Criticism of work in effective altruism

TagLast edit: 28 Nov 2023 21:25 UTC by Sarah Cheng 🔸

The Criticism of work in effective altruism tag applies to posts critically examining the work, projects, or methodologies of specific individuals, organizations, or initiatives affiliated with the effective altruism (EA) movement or community.

Open Phil Should Allocate Most Neartermist Funding to Animal Welfare

Ariel Simnegar 🔸19 Nov 2023 17:00 UTC

532 points

129 comments14 min readEA link

Productive criticism: running a draft past the people you’re criticizing

Lizka15 Jun 2023 15:57 UTC

39 points

7 comments7 min readEA link

Why is it so hard to know if you’re helping?

Vasco Grilo🔸16 Oct 2024 16:08 UTC

59 points

6 comments12 min readEA link

(www.theintrinsicperspective.com)

Quick Update on Leaving the Board of EV

rebecca3 Apr 2024 0:13 UTC

357 points

117 comments1 min readEA link

Mistakes in the moral mathematics of existential risk (Part 2: Ignoring background risk) - Reflective altruism

Eevee🔹3 Jul 2023 6:34 UTC

84 points

7 comments6 min readEA link

(ineffectivealtruismblog.com)

[Question] Should the main text of the write-ups of Open Philanthropy’s large grants be longer than 1 paragraph?

Vasco Grilo🔸31 Mar 2024 9:04 UTC

55 points

40 comments1 min readEA link

Productive criticism: what could help?

Lizka13 Jun 2023 14:56 UTC

38 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

In AI Governance, let the Non-EA World Train You First

Camille23 Jul 2025 17:46 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Critiques of prominent AI safety labs: Conjecture

Omega12 Jun 2023 5:52 UTC

150 points

83 comments32 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

[Book Review] asterisk #1

Tristan W18 Oct 2023 19:40 UTC

37 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Multiplier Arguments are often flawed

AGB 🔸13 Oct 2024 21:25 UTC

193 points

64 comments4 min readEA link

Evidence of effectiveness and transparency of a few effective giving organisations

Vasco Grilo🔸1 Jul 2023 8:10 UTC

60 points

16 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Effective giving initiatives should not assume the best animal and human welfare interventions are equally cost-effective?

Vasco Grilo🔸18 Feb 2025 17:47 UTC

5 points

27 comments3 min readEA link

How Democratic Is Effective Altruism — Really?

Maxim Vandaele16 Apr 2025 8:29 UTC

12 points

12 comments1 min readEA link

(bobjacobs.substack.com)

Cost-effectiveness of the fish welfare interventions recommended by Ambitious Impact, and Fish Welfare Initiative’s farm program

Vasco Grilo🔸24 Jan 2025 17:35 UTC

36 points

7 comments13 min readEA link

Debate: organisations using Rethink Priorities’ mainline welfare ranges should consider effects on soil nematodes, mites, and springtails, or at least be transparent about their reasons for neglecting them?

Vasco Grilo🔸13 Jul 2025 11:41 UTC

30 points

66 comments6 min readEA link

We need an independent investigation into how EA leadership has handled SBF and FTX

AnonymousEAForumAccount24 Jul 2024 3:24 UTC

141 points

53 comments12 min readEA link

Malaria bednet and medicine overlap

Michael St Jules 🔸5 Sep 2023 23:55 UTC

24 points

4 comments9 min readEA link

Should Sinergia Animal be credited for helping Alibem’s piglets?

Vasco Grilo🔸20 Nov 2025 18:11 UTC

17 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

Nuclear war tail risk has been exaggerated?

Vasco Grilo🔸25 Feb 2024 9:14 UTC

48 points

24 comments28 min readEA link

The ‘Wild’ and ‘Wacky’ Claims of Karnofsky’s ‘Most Important Century’

carboniferous_umbraculum26 Apr 2023 15:45 UTC

124 points

16 comments18 min readEA link

Can a war cause human extinction? Once again, not on priors

Vasco Grilo🔸25 Jan 2024 7:56 UTC

67 points

29 comments18 min readEA link

[Question] Thoughts on this $16.7M “AI safety” grant?

defun 🔸16 Jul 2024 9:16 UTC

61 points

24 comments1 min readEA link

A case against focusing on tail-end nuclear war risks

Sarah Weiler16 Nov 2022 6:08 UTC

32 points

15 comments10 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo🔸15 Dec 2023 9:08 UTC

33 points

14 comments3 min readEA link

Are Far-UVC Interventions Overhyped? [Founders Pledge]

christian.r9 Jan 2024 17:38 UTC

142 points

8 comments61 min readEA link

[Question] What are some criticisms of PauseAI?

