Instrumental convergence is incoherent (so pls slightly lower your p(extinction))

Arepo22 Oct 2026 11:42 UTC

70 points

22 comments20 min readEA link

CCF: As more money arrives, the best place to give keeps moving

Rethink Priorities21 Oct 2026 11:39 UTC

59 points

4 comments7 min readEA link

Trying to Spend $100m+ Well: My Search for the Perfect Grant Sizing Formula

Rory Fenton8 Oct 2026 17:40 UTC

82 points

6 comments13 min readEA link

76x cash transfers: too good to be true or a (missed) opportunity? An invitation for dialogue on a recent Rethink Priorities Report

Niek Versteegde, founder GOAL 37 Oct 2026 10:45 UTC

77 points

32 comments11 min readEA link

40 hot takes

LewisBollard5 Oct 2026 18:04 UTC

179 points

10 comments7 min readEA link

(farmanimalwelfare.substack.com)

Swarm Scaling

Toby_Ord21 Sep 2026 20:30 UTC

108 points

8 comments6 min readEA link

Do AI safety talent programmes work? Nobody has run the study that would tell us.

Laura Thomas-Walters7 Sep 2026 9:12 UTC

183 points

54 comments6 min readEA link

Population ethics is a big deal, which is why I made this population ethics quiz

MichaelDickens31 Aug 2026 23:11 UTC

102 points

28 comments4 min readEA link

Is mild lifelong acne really worse than stunted growth?

Kasey Markel27 Aug 2026 22:54 UTC

88 points

3 comments9 min readEA link

Beware Silver Bullets: Are we making “welfare tech” into the next animal advocacy bubble?

Rockwell24 Aug 2026 18:04 UTC

142 points

17 comments7 min readEA link

New Research: Climate Mitigation is Overlooked by EA

Dan Stein18 Aug 2026 14:48 UTC

77 points

30 comments6 min readEA link

What would make us scale or stop? NOVAH’s pre-commitment before seeing the RCT results

I.J.J.11 Aug 2026 11:51 UTC

128 points

12 comments6 min readEA link

General capability—and capabilities generally—have no good y-axis

Gregory Lewis🔸4 Aug 2026 14:11 UTC

163 points

16 comments31 min readEA link

Never born, then maybe died twice

NickLaing28 Jul 2026 11:43 UTC

153 points

9 comments5 min readEA link

(spicydev.substack.com)

Counting animals: Stable population size is not equivalent to priority level

abrahamrowe12 Jul 2026 23:26 UTC

88 points

7 comments13 min readEA link

What would an animal-aligned AI be aligned to?

Aidan Kankyoku30 Jun 2026 17:24 UTC

67 points

7 comments12 min readEA link

Cultivating hope: calibrating the expectations for cultivated meat to end factory farming

PAMC 🔸26 Jun 2026 21:54 UTC

58 points

40 comments18 min readEA link

Predictable Updating About Funding In EA

Sam Anschell17 Jun 2026 20:32 UTC

60 points

7 comments2 min readEA link

animal welfare has an evidence problem

matthes5 Jun 2026 22:04 UTC

436 points

88 comments13 min readEA link

Why are longtermists so much less focused on human extinction these days?

Michelle_Hutchinson19 May 2026 12:31 UTC

119 points

36 comments6 min readEA link