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Crit­i­cism of effec­tive al­tru­ist organizations

TagLast edit: 22 Jul 2022 13:45 UTC by Leo

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Am­bi­tious Im­pact launches a for-profit ac­cel­er­a­tor in­stead of build­ing the AI Safety space. Let’s talk about this.

Yanni Kyriacos18 Mar 2024 3:44 UTC
−5 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Failed promises and dis­re­spect from the EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund

Igor Ivanov8 Mar 2024 15:11 UTC
95 points
56 comments3 min readEA link

Nu­clear war tail risk has been ex­ag­ger­ated?

Vasco Grilo25 Feb 2024 9:14 UTC
41 points
21 comments28 min readEA link

How We Plan to Ap­proach Uncer­tainty in Our Cost-Effec­tive­ness Models

GiveWell2 Jan 2024 21:09 UTC
86 points
26 comments23 min readEA link
(www.givewell.org)

OpenAI’s Pre­pared­ness Frame­work: Praise & Recommendations

Akash2 Jan 2024 16:20 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Public Fundrais­ing has Pos­i­tive Externalities

Larks26 Dec 2023 14:39 UTC
82 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Should 80,000 Hours be more trans­par­ent about how they rank prob­lems and ca­reers?

Vasco Grilo20 Dec 2023 8:14 UTC
89 points
17 comments3 min readEA link

Effec­tive Asper­sions: How the Non­lin­ear In­ves­ti­ga­tion Went Wrong

TracingWoodgrains19 Dec 2023 12:00 UTC
337 points
213 comments31 min readEA link

My quick thoughts on donat­ing to EA Funds’ Global Health and Devel­op­ment Fund and what it should do

Vasco Grilo15 Dec 2023 9:08 UTC
33 points
14 comments3 min readEA link

Non­lin­ear’s Ev­i­dence: De­bunk­ing False and Mislead­ing Claims

Kat Woods12 Dec 2023 13:15 UTC
151 points
513 comments51 min readEA link

Open Phil Should Allo­cate Most Neart­er­mist Fund­ing to An­i­mal Welfare

Ariel Simnegar19 Nov 2023 17:00 UTC
485 points
125 comments14 min readEA link

EA orgs’ le­gal struc­ture in­hibits risk tak­ing and in­for­ma­tion shar­ing on the margin

Elizabeth5 Nov 2023 4:07 UTC
107 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Re­spon­si­ble Scal­ing Poli­cies Are Risk Man­age­ment Done Wrong

simeon_c25 Oct 2023 23:46 UTC
42 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.navigatingrisks.ai)

Dialogue: What is the op­ti­mal fron­tier for due dili­gence?

Ruby8 Sep 2023 18:28 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

A quick up­date from Nonlinear

Kat Woods7 Sep 2023 21:26 UTC
85 points
34 comments3 min readEA link

Shar­ing In­for­ma­tion About Nonlinear

Ben Pace7 Sep 2023 6:51 UTC
436 points
497 comments34 min readEA link

Malaria bed­net and medicine overlap

MichaelStJules5 Sep 2023 23:55 UTC
24 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

An In­tro­duc­tion to Cri­tiques of promi­nent AI safety organizations

Omega19 Jul 2023 6:53 UTC
87 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Grant ap­pli­ca­tions and grand narratives

Elizabeth2 Jul 2023 2:29 UTC
123 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Ev­i­dence of effec­tive­ness and trans­parency of a few effec­tive giv­ing organisations

Vasco Grilo1 Jul 2023 8:10 UTC
60 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

Against Anony­mous Hit Pieces

Anti-Omega18 Jun 2023 19:36 UTC
−25 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Should Our World in Data dis­cuss wild an­i­mal welfare in the con­text of na­ture con­ser­va­tion?

