Why I am Still Skep­ti­cal about AGI by 2030

James FodorMay 2, 2025, 7:13 AM
131 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

AI Mo­ral Align­ment: The Most Im­por­tant Goal of Our Generation

Ronen BarMar 26, 2025, 12:32 PM
130 points
32 comments8 min readEA link

Why You Should Be­come a Univer­sity Group Organizer

Noah BirnbaumJul 29, 2025, 1:00 PM
129 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

Ret­ro­spec­tive on the Cal­ifor­nia SB 1308 Campaign

Gavriel KleinwaksJan 15, 2025, 10:13 PM
128 points
7 comments16 min readEA link
(strainhardening.substack.com)

Open Philan­thropy: Reflect­ing on our Re­cent Effec­tive Giv­ing RFP

Melanie Basnak🔸Jun 16, 2025, 4:54 PM
128 points
17 comments3 min readEA link

E2G help available

Will KirkpatrickApr 17, 2025, 6:55 PM
128 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Do Protests Work? A Crit­i­cal Review

MichaelDickensApr 18, 2025, 10:49 PM
127 points
10 comments26 min readEA link

Scal­ing the NAO’s Stealth Pathogen Early-Warn­ing System

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Apr 2, 2025, 1:28 PM
127 points
10 comments2 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

Your 2024 EA Fo­rum Wrapped

Sarah ChengJan 3, 2025, 5:05 PM
126 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

CBA 301: Prac­ti­cal Advice

Richard BrunsFeb 7, 2025, 11:49 PM
126 points
18 comments14 min readEA link

Con­sider start­ing a for-profit com­pany instead

calebpApr 21, 2025, 9:21 PM
125 points
39 comments1 min readEA link

The myth of AI “warn­ing shots” as cavalry

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸May 28, 2025, 4:53 PM
125 points
31 comments9 min readEA link
(hollyelmore.substack.com)

Grate­ful for Job Choice

Denkenberger🔸Jul 21, 2025, 1:42 AM
124 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Not in­evitable, not impossible

LewisBollardAug 8, 2025, 4:24 PM
124 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

A Defense of Mid-Tier EA/​LW Writing

Ozzie GooenJun 2, 2025, 5:36 PM
123 points
16 comments3 min readEA link
(ozziegooen.substack.com)

METR: Mea­sur­ing AI Abil­ity to Com­plete Long Tasks

Ben_West🔸Mar 19, 2025, 4:49 PM
122 points
16 comments1 min readEA link
(metr.org)

AI-en­abled coups: a small group could use AI to seize power

Tom_DavidsonApr 16, 2025, 4:51 PM
122 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

How I failed to donate my kidney

Santeri T 🔹Jul 7, 2025, 6:06 PM
122 points
6 comments11 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

Shrimp Welfare Pro­ject’s 2030 Vi­sion & Ab­sorbency Plans

Aaron Boddy🔸May 2, 2025, 3:15 PM
121 points
7 comments17 min readEA link

Why ex­pe­rienced pro­fes­sion­als fail to land high-im­pact roles (FBB #5)

gergoApr 10, 2025, 12:44 PM
121 points
20 comments9 min readEA link

GWWC’s 2023–2024 im­pact eval­u­a­tion (ex­ec­u­tive sum­mary)

Aidan Whitfield🔸Jun 3, 2025, 10:05 PM
121 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

Avoid­ing some 1:1 Pit­falls at EA Global/​x

Charlotte DarnellMar 11, 2025, 11:07 AM
120 points
9 comments15 min readEA link

“Tech­ni­cal Sup­port Units”—A Du­bi­ous GiveWell Grant?

NickLaingJun 5, 2025, 6:24 PM
120 points
25 comments5 min readEA link

Good Re­search Takes are Not Suffi­cient for Good Strate­gic Takes

Neel NandaMar 22, 2025, 10:13 AM
120 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(www.neelnanda.io)

[Fic­tion] [Comic] Effec­tive Altru­ism and Ra­tion­al­ity meet at a Sec­u­lar Sols­tice afterparty

tandemJan 7, 2025, 1:23 PM
120 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Prepar­ing for the In­tel­li­gence Explosion

finmMar 11, 2025, 3:38 PM
120 points
15 comments1 min readEA link
(www.forethought.org)

10 of Founders Pledge’s biggest grants

Matt_LernerJul 9, 2025, 9:55 PM
120 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Room Full of Strangers

RockwellMar 2, 2025, 1:49 AM
118 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What’s your ex­pe­rience with elitism in EA? [Sur­vey]

Yi-YangJun 16, 2025, 1:04 AM
117 points
70 comments2 min readEA link

The Life You Can Save and Founders Pledge Launch Rapid Re­sponse Fund to Sus­tain Crit­i­cal Global Health and Devel­op­ment Programs

Patrick Gruban 🔸Feb 20, 2025, 7:52 PM
117 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.prnewswire.com)

Wild An­i­mal Suffer­ing Is The Worst Thing In The World

Bentham's BulldogFeb 6, 2025, 4:15 PM
116 points
5 comments7 min readEA link

Digi­tal sen­tience fund­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties: Sup­port for ap­plied work and research

zdgroffMay 28, 2025, 5:35 PM
115 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

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

Jian Xin Lim🔹May 29, 2025, 2:32 PM
115 points
14 comments7 min readEA link

Eukary­ote Skips Town—Why I’m leav­ing DC

eukaryoteMar 26, 2025, 5:16 PM
115 points
4 comments6 min readEA link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

GiveWell’s re­sponse to the USAID fund­ing cuts

GiveWellApr 4, 2025, 7:20 PM
114 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Lead­ing teams through adversity

Anna WeldonMar 14, 2025, 7:43 PM
114 points
1 comment17 min readEA link

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

AdamAAug 14, 2025, 1:48 PM
113 points
31 comments1 min readEA link

Ad­vice for Send­ing Cold Mes­sages to Busy Peo­ple at EAG

Neel NandaJun 2, 2025, 9:12 PM
113 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

USAID Aid Freeze—Bridge Fund es­tab­lished—Donate now for im­me­di­ate relief

James&JoeFeb 24, 2025, 1:53 PM
113 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

EA Funds and CEA are merging

calebpApr 30, 2025, 5:03 PM
113 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

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

Sam AnschellMay 14, 2025, 6:59 PM
113 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2024: Demographics

Willem SleegersFeb 28, 2025, 10:39 AM
112 points
14 comments11 min readEA link

Open Philan­thropy: Our Progress in 2024 and Plans for 2025

Open PhilanthropyMar 6, 2025, 7:29 PM
112 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Are US EAs Pre­pared for Demo­cratic Back­slid­ing?

GulleyCanyonRavineMar 2, 2025, 11:37 PM
112 points
17 comments3 min readEA link

As of July 2025, 92% of cage-free egg com­mit­ments with dead­lines of 2024 or ear­lier have been fulfilled.

Carley Betts Aug 5, 2025, 3:38 PM
111 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(openwingalliance.org)

How EA DC can help you get the most out of vis­it­ing Wash­ing­ton DC

Andy MasleyJan 17, 2025, 2:36 AM
110 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

AIM is Seek­ing a New CEO

Ambitious ImpactJul 22, 2025, 12:46 PM
110 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Do short AI timelines make other cause ar­eas use­less?

Hayley ClatterbuckJul 23, 2025, 7:10 PM
110 points
14 comments18 min readEA link

A UK res­i­den­tial re­treat space for EAs

Kestrel🔸Jun 12, 2025, 7:07 AM
110 points
6 comments3 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🔸May 21, 2025, 11:58 AM
110 points
21 comments2 min readEA link