Eevee🔹23 Nov 2024 17:49 UTC

53 points

71 comments1 min readEA link

FarmKind’s Illusory Offer

Jeff Kaufman 🔸9 Aug 2024 11:32 UTC

99 points

51 comments3 min readEA link

Saving lives in normal times is better to improve the longterm future than doing so in catastrophes?

Vasco Grilo🔸20 Apr 2024 8:37 UTC

13 points

25 comments9 min readEA link

An EA used deceptive messaging to advance her project; we need mechanisms to avoid deontologically dubious plans

MikhailSamin13 Feb 2024 23:11 UTC

19 points

39 comments5 min readEA link

Famine deaths due to the climatic effects of nuclear war

Vasco Grilo🔸14 Oct 2023 12:05 UTC

40 points

21 comments66 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo🔸31 Jul 2022 13:41 UTC

45 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

Focusing on bad criticism is dangerous to your epistemics

Lizka15 Mar 2024 23:57 UTC

78 points

5 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Investigative journalist in the AI safety space?

Benevolent_Rain15 Nov 2024 8:48 UTC

4 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Probably tell your friends when they make big mistakes

Chi1 Jun 2023 14:30 UTC

98 points

6 comments7 min readEA link

Cancelling GPT subscription

adekcz20 May 2024 16:19 UTC

26 points

14 comments3 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

Is Effective Altruism Neocolonial? (an overview of the arguments and counterarguments)

Bob Jacobs22 Jul 2025 14:14 UTC

84 points

21 comments10 min readEA link

(bobjacobs.substack.com)

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

Vasco Grilo🔸20 Dec 2023 8:14 UTC

91 points

17 comments3 min readEA link

Reducing the nearterm risk of human extinction is not astronomically cost-effective?

Vasco Grilo🔸9 Jun 2024 8:02 UTC

21 points

37 comments8 min readEA link

Public Fundraising has Positive Externalities

Larks26 Dec 2023 14:39 UTC

82 points

9 comments4 min readEA link

Concepts of existential catastrophe

Vasco Grilo🔸15 Apr 2024 17:16 UTC

11 points

1 comment8 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Notes on how I want to handle criticism

Lizka8 Jun 2023 11:47 UTC

63 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

Nonlinear’s Evidence: Debunking False and Misleading Claims

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️12 Dec 2023 13:15 UTC

152 points

512 comments51 min readEA link

EA organizations should have a transparent scope

Joey🔸14 Jun 2023 11:30 UTC

193 points

21 comments3 min readEA link

The Life You Can Save suggests people earning 40 to 80 k$/year donate just 1 %

Vasco Grilo🔸21 Aug 2024 17:25 UTC

42 points

31 comments3 min readEA link

Effects on microorganisms are much larger than those on animals and plants under the assumptions of Rethink Priorities’ mainline welfare ranges?

Vasco Grilo🔸28 Jul 2025 16:26 UTC

14 points

7 comments8 min readEA link

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

GiveWell2 Jan 2024 21:09 UTC

92 points

26 comments23 min readEA link

(www.givewell.org)

GiveWell may have made 1 billion dollars of harmful grants, and Ambitious Impact incubated 8 harmful organisations via increasing factory-farming?

Vasco Grilo🔸22 Dec 2024 10:19 UTC

97 points

108 comments9 min readEA link

Are GiveWell Top Charities Too Speculative?

MichaelDickens21 Dec 2015 4:05 UTC

24 points

58 comments3 min readEA link

Saving human lives cheaply is the most cost-effective way of increasing animal welfare?

Vasco Grilo🔸7 Aug 2025 16:29 UTC

23 points

17 comments16 min readEA link

ai-plans.com December Critique-a-Thon

Kabir_Kumar4 Dec 2023 9:27 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readEA link

Milan Griffes on EA blindspots

technicalities18 Mar 2022 16:17 UTC

79 points

53 comments2 min readEA link

80,000 hours should remove OpenAI from the Job Board (and similar EA orgs should do similarly)

Raemon3 Jul 2024 20:34 UTC

263 points

79 comments3 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo🔸18 Jun 2023 8:32 UTC

26 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

Criticism on the EA Forum

Toby Tremlett🔹28 Apr 2025 8:28 UTC

68 points

26 comments3 min readEA link

Insecticide-treated nets significantly harm mosquitoes, but one can easily offset this?

Vasco Grilo🔸3 Feb 2025 18:03 UTC

30 points

44 comments7 min readEA link

Are our Top Charities saving the same lives each year?

