The Global Priorities Institute is running the Early Career Conference Programme and Global Priorities Fellowship. The application closes on the 10th of January
Denise Melchin writing about her mistakes on the path to having a more impactful career
EA Asia has a new directory for their members
The Centre for Effective Altruism with a review of 2020, and plans for 2021
80,000 Hours with a podcast collection to help people learn about effective altruism
Holly Morgan has created a new group for people who want to discuss spirituality in a broad sense in a way that’s compatible with effective altruism
You can buy Giving What We Can facemasks, t-shirts and various other items for people who want to promote the pledge
EA Oxford Remote In-Depth Fellowship—Applications close 18th Jan
80,000 Hours with an update to their post on how to have impact as a volunteer
Charity Entrepreneurship with a post on lessons learnt by their charity founders
Giving What We Can have curated a list of useful videos, books and articles for people interested in effective altruism
EA organisation updates for November
Giving What We Can and the EA Funds are now operating independently of the Centre for Effective Altruism
Charity Entrepreneurship with a survey on the most promising areas to start new EA meta charities
80,000 Hours have updated their career planning guide
Nuño Sempere with a long list of potential new cause areas
Devon Fritz and Steve Thompson with a request for feedback on their plan for an organisation to help mid-career professionals with career advice
Rethink Priorities with an ask me anything
80,000 Hours have an open career questions thread on the EA Forum
An interview with Marcus Daniell on why he set up an EA related organisation for athletes. This now includes tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipasm, currently ranked 6th in the world
Open Phil have made 14 grants recently with a total value of $5,175,000
$2,299,000 - Scientific research
$1,665,000 - Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
$500,000 - Centre for Effective Altruism—Longtermist Incubator
$311,000 - Farm animal welfare
$275,000 - Potential risks from advanced AI
$125,000 - Criminal justice reform
The Survival and Flourishing Fund has made 29 grants with a total value of $3,605,000
The Long-Term Future Fund has made 10 grants with a total value of $355,000
The Animal Welfare Fund has made 13 grants with a total value of $781,000
The EA Infrastructure Fund has made 8 grants with a total value of $434,000
France is launching a development innovation fund chaired by Esther Duflo
Derek Foster has a new in depth series of posts looking at how we could improve the way we measure health and wellbeing
GiveWell with an overview of the $150,000,000 they moved in 2019
The Overseas Development Institute on a new approach to estimate a country’s need for external finance
Open Philanthropy on their 2020 allocation of $100,000,000 to GiveWell charities
Evidence Action has an accelerator, aiming to scale up new interventions
GiveWell report on a new standout charity, Precision Agriculture for Development
A post introducing Family Empowerment Media, an organisation incubated at Charity Entrepreneurship
Lewis Bollard with 7 big wins for farm animals in 2020
Animal Advocacy Careers with their career planning process
Singapore is the first country in the world to approve lab-grown chicken products
Leah Edgerton and Manja Gärtner on animal charity evaluation
Faunalytics looking at European attitudes towards fish welfare
Animal Advocacy Careers with an overview of careers in the animal product alternatives for-profit world
An overview of Animal Ethics in 2020
Animal Advocacy Africa has launched
Animal Advocacy Careers’ introductory course—Applications close 10th Jan
Global Challenges with a poll tracking attitudes to global risks and cooperation
An interview with Martin Rees on why he believes the 21st century will be a crucial test of humanity’s ability to manage a wide range of existential threats
Owen Cotton-Barratt on epistemic systems and layers of defence against potential global catastrophes
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk with a four month overview
Luisa Rodriguez with a post asking ‘What is the likelihood that civilizational collapse would directly lead to human extinction (within decades)?’
A post describing recent and planned efforts to develop improving institutional decision-making as a cause area within and beyond the effective altruism movement
Nintil looking at whether it’s better to fund people or projects by seeing how Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators (who are funded for a longer term and in a more open ended way) outperform those of the National Institutes of Health
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is funding more than 100 projects through a programme designed to support adventurous, high-risk research
Denise Melchin with the question ‘How high impact are UK policy career paths?’
