Fore­cast­ing is Way Over­rated, and We Should Stop Fund­ing It

Marcus Abramovitch 🔸25 Apr 2026 22:36 UTC
380 points
98 comments5 min readEA link

Giv­ing up on EA af­ter 13 years

Jackson Wagner1 Apr 2026 6:34 UTC
212 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Time Sen­si­tive Ur­gent An­i­mal Welfare Ac­tion

Bentham's Bulldog28 Apr 2026 13:32 UTC
199 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

The An­thropic IPO Is Com­ing. We Aren’t Ready for It.

Sophie Kim12 Apr 2026 15:28 UTC
186 points
27 comments8 min readEA link
(thecounterfactual.substack.com)

My lover, effec­tive al­tru­ism

Natalie_Cargill18 Apr 2026 6:38 UTC
184 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

The AI peo­ple have been right a lot

Dylan Matthews16 Apr 2026 18:02 UTC
180 points
22 comments6 min readEA link

AI Safety’s Biggest Ta­lent Gap Isn’t Re­searchers. It’s Gen­er­al­ists.

Topaz13 Apr 2026 14:46 UTC
179 points
24 comments6 min readEA link

The out­sized benefits of re­mov­ing bot­tle­necks: some per­sonal experiences

Rory Fenton8 Apr 2026 14:44 UTC
172 points
11 comments5 min readEA link

Starfish

Aaron Gertler 🔸28 Apr 2026 7:15 UTC
169 points
13 comments3 min readEA link
(archiveofourown.org)

An­nounc­ing Highly En­gaged EAs!

Sam Anschell1 Apr 2026 11:44 UTC
158 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

An un­ex­plained an­nual spike in false claims on the EA Forum

Tobias Häberli1 Apr 2026 10:22 UTC
154 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

RejectDirectly

RejectDirectly1 Apr 2026 10:53 UTC
149 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

We’re grow­ing: CEA is in­creas­ing its font size

OllieRodriguez1 Apr 2026 7:16 UTC
134 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Fish Welfare Ini­ti­a­tive Hacked

Tom Billington1 Apr 2026 15:44 UTC
118 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Men­strual Cups—A cost effec­tive gem?

NickLaing7 Apr 2026 20:14 UTC
118 points
32 comments6 min readEA link
(spicydev.substack.com)

Seven­teen rea­sons I’m here

Aaron Gertler 🔸22 Apr 2026 6:45 UTC
110 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Fo­rum fea­ture up­date: n-di­men­sional de­bate sliders

Toby Tremlett🔹1 Apr 2026 6:42 UTC
105 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Tap­ping into EA’s most ne­glected market

ElliotTep1 Apr 2026 5:54 UTC
105 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Chicken-Free Egg Whites

Jeff Kaufman 🔸5 Apr 2026 0:29 UTC
101 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing Deep Thought

William_MacAskill1 Apr 2026 12:15 UTC
99 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Im­pact Re­quires Im­ple­men­ta­tion: What Dispensers for Safe Water Scale-Back Can Teach Us About Mon­i­tor­ing

Tony Senanayake8 Apr 2026 11:55 UTC
98 points
5 comments14 min readEA link

Man­i­fund’s Fal­con Fund

Marcus Abramovitch 🔸24 Apr 2026 22:09 UTC
98 points
15 comments4 min readEA link
(manifund.org)

“Art with EA Vibes” database — what should I in­clude?

Aaron Gertler 🔸21 Apr 2026 6:05 UTC
96 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

300 Pledges: Pitch­ing Effec­tive Giv­ing at Mid­dle­bury College

stark.ler23 Apr 2026 15:35 UTC
93 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

Alter­na­tive AI Fore­cast­ing Methods

Scott Alexander1 Apr 2026 12:55 UTC
92 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Con­tra Bin­der on far-UVC and filtration

Jeff Kaufman 🔸28 Apr 2026 3:20 UTC
90 points
12 comments3 min readEA link
(www.jefftk.com)

Help me launch Ob­so­lete: a book aimed at build­ing a new move­ment for AI reform

Garrison9 Apr 2026 19:17 UTC
88 points
5 comments7 min readEA link

Peo­ple re­ally care about some­thing they call nature

Tandena Wagner29 Apr 2026 16:48 UTC
86 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

A brief up­date on EA Funds, and a re­cruit­ment an­nounce­ment: Head of the EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund

Loïc Watine16 Apr 2026 16:02 UTC
85 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

You should write about your giving

Aaron Gertler 🔸4 Apr 2026 22:44 UTC
82 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

Dis­cus­sions of (p)sen­tience of small an­i­mals miss the point

Jim Buhler21 Apr 2026 12:56 UTC
80 points
23 comments2 min readEA link

“If this had been pub­lished a decade ear­lier…” Help us change the canon!

Bella27 Apr 2026 16:25 UTC
79 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Open strate­gic ques­tions for digi­tal minds

Lucius Caviola29 Apr 2026 18:33 UTC
78 points
8 comments13 min readEA link
(outpaced.substack.com)

Stop Donat­ing to AI Safety Re­search*

Sophie Kim25 Apr 2026 21:25 UTC
78 points
14 comments9 min readEA link
(thecounterfactual.substack.com)

Should 80,000 hours re­brand to 10,000 hours (max)?

SofiaBalderson1 Apr 2026 8:38 UTC
77 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Why Fore­cast­ing Fails De­ci­sion Makers

JamesN24 Apr 2026 19:39 UTC
74 points
14 comments4 min readEA link

None of It Is Pre­tend

Bentham's Bulldog16 Apr 2026 16:31 UTC
74 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the Spe­cial­ist Founder Track of Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship In­cu­ba­tion Pro­gram

Ambitious Impact13 Apr 2026 12:58 UTC
72 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Tra­jan House—cur­rent goals and updates

Asher Benter 🔸17 Apr 2026 15:36 UTC
71 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

We ran the first West Coast EA Re­treat (a ret­ro­spec­tive)

Aiden Kim🔸29 Apr 2026 6:24 UTC
70 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

How scary is Claude Mythos? 303 pages in 21 minutes

80000_Hours10 Apr 2026 20:55 UTC
69 points
2 comments15 min readEA link

Three nec­es­sary pillars for wild an­i­mal welfare at scale, and why they are worth pay­ing for

abrahamrowe22 Apr 2026 19:55 UTC
69 points
6 comments14 min readEA link

In Devel­op­ment Magaz­ine Launch

Lauren Gilbert17 Apr 2026 3:18 UTC
68 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(indevelopmentmag.com)

The Case Against Offset­ting Your Diet

Charles Berry15 Apr 2026 14:36 UTC
67 points
12 comments6 min readEA link

If You’re To Die

Bentham's Bulldog4 Apr 2026 15:35 UTC
66 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Why clini­cal tri­als are bro­ken & how to fix them: a read­ing list

Siebe20 Apr 2026 13:43 UTC
62 points
2 comments6 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

EAGxAm­s­ter­dam 2025: What We Learned

James Herbert2 Apr 2026 14:34 UTC
61 points
10 comments4 min readEA link

Rec­on­cil­ing Cost-Effec­tive­ness and Cheap Enough

Tony Senanayake17 Apr 2026 2:56 UTC
61 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Shrimp Sen­tience Re­search: A Pri­ori­ti­za­tion Guide

Guillaume Reho27 Apr 2026 13:21 UTC
60 points
12 comments62 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

The State of the AIxAn­i­mals Field

Itsi Weinstock29 Apr 2026 7:33 UTC
58 points
2 comments10 min readEA link