The Soul of EA is in Trouble

Mjreard8 May 2025 16:44 UTC
353 points
42 comments9 min readEA link

The Daily Show did a seg­ment on EA and Shrimp Welfare Project

jordanve🔸16 May 2025 13:56 UTC
325 points
31 comments1 min readEA link

Pri­ori­tiz­ing Work

Jeff Kaufman 🔸1 May 2025 2:01 UTC
287 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on 7 years build­ing the EA Fo­rum — and mov­ing on

JP Addison🔸1 May 2025 20:08 UTC
228 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

Re­vamped effec­tivealtru­ism.org

Agnes Stenlund 🔸27 May 2025 17:12 UTC
203 points
23 comments2 min readEA link

Don’t up­date too much from EA com­mu­nity involvement

Catherine Low🔸22 May 2025 22:03 UTC
176 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

[ur­gent] Amer­i­cans: call your Se­na­tors and tell them you op­pose AI preemption

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸15 May 2025 1:57 UTC
176 points
22 comments2 min readEA link

“Most painful con­di­tion known to mankind”: A ret­ro­spec­tive of the first-ever in­ter­na­tional re­search sym­po­sium on cluster headache

Alfredo Parra 🔸18 May 2025 11:23 UTC
163 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

Bet­ter Air Purifiers

Jeff Kaufman 🔸11 May 2025 16:55 UTC
150 points
37 comments3 min readEA link

12x more cost-effec­tive than EAG—how I or­ganised EA North 2025 (and how you could do some­thing similar)

matthes2 May 2025 0:46 UTC
144 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

Please Donate to CAIP (Post 1 of 7 on AI Gover­nance)

Jason Green-Lowe7 May 2025 18:15 UTC
141 points
25 comments33 min readEA link

Rescal­ing and The Easter­lin Para­dox (2.0)

Charlie Harrison26 May 2025 14:12 UTC
139 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

Pos­i­tive effects of EA on men­tal health

Julia_Wise🔸29 May 2025 17:46 UTC
135 points
17 comments4 min readEA link

Why I am Still Skep­ti­cal about AGI by 2030

James Fodor2 May 2025 7:13 UTC
134 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

The myth of AI “warn­ing shots” as cavalry

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸28 May 2025 16:53 UTC
126 points
31 comments9 min readEA link
(hollyelmore.substack.com)

Shrimp Welfare Pro­ject’s 2030 Vi­sion & Ab­sorbency Plans

Aaron Boddy🔸2 May 2025 15:15 UTC
121 points
7 comments17 min readEA link

Digi­tal sen­tience fund­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties: Sup­port for ap­plied work and research

zdgroff28 May 2025 17:35 UTC
120 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Should EA In­tro­duc­tions Be More Trans­par­ent About the State of Cause Pri­ori­ti­za­tion?

Jian Xin Lim 🔸29 May 2025 14:32 UTC
117 points
14 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Is There Ac­tu­ally a Stan­dard or Con­vinc­ing Re­sponse to David Thorstad’s Crit­i­cisms of the Value of X-Risk Re­duc­tion and of Longter­mism?

David Mathers🔸21 May 2025 11:58 UTC
117 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

$100,000 bounty for find­ing >$1M in le­gal and col­lab­o­ra­tive cor­po­rate dona­tion match­ing opportunities

Sam Anschell14 May 2025 18:59 UTC
113 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

Three lower-cost op­tions for run­ning the EA Forum

Sarah Cheng 🔸16 May 2025 16:22 UTC
103 points
39 comments6 min readEA link

An­thropic is Quietly Backpedal­ling on its Safety Commitments

Garrison23 May 2025 2:26 UTC
100 points
7 comments5 min readEA link
(www.obsolete.pub)

Do prim­i­tive sen­tient or­ganisms feel ex­treme pain? dis­en­tan­gling in­ten­sity range and re­s­olu­tion

Wladimir J. Alonso17 May 2025 16:25 UTC
99 points
10 comments11 min readEA link

[Question] Why is Apart Re­search sud­denly in dire need of fund­ing?

