Matrice Jacobine11 Oct 2024 21:39 UTC
66 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(darioamodei.com)

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

Vasco Grilo🔸6 Oct 2024 8:25 UTC
66 points
26 comments5 min readEA link

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

Austin19 Oct 2024 18:56 UTC
65 points
3 comments9 min readEA link
(strainhardening.substack.com)

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

MathiasKB🔸2 Oct 2024 22:50 UTC
63 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.narrowpath.co)

Lives not worth liv­ing?

Moritz Stumpe 🔸8 Oct 2024 15:29 UTC
63 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

Abun­dance Es­ti­mates of Three Wild Populations

Rethink Priorities28 Oct 2024 20:26 UTC
61 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

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

Lauren Gilbert15 Oct 2024 15:39 UTC
60 points
14 comments1 min readEA link
(laurenpolicy.substack.com)

Think­ing About De­ci­sions as a Weighted Fac­tor Model

Joey🔸30 Oct 2024 15:29 UTC
60 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

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

Soemano Zeijlmans21 Oct 2024 19:57 UTC
59 points
13 comments10 min readEA link

[Question] What should EAIF Fund?

hbesceli26 Oct 2024 20:49 UTC
59 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

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

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