GiveWell18 Jun 2024 15:47 UTC

166 points

7 comments33 min readEA link

(www.givewell.org)

Eliezer Yudkowsky Is Frequently, Confidently, Egregiously Wrong

Bentham's Bulldog27 Aug 2023 1:07 UTC

50 points

205 comments36 min readEA link

Against Anonymous Hit Pieces

Anti-Omega18 Jun 2023 19:36 UTC

−25 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Critiques of prominent AI safety labs: Redwood Research

Omega31 Mar 2023 8:58 UTC

339 points

90 comments20 min readEA link

Some general concerns about GiveWell

William_MacAskill23 Dec 2012 5:00 UTC

2 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Doing EA Better: grant-makers should consider grant app peer review along the public-sector model

ben.smith24 Jan 2023 15:01 UTC

50 points

7 comments9 min readEA link

Against AI As An Existential Risk

Noah Birnbaum30 Jul 2024 19:24 UTC

6 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

(irrationalitycommunity.substack.com)

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

MHR🔸4 Aug 2022 16:12 UTC

95 points

9 comments15 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

421 points

184 comments4 min readEA link

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

AppliedDivinityStudies10 Oct 2021 13:06 UTC

80 points

22 comments2 min readEA link

Responsible Scaling Policies Are Risk Management Done Wrong

simeon_c25 Oct 2023 23:46 UTC

42 points

1 comment22 min readEA link

(www.navigatingrisks.ai)

Nick Bostrom should step down as Director of FHI

BostromAnonAccount4 Mar 2023 14:39 UTC

77 points

94 comments4 min readEA link

Anti-‘FOOM’ (stop trying to make your cute pet name the thing)

david_reinstein14 Apr 2023 16:05 UTC

41 points

17 comments2 min readEA link

If EA Community-Building Could Be Net-Negative, What Follows?

joshcmorrison2 Jan 2023 19:21 UTC

153 points

78 comments5 min readEA link

Should EA Global London 2021 have been expanded?

Will Bradshaw9 Nov 2021 8:28 UTC

20 points

23 comments8 min readEA link

The EA Forum is a News Feed

DavidNash28 Jul 2019 22:27 UTC

79 points

21 comments3 min readEA link

Open EA Global

Scott Alexander1 Sep 2022 4:26 UTC

443 points

154 comments5 min readEA link

GWWC Should Require Public Charity Evaluations

Jeff Kaufman 🔸9 Jan 2023 20:11 UTC

93 points

9 comments4 min readEA link

Effective Aspersions: How the Nonlinear Investigation Went Wrong

TracingWoodgrains19 Dec 2023 12:00 UTC

350 points

213 comments31 min readEA link

Red Teaming CEA’s Community Building Work

AnonymousEAForumAccount1 Sep 2022 14:42 UTC

299 points

68 comments66 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

GiveWell should fund an SMC replication

Seth Ariel Green 🔸28 Oct 2022 12:31 UTC

90 points

17 comments5 min readEA link

Towards Better EA Career Advice

lexande21 Nov 2018 2:52 UTC

67 points

40 comments3 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

Responding to recent critiques of iron fortification in India

e19brendan12 Oct 2022 18:01 UTC

45 points

6 comments12 min readEA link

Hard Problems in GiveWell’s Moral Weights Approach

Tanae1 Nov 2022 4:51 UTC

37 points

3 comments9 min readEA link

Summary of Core Feedback Collected by CEA in Spring/Summer 2019

Ben_West🔸6 Nov 2019 11:52 UTC

109 points

29 comments13 min readEA link

EA Shouldn’t Try to Exercise Direct Political Power

iamasockpuppet21 Jul 2022 10:29 UTC

156 points

31 comments10 min readEA link

Hiring: How to do it Better

Joseph23 May 2022 7:45 UTC

77 points

26 comments16 min readEA link

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

Davidmanheim28 Jul 2022 10:08 UTC

118 points

52 comments5 min readEA link

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

Froolow25 Aug 2022 15:35 UTC

236 points

20 comments38 min readEA link

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)

Sign of quality of life in GiveWell’s analyses

brb24316 Oct 2022 14:54 UTC

57 points

19 comments3 min readEA link

Winners of the EA Criticism and Red Teaming Contest

Lizka1 Oct 2022 1:50 UTC

226 points

41 comments19 min readEA link

Make Conflict of Interest Policies Public

Jeff Kaufman 🔸9 Feb 2023 19:33 UTC

175 points

21 comments2 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

[UNENDORSED] Reward Long Content

niplav25 Apr 2022 10:00 UTC

42 points

9 comments11 min readEA link

Givewell, and its hiring process, needs serious reform

Bob29 Dec 2022 20:29 UTC

44 points

44 comments3 min readEA link

Unweirding Boards: What’s The Problem?

