Giv­ing AIs safe motivations

Joe_Carlsmith18 Aug 2025 18:02 UTC
22 points
1 comment51 min readEA link

Study: Giv­ing cash to moth­ers cut in­fant deaths in half

GiveDirectly18 Aug 2025 13:40 UTC
107 points
17 comments3 min readEA link

Un­der­stand­ing Sadism

Jim Buhler18 Aug 2025 13:25 UTC
20 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Ques­tion about my aca­demic situation

Omar A18 Aug 2025 12:53 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Au­gust ’25 EA Newslet­ter Poll: I’d be do­ing less good if I hadn’t heard of EA.

Toby Tremlett🔹18 Aug 2025 9:28 UTC
23 points
38 comments1 min readEA link

Selec­tion Bias in Ob­ser­va­tional Es­ti­mates of Al­gorith­mic Progress

Parker_Whitfill18 Aug 2025 1:48 UTC
23 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(arxiv.org)

[Question] Why do we choose to add hu­mans but not bugs?

Ze17 Aug 2025 22:58 UTC
18 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Shar­ing the Global AI Gover­nance Alliance

JordanStone17 Aug 2025 19:30 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Why I think AI take-off is rel­a­tively slow

Vasco Grilo🔸17 Aug 2025 9:11 UTC
29 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(marginalrevolution.com)

We Are Look­ing for Part­ners to Build a GMP Phage Fa­cil­ity in Africa

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi17 Aug 2025 4:02 UTC
10 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Fu­tures with digi­tal minds: Ex­pert fore­casts in 2025

Lucius Caviola16 Aug 2025 20:00 UTC
74 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(digitalminds.report)

The com­pre­hen­sive case against Trump

Bentham's Bulldog16 Aug 2025 17:31 UTC
36 points
2 comments26 min readEA link

[In­ter­me­di­ate Re­port] Effec­tive Giv­ing in Asia

Joel Tan🔸16 Aug 2025 14:59 UTC
59 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Hal­lu­ci­na­tions May Be a Re­sult of Models Not Know­ing What They’re Ac­tu­ally Ca­pable Of

Tyler Williams16 Aug 2025 0:26 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link

Im­por­tance, Ne­glect­ed­ness, Tractabil­ity (Effec­tive Altru­ism Defi­ni­tions Se­quence)

ozymandias15 Aug 2025 20:56 UTC
13 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

How to make the fu­ture bet­ter (other than by re­duc­ing ex­tinc­tion risk)

William_MacAskill15 Aug 2025 15:40 UTC
45 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Only Ag­gre­ga­tion­ists Re­spect the Separate­ness of Persons

Richard Y Chappell🔸15 Aug 2025 15:25 UTC
12 points
1 comment9 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Re­quest for pro­pos­als—Global Health Fund­ing Cir­cle Fall 2025

Ambitious Impact15 Aug 2025 14:29 UTC
36 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Should you start a for-profit AI safety org?

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️15 Aug 2025 13:52 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

EA Sum­mit: San­ti­ago 2025 – Retrospective

Kiran Sargent 🔹15 Aug 2025 13:51 UTC
41 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

How to get ChatGPT to re­ally thor­oughly re­search something

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️15 Aug 2025 12:54 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

A Phy­logeny of Agents

Jonas Hallgren 🔸15 Aug 2025 10:48 UTC
6 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(substack.com)

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: Au­gust 2025

Toby Tremlett🔹15 Aug 2025 10:26 UTC
27 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

My kids won’t be workers

Yadav15 Aug 2025 6:53 UTC
8 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(y1d2.com)

Fauna Con­nec­tions—a free re­mote sym­po­sium for an­i­mal advocates

JLRiedi14 Aug 2025 22:37 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

We’ve mi­grated the EA Op­por­tu­ni­ties Board to effec­tivealtru­ism.org

Sarah Cheng 🔸14 Aug 2025 17:43 UTC
78 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Aquatic An­i­mal Fund­ing Recommendations

Zoë Sigle 🔹14 Aug 2025 17:17 UTC
61 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

Is Altru­ism = Philonthropy

Sundar14 Aug 2025 15:31 UTC
2 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Un­weird­ing Boards: An Introduction

Stephen Robcraft14 Aug 2025 14:31 UTC
62 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

New Data: The Hid­den Strug­gles of An­i­mal In­dus­try Investigators

Hendrik Hassel14 Aug 2025 13:54 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­plor­ing the “Anti-TESCREAL” Ide­ol­ogy and the Roots of (Anti-)Progress

OttokarHochman14 Aug 2025 13:53 UTC
4 points
11 comments2 min readEA link
(recapitulation.substack.com)

PSA for ve­gan donors: GiveWell not rul­ing out an­i­mal-based aid

AdamA14 Aug 2025 13:48 UTC
147 points
42 comments1 min readEA link

Ap­pli­ca­tions Open: Be­come a Sup­ported Pro­gram on the GWWC Dona­tion Platform

Aidan Whitfield🔸14 Aug 2025 2:13 UTC
26 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Les­sons from My First Month on Substack

Mónica Ulloa14 Aug 2025 1:15 UTC
22 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Am­bi­tion (Effec­tive Altru­ism Defi­ni­tions Series)

ozymandias14 Aug 2025 0:17 UTC
17 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

A Tier List for Epistemic Meth­ods: What Ac­tu­ally Works for Figur­ing Out How to Do Good

Linch13 Aug 2025 22:49 UTC
26 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(linch.substack.com)

Ma­jor­ity of US For­eign Hu­man­i­tar­ian Aid in Peril After To­day’s Rul­ing?

david_reinstein13 Aug 2025 21:42 UTC
32 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.politico.com)

What Data Tells Us About The Hid­den Strug­gles Of An­i­mal In­dus­try Investigators

JLRiedi13 Aug 2025 21:09 UTC
13 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(faunalytics.org)

A big mile­stone: 10,000 10% pledgers!

Giving What We Can🔸13 Aug 2025 19:25 UTC
255 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

A virtue-based ap­proach to re­duc­ing suffer­ing given long-term cluelessness

Magnus Vinding13 Aug 2025 16:18 UTC
25 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(magnusvinding.com)

Ex­per­i­men­tal plat­form for AI value for­ma­tion — seek­ing collaborators

Freeman Dyson13 Aug 2025 14:34 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Effec­tive Altru­ism com­mu­nity in­her­its the prob­lems of the eco­nomics profession

Bob Jacobs13 Aug 2025 14:16 UTC
21 points
21 comments2 min readEA link
(bobjacobs.substack.com)

Idea to boost in­ter­na­tional AI coordination

Jamie Green13 Aug 2025 13:40 UTC
2 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Meat Taxes Are Su­per Risky. Maybe We Can Make Them Work

Björn 🔹13 Aug 2025 10:05 UTC
25 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Re­search Eng­ineer @ Timaeus

Sara Recktenwald13 Aug 2025 7:38 UTC
10 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

ITN 201: pit­falls in ITN BOTECs

Lizka13 Aug 2025 4:01 UTC
127 points
6 comments12 min readEA link

Bridg­ing sci­ence and re­li­gion by a new concept

Emergence10113 Aug 2025 2:22 UTC
0 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Why I’m Post­ing AI-Safety-Re­lated Clips On TikTok

Michaël Trazzi12 Aug 2025 22:39 UTC
64 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Con­sider Pre­order­ing If Any­one Builds It, Every­one Dies

peterbarnett12 Aug 2025 22:03 UTC
48 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

CEEALAR has a new Ex­ec­u­tive Director

CEEALAR12 Aug 2025 20:48 UTC
38 points
3 comments2 min readEA link