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

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

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

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

This is why we can’t have nice laws

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

On be­ing an EA for decades

Michelle_Hutchinson12 Feb 2024 21:24 UTC
198 points
12 comments6 min readEA link

Things to check about a job or internship

Julia_Wise12 Feb 2024 20:20 UTC
191 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

Tragic Beliefs

tobytrem8 Feb 2024 17:41 UTC
184 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

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

KvPelt26 Feb 2024 8:27 UTC
168 points
13 comments13 min readEA link

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

Aaron Gertler15 Feb 2024 0:28 UTC
166 points
8 comments17 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

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

Garrison12 Feb 2024 23:34 UTC
153 points
10 comments6 min readEA link
(jacobin.com)

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

tobyj16 Feb 2024 15:04 UTC
153 points
11 comments9 min readEA link
(seekingtobejolly.substack.com)

Mathilde Danès (1994-2024)

Elisa Autric8 Feb 2024 23:33 UTC
147 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

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

Lizka8 Feb 2024 14:33 UTC
147 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

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

CE8 Feb 2024 17:08 UTC
147 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

My Dona­tions 2023 - Mar­cus Abramovitch

MarcusAbramovitch11 Feb 2024 19:34 UTC
134 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

UPDATE: Crit­i­cal Failures in the World Hap­piness Re­port’s Model of Na­tional Satisfaction

Alexander Loewi24 Feb 2024 4:54 UTC
120 points
26 comments2 min readEA link

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

Nathan Young14 Feb 2024 19:43 UTC
118 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(medium.com)

In mem­ory of Steven M. Wise

Tyner21 Feb 2024 20:35 UTC
116 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 Beveren6 Feb 2024 0:52 UTC
109 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

Up­com­ing EA con­fer­ences in 2024

OllieBase22 Feb 2024 11:15 UTC
109 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Let’s ad­ver­tise EA in­fras­truc­ture pro­jects, Feb 2024

Arepo21 Feb 2024 13:49 UTC
103 points
36 comments4 min readEA link

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

cynthiaschuck21 Feb 2024 16:58 UTC
96 points
14 comments20 min readEA link

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

Chi13 Feb 2024 22:24 UTC
95 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

80,000 Hours’ new se­ries on build­ing skills

Benjamin Hilton14 Feb 2024 12:19 UTC
95 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

CLR Sum­mer Re­search Fel­low­ship 2024

Center on Long-Term Risk15 Feb 2024 18:26 UTC
89 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

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

James Özden13 Feb 2024 1:58 UTC
88 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

Tort Law Can Play an Im­por­tant Role in Miti­gat­ing AI Risk

Gabriel Weil12 Feb 2024 17:11 UTC
87 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

New Open Philan­thropy Grant­mak­ing Pro­gram: Forecasting

Open Philanthropy19 Feb 2024 23:27 UTC
87 points
56 comments1 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

How much par­ent­ing harms pro­duc­tivity and how you can re­duce it

Nicholas Kruus25 Feb 2024 14:13 UTC
84 points
25 comments3 min readEA link

Fish Welfare Ini­ti­a­tive’s 2023 in Review

haven1 Feb 2024 5:27 UTC
84 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

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

CE22 Feb 2024 14:45 UTC
82 points
7 comments11 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the Effek­tiv Spen­den “Defend­ing Democ­racy” fund

Sebastian Schienle7 Feb 2024 13:12 UTC
80 points
32 comments2 min readEA link

Meta Char­ity Fun­ders: Launch­ing the 2nd round

Vilhelm Skoglund26 Feb 2024 15:23 UTC
79 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

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

Aashish Khimasia1 Feb 2024 18:27 UTC
78 points
13 comments43 min readEA link

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

Ian Turner24 Feb 2024 21:13 UTC
77 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(www.bloomberg.com)

My fa­vorite ar­ti­cles by Brian To­masik and what they are about

Timothy Chan24 Feb 2024 18:10 UTC
74 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

Meta EA Re­gional Or­ga­ni­za­tions (MEAROs): An Introduction

Rockwell20 Feb 2024 19:00 UTC
66 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Lon­don Ini­ti­a­tive for Safe AI (LISA)

JamesFox5 Feb 2024 10:36 UTC
65 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

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

CEEALAR9 Feb 2024 13:04 UTC
63 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

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

Dan Williams24 Feb 2024 20:01 UTC
62 points
7 comments10 min readEA link

Solu­tion to the two en­velopes prob­lem for moral weights

MichaelStJules19 Feb 2024 0:15 UTC
61 points
26 comments27 min readEA link

Count­ing ar­gu­ments provide no ev­i­dence for AI doom

Nora Belrose27 Feb 2024 23:03 UTC
61 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

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

tobytrem27 Feb 2024 10:30 UTC
60 points
88 comments1 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 Grilo10 Feb 2024 9:05 UTC
60 points
16 comments5 min readEA link

The Case for An­i­mal-In­clu­sive Longtermism

BrownHairedEevee17 Feb 2024 0:07 UTC
60 points
7 comments30 min readEA link
(brill.com)

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

Hazel Browne15 Feb 2024 21:39 UTC
58 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

BERI Re­turns All FTX Funds

elizabethcooper12 Feb 2024 16:40 UTC
58 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(existence.org)

Cowork­ing space in Mex­ico City

AmAristizabal14 Feb 2024 19:55 UTC
55 points
9 comments1 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 Heron5 Feb 2024 10:37 UTC
53 points
4 comments16 min readEA link
(acrobat.adobe.com)

In­tro­duc­ing StakeOut.AI

Harry Luk17 Feb 2024 0:21 UTC
52 points
6 comments9 min readEA link

Co­op­er­at­ing with aliens and AGIs: An ECL explainer

Chi24 Feb 2024 22:58 UTC
51 points
9 comments20 min readEA link