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TagLast edit: 22 Apr 2022 13:18 UTC by Lizka

The books tag covers posts about books.

If you’re looking for summaries and reviews, you might also find LessWrong’s “Book reviews” tag relevant. On the Forum, the “collections and resources” tag might also be related.

Some EA books have their own tag: The Precipice | Doing Good Better | Poor Economics | Superintelligence | The Life You Can Save | Human Compatible | What We Owe the Future

Effec­tive al­tru­ism read­ing list

Richard_Batty28 Oct 2013 19:10 UTC
12 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Com­ments on Ernest Davis’s com­ments on Bostrom’s Superintelligence

Giles24 Jan 2015 4:40 UTC
2 points
8 comments9 min readEA link

Five books to make you su­per effective

John_Maxwell2 Apr 2015 2:31 UTC
7 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Hand­book—Now Online

RyanCarey23 Apr 2015 14:23 UTC
31 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

Thread for dis­cussing crit­i­cal re­view of Do­ing Good Bet­ter in the Lon­don Re­view of Books

Benjamin_Todd21 Sep 2015 2:27 UTC
13 points
20 comments8 min readEA link

Re­view of EA New Zealand’s ‘Do­ing Good Bet­ter’ book giveaway

Catherine Low9 Jun 2017 18:38 UTC
23 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

Which five books would you recom­mend to an 18 year old?

RandomEA5 Sep 2017 21:10 UTC
10 points
31 comments1 min readEA link

En­light­ened Con­cerns of Tomorrow

cassidynelson15 Mar 2018 5:29 UTC
15 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

The Righ­teous Mind book review

Justis5 Sep 2018 18:08 UTC
34 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

Book re­view: The Dooms­day Machine

eukaryote10 Sep 2018 1:43 UTC
49 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Book Re­view: En­light­en­ment Now, by Steven Pinker

Aaron Gertler21 Oct 2018 23:12 UTC
24 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

How democ­racy ends: a re­view and reevaluation

richard_ngo24 Nov 2018 17:41 UTC
27 points
2 comments6 min readEA link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Notes on “The Art of Gather­ing”

DavidNash6 Dec 2018 15:48 UTC
65 points
6 comments13 min readEA link

Book Re­view: The End of An­i­mal Farm­ing (Jacy Reese, 2018)

Jamie_Harris17 Dec 2018 22:26 UTC
9 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(butcantheysuffer.wordpress.com)

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: April 2019 grant recommendations

Habryka23 Apr 2019 7:00 UTC
142 points
242 comments47 min readEA link

Book recom­men­da­tion: Loonshots

nonzerosum3 May 2019 18:30 UTC
24 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

What books or bod­ies of work, not about EA or EA cause ar­eas, might be benefi­cial to EAs?

arikr11 Jun 2019 22:22 UTC
7 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

“Why Na­tions Fail” and the long-ter­mist view of global poverty

Ben Kuhn16 Jul 2019 7:59 UTC
153 points
20 comments13 min readEA link
(www.benkuhn.net)

[Question] What book(s) would you want a gifted teenager to come across?

alex lawsen (previously alexrjl)5 Aug 2019 13:39 UTC
28 points
59 comments1 min readEA link

Progress book recommendations

Daniel May8 Aug 2019 20:47 UTC
73 points
7 comments17 min readEA link
(danielmamay.github.io)

Key points from The Dead Hand, David E. Hoffman

Kit9 Aug 2019 13:59 UTC
71 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

[Link] Mo­ral In­ter­lude from “The Wizard and the Prophet”

Milan_Griffes27 Sep 2019 18:42 UTC
13 points
8 comments9 min readEA link

New pop­u­lar sci­ence book on x-risks: “End Times”

Hauke Hillebrandt1 Oct 2019 7:18 UTC
17 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Publi­ca­tion of Stu­art Rus­sell’s new book on AI safety—re­views needed

Caro8 Oct 2019 5:29 UTC
40 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Sum­mary of Stu­art Rus­sell’s new book, “Hu­man Com­pat­i­ble”

Rohin Shah19 Oct 2019 19:56 UTC
33 points
1 comment16 min readEA link
(www.alignmentforum.org)

Notes on ‘Atomic Ob­ses­sion’ (2009)

lukeprog26 Oct 2019 0:30 UTC
62 points
16 comments8 min readEA link

Are Hu­mans ‘Hu­man Com­pat­i­ble’?