Stephen Robcraft9 Sep 2025 9:18 UTC

16 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

Announcing the Change Our Mind Contest for critiques of our cost-effectiveness analyses

GiveWell6 Sep 2022 18:10 UTC

142 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

(blog.givewell.org)

Anthropic is Quietly Backpedalling on its Safety Commitments

Garrison23 May 2025 2:26 UTC

100 points

7 comments5 min readEA link

(www.obsolete.pub)

Point-by-point reply to Yudkowsky on UFOs

Magnus Vinding19 Dec 2024 21:24 UTC

4 points

0 comments9 min readEA link

A few questions about recent developments in EA

Peter Berggren🔸23 Nov 2024 2:46 UTC

8 points

12 comments2 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

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

−7 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

Concerns with ACE’s Recent Behavior

Hypatia17 Apr 2021 17:00 UTC

275 points

149 comments11 min readEA link

A philosophical review of Open Philanthropy’s Cause Prioritisation Framework

MichaelPlant15 Jul 2022 8:21 UTC

160 points

11 comments29 min readEA link

(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Revisiting EA’s media policy

Arepo3 Dec 2022 16:55 UTC

239 points

65 comments6 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

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

Nicholas Kross21 Jun 2022 17:09 UTC

16 points

10 comments6 min readEA link

(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

EAG Organizing Team Really Dropping the Ball

Vilfredo's Ghost27 Jan 2023 21:36 UTC

−18 points

3 comments1 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

Donor Lotteries Aren’t Worth the Effort

AnonymousEAForumAccount27 Feb 2025 22:38 UTC

24 points

8 comments2 min readEA link

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

Cassidy28 Sep 2022 22:42 UTC

50 points

18 comments3 min readEA link

Crowdsourced Criticisms: What does EA think about EA?

Hmash8 Aug 2022 22:59 UTC

32 points

19 comments13 min readEA link

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

Aaron Gertler 🔸12 Nov 2019 1:14 UTC

127 points

51 comments16 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

Case Study of EA Global Rejection + Criticisms/Solutions

Constance Li23 Sep 2022 11:38 UTC

247 points

158 comments23 min readEA link

Protect Our Future’s Crypto Politics

Radical Empath Ismam29 Jan 2023 21:07 UTC

67 points

19 comments5 min readEA link

Slowing down AI progress is an underexplored alignment strategy

Michael Huang13 Jul 2022 3:22 UTC

91 points

11 comments3 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

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’s recommendation of GiveDirectly

William_MacAskill30 Nov 2012 5:00 UTC

2 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

PSA for vegan donors: GiveWell not ruling out animal-based aid

AdamA14 Aug 2025 13:48 UTC

147 points

42 comments1 min readEA link

Why we have over-rated Cool Earth

Sanjay26 Nov 2018 2:29 UTC

78 points

32 comments16 min readEA link

ACE’s Response to John Halstead

ToniA7 Sep 2018 18:10 UTC

23 points

14 comments12 min readEA link

AI Agents raised $2,000 for EA charities & used the EA Forum

David_R 🔸4 Jun 2025 22:18 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Global Health & Development—Beyond the Streetlight

Richard Sedlmayr2 Jul 2022 18:56 UTC

36 points

4 comments6 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

175 comments4 min readEA link

(time.com)

Opinionated take on EA and AI Safety

sammyboiz🔸2 Mar 2025 9:37 UTC

75 points

18 comments1 min readEA link

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

drbrake 🔸20 Nov 2018 5:45 UTC

10 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

The case for transparent spending

Jeroen Willems🔸15 Dec 2022 17:42 UTC

19 points

13 comments7 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

Jobs at EA-organizations are overpaid, here is why

Cynwit8 Jun 2022 17:20 UTC

16 points

37 comments3 min readEA link

Criticism of the 80k job board listing strategy

Yonatan Cale21 Sep 2022 9:36 UTC

115 points

50 comments3 min readEA link

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

sapphire19 Jan 2023 1:32 UTC

−19 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

EA-Aligned Political Activity in a US Congressional Primary: Concerns and Proposed Changes

Carolina_EA28 Oct 2022 7:36 UTC

88 points

17 comments8 min readEA link

A quick update from Nonlinear

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️7 Sep 2023 21:26 UTC

85 points

34 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

Concerns about AMF from GiveWell reading—Part 4

JPHoughton13 Feb 2022 13:36 UTC

21 points

18 comments4 min readEA link

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

AnonymousThrowAway9 Jul 2022 10:47 UTC

303 points

32 comments11 min readEA link

Addressing Sinergia’s Response: Factual Corrections

VettedCauses17 Apr 2025 5:53 UTC

8 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

(vettedcauses.com)

AI companies’ eval reports mostly don’t support their claims

Zach Stein-Perlman9 Jun 2025 13:00 UTC

51 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

Why we think the Founders Pledge report overrates CfRN

Sanjay4 Nov 2019 17:54 UTC

50 points

10 comments16 min readEA link

Charity Entrepreneurship Is Overestimating the Value of Saving Lives by 10%

Mikolaj Kniejski12 Jun 2024 8:49 UTC

98 points

17 comments8 min readEA link

The Intellectual Heat Death: Why Academia is a Failing System and How We Can Build its Successor

SYU JIA WUN16 Sep 2025 14:01 UTC

−10 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

(osf.io)

Proposed improvements to EAG(x) admissions process

ES30 Jan 2023 6:10 UTC

62 points

29 comments3 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

Simple Tips for Sound Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

James Broughel1 Nov 2022 0:53 UTC

3 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

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

BurnerExplainer8 Feb 2023 7:00 UTC

48 points

98 comments6 min readEA link

Problems with EA representativeness and how to solve it

Joey🔸3 Aug 2018 19:25 UTC

60 points

60 comments6 min readEA link

Incentive Problems With Current Forecasting Competitions.

alex lawsen10 Nov 2020 21:40 UTC

56 points

10 comments5 min readEA link

“Technical Support Units”—A Dubious GiveWell Grant?

