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Global pri­ori­ties research

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Global priorities research (GPR) is research into issues that can help decide how to allocate finite resources most cost-effectively.[1] GPR can include finding and prioritising between different causes as well as macrostrategy or “foundational” research that would inform cause prioritization in a less direct way (e.g., research into the Fermi paradox or the hinge of history hypothesis).

Evaluation

80,000 Hours rates GPR a “highest priority area”: a problem at the top of their ranking of global issues assessed by importance, tractability and neglectedness.[2]

Further reading

Duda, Roman (2016) Global priorities research, 80,000 Hours, April (updated July 2018).

O’Keeffe-O’Donovan, Rossa (2020) An introduction to global priorities research, Effective Altruism Student Summit 2020, October 25.
An introduction to global priorities research, including a discussion of how it differs from cause prioritization research.

Related entries

cause candidates | cause prioritization | Cause X | Global Priorities Institute | less-discussed causes | local priorities research | macrostrategy

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    Global Priorities Institute (2019) About us, Global Priorities Institute.

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Global Pri­ori­ties In­sti­tute: Re­search Agenda

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jan 20, 2021, 8:09 PM
22 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

An in­tro­duc­tion to global pri­ori­ties re­search for economists

David BernardAug 28, 2020, 12:07 PM
100 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

Affec­tive fore­cast­ing: The challenge of pre­dict­ing fu­ture feel­ings and the im­pli­ca­tions for global pri­ori­ties research

Matt Coleman🔹Feb 17, 2022, 8:36 PM
57 points
3 comments20 min readEA link

To fund re­search, or not to fund re­search, that is the question

JackMApr 24, 2022, 6:46 PM
20 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

How bad would hu­man ex­tinc­tion be?

arvommOct 23, 2023, 12:01 PM
132 points
25 comments18 min readEA link

The Fu­ture Might Not Be So Great

JacyJun 30, 2022, 1:01 PM
145 points
118 comments34 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

How to ne­glect the long term (Hay­den Wilk­in­son)

Global Priorities InstituteOct 13, 2023, 11:09 AM
21 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Assess­ing the case for pop­u­la­tion growth as a priority

FCNov 15, 2022, 11:13 PM
120 points
10 comments21 min readEA link

Re­source Allo­ca­tion: A Re­search Agenda

arvommNov 14, 2024, 3:34 PM
44 points
7 comments33 min readEA link

Mini sum­maries of GPI papers

JackMNov 2, 2022, 10:33 PM
97 points
17 comments6 min readEA link

Why scale is over­rated: The case for in­creas­ing EA policy efforts in smaller countries

Philip Hall AndersenAug 15, 2021, 5:48 PM
84 points
11 comments30 min readEA link

Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Re­search: A Re­search Agenda

jonasschuettJan 6, 2021, 9:47 PM
58 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­is­ten­tial risk pes­simism and the time of perils

David ThorstadAug 12, 2022, 2:42 PM
177 points
67 comments20 min readEA link

Cur­rent plans as the in­com­ing di­rec­tor of the Global Pri­ori­ties Institute

EvaApr 26, 2023, 5:23 PM
236 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

2-week sum­mer course in “eco­nomic the­ory and global pri­ori­ti­za­tion”: LMK if in­ter­ested!

trammellNov 19, 2021, 11:12 AM
125 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

Longter­mism and Com­pu­ta­tional Complexity

David KinneyAug 31, 2022, 9:51 PM
41 points
46 comments25 min readEA link

Sum­mary: Mis­takes in the Mo­ral Math­e­mat­ics of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk (David Thorstad)

Noah Varley🔸Apr 10, 2024, 2:21 PM
62 points
23 comments4 min readEA link

Growth The­ory Read­ing List

Luis Mota FreitasOct 12, 2022, 2:26 PM
48 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Work­shop for un­der­rep­re­sented groups in GPR—In­tel­lec­tual and cul­tural di­ver­sity in GPR

Global Priorities InstituteMar 29, 2022, 3:55 PM
47 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Eco­nomic The­ory & Global Pri­ori­ti­za­tion (sum­mer 2022): Ap­ply now!

trammellJan 7, 2022, 6:40 PM
27 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Chris­tian Tarsney on fu­ture bias and a pos­si­ble solu­tion to moral fanaticism

80000_HoursMay 5, 2021, 7:38 PM
7 points
0 comments113 min readEA link

Nu­clear risk re­search ideas: Sum­mary & introduction

MichaelA🔸Apr 8, 2022, 11:17 AM
103 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Are we liv­ing at the most in­fluen­tial time in his­tory?