Matt Boyd6 Dec 2019 5:49 UTC
23 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

[Re­view and notes] How Democ­racy Ends—David Runciman

Ben13 Feb 2020 22:30 UTC
31 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Toby Ord’s ‘The Precipice’ is pub­lished!

matthew.vandermerwe4 Mar 2020 21:09 UTC
146 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

Book Re­view: The Precipice

Aaron Gertler9 Apr 2020 21:21 UTC
39 points
0 comments17 min readEA link
(slatestarcodex.com)

[Notes] Cli­mate Shock by Wag­ner and Weitzman

Ben13 Apr 2020 9:41 UTC
25 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

Policy and re­search ideas to re­duce ex­is­ten­tial risk

80000_Hours27 Apr 2020 8:46 UTC
3 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Crit­i­cal Re­view of ‘The Precipice’: A Re­assess­ment of the Risks of AI and Pandemics

Fods1211 May 2020 11:11 UTC
110 points
32 comments26 min readEA link

New book — “Suffer­ing-Fo­cused Ethics: Defense and Im­pli­ca­tions”

Magnus Vinding31 May 2020 9:27 UTC
103 points
20 comments4 min readEA link

Should EA Buy Distri­bu­tion Rights for Foun­da­tional Books?

Cullen17 Jun 2020 5:38 UTC
108 points
39 comments2 min readEA link

‘The Precipice’ Book Review

Matt Goodman27 Jul 2020 22:10 UTC
14 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

The Precipice: a risky re­view by a non-EA

fmoreno8 Aug 2020 14:40 UTC
14 points
1 comment18 min readEA link

Book re­view: Ar­chi­tects of In­tel­li­gence by Martin Ford (2018)

Ofer11 Aug 2020 17:24 UTC
11 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Book Re­view: Deon­tol­ogy by Jeremy Bentham

ketchupduck12 Aug 2020 13:45 UTC
50 points
10 comments17 min readEA link

Re­view and Sum­mary of ‘Mo­ral Uncer­tainty’

finm2 Oct 2020 15:41 UTC
37 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.finmoorhouse.com)

[Question] What is a book that gen­uinely changed your life for the bet­ter?

Jack Malde21 Oct 2020 19:33 UTC
26 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Brief book re­view 2020

Denise_Melchin3 Dec 2020 21:30 UTC
56 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Books /​ book re­views on nu­clear risk, WMDs, great power war?

MichaelA15 Dec 2020 1:40 UTC
15 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Notes on Schel­ling’s “Strat­egy of Con­flict” (1960)

MichaelA29 Jan 2021 8:56 UTC
20 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Books on au­thor­i­tar­i­anism, Rus­sia, China, NK, demo­cratic back­slid­ing, etc.?

MichaelA2 Feb 2021 3:52 UTC
14 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

Notes on “The Bomb: Pres­i­dents, Gen­er­als, and the Se­cret His­tory of Nu­clear War” (2020)

MichaelA6 Feb 2021 11:10 UTC
18 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

Stu­art Rus­sell Hu­man Com­pat­i­ble AI Roundtable with Allan Dafoe, Rob Re­ich, & Ma­ri­etje Schaake

Mahendra Prasad11 Feb 2021 7:43 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Light read: Free Trade, by Judy Eby

James_Banks13 Feb 2021 21:39 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

A ranked list of all EA-rele­vant (au­dio)books I’ve read

MichaelA17 Feb 2021 10:18 UTC
113 points
59 comments11 min readEA link

De­tailed notes on 20 EA-rele­vant/​recom­mended books

Calvin_Baker27 Feb 2021 17:09 UTC
24 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Notes on “Bioter­ror and Biowar­fare” (2006)

MichaelA1 Mar 2021 9:42 UTC
29 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] How should EAs man­age their copy­rights?

