Teach­ing AI to rea­son: this year’s most im­por­tant story

Benjamin_ToddFeb 13, 2025, 5:56 PM
140 points
18 comments8 min readEA link
(benjamintodd.substack.com)

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

matthesMay 2, 2025, 12:46 AM
139 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

How should we adapt an­i­mal ad­vo­cacy to near-term AGI?

Max TaylorMar 27, 2025, 7:00 PM
138 points
20 comments8 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of An­ima In­ter­na­tional Poland

sauliusApr 10, 2025, 7:07 PM
138 points
10 comments18 min readEA link

GiveWell raised less than its 10th per­centile fore­cast in 2023

RasoolJan 19, 2025, 10:27 AM
138 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

What I learned from a week in the EU policy bubble

Joris 🔸Mar 30, 2025, 8:52 PM
137 points
18 comments4 min readEA link

Maybe We Aren’t Stub­born Enough

emre kaplan🔸Apr 8, 2025, 12:40 AM
137 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

His­tory of di­ver­sity efforts and trends in EA

Julia_Wise🔸Mar 4, 2025, 3:34 PM
135 points
22 comments12 min readEA link

AI for An­i­mals 2025 Bay Area Retrospective

Constance LiApr 5, 2025, 7:58 PM
135 points
5 comments9 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing our 2025 strategy

Giving What We Can🔸Apr 10, 2025, 5:47 PM
132 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

Bet­ter Air Purifiers

Jeff Kaufman 🔸May 11, 2025, 4:55 PM
132 points
32 commentsEA link

Please Donate to CAIP (Post 1 of 3 on AI Gover­nance)

Jason Green-LoweMay 7, 2025, 6:15 PM
132 points
18 comments33 min readEA link

E2G help available

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

Do­ing Pri­ori­ti­za­tion Better

arvommApr 16, 2025, 9:53 AM
127 points
17 comments19 min readEA link

Your 2024 EA Fo­rum Wrapped

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

Scal­ing the NAO’s Stealth Pathogen Early-Warn­ing System

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

Joey/​AIM tran­si­tion announcement

Joey🔸Mar 15, 2025, 1:23 PM
125 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

AI Mo­ral Align­ment: The Most Im­por­tant Goal of Our Generation

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

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

Tom_DavidsonApr 16, 2025, 4:51 PM
122 points
1 commentEA link

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)

Con­sider start­ing a for-profit com­pany instead

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

CBA 301: Prac­ti­cal Advice

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

Ret­ro­spec­tive on the Cal­ifor­nia SB 1308 Campaign

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

Prepar­ing for the In­tel­li­gence Explosion

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

[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

Why I am Still Skep­ti­cal about AGI by 2030

James FodorMay 2, 2025, 7:13 AM
120 points
11 comments6 min readEA link

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

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

Do Protests Work? A Crit­i­cal Review

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

Enough about AI timelines— we already know what we need to know.

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸Apr 9, 2025, 10:29 AM
119 points
35 comments2 min readEA link

Good Re­search Takes are Not Suffi­cient for Good Strate­gic Takes

Neel NandaMar 22, 2025, 10:13 AM
117 points
0 commentsEA link
(www.neelnanda.io)

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
116 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.prnewswire.com)

Room Full of Strangers

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

Wild An­i­mal Suffer­ing Is The Worst Thing In The World

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

Eukary­ote Skips Town—Why I’m leav­ing DC

eukaryoteMar 26, 2025, 5:16 PM
115 points
4 commentsEA 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
113 points
1 comment17 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

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

Shrimp Welfare Pro­ject’s 2030 Vi­sion & Ab­sorbency Plans

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

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

My “in­fo­haz­ards small work­ing group” Sig­nal Chat may have en­coun­tered minor leaks

LinchApr 2, 2025, 1:03 AM
109 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Take ac­tion to help in­sects: UK gov­ern­ment con­sul­ta­tion [5-10 min­utes]

JamesÖz 🔸Feb 15, 2025, 5:27 PM
108 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2024: Demographics

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

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

Sam AnschellMay 14, 2025, 6:59 PM
107 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

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

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

Third-wave AI safety needs so­ciopoli­ti­cal thinking

richard_ngoMar 27, 2025, 12:55 AM
105 points
59 commentsEA link
(www.youtube.com)

An­i­mal Welfare Fund: Pay­out recom­men­da­tions from Jan­uary to March 2025

KarolinaSarek🔸Apr 9, 2025, 9:27 PM
105 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

Kurzge­sagt video on fac­tory farming

RasoolFeb 26, 2025, 8:32 AM
105 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing Ac­cess to Medicines Ini­ti­a­tive: Year One Re­sults, Year Two Strat­egy, and Cur­rent Fund­ing Gap

MiriApr 17, 2025, 9:53 PM
104 points
2 comments14 min readEA link