6 years of build­ing an EA-al­igned ca­reer from an LMIC

Rika Gabriel28 Jul 2025 5:44 UTC
270 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

80,000 Hours is pro­duc­ing AI in Con­text — a new YouTube chan­nel. Our first video, about the AI 2027 sce­nario, is up!

ChanaMessinger9 Jul 2025 18:22 UTC
244 points
35 comments3 min readEA link

Please, no more group brainstorming

OllieBase28 Jul 2025 16:51 UTC
232 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

Why You Should Build Your Own EA In­tern­ship Abroad

Annika Burman 🔸22 Jul 2025 20:33 UTC
177 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

We should be more un­cer­tain about cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion based on philo­soph­i­cal arguments

Rethink Priorities3 Jul 2025 12:43 UTC
177 points
7 comments25 min readEA link

A shal­low re­view of what trans­for­ma­tive AI means for an­i­mal welfare

Lizka8 Jul 2025 0:25 UTC
163 points
21 comments21 min readEA link

Is EA still ‘tal­ent-con­strained’?

SiobhanBall14 Jul 2025 8:09 UTC
157 points
58 comments1 min readEA link

Gaslit by humanity

tobiasleenaert7 Jul 2025 13:39 UTC
151 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

How Unoffi­cial Work Gets You Hired: Build­ing Your Sur­face Area for Serendipity

SofiaBalderson1 Jul 2025 13:05 UTC
144 points
20 comments6 min readEA link
(notingthemargin.substack.com)

My kid­ney donation

Molly Hickman9 Jul 2025 1:58 UTC
142 points
6 comments10 min readEA link
(cuttyshark.substack.com)

Eat­ing Honey is (Prob­a­bly) Fine, Actually

Linch2 Jul 2025 22:08 UTC
138 points
16 comments3 min readEA link
(linch.substack.com)

Road to AnimalHarmBench

Artūrs Kaņepājs1 Jul 2025 13:37 UTC
137 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

Why You Should Be­come a Univer­sity Group Organizer

Noah Birnbaum29 Jul 2025 13:00 UTC
133 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

Grate­ful for Job Choice

Denkenberger🔸21 Jul 2025 1:42 UTC
127 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

10 of Founders Pledge’s biggest grants

Matt_Lerner9 Jul 2025 21:55 UTC
124 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

How I failed to donate my kidney

Santeri T 🔹7 Jul 2025 18:06 UTC
122 points
7 comments11 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

Do short AI timelines make other cause ar­eas use­less?

Hayley Clatterbuck23 Jul 2025 19:10 UTC
121 points
14 comments18 min readEA link

AIM is Seek­ing a New CEO

Ambitious Impact22 Jul 2025 12:46 UTC
110 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

A Ve­gan Case for Eat­ing Sar­dines and Anchovies

Chris Popa8 Jul 2025 15:22 UTC
106 points
35 comments13 min readEA link

Why I am more op­ti­mistic about the an­i­mal move­ment this year

Joey🔸16 Jul 2025 11:34 UTC
105 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

Reflect­ing on One Year of Mieux Don­ner: Launch­ing the French Effec­tive Giv­ing Initiative

Romain Barbe🔸13 Jul 2025 15:19 UTC
102 points
8 comments11 min readEA link

Can for-profit com­pa­nies cre­ate sig­nifi­cant, di­rect im­pact?