BrownHairedEevee9 Mar 2021 18:42 UTC
15 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

A Biose­cu­rity and Biorisk Read­ing+ List

Tessa14 Mar 2021 2:30 UTC
135 points
13 comments12 min readEA link

I scraped all pub­lic “Effec­tive Altru­ists” Goodreads read­ing lists

MaxRa23 Mar 2021 20:28 UTC
157 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

Notes on Hen­rich’s “The WEIRDest Peo­ple in the World” (2020)

MichaelA25 Mar 2021 5:04 UTC
38 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Your World, Bet­ter: Global progress for mid­dle schoolers

Aaron Gertler11 Apr 2021 21:57 UTC
15 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.cgdev.org)

Notes on Mochary’s “The Great CEO Within” (2019)

MichaelA29 May 2021 18:53 UTC
22 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund: May 2021 grant recommendations

Jonas V3 Jun 2021 1:01 UTC
92 points
99 comments42 min readEA link

Book Re­view: Prin­ci­ples of Mo­rals and Leg­is­la­tion by Jeremy Bentham

ketchupduck17 Jun 2021 1:49 UTC
20 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

Book recom­men­da­tion—The Ci­ti­zen’s Guide to Cli­mate Suc­cess by Mark Jaccard

Xing Shi Cai2 Jul 2021 22:58 UTC
15 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Les­sons from Strangers Drown­ing by Larissa MacFarquhar

Xing Shi Cai9 Jul 2021 19:35 UTC
13 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Book Give­away Im­pact Anal­y­sis (Do­ing Good Bet­ter in NZ)

Ivan Burduk13 Jul 2021 13:52 UTC
62 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

Open Philan­thropy is seek­ing pro­pos­als for out­reach projects

abergal16 Jul 2021 20:34 UTC
171 points
13 comments10 min readEA link

[Question] Books and lec­ture se­ries rele­vant to AI gov­er­nance?

MichaelA18 Jul 2021 15:54 UTC
22 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Book Re­view: The Sig­nal and the Noise

Sam Enright18 Jul 2021 21:32 UTC
30 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Book Re­view: Lost Connections

Sam Enright20 Jul 2021 15:20 UTC
15 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

Out­line of Galef’s “Scout Mind­set”

RobBensinger10 Aug 2021 0:18 UTC
94 points
9 comments13 min readEA link

The Scien­tist Mode, the Scout Mind­set and Flashcards

JaimeRV29 Aug 2021 18:56 UTC
7 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Five Books In­fluen­tial On How I Think About Global Poverty

ozymandias20 Sep 2021 7:14 UTC
32 points
1 comment12 min readEA link
(thingofthings.substack.com)

Notes on “Manag­ing to Change the World”

Peter Wildeford9 Oct 2021 2:17 UTC
193 points
27 comments26 min readEA link

Book Re­view: Churchill and Orwell

SammyDMartin10 Oct 2021 11:06 UTC
28 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Take­aways on US Policy Ca­reers (Part 2): Ca­reer Advice

Mau8 Nov 2021 8:42 UTC
86 points
7 comments34 min readEA link

TikTok EA Book Give­away In­ter­me­di­ate Results

Ben_West11 Nov 2021 23:53 UTC
80 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Be a Stoic and build bet­ter democ­ra­cies: an Aussie-as take on x-risks (re­view es­say)

Matt Boyd21 Nov 2021 4:30 UTC
32 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

Read­ing Group: The Good Ancestor

Sasha Berezhnoi1 Dec 2021 12:02 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: I’ve au­thored a new book (After Meat) about the tech­nolog­i­cal limits of an­i­mals for pro­duc­tion and why we’ll do better

Karthik Sekar1 Dec 2021 20:51 UTC
66 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

[Book rec] The War with the Newts as “EA fic­tion”

Lizka22 Dec 2021 4:10 UTC
59 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

New Publi­ca­tion: Effec­tive Altru­ism and Reli­gion

dominicroser25 Jan 2022 9:22 UTC
74 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

So you want to be a char­ity en­trepreneur. Read these first.