Founders Pledge on the implications of the US election for impact-focused climate philanthropy
The Atlantic looking at Stripe Climate and their focus on carbon removal
Our World in Data looking at global energy
Sindi on why they are giving to Giving Green this year
Ann Garth with an argument that EA should focus more on climate change
Owen Cotton-Barratt on the question ‘What does longtermism recommend doing in all sorts of everyday situations?’
Founders Pledge with their case for longtermism and donation recommendations
The BBC looking at the benefits of embracing ‘deep time’
The Legal Priorities Summer Research Fellowship is open for applications
Forethought Foundation are running the Global Priorities Fellowship and Early Career Conference Programme, applications close 10th January
The Center on Long-Term Risk with their plans for 2021 & review of 2020
Vaden Masrani with a critical review of longtermism
Ben Chugg with a critique of longtermism
Owen Cotton-Barratt on why “Patient vs urgent longtermism” has little direct bearing on giving now vs later
An ask me anything with the Long-Term Future Fund
80,000 Hours with a new post on the case for building expertise to work on US AI policy, and how to do it
2020 AI alignment literature review and charity comparison
Daniel Filan is launching the AI X-risk Research podcast, the first three guests are Adam Gleave, Rohin Shah, and Andrew Critch
The BBC looking at DeepMind’s work on protein folding
Open Philanthropy with an overview of their AI governance grant making in 2020
Julia Galef and Angus Deaton discussing effective altruism and randomised experiments
Luke Freeman on a podcast discussing Giving What We Can and community building
A podcast with Peter Singer on speciesism, lockdown ethics and controversial ideas
Zach Freitas-Groff on his giving in 2020
80,000 Hours podcast with Tristan Harris on the need to change the incentives of social media companies
Vox interviewing Toby Ord, co-founder of Giving What We Can
Nuño Sempere has a monthly forecasting newsletter
A writeup by the $500,000 donor lottery winner on how they decided to give
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EA Updates for January 2021
Meta
The Global Priorities Institute is running the Early Career Conference Programme and Global Priorities Fellowship. The application closes on the 10th of January
Denise Melchin writing about her mistakes on the path to having a more impactful career
EA Asia has a new directory for their members
The Centre for Effective Altruism with a review of 2020, and plans for 2021
80,000 Hours with a podcast collection to help people learn about effective altruism
Holly Morgan has created a new group for people who want to discuss spirituality in a broad sense in a way that’s compatible with effective altruism
You can buy Giving What We Can facemasks, t-shirts and various other items for people who want to promote the pledge
EA Oxford Remote In-Depth Fellowship—Applications close 18th Jan
80,000 Hours with an update to their post on how to have impact as a volunteer
Charity Entrepreneurship with a post on lessons learnt by their charity founders
Giving What We Can have curated a list of useful videos, books and articles for people interested in effective altruism
EA organisation updates for November
Giving What We Can and the EA Funds are now operating independently of the Centre for Effective Altruism
Charity Entrepreneurship with a survey on the most promising areas to start new EA meta charities
80,000 Hours have updated their career planning guide
Nuño Sempere with a long list of potential new cause areas
Devon Fritz and Steve Thompson with a request for feedback on their plan for an organisation to help mid-career professionals with career advice
Rethink Priorities with an ask me anything
80,000 Hours have an open career questions thread on the EA Forum
An interview with Marcus Daniell on why he set up an EA related organisation for athletes. This now includes tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipasm, currently ranked 6th in the world
Grants
Open Phil have made 14 grants recently with a total value of $5,175,000
$2,299,000 - Scientific research
$1,665,000 - Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness
$500,000 - Centre for Effective Altruism—Longtermist Incubator
$311,000 - Farm animal welfare
$275,000 - Potential risks from advanced AI
$125,000 - Criminal justice reform
The Survival and Flourishing Fund has made 29 grants with a total value of $3,605,000
The Long-Term Future Fund has made 10 grants with a total value of $355,000
The Animal Welfare Fund has made 13 grants with a total value of $781,000
The EA Infrastructure Fund has made 8 grants with a total value of $434,000
