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Ex­pec­ta­tions Scale with Scale – We Should Be More Scope-Sen­si­tive in Our Funding

Joey 🔸6 Nov 2024 9:03 UTC
175 points
25 comments3 min readEA link

Ex­plain­ing the dis­crep­an­cies in cost effec­tive­ness rat­ings: A repli­ca­tion and break­down of RP’s an­i­mal welfare cost effec­tive­ness calcu­la­tions

titotal14 Oct 2024 11:34 UTC
145 points
28 comments12 min readEA link

Is RP’s Mo­ral Weights Pro­ject too an­i­mal friendly? Four crit­i­cal junctures

NickLaing11 Oct 2024 12:03 UTC
146 points
56 comments5 min readEA link

Good Judg­ment with Numbers

Richard Y Chappell🔸23 Sep 2024 15:10 UTC
60 points
12 comments6 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

My top 10 picks from 200 epi­sodes of the 80k podcast

JWS 🔸9 Sep 2024 19:27 UTC
126 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

Dispel­ling the An­thropic Shadow

Eli Rose8 Sep 2024 18:45 UTC
107 points
23 comments1 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Sur­vey: How Do Elite Chi­nese Stu­dents Feel About the Risks of AI?

Nick Corvino2 Sep 2024 9:14 UTC
107 points
9 comments10 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and the Hu­man Mind [5000 Word Sum­mary]

Alex Savard 🔸27 Aug 2024 17:18 UTC
138 points
5 comments20 min readEA link

This chart is right. Most in­ter­ven­tions don’t do much. (Cameroon ex­pe­rience)

EffectiveHelp - Cameroon16 Aug 2024 14:29 UTC
255 points
25 comments4 min readEA link

Tak­ing Uncer­tainty Se­ri­ously (or, Why Tools Mat­ter)

Bob Fischer19 Jul 2024 10:30 UTC
115 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

Ex­plor­ing Blood-Based Bio­surveillance, Part 1: Blood as a Sam­ple Type

ljusten18 Jul 2024 13:10 UTC
28 points
2 comments10 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

The Precipice Revisited

Toby_Ord12 Jul 2024 14:06 UTC
279 points
41 comments17 min readEA link

On the Value of Ad­vanc­ing Progress

Toby_Ord11 Jul 2024 11:20 UTC
119 points
39 comments9 min readEA link

The Value of Con­scious­ness as a Pivotal Question

Derek Shiller3 Jul 2024 18:50 UTC
71 points
21 comments8 min readEA link

De­tect­ing Ge­net­i­cally Eng­ineered Viruses With Me­tage­nomic Sequencing

Jeff Kaufman 🔸27 Jun 2024 14:01 UTC
203 points
7 comments8 min readEA link
(naobservatory.org)

Are our Top Char­i­ties sav­ing the same lives each year?

GiveWell18 Jun 2024 15:47 UTC
165 points
7 comments33 min readEA link
(www.givewell.org)

Is Nige­rian nurse em­i­gra­tion re­ally a “win-win”? Cri­tique of a CGD article

NickLaing9 Jun 2024 10:07 UTC
134 points
28 comments3 min readEA link

Truth­seek­ing is the ground in which other prin­ci­ples grow

Elizabeth27 May 2024 1:11 UTC
104 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

AI com­pa­nies aren’t re­ally us­ing ex­ter­nal evaluators

Zach Stein-Perlman26 May 2024 19:05 UTC
86 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Policy ad­vo­cacy for erad­i­cat­ing screw­worm looks re­mark­ably cost-effective

MathiasKB🔸20 May 2024 14:23 UTC
202 points
20 comments8 min readEA link