NickLaing5 Jun 2025 18:24 UTC

121 points

25 comments5 min readEA link

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

Benjamin_Todd17 Apr 2020 18:36 UTC

157 points

30 comments6 min readEA link

GiveDirectly’s cost-effectiveness could be 6.7x higher

Carolina Toth3 Nov 2022 4:39 UTC

23 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

(docs.google.com)

Should GiveWell still recommend GiveDirectly?

Shakeel Hashim29 Aug 2022 6:34 UTC

106 points

11 comments2 min readEA link

(www.givedirectly.org)

Questions about OP grant to Helena

DizzyMarmot2 Feb 2023 6:21 UTC

122 points

73 comments3 min readEA link

Why GiveWell should use complete uncertainty quantification

Tanae27 Dec 2022 20:11 UTC

32 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(suboptimal.substack.com)

Drowning children are rare

BenHoffman28 May 2019 17:33 UTC

−9 points

36 comments5 min readEA link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

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

[Question] [Atlas Fellowship] Why do 100 high-schoolers need $50k each from Open Philanthropy?

Sparcalum24 Feb 2023 16:57 UTC

75 points

89 comments4 min readEA link

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

Simon_M27 Dec 2022 23:53 UTC

337 points

129 comments6 min readEA link

(simonm.substack.com)

Suffering relief vs life extension

drbrake 🔸19 Nov 2018 16:55 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 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

Unweirding Boards: Conditions for Good Governance

Stephen Robcraft23 Sep 2025 10:13 UTC

18 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

Criticism Thread: What things should OpenPhil improve on?

anonymousEA204 Feb 2023 8:16 UTC

85 points

8 comments2 min readEA link

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

SoGive8 Aug 2022 8:01 UTC

64 points

10 comments15 min readEA link

The career and the community

richard_ngo21 Mar 2019 12:35 UTC

93 points

35 comments14 min readEA link

Does EA understand how to apologize for things?

titotal15 Jan 2023 19:14 UTC

166 points

48 comments3 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

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

Arden Koehler16 Apr 2019 18:51 UTC

99 points

57 comments10 min readEA link

Mediocre AI safety as existential risk

technicalities16 Mar 2022 11:50 UTC

52 points

12 comments3 min readEA link

A flaw in the “influence (UK) policymakers to make an impact” theory of change

MildAbandon13 Jun 2025 20:10 UTC

17 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

Contra the Giving What We Can pledge

AlyssaVance4 Dec 2016 20:46 UTC

22 points

80 comments4 min readEA link

GiveWell’s Uncertainty Problem

noahhaber28 Oct 2022 7:36 UTC

15 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

(docs.google.com)

Selective truth-telling: concerns about EA leadership communication.

tcelferact15 Nov 2022 19:45 UTC

93 points

45 comments5 min readEA link

GiveWell should use shorter TAI timelines

OscarD🔸27 Oct 2022 6:59 UTC

52 points

6 comments3 min readEA link

Concerns with Intentional Insights

Jeff Kaufman 🔸24 Oct 2016 12:04 UTC

65 points

182 comments15 min readEA link

Davidson’s Model of Takeoff Speeds: A Critical Take

Violet Hour31 Jan 2025 18:46 UTC

38 points

2 comments19 min readEA link

“Doing Good Best” isn’t the EA ideal

Davidmanheim16 Sep 2022 12:06 UTC

128 points

17 comments6 min readEA link

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

Aaron Gertler 🔸24 Mar 2020 6:04 UTC

63 points

17 comments1 min readEA link

On Deference and Yudkowsky’s AI Risk Estimates

bmg19 Jun 2022 14:35 UTC

288 points

194 comments17 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

GiveWell’s approach to supplementary adjustments uses questionable priors

SoGive1 Nov 2022 12:53 UTC

11 points

1 comment19 min readEA link

Make the create post button easier to find. (EA Forum UI Design Feedback)

Cassidy23 Oct 2022 21:14 UTC

20 points

8 comments2 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

AMF net use may be overestimated by about 10 percentage points

brb24310 Oct 2022 23:05 UTC

23 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

Sinergia (ACE Top Charity) Makes False Claims About Helping Millions of Animals

VettedCauses20 Feb 2025 7:29 UTC

23 points

47 comments1 min readEA link

(vettedcauses.com)