Vasco Grilo18 Jun 2023 8:32 UTC
26 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

EA or­ga­ni­za­tions should have a trans­par­ent scope

Joey14 Jun 2023 11:30 UTC
190 points
21 comments3 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism or­ga­ni­za­tions should avoid us­ing “po­lariz­ing tech­niques”

Joey12 Jun 2023 13:41 UTC
170 points
23 comments4 min readEA link

Cri­tiques of promi­nent AI safety labs: Conjecture

Omega12 Jun 2023 5:52 UTC
148 points
83 comments32 min readEA link

Two Big-Pic­ture Cri­tiques of GiveWell’s Ap­proach, and Six Les­sons from Their Re­cent Work (Elie Hassen­feld on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours5 Jun 2023 13:51 UTC
52 points
2 comments15 min readEA link

Dis­cus­sion about AI Safety fund­ing (FB tran­script)

Akash30 Apr 2023 19:05 UTC
102 points
10 comments6 min readEA link

Two things that I think could make the com­mu­nity better

Kaleem26 Apr 2023 14:59 UTC
92 points
24 comments12 min readEA link

Cri­tiques of promi­nent AI safety labs: Red­wood Research

Omega31 Mar 2023 8:58 UTC
339 points
91 comments20 min readEA link

Run Posts By Orgs

Jeff Kaufman29 Mar 2023 2:40 UTC
281 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Time Ar­ti­cle Dis­cus­sion—“Effec­tive Altru­ist Lead­ers Were Re­peat­edly Warned About Sam Bankman-Fried Years Be­fore FTX Col­lapsed”

Nathan Young15 Mar 2023 12:40 UTC
241 points
174 comments4 min readEA link
(time.com)

[Linkpost] Scott Alexan­der re­acts to OpenAI’s lat­est post

Akash11 Mar 2023 22:24 UTC
105 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Nick Bostrom should step down as Direc­tor of FHI

BostromAnonAccount4 Mar 2023 14:39 UTC
94 points
94 comments4 min readEA link

Why I don’t agree with HLI’s es­ti­mate of house­hold spillovers from therapy

JamesSnowden24 Feb 2023 18:18 UTC
319 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

Make Con­flict of In­ter­est Poli­cies Public

Jeff Kaufman9 Feb 2023 19:33 UTC
175 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Does Open Philan­thropy have a pub­lic doc­u­ment re­gard­ing their con­flict of in­ter­est policy?

BurnerExplainer9 Feb 2023 5:17 UTC
33 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Help with find­ing in­sti­tu­tions that fo­cus on sustainability

Linck8 Feb 2023 21:55 UTC
6 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Why Peo­ple Use Burner Ac­counts: A Com­men­tary on Black­lists, the EA “In­ner Cir­cle”, and Funding

BurnerExplainer8 Feb 2023 7:00 UTC
40 points
98 comments6 min readEA link

Dear An­thropic peo­ple, please don’t re­lease Claude

Joseph Miller8 Feb 2023 2:44 UTC
26 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Should EVF con­sider ap­point­ing new board mem­bers?

BurnerAcct5 Feb 2023 6:01 UTC
188 points
88 comments1 min readEA link

Crit­i­cism Thread: What things should OpenPhil im­prove on?

anonymousEA204 Feb 2023 8:16 UTC
85 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Two po­ten­tial cases of Effec­tive Ven­tures break­ing the law

Whistleblower33 Feb 2023 10:37 UTC
−49 points
38 comments2 min readEA link

Ques­tions about OP grant to Helena

DizzyMarmot2 Feb 2023 6:21 UTC
122 points
73 comments3 min readEA link

Pro­posed im­prove­ments to EAG(x) ad­mis­sions process

Elika30 Jan 2023 6:10 UTC
62 points
29 comments3 min readEA link

EAG Or­ga­niz­ing Team Really Drop­ping the Ball

Vilfredo's Ghost27 Jan 2023 21:36 UTC
−25 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Mov­ing Toward More Con­crete Pro­pos­als for Reform

Jason27 Jan 2023 0:36 UTC
96 points
8 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] How Should EA Govern It­self?

John Coleman23 Jan 2023 3:19 UTC
4 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

NYT: Google will ‘re­cal­ibrate’ the risk of re­leas­ing AI due to com­pe­ti­tion with OpenAI

Michael Huang22 Jan 2023 2:13 UTC
173 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(www.nytimes.com)

CEA didn’t want Zvi Moshow­itz, Zeynep Tufekci, or He­len Chu in the Covid doc­u­men­tary they com­mis­sioned?

sapphire19 Jan 2023 1:32 UTC
−25 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

The EA com­mu­nity does not own its donors’ money

Nick Whitaker18 Jan 2023 18:59 UTC
630 points
116 comments4 min readEA link

Do­ing EA Better

ConcernedEAs17 Jan 2023 20:09 UTC
262 points
382 comments70 min readEA link

Does EA un­der­stand how to apol­o­gize for things?

