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On Own­ing Our EA Affiliation

Alix PhamAug 5, 2024, 2:46 PM
321 points
43 comments4 min readEA link

Why I No Longer Pri­ori­tize Wild An­i­mal Welfare

sauliusFeb 15, 2023, 12:11 PM
321 points
66 comments5 min readEA link

A per­sonal re­flec­tion on SBF

So8resFeb 7, 2023, 5:56 PM
321 points
23 comments19 min readEA link

Why I don’t agree with HLI’s es­ti­mate of house­hold spillovers from therapy

James Snowden🔸Feb 24, 2023, 6:18 PM
320 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

Ma­jor UN re­port dis­cusses ex­is­ten­tial risk and fu­ture gen­er­a­tions (sum­mary)

finmSep 17, 2021, 3:51 PM
320 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

Snakebites kill 100,000 peo­ple ev­ery year, here’s what you should know

MathiasKB🔸Apr 27, 2022, 2:30 PM
319 points
42 comments5 min readEA link

Cli­mate Change & Longter­mism: new book-length report

John G. HalsteadAug 26, 2022, 9:13 AM
319 points
160 comments13 min readEA link

The Daily Show did a seg­ment on EA and Shrimp Welfare Project

jordanve🔸May 16, 2025, 1:56 PM
317 points
30 comments1 min readEA link

Cel­e­brat­ing EAGxLatAm and EAGxIndia

OllieBaseJan 26, 2023, 4:10 PM
317 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

Prac­ti­cally A Book Re­view: Ap­pendix to “Non­lin­ear’s Ev­i­dence: De­bunk­ing False and Mislead­ing Claims”

Rafael HarthJan 3, 2024, 11:16 PM
314 points
33 comments28 min readEA link
(thingofthings.substack.com)

New video: You’re richer than you realise

GraceAdams🔸Mar 13, 2024, 12:14 AM
313 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

I saved a kid’s life today

michelAug 7, 2023, 12:28 PM
312 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

A ro­bust earn­ing to give ecosys­tem is bet­ter for EA

abrahamroweNov 11, 2023, 10:17 PM
311 points
68 comments9 min readEA link

EAF’s bal­lot ini­ti­a­tive dou­bled Zurich’s de­vel­op­ment aid

Jonas VJan 13, 2020, 11:32 AM
310 points
23 comments12 min readEA link

The case of the miss­ing cause pri­ori­ti­sa­tion research

weeatquinceAug 16, 2020, 12:21 AM
309 points
88 comments16 min readEA link

You have more than one goal, and that’s fine

Julia_Wise🔸Feb 20, 2019, 1:08 AM
308 points
28 comments2 min readEA link

De­worm­ing and de­cay: repli­cat­ing GiveWell’s cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis

JoelMcGuireJul 25, 2022, 8:26 PM
308 points
38 comments11 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Is effec­tive al­tru­ism grow­ing? An up­date on the stock of fund­ing vs. people

Benjamin_ToddJul 29, 2021, 11:47 AM
307 points
105 comments21 min readEA link

Re­mind­ing my­self just how awful pain can get (plus, an ex­per­i­ment on my­self)

Ren RybaMar 15, 2023, 10:44 PM
307 points
60 comments16 min readEA link

I’m a 22-year-old woman in­volved in Effec­tive Altru­ism. I’m sad, dis­ap­pointed, and scared.

Maya DDec 2, 2022, 4:04 AM
307 points
172 comments7 min readEA link

The Cost of Rejection

Daystar EldOct 8, 2021, 12:35 PM
307 points
48 comments8 min readEA link

Please don’t vote brigade

LizkaMay 5, 2023, 8:56 AM
304 points
18 comments3 min readEA link

A Crit­i­cal Re­view of Open Philan­thropy’s Bet On Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Reform

NunoSempereJun 16, 2022, 4:40 PM
303 points
97 comments26 min readEA link

Se­nior EA ‘ops’ roles: if you want to undo the bot­tle­neck, hire differently

AnonymousThrowAwayJul 9, 2022, 10:47 AM
302 points
32 comments11 min readEA link

What Makes Outreach to Pro­gres­sives Hard

Cullen 🔸Mar 14, 2021, 12:32 AM
302 points
76 comments9 min readEA link

Some Com­ments on the Re­cent FTX TIME Article

Ben_West🔸Mar 20, 2023, 5:36 PM
302 points
38 comments5 min readEA link

My EA Failure Story

semicycleJul 11, 2022, 9:22 AM
302 points
32 comments4 min readEA link

Some po­ten­tial les­sons from Car­rick’s Con­gres­sional bid

Daniel_EthMay 18, 2022, 5:58 AM
301 points
94 comments10 min readEA link

US Supreme Court Upholds Prop 12!