William_MacAskillSep 3, 2019, 4:55 AM
204 points
147 comments24 min readEA link

What do we want the world to look like in 10 years?

Owen Cotton-BarrattApr 20, 2022, 2:34 PM
126 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

The Forethought Foun­da­tion is hiring!

Luisa_RodriguezMar 5, 2021, 12:21 PM
44 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Chart­ing the precipice: The time of per­ils and pri­ori­tiz­ing x-risk

David BernardOct 24, 2023, 4:25 PM
86 points
14 comments25 min readEA link

Paper sum­mary: Longter­mist in­sti­tu­tional re­form (Tyler M. John and William MacAskill)

Global Priorities InstituteMar 13, 2023, 6:07 PM
42 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Paper sum­mary: Are we liv­ing at the hinge of his­tory? (William MacAskill)

Global Priorities InstituteMar 13, 2023, 6:05 PM
70 points
4 comments5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Eco­nomic The­ory & Global Pri­ori­ti­za­tion (sum­mer 2023): Ap­ply now!

trammellJan 13, 2023, 6:26 PM
121 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

Writ­ing about my job: Eco­nomics Professor

Kevin KurucJul 28, 2021, 7:41 PM
89 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

Re­spect for oth­ers’ risk at­ti­tudes and the long-run fu­ture (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteDec 2, 2022, 9:51 AM
4 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Jus­tice and Global Pri­ori­ties Re­search Read­ing List

Luis Mota FreitasAug 30, 2022, 7:46 PM
35 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Fun­da­men­tals of Global Pri­ori­ties Re­search in Eco­nomics Syllabus

poliboniAug 8, 2023, 12:16 PM
74 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

Uncer­tainty over time and Bayesian updating

David BernardOct 25, 2023, 3:51 PM
63 points
2 comments28 min readEA link

[Question] What op­por­tu­ni­ties are there to use data sci­ence in global pri­ori­ties re­search?

Eevee🔹Aug 18, 2020, 2:48 AM
15 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Im­por­tant, ac­tion­able re­search ques­tions for the most im­por­tant century

Holden KarnofskyFeb 24, 2022, 4:34 PM
298 points
13 comments19 min readEA link

Quan­tify­ing an­thropic effects on the Fermi paradox

Lukas FinnvedenFeb 15, 2019, 10:47 AM
72 points
4 comments41 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing GPI’s new re­search agenda

Global Priorities InstituteFeb 15, 2019, 5:11 PM
60 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Longter­mist EA needs more Phase 2 work

Owen Cotton-BarrattApr 20, 2022, 2:42 PM
241 points
34 comments5 min readEA link

The case of the miss­ing cause pri­ori­ti­sa­tion research

weeatquinceAug 16, 2020, 12:21 AM
309 points
88 comments16 min readEA link

[Pod­cast] Ajeya Co­tra on wor­ld­view di­ver­sifi­ca­tion and how big the fu­ture could be

Eevee🔹Jan 22, 2021, 11:57 PM
57 points
20 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

[Question] What EAG ses­sions would you like to see on Global Pri­ori­ties Re­search?

Nathan YoungMar 20, 2022, 5:34 PM
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Don’t Over-Op­ti­mize Things

Owen Cotton-BarrattJun 16, 2022, 4:28 PM
55 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Ag­gre­gat­ing Small Risks of Se­ri­ous Harms (Tomi Fran­cis)

Global Priorities InstituteOct 23, 2024, 10:58 AM
14 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Eth­i­cal Con­sumerism (Philip Tram­mell)

Global Priorities InstituteOct 16, 2024, 2:13 PM
37 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Chris­tian Tarsney on fu­ture bias and a pos­si­ble solu­tion to moral fanaticism

PabloMay 6, 2021, 10:39 AM
26 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Mo­ral plu­ral­ism and longter­mism | Sunyshore

Eevee🔹Apr 17, 2021, 12:14 AM
26 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(sunyshore.substack.com)

Four com­po­nents of strat­egy research

MichaelA🔸Jan 30, 2020, 7:08 PM
26 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

Do­ing Good Badly? - Michael Plant’s the­sis, Chap­ters 5,6 on Cause Pri­ori­ti­za­tion

EdoAradMar 4, 2021, 4:57 PM
75 points
16 comments7 min readEA link

How tractable is chang­ing the course of his­tory?