[Error communicating with LW2 server]26 Jan 2022 15:53 UTC
74 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Ray Dalio’s (Work) Prin­ci­ples (full list)

Aaron Boddy28 Jan 2022 9:21 UTC
42 points
4 comments17 min readEA link
(www.principles.com)

Notes on “The Poli­tics of Cri­sis Man­age­ment” (Boin et al., 2016)

DM30 Jan 2022 22:51 UTC
29 points
1 comment18 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Yet an­other biose­cu­rity read­ing list

cwbakerlee3 Feb 2022 19:24 UTC
37 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

New EA book: “How to Launch a High-Im­pact Non­profit” by Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship is now available wor­ld­wide in pa­per and eBook for­mat.

Joey11 Feb 2022 10:13 UTC
78 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

New Book: “Rea­soned Poli­tics” + Why I have writ­ten a book about politics

Magnus Vinding3 Mar 2022 11:31 UTC
90 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

EA Pro­jects I’d Like to See

finm13 Mar 2022 18:12 UTC
153 points
42 comments25 min readEA link
(www.finmoorhouse.com)

Book re­view of “Mengzi”

anonymous616 Mar 2022 22:58 UTC
17 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Why ev­ery EA group or­ga­nizer should read The Cul­ture Code

RobPra24 Mar 2022 21:18 UTC
34 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing What We Owe The Future

William_MacAskill30 Mar 2022 19:37 UTC
300 points
36 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] What are great mar­ket­ing ideas to en­courage pre-or­ders of What We Owe The Fu­ture?

abier30 Mar 2022 20:42 UTC
38 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

TikTok DGB Give­away Results

Ben_West15 Apr 2022 9:51 UTC
33 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

A re­view of Our Fi­nal Warn­ing: Six De­grees of Cli­mate Emer­gency by Mark Lynas

John G. Halstead15 Apr 2022 13:43 UTC
176 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

Bill Gates book on pan­demic prevention

PabloAMC1 May 2022 10:42 UTC
25 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Non-du­al­ity of the­ism and athe­ism: hu­man­ity as an ap­pren­tice God hypothesis

Alex Shenderov19 May 2022 15:52 UTC
−6 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

10 non-EA books you might find interesting

ryan_duplock20 May 2022 20:47 UTC
3 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

Notes on “The Myth of the Nu­clear Revolu­tion” (Lie­ber & Press, 2020)

DM24 May 2022 15:02 UTC
42 points
2 comments20 min readEA link

80 000 hours books give-away—ebooks

Ondřej Kubů27 May 2022 11:59 UTC
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Book fund? HTML book rights?

Larissa Schiavo2 Jun 2022 2:16 UTC
5 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

[Link] GCRI’s Seth Baum re­views The Precipice

Aryeh Englander6 Jun 2022 19:33 UTC
21 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Case for Read­ing Books

xander_balwit21 Jun 2022 3:50 UTC
39 points
10 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] WWOTF: Is there an ex­ist­ing read­ing guide or read­ing group syl­labus?

a_e_r7 Jul 2022 18:51 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Book] On Assess­ing the Risk of Nu­clear War

Aryeh Englander7 Jul 2022 21:08 UTC
28 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Co-Creation of the Library of Effec­tive Altru­ism [In­for­ma­tion De­sign] (1/​2)

annaleptikon10 Jul 2022 17:31 UTC
73 points
28 comments14 min readEA link

[Question] Recom­men­da­tions for non-tech­ni­cal books on AI?

Joseph Lemien12 Jul 2022 23:23 UTC
8 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Some­one should cre­ate an ‘EA Blinkist’ book sum­mary service

Forumite13 Jul 2022 11:41 UTC
22 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes: Pub­lish­ing Com­pre­hen­sive Books Which Make the Case for Effec­tive Cor­po­rate An­i­mal Welfare Cam­paigns via a Writ­ing Con­test for Po­ten­tial Authors

Enginar16 Jul 2022 8:31 UTC
9 points
2 comments17 min readEA link

Dis­cus­sion Ques­tions for Books with Ex­pe­rienced Pro­fes­sion­als’ Audience

brb24317 Jul 2022 12:29 UTC
5 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Recom­men­da­tions for the lend­ing library at a tech­nol­ogy strat­egy con­sult­ing firm

Emily Paulson9 Aug 2022 22:15 UTC
3 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

[Question] PDF of EA Hand­book?