titotal15 Jan 2023 19:14 UTC
156 points
48 comments3 min readEA link

GWWC’s Han­dling of Con­flict­ing Fund­ing Bars

Jeff Kaufman11 Jan 2023 20:31 UTC
83 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on Wytham Abbey

nikos10 Jan 2023 18:30 UTC
80 points
51 comments4 min readEA link

GWWC Should Re­quire Public Char­ity Evaluations

Jeff Kaufman9 Jan 2023 20:11 UTC
93 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

My thoughts on OpenAI’s al­ign­ment plan

Akash30 Dec 2022 19:34 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

A liber­tar­ian so­cial­ist’s view on how EA can improve

freedomandutility30 Dec 2022 13:07 UTC
143 points
32 comments7 min readEA link

Givewell, and its hiring pro­cess, needs se­ri­ous reform

Bob29 Dec 2022 20:29 UTC
43 points
44 comments3 min readEA link

StrongMinds should not be a top-rated char­ity (yet)

Simon_M27 Dec 2022 23:53 UTC
334 points
129 comments6 min readEA link
(simonm.substack.com)

Why GiveWell should use com­plete un­cer­tainty quantification

Tanae27 Dec 2022 20:11 UTC
32 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(suboptimal.substack.com)

Bad Omens in cur­rent EA Governance

ludwigbald20 Dec 2022 22:59 UTC
11 points
75 comments2 min readEA link

Con­cerns over EA’s pos­si­ble ne­glect of experts

Jack Malde16 Dec 2022 22:10 UTC
34 points
16 comments2 min readEA link

The case for trans­par­ent spending

Jeroen Willems15 Dec 2022 17:42 UTC
18 points
13 comments7 min readEA link

GiveWell’s Mo­ral Weights Un­der­weight the Value of Trans­fers to the Poor

Trevor Woolley13 Dec 2022 7:23 UTC
83 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

ESPR should re­turn the FTX-funded chateau

Bob Jacobs10 Dec 2022 15:54 UTC
4 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Why did CEA buy Wytham Abbey?

Jeroen Willems6 Dec 2022 14:46 UTC
155 points
340 comments2 min readEA link

Re­vis­it­ing EA’s me­dia policy

Arepo3 Dec 2022 16:55 UTC
224 points
65 comments6 min readEA link

“In­sider EA con­tent” in Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s re­cent New Yorker article

To be stuck inside of Mobile1 Dec 2022 22:09 UTC
208 points
39 comments3 min readEA link

De­moc­ra­tiz­ing the work­place as a cause area

Bob Jacobs26 Nov 2022 18:31 UTC
32 points
18 comments8 min readEA link

The biggest red flag about SBF

trevor124 Nov 2022 19:08 UTC
18 points
11 comments4 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Samo Burja: What the col­lapse of FTX means for effec­tive altruism

peterhartree17 Nov 2022 12:16 UTC
46 points
9 comments7 min readEA link
(brief.bismarckanalysis.com)

Selec­tive truth-tel­ling: con­cerns about EA lead­er­ship com­mu­ni­ca­tion.

tcelferact15 Nov 2022 19:45 UTC
90 points
45 comments5 min readEA link

The FTX crisis high­lights a deeper cul­tural prob­lem within EA—we don’t suffi­ciently value good governance

Fods1214 Nov 2022 12:43 UTC
452 points
55 comments4 min readEA link

You *should* have ca­pac­ity for more trans­parency and accountability

freedomandutility13 Nov 2022 11:52 UTC
22 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

GiveDirectly’s cost-effec­tive­ness could be 6.7x higher

Carolina Toth3 Nov 2022 4:39 UTC
21 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

GiveWell’s ap­proach to sup­ple­men­tary ad­just­ments uses ques­tion­able priors

SoGive1 Nov 2022 12:53 UTC
11 points
1 comment19 min readEA link

Dona­tions to SCI Foun­da­tion may funge with other work

SoGive1 Nov 2022 12:52 UTC
10 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

SoGive re­view of GiveWell’s dis­count rates

SoGive1 Nov 2022 12:52 UTC
17 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

Hard Prob­lems in GiveWell’s Mo­ral Weights Approach

Tanae1 Nov 2022 4:51 UTC
36 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

