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

NickLaingFeb 20, 2024, 9:43 AM
407 points
36 comments10 min readEA link

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

GarrisonFeb 10, 2024, 7:52 PM
286 points
20 comments3 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

This is why we can’t have nice laws

LewisBollardFeb 28, 2024, 6:44 PM
241 points
25 comments5 min readEA link

Tragic Beliefs

Toby Tremlett🔹Feb 8, 2024, 5:41 PM
202 points
20 comments5 min readEA link

Things to check about a job or internship

Julia_Wise🔸Feb 12, 2024, 8:20 PM
201 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

On be­ing an EA for decades

Michelle_HutchinsonFeb 12, 2024, 9:24 PM
199 points
12 comments6 min readEA link

How we started our own EA char­ity (and why we de­cided to wrap up)

KvPelt🔹Feb 26, 2024, 8:27 AM
170 points
13 comments13 min readEA link

So­cial sci­ence re­search we’d like to see on global health and wellbe­ing [Open Philan­thropy]

Aaron Gertler 🔸Feb 15, 2024, 12:28 AM
167 points
8 comments17 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

“No-one in my org puts money in their pen­sion”

tobyjFeb 16, 2024, 3:04 PM
157 points
11 comments9 min readEA link
(seekingtobejolly.substack.com)

Am­bi­tious Im­pact (AIM) - a new brand for Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship and our ex­tended ecosys­tem!

CEFeb 8, 2024, 5:08 PM
155 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

My cover story in Ja­cobin on AI cap­i­tal­ism and the x-risk debates

GarrisonFeb 12, 2024, 11:34 PM
154 points
10 comments6 min readEA link
(jacobin.com)

Cel­e­brat­ing Ben­jamin Lay (died on this day 265 years ago)

LizkaFeb 8, 2024, 2:33 PM
154 points
11 comments8 min readEA link

Mathilde Danès (1994-2024)

Elisa AutricFeb 8, 2024, 11:33 PM
150 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

My Dona­tions 2023 - Mar­cus Abramovitch

Marcus Abramovitch 🔸Feb 11, 2024, 7:34 PM
145 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

Works in Progress: The Long Jour­ney to Do­ing Good Bet­ter by Dustin Moskovitz [Linkpost]

Nathan YoungFeb 14, 2024, 7:43 PM
119 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(medium.com)

In mem­ory of Steven M. Wise

TynerFeb 21, 2024, 8:35 PM
117 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Fo­rum — a space for those in­volved or in­ter­ested in An­i­mal Welfare & re­lated topics

David van BeverenFeb 6, 2024, 12:52 AM
109 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

Up­com­ing EA con­fer­ences in 2024

OllieBaseFeb 22, 2024, 11:15 AM
109 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Let’s ad­ver­tise EA in­fras­truc­ture pro­jects, Feb 2024

ArepoFeb 21, 2024, 1:49 PM
105 points
36 comments4 min readEA link

Tort Law Can Play an Im­por­tant Role in Miti­gat­ing AI Risk

Gabriel WeilFeb 12, 2024, 5:11 PM
99 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Short agony or long ache: com­par­ing sources of suffer­ing that differ in du­ra­tion and in­ten­sity

cynthiaschuckFeb 21, 2024, 4:58 PM
98 points
19 comments20 min readEA link

80,000 Hours’ new se­ries on build­ing skills

Benjamin HiltonFeb 14, 2024, 12:19 PM
95 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Com­plex­ity of value but not dis­value im­plies more fo­cus on s-risk. Mo­ral un­cer­tainty and prefer­ence util­i­tar­i­anism also do.

ChiFeb 13, 2024, 10:24 PM
95 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

My lifelong pledge to give away 10% of my in­come each year (and where I donated in 2023)

JamesÖz 🔸Feb 13, 2024, 1:58 AM
93 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

New Open Philan­thropy Grant­mak­ing Pro­gram: Forecasting

Open PhilanthropyFeb 19, 2024, 11:27 PM
92 points
58 comments1 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

CLR Sum­mer Re­search Fel­low­ship 2024

Center on Long-Term RiskFeb 15, 2024, 6:26 PM
89 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the Effek­tiv Spen­den “Defend­ing Democ­racy” fund