Eevee🔹28 May 2025 7:43 UTC
97 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

EA North 2025 retrospective

matthes2 May 2025 0:26 UTC
97 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Farmed An­i­mal Fun­ders: Shar­ing Our Strategy

Zoë Sigle 🔹29 May 2025 16:01 UTC
93 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

5 His­tor­i­cal Case Stud­ies for an EA in Decline

JWS 🔸7 May 2025 15:47 UTC
91 points
27 comments18 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing farmed an­i­mal num­bers in 2033

Hannah McKay🔸9 May 2025 12:42 UTC
89 points
9 comments9 min readEA link

Im­pact Re­view: Up­dates from Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship’s In­cu­bated Organisations

Ambitious Impact29 May 2025 15:22 UTC
88 points
4 comments15 min readEA link

Money Stuff on char­ity-ad­justed billion­aire rankings

JP Addison🔸16 May 2025 17:32 UTC
88 points
9 comments1 min readEA link
(www.bloomberg.com)

Con­sider not donat­ing un­der $100 to poli­ti­cal candidates

DanielFilan11 May 2025 3:22 UTC
86 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

How we use back-of-the-en­velope calcu­la­tions in our grantmaking

Coefficient Giving28 May 2025 23:22 UTC
79 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

EA as a Tree of Questions

OGTutzauer🔸6 May 2025 8:40 UTC
79 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

Long-Run Hu­man Im­pact On Wild An­i­mal Suffer­ing: Much More Than You Wanted To Know

Bentham's Bulldog27 May 2025 15:38 UTC
76 points
9 comments15 min readEA link

In­ter­pretabil­ity Will Not Reli­ably Find De­cep­tive AI

Neel Nanda4 May 2025 16:32 UTC
74 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

GIFTing breeder an­i­mals is a hu­man­i­tar­ian intervention

Aaron Boddy🔸27 May 2025 22:20 UTC
74 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Chicken welfare re­forms may be benefi­cial or harm­ful ac­count­ing for effects on wild arthro­pods?

Vasco Grilo🔸9 May 2025 15:53 UTC
74 points
52 comments15 min readEA link

Can TikToks com­mu­ni­cate AI policy and risk?

Caitlin Borke7 May 2025 12:27 UTC
73 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Creat­ing Mar­ket In­cen­tives or, Shrimp Stun­ning Credits

Aaron Boddy🔸2 May 2025 15:15 UTC
70 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

Asym­me­tries, AI and An­i­mal Advocacy

Kevin Xia 🔸16 May 2025 6:16 UTC
69 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

FLF Fel­low­ship on AI for Hu­man Rea­son­ing: $25-50k, 12 weeks

Oliver Sourbut19 May 2025 13:25 UTC
69 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(www.flf.org)

Up­date: EAIF is now more fund­ing constrained

Jamie_Harris3 May 2025 8:58 UTC
68 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

[linkpost] One Year in DC

tlevin19 May 2025 19:46 UTC
68 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.greentape.pub)

AI Gover­nance to Avoid Ex­tinc­tion: The Strate­gic Land­scape and Ac­tion­able Re­search Ques­tions [MIRI TGT Re­search Agenda]

peterbarnett5 May 2025 19:13 UTC
67 points
1 comment8 min readEA link
(techgov.intelligence.org)

We don’t have ev­i­dence that the best char­i­ties are over 1000x more cost effec­tive than the average

Will_Davison5 May 2025 7:31 UTC
66 points
23 comments1 min readEA link

So­cratic Per­sua­sion: Giv­ing Opinionated Yet Truth-Seek­ing Advice

Neel Nanda26 May 2025 17:38 UTC
66 points
3 comments21 min readEA link
(www.neelnanda.io)

What if we just…didn’t build AGI? An Ar­gu­ment Against Inevitability

Nate Sharpe10 May 2025 3:34 UTC
64 points
21 comments14 min readEA link
(natezsharpe.substack.com)

Trans­for­ma­tive AI and An­i­mals: An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Un­der A Post-Work Society

Kevin Xia 🔸25 May 2025 18:32 UTC
64 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

How To Help Ne­glected An­i­mals

Bentham's Bulldog13 May 2025 15:05 UTC
64 points
6 comments8 min readEA link

Build a walk­able cam­pus with fel­low EAs

tyleralterman6 May 2025 23:16 UTC
63 points
5 comments1 min readEA link