Jamie_HarrisMay 22, 2019, 3:29 PM
41 points
2 comments7 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Luisa Ro­driguez: Do­ing em­piri­cal global pri­ori­ties re­search — the ques­tion of civ­i­liza­tional col­lapse and recovery

EA GlobalOct 25, 2020, 5:48 AM
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Cost-Effec­tive­ness of Foods for Global Catas­tro­phes: Even Bet­ter than Be­fore?

Denkenberger🔸Nov 19, 2018, 9:57 PM
29 points
5 comments10 min readEA link

AGI safety and los­ing elec­tric­ity/​in­dus­try re­silience cost-effectiveness

Ross_TiemanNov 17, 2019, 8:42 AM
31 points
10 comments37 min readEA link

The Fermi Para­dox has not been dissolved

James FodorDec 12, 2020, 12:02 PM
107 points
14 comments14 min readEA link

Im­por­tant Between-Cause Con­sid­er­a­tions: things ev­ery EA should know about

JackMJan 28, 2021, 7:56 PM
112 points
28 comments12 min readEA link

Thoughts on “tra­jec­tory changes”

Eevee🔹Apr 7, 2021, 2:18 AM
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Long Covid: mass dis­abil­ity and broad so­cietal con­se­quences [Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes]

SiebeRozendalAug 11, 2022, 1:52 PM
41 points
31 comments15 min readEA link

Sav­ing Aver­age Utili­tar­i­anism from Tarsney - Self-Indi­ca­tion As­sump­tion can­cels solip­sis­tic swamp­ing.

wuschelMay 16, 2021, 1:47 PM
10 points
13 comments5 min readEA link

Differ­ent forms of capital

Jan_KulveitApr 25, 2022, 8:05 AM
101 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Rossa O’Keeffe-O’Dono­van: An in­tro­duc­tion to global pri­ori­ties research

EA GlobalOct 25, 2020, 5:48 AM
9 points
0 comments13 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

A Cri­tique of The Precipice: Chap­ter 6 - The Risk Land­scape [Red Team Challenge]

Sarah WeilerJun 26, 2022, 10:59 AM
57 points
2 comments21 min readEA link

Thoughts on “The Case for Strong Longter­mism” (Greaves & MacAskill)

MichaelA🔸May 2, 2021, 6:00 PM
30 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Why “cause area” as the unit of anal­y­sis?

riceissaJan 25, 2021, 2:53 AM
85 points
21 comments4 min readEA link

Truth­ful AI

Owen Cotton-BarrattOct 20, 2021, 3:11 PM
55 points
14 comments10 min readEA link

[Question] What are novel ma­jor in­sights from longter­mist macros­trat­egy or global pri­ori­ties re­search found since 2015?

Max_DanielAug 13, 2020, 9:15 AM
88 points
56 comments1 min readEA link

Con­ver­gence the­sis be­tween longter­mism and neartermism

weeatquinceDec 30, 2021, 4:03 PM
100 points
31 comments9 min readEA link

Do­ing good while clueless

Milan GriffesFeb 15, 2018, 5:04 AM
46 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

What is meta Effec­tive Altru­ism?

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸Jun 2, 2021, 6:47 AM
49 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

Light­ning talks on global pri­ori­ties research

EA GlobalOct 25, 2020, 5:48 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] Are there any good books on global pri­ori­ties re­search?

Jack CunninghamDec 9, 2021, 5:10 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Thoughts on “A case against strong longter­mism” (Mas­rani)

MichaelA🔸May 3, 2021, 2:22 PM
39 points
33 comments2 min readEA link

Pri­ori­ti­za­tion Ques­tions for Ar­tifi­cial Sentience

Jamie_HarrisOct 18, 2021, 2:07 PM
30 points
2 comments8 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Un­jour­nal: Call for par­ti­ci­pants and re­search

david_reinsteinJun 13, 2022, 11:11 AM
42 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(effective-giving-marketing.gitbook.io)

The Case for Strong Longtermism

Global Priorities InstituteSep 3, 2019, 1:17 AM
14 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Co­op­er­a­tive or Com­pet­i­tive Altru­ism, and An­ti­so­cial Counterfactuals

DavidmanheimMar 20, 2023, 5:54 PM
53 points
26 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Have there been any de­tailed, cross-cul­tural sur­veys into global moral pri­ori­ties?