Sebastian SchienleFeb 7, 2024, 1:12 PM
86 points
37 comments2 min readEA link

How much par­ent­ing harms pro­duc­tivity and how you can re­duce it

Noah Varley🔸Feb 25, 2024, 2:13 PM
84 points
25 comments3 min readEA link

Count­ing ar­gu­ments provide no ev­i­dence for AI doom

Nora BelroseFeb 27, 2024, 11:03 PM
84 points
15 commentsEA link

Fish Welfare Ini­ti­a­tive’s 2023 in Review

havenFeb 1, 2024, 5:27 AM
84 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

From salt in­take re­duc­tion to la­bor mi­gra­tion: An­nounc­ing top ideas for the AIM 2024 CE In­cu­ba­tion Program

CEFeb 22, 2024, 2:45 PM
83 points
7 comments11 min readEA link

Meta Char­ity Fun­ders: Launch­ing the 2nd round

Vilhelm SkoglundFeb 26, 2024, 3:23 PM
79 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

My fa­vorite ar­ti­cles by Brian To­masik and what they are about

Timothy ChanFeb 24, 2024, 6:10 PM
79 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Slow­ing down fac­tory farm­ing in Sub Sa­haran Africa: In­fluenc­ing na­tional poli­cies on sub­sidies to hin­der the in­ten­sifi­ca­tion of an­i­mal agri­cul­ture

adkukFeb 1, 2024, 6:27 PM
79 points
15 comments43 min readEA link

Bloomberg: Unac­knowl­edged prob­lems with LLINs are caus­ing a rise in malaria.

Ian TurnerFeb 24, 2024, 9:13 PM
77 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(www.bloomberg.com)

The Case for An­i­mal-In­clu­sive Longtermism

Eevee🔹Feb 17, 2024, 12:07 AM
68 points
7 comments30 min readEA link
(brill.com)

Solu­tion to the two en­velopes prob­lem for moral weights

MichaelStJulesFeb 19, 2024, 12:15 AM
66 points
26 comments27 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Lon­don Ini­ti­a­tive for Safe AI (LISA)

JamesFoxFeb 5, 2024, 10:36 AM
66 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Meta EA Re­gional Or­ga­ni­za­tions (MEAROs): An Introduction

RockwellFeb 20, 2024, 7:00 PM
66 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

AI-based dis­in­for­ma­tion is prob­a­bly not a ma­jor threat to democracy

Dan WilliamsFeb 24, 2024, 8:01 PM
63 points
8 comments10 min readEA link

Ap­pli­ca­tions open: Sup­port for tal­ent work­ing on in­de­pen­dent learn­ing, re­search or en­trepreneurial pro­jects fo­cused on re­duc­ing global catas­trophic risks

CEEALARFeb 9, 2024, 1:04 PM
63 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

[Question] How much pres­sure do you feel against ex­ter­nally ex­press­ing views which do not con­form to those of your man­ager or or­gani­sa­tion?

Vasco Grilo🔸Feb 10, 2024, 9:05 AM
60 points
16 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] What posts would you like some­one to write?

Toby Tremlett🔹Feb 27, 2024, 10:30 AM
60 points
88 comments1 min readEA link

BERI Re­turns All FTX Funds

elizabethcooperFeb 12, 2024, 4:40 PM
58 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(existence.org)

Sum­mer In­tern­ships at Open Philan­thropy—Global Catas­trophic Risks (due March 4)

Hazel BrowneFeb 15, 2024, 9:39 PM
58 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

La­bor mar­kets in LMICs (what we know about growth, part 3)

Karthik TadepalliFeb 12, 2024, 7:13 PM
56 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Cowork­ing space in Mex­ico City

AmAristizabalFeb 14, 2024, 7:55 PM
55 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Co­op­er­at­ing with aliens and AGIs: An ECL explainer

ChiFeb 24, 2024, 10:58 PM
54 points
9 comments20 min readEA link

Three tricky bi­ases: hu­man bias, ex­is­tence bias, and happy bias

Steven RoukFeb 2, 2024, 2:20 PM
54 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

A re­view of how nu­cleic acid (or DNA) syn­the­sis is cur­rently reg­u­lated across the world, and some ideas about re­form (sum­mary of and link to Law dis­ser­ta­tion)

Isaac HeronFeb 5, 2024, 10:37 AM
53 points
4 comments16 min readEA link
(acrobat.adobe.com)