Simon Holm15 Aug 2022 7:39 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Re­view of WWOTF

Richard Y Chappell15 Aug 2022 18:53 UTC
25 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

Crowd­sourc­ing Anki Decks

Arden16 Aug 2022 1:30 UTC
9 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

What We Owe The Fu­ture: A re­view and sum­mary of what I learned

Michael Townsend16 Aug 2022 14:19 UTC
45 points
4 comments8 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

What We Owe The Fu­ture is out today

William_MacAskill16 Aug 2022 15:13 UTC
301 points
68 comments2 min readEA link

What We Owe the Fu­ture is an NYT bestseller

Anonymous_EA25 Aug 2022 0:18 UTC
114 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Famine, Affluence and Mo­ral­ity [Link Post to PDF]

Nathan Young29 Aug 2022 16:00 UTC
23 points
4 comments16 min readEA link
(www.google.com)

Pop­u­lar EA Authors Should Give Libraries More Copies of Their EBooks

RedTeamPseudonym30 Aug 2022 5:16 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What books/​blogs/​ar­ti­cles were most im­pact­ful on you re: EA?

SolenoidEntity30 Aug 2022 14:56 UTC
9 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

The (Allegedly) Best Busi­ness Books

Joseph Lemien12 Sep 2022 0:38 UTC
38 points
3 comments14 min readEA link

What We Owe The Fu­ture: a Flash­card-based Summary

Florence12 Sep 2022 12:24 UTC
31 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Re­quest books be placed into your (uni­ver­sity) library

Devin Lam13 Sep 2022 14:17 UTC
14 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Books on so­cial move­ments?

michel17 Sep 2022 6:27 UTC
9 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

The Precipice—Sum­mary/​Review

Nikola11 Oct 2022 0:06 UTC
10 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] What’s your favourite Science Fic­tion book/​TV se­ries/​movie/​anime/​other?

Luca Parodi11 Oct 2022 15:46 UTC
6 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Copies sold of What We Owe the Future

Anthony Fleming21 Oct 2022 0:18 UTC
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

New book on s-risks

Tobias_Baumann26 Oct 2022 12:04 UTC
295 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

Sum­mary of Deep Time Reck­on­ing by Vin­cent Ialenti

vinegar10@gmail.com31 Oct 2022 20:00 UTC
10 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

Notes on “Bar­ri­ers to Bioweapons” (Ben Oua­grham-Gorm­ley, 2014)

DM26 Nov 2022 14:30 UTC
42 points
1 comment35 min readEA link

Eco­nomics and Pop­u­la­tion Growth Read­ing List

Luis Mota Freitas30 Nov 2022 15:17 UTC
7 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

The Rules of Res­cue—out now!

Theron17 Dec 2022 9:02 UTC
59 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] I have thou­sands of copies of HPMOR in Rus­sian. How to use them with the most im­pact?

MikhailSamin27 Dec 2022 11:07 UTC
39 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Sum­mary of and thoughts on “Dark Sk­ies” by Daniel Deudney

Cody_Fenwick31 Dec 2022 20:28 UTC
38 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

New book: The Tango of Ethics: In­tu­ition, Ra­tion­al­ity and the Preven­tion of Suffering

jonleighton2 Jan 2023 8:45 UTC
113 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

EA should help Tyler Cowen pub­lish his drafted book in China

Matt Brooks14 Jan 2023 21:10 UTC
38 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

Con­sider pay­ing for liter­a­ture or book re­views us­ing boun­ties and dom­i­nant as­surance contracts

Arjun Panickssery15 Jan 2023 4:50 UTC
40 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Book cri­tique of Effec­tive Altruism

Manuel Del Río Rodríguez17 Jan 2023 22:48 UTC
70 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

New Data Science Re­source: Hansen Econo­met­rics Books

Lixiang23 Jan 2023 18:57 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

On­line EA book­club, any­one?