Amber DawnFeb 6, 2023, 6:16 PM
40 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Welfare and felt du­ra­tion (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteNov 27, 2023, 3:40 PM
24 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Sum­mary: Si­mu­la­tion expectation

Global Priorities InstituteSep 27, 2023, 10:58 AM
10 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

An­nounc­ing CE’s new Re­search Train­ing Pro­gram—Ap­ply Now!

KarolinaSarek🔸Jun 27, 2023, 6:10 PM
191 points
18 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] What is the most up­dated state­ment of GPI’s eco­nomics agenda/​when was it up­dated?

david_reinsteinNov 21, 2023, 3:57 PM
6 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Con­cepts of ex­is­ten­tial catas­tro­phe (Hilary Greaves)

Global Priorities InstituteNov 9, 2023, 5:42 PM
41 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Mea­sur­ing AI-Driven Risk with Stock Prices (Su­sana Cam­pos-Mart­ins)

Global Priorities InstituteDec 12, 2024, 2:22 PM
10 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Philo­soph­i­cal con­sid­er­a­tions rele­vant to valu­ing con­tinued hu­man sur­vival: Con­cep­tual Anal­y­sis, Pop­u­la­tion Ax­iol­ogy, and De­ci­sion The­ory (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteNov 1, 2023, 12:10 PM
45 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Egyp­tol­ogy and Fa­nat­i­cism (Hay­den Wilk­in­son)

Global Priorities InstituteOct 5, 2023, 6:32 AM
19 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Re­search pro­ject idea: Cli­mate, agri­cul­tural, and famine effects of nu­clear conflict

MichaelA🔸Apr 15, 2023, 2:35 PM
17 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Re­search pro­ject idea: In­ter­me­di­ate goals for nu­clear risk reduction

MichaelA🔸Apr 15, 2023, 2:25 PM
24 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Sum­mary: The scope of longtermism

Global Priorities InstituteDec 18, 2023, 1:25 PM
52 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

Will AI Avoid Ex­ploita­tion? (Adam Bales)

Global Priorities InstituteDec 13, 2023, 11:37 AM
38 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Es­ti­mat­ing long-term treat­ment effects with­out long-term out­come data (David Rhys Bernard, Jojo Lee and Vic­tor Ya­neng Wang)

Global Priorities InstituteOct 23, 2023, 2:33 PM
30 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Blog up­date: Reflec­tive altruism

David ThorstadDec 15, 2024, 4:05 PM
103 points
12 comments11 min readEA link

How to Re­sist the Fad­ing Qualia Ar­gu­ment (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteMar 26, 2024, 1:30 PM
30 points
8 comments2 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

A non-iden­tity dilemma for per­son-af­fect­ing views (Elliott Thorn­ley)

Global Priorities InstituteApr 4, 2024, 4:30 PM
13 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Long Reflec­tion Read­ing List

Will AldredMar 24, 2024, 4:27 PM
92 points
7 comments14 min readEA link

Dispel­ling the An­thropic Shadow (Teruji Thomas)

Global Priorities InstituteOct 16, 2024, 1:25 PM
11 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

1 Ques­tion, 90 Minutes

Neil CrawfordMar 31, 2024, 9:03 PM
14 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Sum­mary: In defence of fanaticism

Global Priorities InstituteMay 9, 2024, 3:09 PM
29 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Sum­mary: Against the sin­gu­lar­ity hypothesis

Global Priorities InstituteMay 22, 2024, 11:05 AM
46 points
14 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Sum­mary: The weight of suffering

Global Priorities InstituteMay 27, 2024, 10:43 AM
24 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

De­sire-Fulfil­ment and Con­scious­ness (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteOct 29, 2024, 5:00 PM
25 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Once More, Without Feel­ing (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteJan 21, 2025, 2:53 PM
32 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

A Fis­sion Prob­lem for Per­son-Affect­ing Views (Elliott Thorn­ley)

Global Priorities InstituteNov 7, 2024, 3:01 PM
20 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

New Global Pri­ori­ties In­sti­tute re­search agendas

Global Priorities InstituteNov 29, 2024, 1:26 PM
60 points
11 comments1 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Is GiveWell un­der­es­ti­mat­ing the health value of lead erad­i­ca­tion?