A dozen doubts about GiveWell’s numbers

JoelMcGuire1 Nov 2022 2:25 UTC
134 points
18 comments19 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

An Ex­am­i­na­tion of GiveWell’s Water Qual­ity In­ter­ven­tion Cost-Effec­tive­ness Analysis

MHR1 Nov 2022 1:00 UTC
50 points
4 comments18 min readEA link

Sim­ple Tips for Sound Cost-Effec­tive­ness Analysis

James Broughel1 Nov 2022 0:53 UTC
3 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Cri­tiquing GiveWell’s Model of Eco­nomic Effects from Health Interventions

Joseph Richardson28 Oct 2022 17:42 UTC
25 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

GiveWell should fund an SMC replication

Seth Ariel Green28 Oct 2022 12:31 UTC
90 points
17 comments5 min readEA link

GiveWell’s Uncer­tainty Problem

noahhaber28 Oct 2022 7:36 UTC
15 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

GiveWell should use shorter TAI timelines

Oscar Delaney27 Oct 2022 6:59 UTC
52 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

GiveWell Mi­suses Dis­count Rates

Oscar Delaney27 Oct 2022 6:57 UTC
73 points
12 comments4 min readEA link

Millions in cash trans­fers, with­out spend­ing a penny

Karthik Tadepalli26 Oct 2022 20:03 UTC
18 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Sign of qual­ity of life in GiveWell’s analyses

brb24316 Oct 2022 14:54 UTC
57 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

What Peter Singer Got Wrong (And Where Give Well Could Im­prove)

LiaH14 Oct 2022 16:15 UTC
4 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

Is there more to life than sur­vival and in­come?

brb24313 Oct 2022 21:56 UTC
15 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

AMF net use may be over­es­ti­mated by about 10 per­centage points

brb24310 Oct 2022 23:05 UTC
23 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Win­ners of the EA Crit­i­cism and Red Team­ing Contest

Lizka1 Oct 2022 1:50 UTC
225 points
41 comments19 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of iron for­tifi­ca­tion in In­dia is lower than GiveWell’s estimates

Akash Kulgod30 Sep 2022 12:50 UTC
28 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

Why don’t all EA-sug­gested or­ga­ni­za­tions dis­close salary in job de­scrip­tions?

Cassidy28 Sep 2022 22:42 UTC
47 points
18 comments3 min readEA link

Re­view of Givewell’s Cost-effec­tive­ness for Sea­sonal Malaria Chemoprevention

Finngoeslong25 Sep 2022 13:59 UTC
20 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Case Study of EA Global Re­jec­tion + Crit­i­cisms/​Solutions

Constance Li23 Sep 2022 11:38 UTC
234 points
157 comments24 min readEA link

Crit­i­cism of the 80k job board list­ing strategy

Yonatan Cale21 Sep 2022 9:36 UTC
112 points
50 comments3 min readEA link

GiveWell and Similar Orgs Should *Really* Re­search Fam­ily Plan­ning as a Po­ten­tial Intervention

alamo 29149 Sep 2022 20:37 UTC
26 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Ch­ester­ton Fences and EA’s X-risks

jehan2 Sep 2022 11:56 UTC
78 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

An Eval­u­a­tion of An­i­mal Char­ity Eval­u­a­tors

eaanonymous12342 Sep 2022 4:33 UTC
90 points
4 comments44 min readEA link

Red Team­ing CEA’s Com­mu­nity Build­ing Work

AnonymousEAForumAccount1 Sep 2022 14:42 UTC
296 points
68 comments66 min readEA link

Open EA Global

Scott Alexander1 Sep 2022 4:26 UTC
427 points
155 comments6 min readEA link

Red-team­ing con­test: de­mo­graph­ics and power struc­tures in EA

TheOtherHannah31 Aug 2022 4:36 UTC
110 points
14 comments33 min readEA link

What 80000 Hours gets wrong about so­lar geoengineering

GideonF29 Aug 2022 13:24 UTC
26 points
4 comments23 min readEA link

Should GiveWell still recom­mend GiveDirectly?