Global Development
France is launching a development innovation fund chaired by Esther Duflo
Derek Foster has a new in depth series of posts looking at how we could improve the way we measure health and wellbeing
GiveWell with an overview of the $150,000,000 they moved in 2019
The Overseas Development Institute on a new approach to estimate a country’s need for external finance
Open Philanthropy on their 2020 allocation of $100,000,000 to GiveWell charities
Evidence Action has an accelerator, aiming to scale up new interventions
GiveWell report on a new standout charity, Precision Agriculture for Development
A post introducing Family Empowerment Media, an organisation incubated at Charity Entrepreneurship
Animal Welfare
Lewis Bollard with 7 big wins for farm animals in 2020
Animal Advocacy Careers with their career planning process
Singapore is the first country in the world to approve lab-grown chicken products
Leah Edgerton and Manja Gärtner on animal charity evaluation
Faunalytics looking at European attitudes towards fish welfare
Animal Advocacy Careers with an overview of careers in the animal product alternatives for-profit world
An overview of Animal Ethics in 2020
Animal Advocacy Africa has launched
Animal Advocacy Careers’ introductory course—Applications close 10th Jan
Existential & Catastrophic Risks
Global Challenges with a poll tracking attitudes to global risks and cooperation
An interview with Martin Rees on why he believes the 21st century will be a crucial test of humanity’s ability to manage a wide range of existential threats
Owen Cotton-Barratt on epistemic systems and layers of defence against potential global catastrophes
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk with a four month overview
Luisa Rodriguez with a post asking ‘What is the likelihood that civilizational collapse would directly lead to human extinction (within decades)?’
Improving Institutions
A post describing recent and planned efforts to develop improving institutional decision-making as a cause area within and beyond the effective altruism movement
Nintil looking at whether it’s better to fund people or projects by seeing how Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigators (who are funded for a longer term and in a more open ended way) outperform those of the National Institutes of Health
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is funding more than 100 projects through a programme designed to support adventurous, high-risk research
Denise Melchin with the question ‘How high impact are UK policy career paths?’
Environment
Founders Pledge on the implications of the US election for impact-focused climate philanthropy
The Atlantic looking at Stripe Climate and their focus on carbon removal
Our World in Data looking at global energy
Sindi on why they are giving to Giving Green this year
Ann Garth with an argument that EA should focus more on climate change
Longtermism
Owen Cotton-Barratt on the question ‘What does longtermism recommend doing in all sorts of everyday situations?’
Founders Pledge with their case for longtermism and donation recommendations
The BBC looking at the benefits of embracing ‘deep time’
The Legal Priorities Summer Research Fellowship is open for applications
Forethought Foundation are running the Global Priorities Fellowship and Early Career Conference Programme, applications close 10th January
The Center on Long-Term Risk with their plans for 2021 & review of 2020
Vaden Masrani with a critical review of longtermism
Ben Chugg with a critique of longtermism
Owen Cotton-Barratt on why “Patient vs urgent longtermism” has little direct bearing on giving now vs later
An ask me anything with the Long-Term Future Fund
Emerging Technology
80,000 Hours with a new post on the case for building expertise to work on US AI policy, and how to do it
2020 AI alignment literature review and charity comparison
Daniel Filan is launching the AI X-risk Research podcast, the first three guests are Adam Gleave, Rohin Shah, and Andrew Critch
The BBC looking at DeepMind’s work on protein folding
Open Philanthropy with an overview of their AI governance grant making in 2020
Other Links
Julia Galef and Angus Deaton discussing effective altruism and randomised experiments
Luke Freeman on a podcast discussing Giving What We Can and community building
A podcast with Peter Singer on speciesism, lockdown ethics and controversial ideas
Zach Freitas-Groff on his giving in 2020
80,000 Hours podcast with Tristan Harris on the need to change the incentives of social media companies
Vox interviewing Toby Ord, co-founder of Giving What We Can
Nuño Sempere has a monthly forecasting newsletter
A writeup by the $500,000 donor lottery winner on how they decided to give