Oliver Habryka on OpenPhil and GoodVentures

TimothyTelleenLawton2 May 2025 20:06 UTC

34 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Sinergia Continues to Make False Claims About Helping Millions of Animals

VettedCauses22 Mar 2025 8:25 UTC

−2 points

10 comments3 min readEA link

Strategic Neutrality for ACE: Maximizing Impact by Avoiding Divisive Signaling

AndeanCondor3 Jun 2025 15:47 UTC

14 points

10 comments2 min readEA link

Advice to pivot into AI Safety is likely miscalibrated

Dan MacKinlay20 Oct 2025 15:50 UTC

24 points

8 comments20 min readEA link

(danmackinlay.name)

Scale norming undermines the use of life satisfaction for charity evaluation

Singer Robin23 May 2025 14:47 UTC

54 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

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

Larks14 Oct 2020 17:08 UTC

185 points

80 comments40 min readEA link

The Mistakes of Focusing on Student Outreach in EA

DavidNash20 Sep 2022 17:48 UTC

118 points

16 comments3 min readEA link

On failing to get EA jobs: My experience and recommendations to EA orgs

Avila22 Apr 2024 21:19 UTC

131 points

55 comments5 min readEA link

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

MHR🔸1 Nov 2022 1:00 UTC

64 points

4 comments18 min readEA link

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

James Snowden🔸24 Feb 2023 18:18 UTC

320 points

9 comments5 min readEA link

Bad Omens in current EA Governance

ludwigbald20 Dec 2022 22:59 UTC

11 points

75 comments2 min readEA link

Moving Toward More Concrete Proposals for Reform

Jason27 Jan 2023 0:36 UTC

88 points

8 comments9 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

A dozen doubts about GiveWell’s numbers

JoelMcGuire1 Nov 2022 2:25 UTC

134 points

18 comments19 min readEA link

(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Democratizing the workplace as a cause area

Bob Jacobs26 Nov 2022 18:31 UTC

35 points

19 comments8 min readEA link

My take on What We Owe the Future

elifland1 Sep 2022 18:07 UTC

357 points

50 comments26 min readEA link

Why EAs should normalize using Glassdoor

Joey🔸23 Jun 2022 10:56 UTC

90 points

10 comments2 min readEA link

More EAs are underutilized than you think

Peter Berggren🔸23 Sep 2025 21:18 UTC

27 points

2 comments5 min readEA link

ITN 201: pitfalls in ITN BOTECs

Lizka13 Aug 2025 4:01 UTC

127 points

6 comments12 min readEA link

Effective Altruism Should Seek Less Criticism

The Chaostician1 Sep 2022 7:33 UTC

19 points

0 comments12 min readEA link

A Windfall Clause for CEO could worsen AI race dynamics

Larks9 Mar 2023 18:02 UTC

70 points

10 comments7 min readEA link

OpenAI Does Not Appear to be Applying Watermarks Honestly

scronkfinkle6 Nov 2025 21:25 UTC

14 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] Why did CEA buy Wytham Abbey?

Jeroen Willems🔸6 Dec 2022 14:46 UTC

139 points

340 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

Concerns with ACE research

John G. Halstead7 Sep 2018 14:56 UTC

40 points

10 comments11 min readEA link

Do we need a new Moral Weights Project?

NickLaing30 Jun 2025 17:47 UTC

91 points

19 comments2 min readEA link

A Gentle Introduction to Risk Frameworks Beyond Forecasting

pending_survival11 Apr 2024 9:15 UTC

83 points

4 comments27 min readEA link

SoGive review of GiveWell’s discount rates

SoGive1 Nov 2022 12:52 UTC

17 points

1 comment16 min readEA link

The motivated reasoning critique of effective altruism

Linch14 Sep 2021 20:43 UTC

286 points

59 comments18 min readEA link

Run Posts By Orgs

Jeff Kaufman 🔸29 Mar 2023 2:40 UTC

281 points

13 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] How Should EA Govern Itself?

John Coleman23 Jan 2023 3:19 UTC

4 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

EA in the Lakes—Reflections

Kestrel🔸3 Sep 2025 16:01 UTC

95 points

5 comments9 min readEA link

Effective Altruism and Reflective Equilibrium

Noah Birnbaum6 Jun 2024 14:49 UTC

13 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(irrationalitycommunity.substack.com)

Common misconceptions about OpenAI

Jacob_Hilton25 Aug 2022 14:08 UTC

51 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

The EA community does not own its donors’ money

Nick Whitaker18 Jan 2023 18:59 UTC

645 points

116 comments4 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

“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

Works in Progress: The Long Journey to Doing Good Better by Dustin Moskovitz [Linkpost]