Manuel Del Río Rodríguez31 Jan 2023 14:26 UTC
10 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Up­date on Book Re­view Dom­i­nant As­surance Contract

Arjun Panickssery3 Feb 2023 23:16 UTC
8 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Book Post: The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does: Crit­i­cal Es­says on Effec­tive Altruism

Kyle J. Lucchese8 Feb 2023 22:35 UTC
39 points
43 comments4 min readEA link
(www.amazon.com)

Short sum­mary of What We Owe The Future

finm12 Feb 2023 16:27 UTC
29 points
3 comments7 min readEA link
(finmoorhouse.com)

No­body Wants to Read Your Sh*t: my fa­vorite book of writ­ing ad­vice, con­densed for your convenience

jvb15 Feb 2023 23:28 UTC
91 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

Read­ing Group: “The Good it promises, the harm it does”

Kaleem18 Feb 2023 0:11 UTC
19 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

A list of EA-rele­vant busi­ness books I’ve read

Drew Spartz21 Feb 2023 20:48 UTC
64 points
12 comments6 min readEA link

Seek­ing in­put on a list of AI books for broader audience

Darren McKee27 Feb 2023 22:40 UTC
49 points
14 comments5 min readEA link

EA In­fosec: skill up in or make a tran­si­tion to in­fosec via this book club

Jason Clinton5 Mar 2023 21:02 UTC
170 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Write a Book?

Jeff Kaufman16 Mar 2023 0:11 UTC
188 points
24 comments1 min readEA link

Books: Lend, Don’t Give

Jeff Kaufman22 Mar 2023 19:11 UTC
46 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Book Re­view: Parfit—A Philoso­pher and His Mis­sion to Save Morality

Tyler Johnston31 Mar 2023 22:15 UTC
20 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(www.goodreads.com)

Book sum­mary: The Square and the Tower (Net­works and Hier­ar­chies in EA)

Gemma Paterson7 Apr 2023 12:18 UTC
11 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(bashingthearc.substack.com)

“The Tango of Ethics”—Book launch and discussion

Rasool14 Apr 2023 8:40 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

David Ed­monds’s bi­og­ra­phy of Parfit is out

Pablo23 Apr 2023 12:25 UTC
115 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Re­source: read­ings to learn more about HR/​peo­ple op­er­a­tions work

Joseph Lemien29 Apr 2023 14:05 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Re­view of The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does

Richard Y Chappell2 May 2023 15:45 UTC
210 points
54 comments10 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

Avert­ing Catas­tro­phe: De­ci­sion The­ory for COVID-19, Cli­mate Change, and Po­ten­tial Disasters of All Kinds

JakubK2 May 2023 22:50 UTC
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(nyupress.org)

[Question] Books — what do you recom­mend? What are you look­ing for?

Lizka8 May 2023 16:29 UTC
25 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Les­sons on pro­ject man­age­ment from “How Big Things Get Done”

Cristina Schmidt Ibáñez17 May 2023 19:15 UTC
29 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Publi­ca­tion of An­i­mal Liber­a­tion Now

Peter Singer19 May 2023 16:34 UTC
472 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

No­tion Tem­plates for Read­ing Groups

Kyal23 May 2023 10:11 UTC
22 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Re­view of An­i­mal Liber­a­tion Now

Richard Y Chappell23 May 2023 19:07 UTC
81 points
22 comments8 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

New s-risks au­dio­book available now

Alistair Webster24 May 2023 20:27 UTC
87 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

A book re­view for “An­i­mal Weapons” and cross-ap­ply­ing the les­sons to x-risk.

Habeeb Abdul30 May 2023 8:24 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.super-linear.org)

Span­ish Trans­la­tion of “The Precipice” by Toby Ord (Unoffi­cial)

davidfriva6 Jun 2023 1:11 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(drive.google.com)

On Back­ground: Effec­tive Altru­ism Still Has Friends (Michael Lewis’s Against the Rules)

BrownHairedEevee13 Jun 2023 22:04 UTC
25 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.pushkin.fm)

Book sum­mary: ‘Why In­tel­li­gence Fails’ by Robert Jervis

Ben Stewart19 Jun 2023 16:04 UTC
39 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

What We Owe The Fu­ture: A Buried Es­say

haven_worsham20 Jun 2023 17:49 UTC
19 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

An­i­mal Weapons: Les­sons for Hu­mans in the Age of X-Risk

Damin Curtis4 Jul 2023 14:43 UTC
32 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

The Colo­nial­ism of William MacAskill’s What We Owe the Future

Vivian4 Jul 2023 15:48 UTC
−16 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Giv­ing effec­tively: Con­tem­po­rary les­sons from Dead Aid by Dam­bisa Moyo

Cherish 10 Jul 2023 20:09 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Sum­mary of “The Precipice” (1 of 4): As­teroids, vol­ca­noes and ex­plod­ing stars

rileyharris7 Aug 2023 3:57 UTC
9 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.millionyearview.com)

Some ex­am­ples of EA Themes in Fic­tion—Please add your own!

