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

Siebe20 Apr 2026 13:43 UTC

55 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

(open.substack.com)

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

Tony Senanayake8 Apr 2026 11:55 UTC

94 points

3 comments14 min readEA link

Broad Timelines

Toby_Ord19 Mar 2026 19:05 UTC

216 points

25 comments16 min readEA link

Reasons to be pessimistic (and optimistic) on the future of biosecurity

Abhishaike16 Mar 2026 22:18 UTC

63 points

5 comments41 min readEA link

(www.owlposting.com)

The joys of cash benchmarking

ozymandias10 Mar 2026 3:22 UTC

147 points

11 comments9 min readEA link

Which questions can’t we punt?

Lizka23 Feb 2026 19:17 UTC

81 points

7 comments15 min readEA link

The best cause will disappoint you: An intro to the optimisers curse

titotal11 Feb 2026 15:49 UTC

166 points

19 comments14 min readEA link

(open.substack.com)

Don’t overupdate on evolutionary cost-balancing arguments

Lukas_Gloor3 Feb 2026 16:01 UTC

100 points

11 comments11 min readEA link

Will we get automated alignment research before an AI Takeoff?

Jan Wehner🔸22 Jan 2026 17:57 UTC

51 points

13 comments11 min readEA link

Your donations matter, but your colleague’s even more

Nick Stocker14 Jan 2026 22:09 UTC

108 points

10 comments7 min readEA link

EA is underfunding animal advocacy according to our own preferences

ElliotTep13 Jan 2026 23:29 UTC

307 points

35 comments3 min readEA link

I give because it’s the most rational way to spend my money

Lorenzo Buonanno🔸15 Dec 2025 1:35 UTC

137 points

8 comments5 min readEA link

Your Goal Isn’t Really to Get a Job

Matt Beard13 Dec 2025 21:59 UTC

106 points

13 comments11 min readEA link

(thatvastvariety.substack.com)

GWWC’s 2025 evaluations of evaluators

Aidan Whitfield🔸1 Dec 2025 8:35 UTC

132 points

5 comments3 min readEA link

Caring about Bugs Isn’t Weird

Bob Fischer23 Nov 2025 12:44 UTC

178 points

30 comments3 min readEA link

We won’t solve post-alignment problems by doing research

MichaelDickens21 Nov 2025 18:03 UTC

72 points

5 comments4 min readEA link

If wild animal welfare is intractable, everything is intractable.

mal_graham🔸14 Nov 2025 20:14 UTC

323 points

51 comments16 min readEA link

[Question] Cause prio cruxes in 2026?

Hayley Clatterbuck11 Nov 2025 15:22 UTC

83 points

31 comments1 min readEA link

Visionary Pragmatism: A Third Way for Animal Advocacy

Dilan Fernando9 Nov 2025 13:47 UTC

94 points

19 comments25 min readEA link

Every Forum Post on EA Career Choice & Job Search

T_W31 Oct 2025 20:23 UTC

121 points

10 comments68 min readEA link