Shakeel Hashim29 Aug 2022 6:34 UTC
106 points
10 comments2 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

A crit­i­cal re­view of GiveWell’s 2022 cost-effec­tive­ness model

Froolow25 Aug 2022 15:35 UTC
227 points
20 comments35 min readEA link

Is GiveWell un­der­es­ti­mat­ing the health value of lead erad­i­ca­tion?

Jakob21 Aug 2022 15:13 UTC
33 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Some con­cerns about policy work fund­ing and the Long Term Fu­ture Fund

weeatquince12 Aug 2022 13:54 UTC
124 points
49 comments6 min readEA link

Crowd­sourced Crit­i­cisms: What does EA think about EA?

Hmash8 Aug 2022 22:59 UTC
32 points
19 comments14 min readEA link

Eco­nomic losers: SoGive’s re­view of de­worm­ing, and why we’re less pos­i­tive than GiveWell

SoGive8 Aug 2022 8:01 UTC
61 points
10 comments14 min readEA link

The Case for Fund­ing New Long-Term Ran­dom­ized Con­trol­led Tri­als of Deworming

MHR4 Aug 2022 16:12 UTC
95 points
9 comments14 min readEA link

Why does GiveWell not provide lower and up­per es­ti­mates for the cost-effec­tive­ness of its top char­i­ties?

Vasco Grilo31 Jul 2022 13:41 UTC
45 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

In­ter­est­ing vs. Im­por­tant Work—A Place EA is Pri­ori­tiz­ing Poorly

Davidmanheim28 Jul 2022 10:08 UTC
113 points
52 comments3 min readEA link

De­worm­ing and de­cay: repli­cat­ing GiveWell’s cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis

JoelMcGuire25 Jul 2022 20:26 UTC
307 points
38 comments11 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

A philo­soph­i­cal re­view of Open Philan­thropy’s Cause Pri­ori­ti­sa­tion Framework

MichaelPlant15 Jul 2022 8:21 UTC
155 points
11 comments25 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Slow­ing down AI progress is an un­der­ex­plored al­ign­ment strategy

Michael Huang13 Jul 2022 3:22 UTC
92 points
11 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Mar­riage, the Giv­ing What We Can Pledge, and the dam­age caused by vague pub­lic commitments

Jeffrey Ladish11 Jul 2022 19:38 UTC
42 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

What is Oper­a­tions Man­age­ment?

Joseph Lemien10 Jul 2022 1:27 UTC
82 points
12 comments18 min readEA link

Se­nior EA ‘ops’ roles: if you want to undo the bot­tle­neck, hire differently

AnonymousThrowAway9 Jul 2022 10:47 UTC
298 points
32 comments11 min readEA link

Why EAs should nor­mal­ize us­ing Glassdoor

Joey23 Jun 2022 10:56 UTC
87 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

A Quick List of Some Prob­lems in AI Align­ment As A Field

NicholasKross21 Jun 2022 17:09 UTC
16 points
10 comments6 min readEA link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

A Crit­i­cal Re­view of Open Philan­thropy’s Bet On Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Reform

NunoSempere16 Jun 2022 16:40 UTC
302 points
97 comments26 min readEA link

Jobs at EA-or­ga­ni­za­tions are over­paid, here is why

Cynwit8 Jun 2022 17:20 UTC
15 points
37 comments3 min readEA link

Quan­tify­ing Uncer­tainty in GiveWell’s GiveDirectly Cost-Effec­tive­ness Analysis

SamNolan27 May 2022 3:10 UTC
130 points
19 comments7 min readEA link

Hiring: How to do it Better

Joseph Lemien23 May 2022 7:45 UTC
76 points
26 comments16 min readEA link

[UNENDORSED] Re­ward Long Content

niplav25 Apr 2022 10:00 UTC
42 points
9 comments11 min readEA link

Pre-an­nounc­ing a con­test for cri­tiques and red teaming

Lizka25 Mar 2022 11:52 UTC
173 points
27 comments2 min readEA link

Cri­tique of OpenPhil’s macroe­co­nomic policy advocacy

Hauke Hillebrandt24 Mar 2022 22:03 UTC
142 points
39 comments25 min readEA link

Me­diocre AI safety as ex­is­ten­tial risk

Gavin16 Mar 2022 11:50 UTC
52 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

Con­cerns about AMF from GiveWell read­ing—Part 4

JPHoughton13 Feb 2022 13:36 UTC
21 points
18 comments4 min readEA link

Con­cerns about AMF from GiveWell read­ing—Part 2

JPHoughton21 Nov 2021 13:52 UTC
31 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Should EA Global Lon­don 2021 have been ex­panded?

