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

titotal11 Feb 2026 15:49 UTC

161 points

19 comments14 min readEA link

(open.substack.com)

Don’t overupdate on evolutionary cost-balancing arguments

Lukas_Gloor3 Feb 2026 16:01 UTC

95 points

11 comments11 min readEA link

Will we get automated alignment research before an AI Takeoff?

Jan Wehner🔸22 Jan 2026 17:57 UTC

50 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

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

Lorenzo Buonanno🔸15 Dec 2025 1:35 UTC

136 points

8 comments5 min readEA link

Your Goal Isn’t Really to Get a Job

Matt Beard13 Dec 2025 21:59 UTC

106 points

12 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

173 points

30 comments3 min readEA link

If wild animal welfare is intractable, everything is intractable.

mal_graham🔸14 Nov 2025 20:14 UTC

314 points

45 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

The Charity Trap: Brain Misallocation

DavidNash23 Oct 2025 12:04 UTC

187 points

19 comments5 min readEA link

(gdea.substack.com)

Effective altruism in the age of AGI

William_MacAskill10 Oct 2025 10:57 UTC

473 points

79 comments20 min readEA link

The Four Pillars: A Hypothesis for Countering Catastrophic Biological Risk

ASB2 Oct 2025 20:17 UTC

128 points

12 comments9 min readEA link

(defensesindepth.bio)

AI Safety Landscape & Strategic Gaps

MichaelDickens17 Sep 2025 23:02 UTC

94 points

4 comments57 min readEA link

Frog Welfare

Chad Brouze5 Aug 2025 21:19 UTC

356 points

27 comments1 min readEA link

Should we aim for flourishing over mere survival? The Better Futures series.

William_MacAskill4 Aug 2025 14:27 UTC

166 points

71 comments5 min readEA link

6 years of building an EA-aligned career from an LMIC

Rika Gabriel28 Jul 2025 5:44 UTC

279 points

16 comments8 min readEA link

Do short AI timelines make other cause areas useless?

Hayley Clatterbuck23 Jul 2025 19:10 UTC

121 points

14 comments18 min readEA link