Nathan Young14 Feb 2024 19:43 UTC

119 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(medium.com)

Defining “Bullshit”: Limitations and Related Frameworks

Ozzie Gooen12 Jun 2025 22:43 UTC

9 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(ozziegooen.substack.com)

Sanity Check—Givewell’s New Incentives estimate seems optimistic

NickLaing11 Jul 2025 15:23 UTC

76 points

9 comments3 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

Quantifying Uncertainty in GiveWell’s GiveDirectly Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

SamNolan27 May 2022 3:10 UTC

130 points

19 comments6 min readEA link

Request for Guidance: Reaching Out to Charities Before Publishing Reviews and Our Concerns

VettedCauses21 Feb 2025 13:59 UTC

56 points

55 comments4 min readEA link

What specific changes should we as a community make to the effective altruism community? [Probably gonna delay this a bit]

Nathan Young6 Dec 2022 12:24 UTC

15 points

15 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Why altruism at all?

Singleton12 Jul 2020 22:04 UTC

−2 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

ESPR should return the FTX-funded chateau

Bob Jacobs10 Dec 2022 15:54 UTC

4 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

Avoiding Groupthink in Intro Fellowships (and Diversifying Longtermism)

seanrson14 Sep 2021 21:00 UTC

67 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

Review of The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does

Richard Y Chappell🔸2 May 2023 15:45 UTC

221 points

55 comments10 min readEA link

(rychappell.substack.com)

Is there more to life than survival and income?

brb24313 Oct 2022 21:56 UTC

15 points

7 comments5 min readEA link

Concerns about AMF from GiveWell reading—Part 1

JPHoughton17 Oct 2021 11:56 UTC

71 points

17 comments3 min readEA link

Evaluating StrongMinds: how strong is the evidence?

JoelMcGuire19 Jan 2023 0:12 UTC

118 points

53 comments5 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)

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 about AMF from GiveWell reading—Part 2

JPHoughton21 Nov 2021 13:52 UTC

31 points

10 comments2 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

65 points

62 comments1 min readEA link

Dear Anthropic people, please don’t release Claude

Joseph Miller8 Feb 2023 2:44 UTC

28 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

Emergency pod: Don’t believe OpenAI’s “nonprofit” spin (with Tyler Whitmer)

80000_Hours15 May 2025 16:52 UTC

37 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Which Community Building Projects Get Funded?

AnonymousEAForumAccount13 Nov 2019 20:31 UTC

99 points

56 comments9 min readEA link

What is Operations Management?

Joseph10 Jul 2022 1:27 UTC

84 points

12 comments19 min readEA link

The Case for Evaluators to “Finish the Job” (Draft Amnesty Week)

Devin Kalish24 Feb 2025 16:31 UTC

31 points

5 comments7 min readEA link

Two potential cases of Effective Ventures breaking the law

Whistleblower33 Feb 2023 10:37 UTC

−48 points

38 comments2 min readEA link

Leverage Research: reviewing the basic facts

throwaway3 Aug 2018 5:19 UTC

103 points

103 comments1 min readEA link

Why Effective Altruists Should Put a Higher Priority on Funding Academic Research

Stuart Buck25 Jun 2022 19:17 UTC

118 points

15 comments11 min readEA link

OpenAI Locks Down San Francisco Offices Following Alleged Threat From Activist

Matrice Jacobine🔸🏳️‍⚧️22 Nov 2025 19:33 UTC

65 points

7 comments4 min readEA link

(www.wired.com)

Should EVF consider appointing new board members?

BurnerAcct5 Feb 2023 6:01 UTC

188 points

88 comments1 min readEA link

Sinergia (ACE Top Charity) is Committing Fraud

VettedCauses21 Apr 2025 12:06 UTC

−91 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

SPI: The Litigators That Have Never Litigated a Case

VettedCauses27 Jun 2025 0:39 UTC

−54 points

16 comments1 min readEA link

(www.vettedcauses.com)

Reflections on Wytham Abbey

nikos10 Jan 2023 18:30 UTC

82 points

51 comments4 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

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

Jeffrey Ladish11 Jul 2022 19:38 UTC

54 points

9 comments6 min readEA link

Are Billionaire Philanthropists Effective in their Altruism?

Bob Jacobs1 Oct 2025 14:33 UTC

11 points

12 comments7 min readEA link

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

NunoSempere16 Jun 2022 16:40 UTC

307 points

97 comments26 min readEA link

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

JoelMcGuire25 Jul 2022 20:26 UTC

308 points

38 comments11 min readEA link

(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

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

Why I’m concerned about Giving Green

alex lawsen20 Jan 2021 22:59 UTC

231 points

49 comments13 min readEA link

Critique of OpenPhil’s macroeconomic policy advocacy

Hauke Hillebrandt24 Mar 2022 22:03 UTC

143 points

39 comments24 min readEA link

OpenAI defected, but we can take honest actions

Remmelt21 Oct 2024 8:41 UTC

19 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

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

Henry Stanley 🔸31 Jan 2018 8:10 UTC

41 points

16 comments1 min readEA link

I find this forum increasingly difficult to navigate

Arepo5 Jul 2019 10:27 UTC

66 points

50 comments1 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

There’s Lots More To Do

Jeff Kaufman 🔸29 May 2019 19:58 UTC

135 points

30 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Does the Long-Term Future Fund provide funding for anything besides AI and biosecurity?