RockwellMay 11, 2023, 4:30 PM
300 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing What We Owe The Future

William_MacAskillMar 30, 2022, 7:37 PM
300 points
36 comments5 min readEA link

Im­por­tant, ac­tion­able re­search ques­tions for the most im­por­tant century

Holden KarnofskyFeb 24, 2022, 4:34 PM
298 points
13 comments19 min readEA link

Red Team­ing CEA’s Com­mu­nity Build­ing Work

AnonymousEAForumAccountSep 1, 2022, 2:42 PM
298 points
68 comments66 min readEA link

Want to make a differ­ence on policy and gov­er­nance? Be­come an ex­pert in some­thing spe­cific and boring

ASBAug 31, 2023, 10:43 PM
297 points
29 comments2 min readEA link

What is the like­li­hood that civ­i­liza­tional col­lapse would di­rectly lead to hu­man ex­tinc­tion (within decades)?

Luisa_RodriguezDec 24, 2020, 10:10 PM
296 points
37 comments50 min readEA link

Nathan A. Sears (1987-2023)

HaydnBelfieldMar 29, 2023, 4:07 PM
296 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Crit­i­cism is sanc­tified in EA, but, like any in­ter­ven­tion, crit­i­cism needs to pay rent

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸Oct 11, 2024, 4:22 AM
295 points
29 comments3 min readEA link

Con­sent Isn’t Always Enough

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Feb 24, 2023, 3:43 PM
295 points
50 commentsEA link

Why Neu­ron Counts Shouldn’t Be Used as Prox­ies for Mo­ral Weight

Adam ShriverNov 28, 2022, 12:07 PM
295 points
45 comments9 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Karma over­rates some top­ics; re­sult­ing is­sues and po­ten­tial solutions

LizkaJan 30, 2023, 6:32 PM
295 points
48 comments3 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism in the gar­den of ends

tyleraltermanAug 31, 2022, 8:47 PM
294 points
45 comments23 min readEA link

New book on s-risks

Tobias_BaumannOct 26, 2022, 12:04 PM
293 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

What We Owe The Fu­ture is out today

William_MacAskillAug 16, 2022, 3:13 PM
293 points
68 comments2 min readEA link

Pre­sent­ing: 2022 In­cu­bated Char­i­ties (Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship)

KarolinaSarek🔸Dec 8, 2022, 6:12 PM
293 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

NY Times on the FTX im­plo­sion’s im­pact on EA

DirectedEvolutionNov 14, 2022, 3:51 AM
293 points
19 comments3 min readEA link
(www.nytimes.com)

Why EAs are skep­ti­cal about AI Safety

Lukas Trötzmüller🔸Jul 18, 2022, 7:01 PM
293 points
31 comments29 min readEA link

Bad Ac­tors are not the Main Is­sue in EA Governance

Grayden 🔸Feb 21, 2023, 10:47 PM
292 points
22 comments3 min readEA link

Kel­sey Piper’s re­cent in­ter­view of SBF

Agustín Covarrubias 🔸Nov 16, 2022, 8:30 PM
292 points
155 comments2 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

My bar­gain with the EA machine

Eric NeymanApr 27, 2022, 7:14 PM
292 points
42 comments7 min readEA link

Les­sons from my time in Effec­tive Altruism

richard_ngoJan 15, 2021, 9:54 PM
291 points
24 comments8 min readEA link

Pre-An­nounc­ing the 2023 Open Philan­thropy AI Wor­ld­views Contest

Jason SchukraftNov 21, 2022, 9:45 PM
291 points
26 comments1 min readEA link