JakobAug 21, 2022, 3:13 PM
33 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Let us know how psy­chol­ogy can help in­crease your impact

IngaOct 21, 2022, 10:32 AM
30 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Paper sum­mary: The case for strong longter­mism (Hilary Greaves and William MacAskill)

Global Priorities InstituteApr 29, 2022, 3:52 PM
43 points
27 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Avoid­ing the Repug­nant Con­clu­sion is not nec­es­sary for pop­u­la­tion ethics: new many-au­thor col­lab­o­ra­tion.

deanspearsApr 14, 2021, 12:48 AM
114 points
16 comments1 min readEA link
(deanspears.medium.com)

Should you go with your best guess?: Against pre­cise Bayesi­anism and re­lated views

Anthony DiGiovanniJan 27, 2025, 8:25 PM
73 points
1 comment22 min readEA link

Why com­plex­ity sci­ence is im­por­tant for effec­tive altruism

NikizDec 15, 2022, 12:34 PM
−21 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

When is Philos­o­phy Worth Fund­ing?

Richard Y Chappell🔸Nov 11, 2024, 9:48 PM
30 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

Eco­nomics and Pop­u­la­tion Growth Read­ing List

Luis Mota FreitasNov 30, 2022, 3:17 PM
8 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

So­cial Benefi­cence (Ja­cob Bar­rett)

Global Priorities InstituteJul 19, 2023, 10:20 AM
45 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

The Pos­si­bil­ity of Microor­ganism Suffering

Elias Au-YeungAug 7, 2022, 6:02 AM
49 points
5 comments30 min readEA link

Global Gover­nance Read­ing List

Luis Mota FreitasOct 5, 2022, 1:57 PM
29 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

In­sti­tu­tions and Longter­mism Read­ing List

Luis Mota FreitasOct 19, 2022, 11:56 AM
30 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Prin­ci­ples for AI Welfare Research

jeffseboJun 19, 2023, 11:30 AM
138 points
16 comments13 min readEA link

Th­e­sis Sum­mary and Open Ques­tions: Nor­ma­tive Uncer­tainty and In­for­ma­tion Value

rileyharrisApr 27, 2022, 8:46 AM
32 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Es­ti­mat­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of sci­en­tific research

Falk LiederJul 16, 2022, 12:20 PM
36 points
5 comments17 min readEA link

20 con­crete pro­jects for re­duc­ing ex­is­ten­tial risk

BuhlJun 21, 2023, 3:54 PM
132 points
27 comments20 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

Up­date on the Global Pri­ori­ties In­sti­tute’s (GPI) activities

Global Priorities InstituteDec 24, 2019, 1:51 PM
23 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

We Prob­a­bly Shouldn’t Solve Consciousness

SilicaFeb 10, 2024, 7:12 AM
33 points
5 comments16 min readEA link

[Question] Should Founders Pledge sup­port only the non-con­scious as­set trans­fer arm of Band­han’s Tar­get­ing the Hard­core Poor poverty grad­u­a­tion pro­gram?

brb243Jan 7, 2022, 10:54 PM
8 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are some af­ford­able RCT re­search or­ga­ni­za­tions?

brb243Jan 12, 2022, 9:22 PM
8 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Rep­re­sent­ing Fu­ture Gen­er­a­tions Read­ing List

Luis Mota FreitasNov 27, 2022, 6:34 PM
14 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Paper sum­mary: The Epistemic Challenge to Longter­mism (Chris­tian Tarsney)

Global Priorities InstituteOct 11, 2022, 11:29 AM
39 points
5 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Sum­mary: Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities and the Value of the Far Fu­ture (Pe­tra Koso­nen)

Noah Varley🔸Feb 17, 2024, 2:11 PM
7 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Pro­posal: al­ter­na­tive to tra­di­tional aca­demic jour­nals for EA-rele­vant re­search (multi-link post)

david_reinsteinNov 3, 2021, 8:16 PM
28 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

Why I’ve come to think global pri­ori­ties re­search is even more im­por­tant than I thought

Benjamin_ToddAug 15, 2020, 1:34 PM
68 points
10 comments4 min readEA link

Paper sum­mary: Stak­ing our fu­ture: de­on­tic long-ter­mism and the non-iden­tity prob­lem (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteJun 7, 2022, 1:14 PM
25 points
6 comments6 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