Will Bradshaw9 Nov 2021 8:28 UTC
20 points
23 comments7 min readEA link

Con­cerns about AMF from GiveWell read­ing—Part 1

JPHoughton17 Oct 2021 11:56 UTC
71 points
17 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Why aren’t you freak­ing out about OpenAI? At what point would you start?

AppliedDivinityStudies10 Oct 2021 13:06 UTC
77 points
22 comments2 min readEA link

Is­sues with Giv­ing Multiplier

Jeff Kaufman29 Sep 2021 21:40 UTC
17 points
10 comments6 min readEA link
(www.jefftk.com)

GiveWell Dona­tion Matching

Jeff Kaufman21 Sep 2021 22:50 UTC
35 points
7 comments2 min readEA link
(www.jefftk.com)

Avoid­ing Group­think in In­tro Fel­low­ships (and Diver­sify­ing Longter­mism)

seanrson14 Sep 2021 21:00 UTC
67 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Con­cerns with ACE’s Re­cent Behavior

Hypatia17 Apr 2021 17:00 UTC
280 points
149 comments11 min readEA link

Why I’m con­cerned about Giv­ing Green

alex lawsen (previously alexrjl)20 Jan 2021 22:59 UTC
231 points
49 comments13 min readEA link

In­cen­tive Prob­lems With Cur­rent Fore­cast­ing Com­pe­ti­tions.

alex lawsen (previously alexrjl)10 Nov 2020 21:40 UTC
56 points
11 comments5 min readEA link

Avoid­ing Mu­nich’s Mis­takes: Ad­vice for CEA and Lo­cal Groups

Larks14 Oct 2020 17:08 UTC
186 points
80 comments40 min readEA link

What will 80,000 Hours provide (and not provide) within the effec­tive al­tru­ism com­mu­nity?

Benjamin_Todd17 Apr 2020 18:36 UTC
156 points
30 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] What are ex­am­ples of EA work be­ing re­viewed by non-EA re­searchers?

Aaron Gertler24 Mar 2020 6:04 UTC
63 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

Growth and the case against ran­domista development

Hauke Hillebrandt16 Jan 2020 10:11 UTC
418 points
197 comments31 min readEA link

Which Com­mu­nity Build­ing Pro­jects Get Funded?

AnonymousEAForumAccount13 Nov 2019 20:31 UTC
99 points
56 comments10 min readEA link

EA Lead­ers Fo­rum: Sur­vey on EA pri­ori­ties (data and anal­y­sis)

Aaron Gertler12 Nov 2019 1:14 UTC
126 points
48 comments16 min readEA link

Up­date on CEA’s EA Grants Program

Nicole_Ross8 Nov 2019 23:00 UTC
125 points
31 comments6 min readEA link

Why we think the Founders Pledge re­port over­rates CfRN

Sanjay4 Nov 2019 17:54 UTC
50 points
10 comments17 min readEA link

Does 80,000 Hours fo­cus too much on AI risk?

EarlyVelcro2 Nov 2019 20:14 UTC
57 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

Only a few peo­ple de­cide about fund­ing for com­mu­nity builders world-wide

JanB22 Oct 2019 20:52 UTC
65 points
24 comments1 min readEA link

[Link] What opinions do you hold that you would be re­luc­tant to ex­press in front of a group of effec­tive al­tru­ists? Anony­mous form.

arikr10 Sep 2019 19:38 UTC
64 points
62 comments1 min readEA link

The EA Fo­rum is a News Feed

DavidNash28 Jul 2019 22:27 UTC
79 points
21 comments3 min readEA link

I find this fo­rum in­creas­ingly difficult to navigate

Arepo5 Jul 2019 10:27 UTC
66 points
50 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What’s the best struc­ture for op­ti­mal al­lo­ca­tion of EA cap­i­tal?

