Scanning through my strong upvotes & upvotes, here are things I think are really valuable (not an exhaustive list![1]), grouped in very rough categories:
Assorted posts I thought were especially underrated
This is literally me scanning through quickly and then using the # + [type a post name to get a hyperlinked post method to quickly insert links] method, then very roughly grouping into categories.
If I didnât list a post, that doesnât mean I didnât think it was great or didnât upvote it.
Iâm really glad we made this. :)
Scanning through my strong upvotes & upvotes, here are things I think are really valuable (not an exhaustive list![1]), grouped in very rough categories:
Assorted posts I thought were especially underrated
Most problems fall within a 100x tractability range (under certain assumptions)
Epistemic Legibility
Contra Ari Neâeman On Effective Altruism
Butterfly Ideas
The case for becoming a black-box investigator of language models
Methods-ish or meta posts
Terminate deliberation based on resilience, not certainty
Comparative advantage does not mean doing the thing youâre best at
Effectiveness is a Conjunction of Multipliers
Nonprofit Boards are Weird
Learning By Writing
How effective are prizes at spurring innovation?
How to do theoretical research, a personal perspective
Methods for improving uncertainty analysis in EA cost-effectiveness models
An experiment eliciting relative estimates for Open Philanthropyâs 2018 AI safety grants
Letâs stop saying âfunding overhangâ & What I mean by âfunding overhangâ (and why it doesnât mean money isnât helpful)
As an independent researcher, what are the biggest bottlenecks (if any) to your motivation, productivity, or impact? (would love more answers here)
Other posts I was really excited about (which donât fall neatly into other categories)
Concrete Biosecurity Projects (some of which could be big)
What happens on the average day? & Whatâs alive right now?
StrongMinds should not be a top-rated charity (yet)
Why Neuron Counts Shouldnât Be Used as Proxies for Moral Weight
Does Economic Growth Meaningfully Improve Well-being? An Optimistic Re-Analysis of Easterlinâs Research: Founders Pledge
How likely is World War III?
A major update in our assessment of water quality interventions
Ideal governance (for companies, countries and more)
Rational predictions often update predictably*
My thoughts on nanotechnology strategy research as an EA cause area & A new database of nanotechnology strategy resources
[Crosspost]: Huge volcanic eruptions: time to prepare (Nature) & Should GMOs (e.g. golden rice) be a cause area? & Flooding is not a promising cause areaâshallow investigation & lots of other posts on less-discussed causes
Notes on Apollo report on biodefense
How moral progress happens: the decline of footbinding as a case study
Air Pollution: Founders Pledge Cause Report
Case for emergency response teams
What matters to shrimps? Factors affecting shrimp welfare in aquaculture (see my comment on the post)
Some observations from an EA-adjacent (?) charitable effort
A few announcements
Open Philanthropyâs Cause Exploration Prizes: $120k for written work on global health and wellbeing & Cause Exploration Prizes: Announcing our prizes
Announcing the Change Our Mind Contest for critiques of our cost-effectiveness analyses & The winners of the Change Our Mind Contestâand some reflections
AI posts
Letâs think about slowing down AI & Slightly against aligning with neo-luddites
Without specific countermeasures, the easiest path to transformative AI likely leads to AI takeover
Samotsvetyâs AI risk forecasts
AI Safety Seems Hard to Measure
AI strategy nearcasting /â How might we align transformative AI if itâs developed very soon?
Biological Anchors external review by Jennifer Lin (linkpost)
Counterarguments to the basic AI risk case
Resources and lists
EA Opportunities: A new and improved collection of internships, contests, events, and more.
EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (21 Aug â 27 Aug 22â) â the whole series
Forecasting Newsletter: January 2022 â the whole series
The Future Fundâs Project Ideas Competition â this is still a bank of really interesting project ideas
See more posts like this here:
Research agendas, questions, and project lists
Practical
Take action
Posts I wrote or was involved with (I searched for these separately, these werenât on my âwrappedâ page)
Events, highlighting especially good content, resources
Winners of the EA Criticism and Red Teaming Contest & Announcing a contest: EA Criticism and Red Teaming
Resource for criticisms and red teaming
Other posts
EA should taboo âEA shouldâ
Invisible impact loss (and why we can be too error-averse)
Against âlongtermistâ as an identity
Notes on impostor syndrome
Thoughts on Forum posts:
A Forum post can be short
You donât have to respond to every comment
Link-posting is an act of community service
Niche vs. broad-appeal posts (& how this relates to usefulness/âkarma) (a sketch)
Epistemic status: an explainer and some thoughts
Crossposts
Distillation and research debt
Reasoning Transparency
See also the Forum Digest Classics.
This is literally me scanning through quickly and then using the # + [type a post name to get a hyperlinked post method to quickly insert links] method, then very roughly grouping into categories.
If I didnât list a post, that doesnât mean I didnât think it was great or didnât upvote it.
I think this is under rated:
Offering FAANG-style mock interviews
not in the top forum posts of the year or anything, but Iâd want it to get more exposure