2023 Open Stu­dent Work­shop in Global Pri­ori­ties Re­search—pro­mot­ing in­tel­lec­tual and cul­tural di­ver­sity in GPR

Global Priorities InstituteDec 1, 2022, 3:15 PM
14 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

[Question] Can it be more cost-effec­tive to pre­vent than to treat ob­stet­ric fis­tu­las?

brb243Jan 10, 2022, 7:39 PM
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How to se­lect un­con­di­tional cash trans­fer benefi­cia­ries to max­i­mize cost-effec­tive­ness (and what in­sti­tu­tional changes can solve re­cip­i­ents’ is­sues)?

brb243Jan 7, 2022, 10:52 PM
5 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Crit­i­cal-Set Views, Bio­graph­i­cal Iden­tity, and the Long Term

EJTFeb 28, 2024, 2:30 PM
9 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

Sum­mary: Longter­mism, Ag­gre­ga­tion, and Catas­trophic Risk (Emma J. Cur­ran)

Noah Varley🔸Mar 7, 2024, 2:31 PM
24 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

The Mo­ral Two En­velopes Prob­lem and the Mo­ral Weights Project

Derek ShillerOct 15, 2024, 6:12 PM
92 points
20 comments14 min readEA link

[Question] Should the Aravind Eye Care Sys­tem be funded in lieu of The Fred Hol­lows Foun­da­tion?

brb243Jan 11, 2022, 9:00 PM
5 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

The Value of a Statis­ti­cal Life is not a good metric

Christopher ClayMar 19, 2025, 9:11 AM
21 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is the $1–20/​life saved by a pneu­mo­coc­cus vac­cine still available? At what scale?

brb243Jan 11, 2022, 9:01 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Sum­mary: Against Anti-Fa­nat­i­cism (Chris­tian Tarsney)

Noah Varley🔸Jan 25, 2024, 3:04 PM
25 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Re­solv­ing moral un­cer­tainty with randomization

Bob JacobsMar 29, 2023, 10:10 AM
29 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

Mo­ral un­cer­tainty and pub­lic jus­tifi­ca­tion (Bar­ret and Sch­midt, 2021)

Global Priorities InstituteOct 22, 2021, 9:57 AM
4 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

‘Ex­is­ten­tial Risk and Growth’ Deep Dive #1 - Sum­mary of the Paper

Alex HTJun 21, 2020, 9:22 AM
64 points
7 comments9 min readEA link

New Prince­ton course on longtermism

Calvin_BakerSep 1, 2023, 8:31 PM
88 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

An Evolu­tion­ary Ar­gu­ment un­der­min­ing Longter­mist think­ing?

Jim BuhlerMar 3, 2025, 2:47 PM
22 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

Sum­mary: When should an effec­tive al­tru­ist donate? (William MacAskill)

Global Priorities InstituteJul 4, 2023, 1:37 PM
45 points
7 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Sum­mary: Train­ing Effec­tive Altru­ism (Mehmood et al.)

Noah Varley🔸Mar 20, 2024, 5:54 PM
28 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ Port­fo­lio Builder Tool

arvommJul 10, 2024, 12:06 PM
102 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

Re­search­ing Pri­ori­ties in Lo­cal Contexts

Luis Mota FreitasMar 18, 2023, 11:24 AM
95 points
12 comments9 min readEA link

Is Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Miti­ga­tion Uniquely Cost-Effec­tive? Not in Stan­dard Pop­u­la­tion Models (Gus­tav Alexan­drie and Maya Eden)

Global Priorities InstituteJul 4, 2023, 1:28 PM
33 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

‘Ex­is­ten­tial Risk and Growth’ Deep Dive #3 - Ex­ten­sions and Variations

Alex HTDec 20, 2020, 12:39 PM
5 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Up­date on GPI’s ac­tivi­ties and plans for 2022

Global Priorities InstituteJan 28, 2022, 3:39 PM
36 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

Poli­cy­mak­ing for Posterity

EA HandbookSep 2, 2008, 1:39 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.nber.org)

Paper sum­mary: The paral­y­sis ar­gu­ment (William MacAskill and An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteDec 16, 2022, 4:12 PM
18 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Three mis­takes in the moral math­e­mat­ics of ex­is­ten­tial risk (David Thorstad)