Milan_Griffes4 Jun 2019 17:00 UTC
10 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

Drown­ing chil­dren are rare

BenHoffman28 May 2019 17:33 UTC
−9 points
36 comments5 min readEA link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Thoughts on 80,000 Hours’ re­search that might help with job-search frustrations

Ardenlk16 Apr 2019 18:51 UTC
99 points
57 comments10 min readEA link

The ca­reer and the community

richard_ngo21 Mar 2019 12:35 UTC
93 points
35 comments15 min readEA link

EA jobs provide scarce non-mon­e­tary goods

Milan_Griffes20 Mar 2019 20:56 UTC
55 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

EA is vet­ting-constrained

toonalfrink9 Mar 2019 1:25 UTC
129 points
29 comments4 min readEA link

After one year of ap­ply­ing for EA jobs: It is re­ally, re­ally hard to get hired by an EA organisation

EA applicant26 Feb 2019 5:53 UTC
388 points
184 comments4 min readEA link

Vox’s “Fu­ture Perfect” column fre­quently has flawed journalism

kbog26 Jan 2019 8:09 UTC
36 points
25 comments5 min readEA link

Why we have over-rated Cool Earth

Sanjay26 Nov 2018 2:29 UTC
78 points
32 comments16 min readEA link

Towards Bet­ter EA Ca­reer Advice

lexande21 Nov 2018 2:52 UTC
64 points
40 comments3 min readEA link

Get­ting past the DALY: differ­ent mea­sures of “pos­i­tive im­pact”

drbrake20 Nov 2018 5:45 UTC
10 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Suffer­ing re­lief vs life extension

drbrake19 Nov 2018 16:55 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

ACE’s Re­sponse to John Halstead

ToniA7 Sep 2018 18:10 UTC
23 points
14 comments12 min readEA link

Con­cerns with ACE research

John G. Halstead7 Sep 2018 14:56 UTC
40 points
10 comments11 min readEA link

Prob­lems with EA rep­re­sen­ta­tive­ness and how to solve it

Joey3 Aug 2018 19:25 UTC
60 points
60 comments6 min readEA link

Lev­er­age Re­search: re­view­ing the ba­sic facts

throwaway3 Aug 2018 5:19 UTC
103 points
103 comments1 min readEA link

The EA Com­mu­nity and Long-Term Fu­ture Funds Lack Trans­parency and Accountability

Evan_Gaensbauer23 Jul 2018 0:39 UTC
73 points
56 comments12 min readEA link

How to im­prove EA Funds

HenryStanley4 Apr 2018 9:27 UTC
43 points
33 comments3 min readEA link

EA Funds hands out money very in­fre­quently—should we be wor­ried?

HenryStanley31 Jan 2018 8:10 UTC
41 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Why I think the Foun­da­tional Re­search In­sti­tute should re­think its approach

MikeJohnson20 Jul 2017 20:46 UTC
45 points
76 comments20 min readEA link

My cur­rent thoughts on MIRI’s “highly re­li­able agent de­sign” work

Daniel_Dewey7 Jul 2017 1:17 UTC
60 points
59 comments19 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism is self-recommending

BenHoffman23 Apr 2017 6:11 UTC
56 points
48 comments28 min readEA link

Con­tra the Giv­ing What We Can pledge

AlyssaVance4 Dec 2016 20:46 UTC
15 points
80 comments4 min readEA link

Set­ting Com­mu­nity Norms and Values: A re­sponse to the InIn Open Letter

William_MacAskill26 Oct 2016 22:44 UTC
38 points
59 comments4 min readEA link

Con­cerns with In­ten­tional Insights

Jeff Kaufman24 Oct 2016 12:04 UTC
64 points
182 comments15 min readEA link

Why the Open Philan­thropy Pro­ject Should Pri­ori­tize Wild An­i­mal Suffering

MichaelDickens26 Aug 2016 2:08 UTC
22 points
16 comments2 min readEA link

GiveWell’s Char­ity Recom­men­da­tions Re­quire Tak­ing a Con­tro­ver­sial Stance on Pop­u­la­tion Ethics

MichaelDickens17 May 2016 1:51 UTC
30 points
52 comments8 min readEA link

Are GiveWell Top Char­i­ties Too Spec­u­la­tive?

MichaelDickens21 Dec 2015 4:05 UTC
24 points
58 comments3 min readEA link

Some gen­eral con­cerns about GiveWell

William_MacAskill23 Dec 2012 5:00 UTC
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

GiveWell’s recom­men­da­tion of GiveDirectly

William_MacAskill30 Nov 2012 5:00 UTC
2 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
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