3rd September - ‘A new international agreement to spend 1% of GDP on global risk reduction’, a virtual talk by Hauke Hillebrandt—Organised by the Legal Priorities Project
5th September - ‘Understanding Cause Neutrality’ virtual discussion—Organised by EA Anywhere
12th September—Giving What We Can Virtual Meetup
13th September—Jason Crawford on the roots of human progress virtual talk—Organised by EA Munich
29-31st October—EA Global: London 2021 - Applications will open on Wednesday, 1st September
Open Philanthropy have a new program providing grants to support academics for the development of new university courses that are relevant to their grant making
Benjamin Todd looking at how resources in EA are allocated across causes
A post on the EA Forum suggesting that more people interested in EA should consider ‘non-EA’ jobs
EA Survey 2020
Engagement
Community Information—what factors had a positive/negative influence on people’s interest in EA
A forum series with career advice on management consultancy
‘The case for increasing EA policy efforts in smaller countries’
EA Anywhere: A Year in Review
A forum post arguing that ‘Most research/advocacy charities are not scalable’
Giving What We Can is seeking applications for members to participate in their 12-month Ambassador Program
Benjamin Todd and Sanjay Joshi were on BBC Radio 4, discussing impactful careers
Charity Entrepreneurship introducing their 2021 incubation program participants
EA Cambridge have released their second magazine, highlighting what the group has been up to
Open Phil have made 8 grants recently with a total value of $1,430,000
$850,000 - Farm Animal Welfare
$450,000 - Criminal Justice Reform
$130,000 - Geopolitical Forecasting
The EA Animal Welfare Fund has made 30 grants with a total value of $1,920,000
John Halstead with a post arguing that economic policy in poor countries is neglected by effective altruism
The Centre For Global Development with a podcast looking at Special Drawing Rights
Saloni Dattani looking at the data behind our understanding of depression
Lucia Coulter being interviewed by the Mayo Clinic, discussing the Lead Exposure Elimination Project
A six month update from Animal Advocacy Africa
A meta review of interventions that influence animal product consumption
A new paper by Lara Mani, Asaf Tzachor and Paul Cole on global catastrophic risks from lower magnitude volcanic eruptions
An article looking at the potential problems with a synthetic pandemic
A post looking at the risks from the UK’s planned increase in nuclear warheads
A post introducing the Existential Risk Observatory, a new organisation in the Netherlands
The UK government just launched a call for evidence on bureaucracy around research and development
Research England is funding a new global platform aiming to disrupt the current scientific research culture
A post describing a framework to work out which institutions are most important if you are interested in improving institutional decision making
80,000 Hours podcast with Holden Karnofsky on the most important century
Open Philanthropy with the results of a survey that intended to get a better understanding of how people became interested in longtermism
A post on the forum looking at foresight for governments, ‘Singapore’s Long-termist Policy Tools & Lessons’
New Global Priorities Institute working papers—and an updated version of “The case for strong longtermism”
David Manheim with the post ‘Towards a Weaker Longtermism’
Podcast with Chris Olah on what is going on inside neural networks
A series of articles looking at whether we are trending towards transformative AI
A post looking at how EA billionaires are using their money in U.S. politics
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk with a response to the IPCC report
An Ask Me Anything with Jason Brennan, author of “Against Democracy” and creator of a Georgetown course on EA
Ellen Quigley wrote an article for Aeon about responsible investment
Natalie Jones appeared on the Gin and Topic podcast, discussing climate change and climate justice
Rob Bensinger with an outline of Julia Galef’s “Scout Mindset”
EA Updates for September 2021
Upcoming Events
3rd September - ‘A new international agreement to spend 1% of GDP on global risk reduction’, a virtual talk by Hauke Hillebrandt—Organised by the Legal Priorities Project
5th September - ‘Understanding Cause Neutrality’ virtual discussion—Organised by EA Anywhere
12th September—Giving What We Can Virtual Meetup
13th September—Jason Crawford on the roots of human progress virtual talk—Organised by EA Munich
29-31st October—EA Global: London 2021 - Applications will open on Wednesday, 1st September
Latest Research and Updates
Meta
Open Philanthropy have a new program providing grants to support academics for the development of new university courses that are relevant to their grant making
Benjamin Todd looking at how resources in EA are allocated across causes
A post on the EA Forum suggesting that more people interested in EA should consider ‘non-EA’ jobs
EA Survey 2020
Engagement
Community Information—what factors had a positive/negative influence on people’s interest in EA
A forum series with career advice on management consultancy
‘The case for increasing EA policy efforts in smaller countries’
EA Anywhere: A Year in Review
A forum post arguing that ‘Most research/advocacy charities are not scalable’
Giving What We Can is seeking applications for members to participate in their 12-month Ambassador Program
Benjamin Todd and Sanjay Joshi were on BBC Radio 4, discussing impactful careers
Charity Entrepreneurship introducing their 2021 incubation program participants
EA Cambridge have released their second magazine, highlighting what the group has been up to
Grants
Open Phil have made 8 grants recently with a total value of $1,430,000
$850,000 - Farm Animal Welfare
$450,000 - Criminal Justice Reform
$130,000 - Geopolitical Forecasting
The EA Animal Welfare Fund has made 30 grants with a total value of $1,920,000
Global Development
John Halstead with a post arguing that economic policy in poor countries is neglected by effective altruism
The Centre For Global Development with a podcast looking at Special Drawing Rights
Saloni Dattani looking at the data behind our understanding of depression
Lucia Coulter being interviewed by the Mayo Clinic, discussing the Lead Exposure Elimination Project
Animal Welfare
A six month update from Animal Advocacy Africa
A meta review of interventions that influence animal product consumption
Existential & Catastrophic Risks
A new paper by Lara Mani, Asaf Tzachor and Paul Cole on global catastrophic risks from lower magnitude volcanic eruptions
An article looking at the potential problems with a synthetic pandemic
A post looking at the risks from the UK’s planned increase in nuclear warheads
A post introducing the Existential Risk Observatory, a new organisation in the Netherlands
Improving Institutions
The UK government just launched a call for evidence on bureaucracy around research and development
Research England is funding a new global platform aiming to disrupt the current scientific research culture
A post describing a framework to work out which institutions are most important if you are interested in improving institutional decision making
Longtermism
80,000 Hours podcast with Holden Karnofsky on the most important century
Open Philanthropy with the results of a survey that intended to get a better understanding of how people became interested in longtermism
A post on the forum looking at foresight for governments, ‘Singapore’s Long-termist Policy Tools & Lessons’
New Global Priorities Institute working papers—and an updated version of “The case for strong longtermism”
David Manheim with the post ‘Towards a Weaker Longtermism’
Emerging Technology
Podcast with Chris Olah on what is going on inside neural networks
A series of articles looking at whether we are trending towards transformative AI
Other Links
A post looking at how EA billionaires are using their money in U.S. politics
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk with a response to the IPCC report
An Ask Me Anything with Jason Brennan, author of “Against Democracy” and creator of a Georgetown course on EA
Ellen Quigley wrote an article for Aeon about responsible investment
Natalie Jones appeared on the Gin and Topic podcast, discussing climate change and climate justice
Rob Bensinger with an outline of Julia Galef’s “Scout Mindset”