Global Priorities InstituteJul 4, 2023, 1:18 PM
48 points
14 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

The Im­por­tance of Ar­tifi­cial Sentience

Jamie_HarrisMar 3, 2021, 5:17 PM
70 points
10 comments11 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Quadratic Fund­ing with In­com­plete In­for­ma­tion (Luis V. M. Fre­itas and Wilfredo L. Mal­don­ado)

Global Priorities InstituteJul 28, 2023, 11:56 AM
6 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

High risk, low re­ward: A challenge to the as­tro­nom­i­cal value of ex­is­ten­tial risk miti­ga­tion (David Thorstad)

Global Priorities InstituteJul 4, 2023, 1:23 PM
32 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

How should we value var­i­ous pos­si­ble long-run out­comes rel­a­tive to each other—an­swer­ing Holden Karnofsky’s ques­tion?

Bentham's BulldogFeb 27, 2022, 3:52 AM
4 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

The weight of suffer­ing (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteAug 17, 2023, 8:21 AM
48 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Could this be an un­usu­ally good time to Earn To Give?

Tom GardinerMar 3, 2025, 11:00 PM
59 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties is hiring: help sup­port and com­mu­ni­cate our work

Rethink PrioritiesDec 9, 2022, 5:07 PM
52 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(careers.rethinkpriorities.org)

High­lights from LPP’s field-build­ing efforts

Legal Priorities ProjectMar 23, 2023, 8:18 AM
78 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

Teruji Thomas, ‘The Asym­me­try, Uncer­tainty, and the Long Term’

PabloNov 5, 2019, 8:24 PM
43 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Eco­nomics of In­sti­tu­tions Read­ing List

Luis Mota FreitasOct 26, 2022, 12:36 PM
13 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

ETGP 2022: ma­te­ri­als, feed­back, and les­sons for 2023

trammellSep 22, 2022, 1:12 PM
119 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

Why EA meta, and the top 3 char­ity ideas in the space

Joey🔸Jan 6, 2021, 3:47 PM
88 points
20 comments10 min readEA link

Sum­mary: Against the Sin­gu­lar­ity Hy­poth­e­sis (David Thorstad)

Noah Varley🔸Mar 27, 2024, 1:48 PM
63 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

Re­search vs. non-re­search work to im­prove the world: In defense of more re­search and re­flec­tion [linkpost]

Magnus VindingMay 20, 2022, 4:25 PM
31 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(magnusvinding.com)

Find­ing be­fore fund­ing: Why EA should prob­a­bly in­vest more in research

Falk LiederAug 17, 2022, 8:48 AM
102 points
11 comments10 min readEA link

The In­ter­gov­ern­men­tal Panel On Global Catas­trophic Risks (IPGCR)

DannyBresslerFeb 1, 2024, 5:36 PM
46 points
9 comments19 min readEA link

Paper sum­mary: A Para­dox for Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities and Enor­mous Values (Nick Beck­stead and Teruji Thomas)

Global Priorities InstituteJul 21, 2022, 3:23 PM
43 points
7 comments7 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Paper sum­mary: Do not go gen­tle: why the Asym­me­try does not sup­port anti-na­tal­ism (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteDec 20, 2022, 11:00 AM
21 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

New cause area: bi­valve aquaculture

Brian LuiJun 12, 2022, 11:14 AM
99 points
38 comments4 min readEA link

Pri­ori­ti­za­tion when size mat­ters: Value of information

jhJan 7, 2022, 5:16 AM
23 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

What val­ues will con­trol the Fu­ture? Overview, con­clu­sion, and di­rec­tions for fu­ture work

Jim BuhlerJul 18, 2023, 4:11 PM
27 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

What Is the To­tal Global Ca­pa­bil­ity for Suffer­ing and Joy? A Call for a Col­lab­o­ra­tive EA Project

alamo 2914Nov 26, 2022, 12:42 PM
−2 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How to fac­tor ur­gency when com­par­ing prob­lems?

lamparitaFeb 21, 2025, 3:35 PM
4 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Re­port] Bridg­ing the In­ter­na­tional AI Gover­nance Divide: Key Strate­gies for In­clud­ing the Global South

Heramb PodarJan 26, 2025, 11:55 PM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(encodeai.org)

Pre­dict­ing what fu­ture peo­ple value: A terse in­tro­duc­tion to Ax­iolog­i­cal Futurism