FJehn28 Aug 2025 16:04 UTC

18 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Why do EA longtermists not discuss the alleged problem of cognitive decline?

Stijn Bruers 🔸13 Mar 2025 22:16 UTC

8 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

Chesterton Fences and EA’s X-risks

jehan2 Sep 2022 11:56 UTC

79 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

Society for the Protection of Insects Review

VettedCauses24 Jun 2025 0:07 UTC

−18 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

(www.vettedcauses.com)

Be careful with (outsourcing) hiring

Richard Möhn17 Oct 2022 20:30 UTC

40 points

38 comments13 min readEA link

How to improve EA Funds

Henry Stanley 🔸4 Apr 2018 9:27 UTC

43 points

33 comments3 min readEA link

GiveWell Misuses Discount Rates

OscarD🔸27 Oct 2022 6:57 UTC

73 points

12 comments4 min readEA link

Announcing: On Underutilization

Peter Berggren🔸18 Sep 2025 15:23 UTC

31 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

Dark side of EA entrepreneurship

Martin (Huge) Vlach19 Oct 2023 13:52 UTC

−3 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

(www.frontiersin.org)

[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

Sharing Information About Nonlinear

Ben Pace7 Sep 2023 6:51 UTC

432 points

497 comments34 min readEA link

Update on CEA’s EA Grants Program

Nicole_Ross8 Nov 2019 23:00 UTC

125 points

31 comments6 min readEA link

What 80000 Hours gets wrong about solar geoengineering

GideonF29 Aug 2022 13:24 UTC

26 points

4 comments22 min readEA link

A Critique of Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE)

VettedCauses8 Nov 2024 17:08 UTC

62 points

52 comments1 min readEA link

(vettedcauses.com)

Growth and the case against randomista development

Hauke Hillebrandt16 Jan 2020 10:11 UTC

435 points

197 comments31 min readEA link

How We Might All Die in A Year

Greg_Colbourn ⏸️ 28 Mar 2025 13:31 UTC

12 points

6 comments21 min readEA link

(x.com)

Concerns over EA’s possible neglect of experts

JackM16 Dec 2022 22:10 UTC

34 points

16 comments2 min readEA link

EA is vetting-constrained

toonalfrink9 Mar 2019 1:25 UTC

129 points

29 comments4 min readEA link

GWWC’s Handling of Conflicting Funding Bars

Jeff Kaufman 🔸11 Jan 2023 20:31 UTC

83 points

5 comments3 min readEA link

An Evaluation of Animal Charity Evaluators

eaanonymous12342 Sep 2022 4:33 UTC

103 points

6 comments43 min readEA link

Issues with Giving Multiplier

Jeff Kaufman 🔸29 Sep 2021 21:40 UTC

29 points

10 comments6 min readEA link

(www.jefftk.com)

EA jobs provide scarce non-monetary goods

Milan Griffes20 Mar 2019 20:56 UTC

55 points

15 comments2 min readEA link

EA on nuclear war and expertise

bean28 Aug 2022 4:59 UTC

154 points

17 comments4 min readEA link

How to unite radical feminism and EA. Vol 1: donor engagement

Will_Davison6 May 2025 20:20 UTC

1 point

21 comments2 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

GiveWell Donation Matching

Jeff Kaufman 🔸21 Sep 2021 22:50 UTC

35 points

7 comments2 min readEA link

(www.jefftk.com)

Make EA Organizing Great Again: Exposing the CEA Swamp

AgentMa🔸26 Sep 2025 1:34 UTC

−3 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

community building solely as a tool for impact creates toxic communities

ruthgrace1 Sep 2022 3:45 UTC

45 points

2 comments2 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

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

James Fodor14 Nov 2022 12:43 UTC

452 points

55 comments4 min readEA link

Unweirding Boards: An Outcomes-First Case

Stephen Robcraft29 Aug 2025 10:09 UTC

13 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

Doing EA Better

ConcernedEAs17 Jan 2023 20:09 UTC

265 points

384 comments70 min readEA link

Effective altruism is self-recommending

BenHoffman23 Apr 2017 6:11 UTC

67 points

48 comments28 min readEA link

The Practical Value of Flawed Models: A Response to titotal’s AI 2027 Critique

Michelle_Ma25 Jun 2025 22:24 UTC

91 points

1 comment6 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

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