JWS18 Aug 2023 15:57 UTC
9 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Thoughts on Pan­dora’s Gam­ble? (Book on GCBR/​Covid ori­gins by Ali­son Young)

SiebeRozendal23 Aug 2023 12:42 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Sum­mary of “The Precipice” (4 of 4): Our place in the story of humanity

rileyharris28 Aug 2023 2:13 UTC
6 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.millionyearview.com)

Notes on nukes, IR, and AI from “Arse­nals of Folly” (and other books)

tlevin4 Sep 2023 19:02 UTC
20 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

EA Poland—de­tails of on­line book club

RafalGonsior7 Sep 2023 18:40 UTC
14 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Who should we in­ter­view for The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast?

Luisa_Rodriguez13 Sep 2023 12:23 UTC
86 points
129 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Great books about char­ity, aid and de­vel­op­ment?

NickLaing25 Sep 2023 9:21 UTC
14 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Our tofu book has launched!!

George Stiffman27 Sep 2023 16:25 UTC
184 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

[Book Re­view] Drugs Without the Hot Air: Min­i­miz­ing the Harms of Le­gal and Ille­gal Drugs

Tristan Williams5 Oct 2023 13:26 UTC
11 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Go­ing In­finite—Quick Review

Darren McKee7 Oct 2023 21:07 UTC
25 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

In­tro to the book: An­i­mal Weapons by Dou­glas Em­len.

Maynk0211 Oct 2023 21:26 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

I. Start­ing Small

Maynk0211 Oct 2023 21:44 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Book Re­view] as­ter­isk #1

Tristan Williams18 Oct 2023 19:40 UTC
37 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Sum­mary of Ethics into Ac­tion, a bi­og­ra­phy of Henry Spira

Elijah Persson-Gordon23 Oct 2023 20:40 UTC
12 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Book Re­view: Go­ing Infinite

Zvi 25 Oct 2023 19:08 UTC
55 points
3 comments97 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Book Re­view: Oral­ity and Liter­acy: The Tech­nol­o­giz­ing of the Word

Fergus Fettes28 Oct 2023 20:17 UTC
7 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

[Book Re­view] as­ter­isk #2

Tristan Williams5 Nov 2023 22:35 UTC
13 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing New Begin­ner-friendly Book on AI Safety and Risk

Darren McKee25 Nov 2023 15:57 UTC
111 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Giv­ing away copies of Un­con­trol­lable by Dar­ren McKee

Greg_Colbourn14 Dec 2023 17:00 UTC
39 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Only mam­mals and birds are sen­tient, ac­cord­ing to neu­ro­scien­tist Nick Humphrey’s the­ory of con­scious­ness, re­cently ex­plained in “Sen­tience: The in­ven­tion of con­scious­ness”

ben.smith27 Dec 2023 6:18 UTC
60 points
35 comments9 min readEA link

First book fo­cus­ing on EA and Farmed An­i­mals: The Farm An­i­mal Move­ment: Effec­tive Altru­ism, Ven­ture Philan­thropy, and the Fight to End Fac­tory Farm­ing in America

Jeff Thomas17 Jan 2024 16:09 UTC
103 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

GWWC Pledge fea­tured in new book from Head of TED, Chris Anderson

Giving What We Can25 Jan 2024 21:33 UTC
156 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

List of Good Begin­ner-friendly AI Law/​Policy/​Reg­u­la­tion Books

CAISID22 Feb 2024 14:51 UTC
28 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

An­i­mal Weapons: Les­son learned from biolog­i­cal arms race to mod­ern day weapons

Halwenge 25 Feb 2024 14:06 UTC
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Nick Bostrom’s new book, “Deep Utopia”, is out today

peterhartree27 Mar 2024 11:23 UTC
74 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(nickbostrom.com)