Jim BuhlerMar 24, 2023, 7:15 PM
62 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Geopoli­ti­cal Hazards of Sea-Steading

Anthony RepettoDec 6, 2021, 2:56 AM
4 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Progress Stud­ies Read­ing List

Luis Mota FreitasNov 2, 2022, 4:21 PM
18 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

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

alamo 2914Sep 9, 2022, 8:37 PM
26 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Can an ev­i­den­tial­ist be risk-averse? (Hay­den Wilk­in­son)

Global Priorities InstituteDec 15, 2022, 11:18 AM
17 points
4 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Sum­mary: Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Failure: The Hid­den Face Of The Tragedy Of The Com­mons (Philippe Colo)

Noah Varley🔸Jun 28, 2024, 2:03 PM
8 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Eco­nomics PhD ap­pli­ca­tion sup­port—be­come a mentee!

LuziaJul 8, 2021, 3:40 PM
60 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

New blog: Some doubts about effec­tive altruism

David ThorstadDec 20, 2022, 7:34 PM
125 points
36 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] What are some cost-effec­tive co-in­ter­ven­tions (and al­ter­na­tives) to bed­net dis­bur­sal?

brb243Jan 7, 2022, 10:53 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The prob­lem of ar­tifi­cial suffering

mlsbtSep 24, 2021, 2:43 PM
50 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

The NPT: Learn­ing from a Longter­mist Suc­cess [Links!]

DannyBresslerMay 20, 2021, 12:39 AM
66 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Spears & Bu­dolf­son, ‘Repug­nant con­clu­sions’

PabloApr 4, 2021, 4:09 PM
61 points
14 comments1 min readEA link
(doi.org)

Pri­ori­ti­za­tion when size mat­ters: Model

jhDec 17, 2021, 4:16 PM
23 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

A dilemma for Max­i­mize Ex­pected Choice­wor­thi­ness (MEC)

Calvin_BakerSep 1, 2022, 2:46 PM
33 points
7 comments10 min readEA link

Paper sum­mary: Mo­ral de­mands and the far fu­ture (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteApr 29, 2022, 3:54 PM
21 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

[Question] Alter­na­tive press­ing prob­lems lists

lamparitaFeb 1, 2025, 4:01 PM
11 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] What are some re­spon­si­bil­ity bun­dle bar­gains for medium-sized en­ter­prises?

brb243Jan 10, 2022, 7:38 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

For­mal­is­ing the “Wash­ing Out Hy­poth­e­sis”

dwebbMar 25, 2021, 11:40 AM
101 points
27 comments12 min readEA link

New Work­ing Paper Series of the Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Project

Legal Priorities ProjectOct 18, 2021, 10:30 AM
60 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

New Global Pri­ori­ties In­sti­tute work­ing pa­pers—and an up­dated ver­sion of “The case for strong longter­mism”

Global Priorities InstituteAug 9, 2021, 4:57 PM
46 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing The Log­i­cal Foun­da­tion, an EA-Aligned Non­profit with a Plan to End Poverty With Guaran­teed Income

Michael SimmNov 18, 2022, 8:13 AM
17 points
3 comments24 min readEA link

The Hinge of His­tory Hy­poth­e­sis: Re­ply to MacAskill (An­dreas Mo­gensen)

Global Priorities InstituteAug 8, 2023, 11:00 AM
47 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Le­gal Pri­ori­ties Pro­ject – An­nual Re­port 2022

Legal Priorities ProjectMay 2, 2023, 1:32 PM
76 points
2 comments30 min readEA link

Sum­mary: High risk, low re­ward: A challenge to the as­tro­nom­i­cal value of ex­is­ten­tial risk mitigation

Global Priorities InstituteSep 12, 2023, 4:31 PM
70 points
20 comments5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

The Sig­nifi­cance, Per­sis­tence, Contin­gency Frame­work (William MacAskill, Teruji Thomas and Aron Val­lin­der)

Global Priorities InstituteOct 14, 2022, 9:24 AM
43 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Si­mu­la­tion ex­pec­ta­tion (Thomas, 2021)

Global Priorities InstituteOct 22, 2021, 10:09 AM
12 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

New Cause area: The Meta-Cause [Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prize]

simeon_cAug 11, 2022, 5:21 PM
30 points
2 comments10 min readEA link