T.K.11 Jul 2025 15:33 UTC
101 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

The rel­a­tive range heuristic

Karthik Tadepalli9 Jul 2025 22:20 UTC
98 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Prov­i­dence or fate? I some­times pinch my­self

NickLaing28 Jul 2025 19:51 UTC
95 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Strate­gic An­i­mals Fund­ing Cir­cle—Re­sults from first two rounds

Martijn Klop 🔸 21 Jul 2025 20:21 UTC
93 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

The cur­rent mar­ket price for an­i­mal welfare is zero

Aaron Boddy🔸7 Jul 2025 15:38 UTC
93 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

80,000 Hours for Global Development

Benh71320 Jul 2025 11:34 UTC
89 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

Build­ing EA Pro­jects While Work­ing an Un­re­lated Full-Time Job

Brad West🔸23 Jul 2025 15:27 UTC
84 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

Is Effec­tive Altru­ism Neo­colo­nial? (an overview of the ar­gu­ments and coun­ter­ar­gu­ments)

Bob Jacobs22 Jul 2025 14:14 UTC
84 points
21 comments10 min readEA link
(bobjacobs.substack.com)

An­i­mal Welfare Fund: Pay­out recom­men­da­tions from April to June 2025

KarolinaSarek🔸21 Jul 2025 15:52 UTC
79 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

De­bate: Are enough EAs earn­ing to give?

Toby Tremlett🔹23 Jul 2025 13:57 UTC
79 points
42 comments1 min readEA link

Eggs from in-ovo sexed hens are now available in the US

LMF18 Jul 2025 0:59 UTC
77 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(optimistsbarn.substack.com)

San­ity Check—Givewell’s New In­cen­tives es­ti­mate seems optimistic

NickLaing11 Jul 2025 15:23 UTC
77 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Com­mu­nity Liaison

Charlotte Darnell28 Jul 2025 16:32 UTC
76 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Ad­dress­ing the non­hu­man gap in in­ter­gov­ern­men­tal AI gov­er­nance frameworks

Alistair Stewart15 Jul 2025 21:13 UTC
73 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

AMA: Ask Ca­reer Ad­vi­sors Anything

Toby Tremlett🔹21 Jul 2025 8:02 UTC
72 points
138 comments1 min readEA link

Les­sons from the Iraq War for AI policy

Buck10 Jul 2025 18:52 UTC
71 points
11 comments4 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism: An Unmanifesto

ozymandias23 Jul 2025 21:12 UTC
70 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Why I Just Took The Giv­ing What We Can Pledge

Bentham's Bulldog25 Jul 2025 16:22 UTC
69 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

Reflect­ing On My Ca­reer Journey

Kevin Xia 🔸21 Jul 2025 15:51 UTC
67 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

My First Pledge An­niver­sary: Thoughts of an Aver­age Joe

Christoph Eggert🔸27 Jul 2025 21:45 UTC
66 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

1Day Sooner Open Phil Fund­ing Request

1Day Sooner2 Jul 2025 13:38 UTC
66 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Should we con­sider the welfare of small soil an­i­mals? On the spe­cial rel­a­tivity of welfare

Stijn Bruers 🔸22 Jul 2025 11:09 UTC
66 points
14 comments7 min readEA link

Pri­vate equity to shrimp welfare: Mid-ca­reer tran­si­tions in EA with An­drés Jiménez Zorrilla

frances_lorenz21 Jul 2025 10:59 UTC
66 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

AI, An­i­mals, & Digi­tal Minds 2025: Retrospective

Alistair Stewart12 Jul 2025 2:28 UTC
64 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

What An­i­mal In­ter­ven­tions are Fast Enough for Short AI Timelines?

Hazo22 Jul 2025 2:39 UTC
63 points
17 comments6 min readEA link

From rave web­sites to AI risk: 30 years of ca­reer lessons

Patrick Gruban 🔸21 Jul 2025 7:25 UTC
62 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

A re­flec­tion: I worked too much

Lucas Lewit-Mendes22 Jul 2025 12:16 UTC
62 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

How much should we value avert­ing a Day Lived in Ex­treme Suffer­ing (DLES)?

Alfredo Parra 🔸26 Jul 2025 21:02 UTC
60 points
6 comments19 min readEA link

Ca­reer Con­ver­sa­tions Week: July 21-27

Toby Tremlett🔹8 Jul 2025 9:52 UTC
60 points
15 comments2 min readEA link