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TagLast edit: 12 Feb 2022 14:53 UTC by Pablo

The history tag is for posts that are strongly focused on historical events or trends (rather than just mentioning these things briefly), or that discuss or make heavy use of historical research methods.

Further reading

Aird, Michael (2021) Collection of EA-associated historical case study research, Effective Altruism Forum, June 4.

Related entries

history of effective altruism | history of existential risk | history of philanthropy

Some his­tory top­ics it might be very valuable to investigate

MichaelA8 Jul 2020 2:40 UTC
91 points
34 comments7 min readEA link

Tom Moynihan on why prior gen­er­a­tions missed some of the biggest pri­ori­ties of all

80000_Hours29 Jul 2021 16:38 UTC
20 points
0 comments158 min readEA link

Rose Had­shar: From the Ne­olithic Revolu­tion to the far future

EA Global26 Oct 2018 8:35 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

How tractable is chang­ing the course of his­tory?

Jamie_Harris22 May 2019 15:29 UTC
41 points
2 comments7 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

A (Very) Short His­tory of the Col­lapse of Civ­i­liza­tions, and Why it Matters

Davidmanheim30 Aug 2020 7:49 UTC
53 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

What Helped the Voice­less? His­tor­i­cal Case Studies

Mau11 Oct 2020 3:38 UTC
129 points
16 comments88 min readEA link

Long-Term In­fluence and Move­ment Growth: Two His­tor­i­cal Case Studies

Aron_Vallinder13 Dec 2018 19:03 UTC
58 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Does Eco­nomic His­tory Point Toward a Sin­gu­lar­ity?

bgarfinkel2 Sep 2020 12:48 UTC
140 points
55 comments3 min readEA link

How moral progress hap­pens: the de­cline of foot­bind­ing as a case study

rosehadshar26 Jul 2022 9:18 UTC
103 points
10 comments13 min readEA link

Call for Cruxes by Rhyme, a Longter­mist His­tory Con­sul­tancy

Lara_TH1 Mar 2023 10:20 UTC
147 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Les­sons from the his­tory of an­i­mal rights

JesseClifton17 May 2016 19:32 UTC
40 points
10 comments9 min readEA link

Dis­con­tin­u­ous progress in his­tory: an update

AI Impacts17 Apr 2020 16:28 UTC
69 points
3 comments24 min readEA link

What the EA com­mu­nity can learn from the rise of the neoliberals

Kerry_Vaughan6 Dec 2016 18:21 UTC
55 points
10 comments20 min readEA link

The His­tory of AI Rights Research

Jamie_Harris27 Aug 2022 8:14 UTC
44 points
1 comment14 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Po­ta­toes: A Crit­i­cal Review

Pablo Villalobos10 May 2022 15:27 UTC
118 points
27 comments6 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

How frag­ile was his­tory?

Gregory Lewis2 Feb 2018 6:23 UTC
22 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

Key Les­sons From So­cial Move­ment History

Jamie_Harris30 Jun 2021 17:05 UTC
122 points
24 comments11 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Why Un­der­grads Should Take His­tory Classes

ThomasW7 Nov 2021 14:25 UTC
44 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

So­cial Move­ment Les­sons from the US Pri­son­ers’ Rights Movement

Jamie_Harris22 Jul 2020 12:10 UTC
32 points
3 comments132 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Per­sis­tence—A crit­i­cal re­view [ABRIDGED]

Jaime Sevilla10 Nov 2021 11:30 UTC
90 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Are there his­tor­i­cal ex­am­ples of ex­cess panic dur­ing pan­demics kil­ling a lot of peo­ple?

Linch27 May 2020 17:00 UTC
28 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

[Short Ver­sion] What Helped the Voice­less? His­tor­i­cal Case Studies

Mau15 Dec 2020 3:40 UTC
52 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

[Question] Most harm­ful peo­ple in his­tory?

SiebeRozendal11 Sep 2022 3:04 UTC
16 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Briefly, the life of Tetsu Naka­mura (1946-2019)

Emrik3 Oct 2022 15:44 UTC
150 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

The Mys­tery of the Cuban mis­sile crisis

Nathan_Barnard5 May 2022 22:51 UTC
10 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

Are you re­ally in a race? The Cau­tion­ary Tales of Szilárd and Ellsberg

HaydnBelfield19 May 2022 8:42 UTC
463 points
44 comments18 min readEA link

Hu­man­i­ties Re­search Ideas for Longtermists

Lizka9 Jun 2021 4:39 UTC
151 points
13 comments13 min readEA link

The Fabian so­ciety was weirdly similar to the EA movement

MathiasKB26 Apr 2022 8:23 UTC
68 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How did our his­tor­i­cal moral heroes deal with se­vere ad­ver­sity and/​or moral com­pro­mise?

Linch9 Jan 2023 18:12 UTC
46 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

The end of the Bronze Age as an ex­am­ple of a sud­den col­lapse of civilization

FJehn28 Oct 2020 12:55 UTC
53 points
7 comments8 min readEA link

New His­tory Ex­plo­ra­tion Club for EAs!

aaronmayer27 May 2022 15:00 UTC
25 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Sum­mary of his­tory (em­pow­er­ment and well-be­ing lens)

Holden Karnofsky28 Sep 2021 17:48 UTC
62 points
11 comments11 min readEA link

[Question] What would an en­tity with GiveWell’s de­ci­sion-mak­ing pro­cess have recom­mended in the past?

Mati_Roy25 Jun 2021 6:12 UTC
28 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] I’m in­ter­view­ing his­to­rian of abo­li­tion­ism Christo­pher Brown. What should I ask him?

Robert_Wiblin12 Dec 2022 15:17 UTC
30 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

The world is much bet­ter. The world is awful. The world can be much bet­ter.

Max Roser22 Aug 2022 14:33 UTC
94 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

“A Creepy Feel­ing”: Nixon’s De­ci­sion to Disavow Biolog­i­cal Weapons

ThomasW30 Sep 2022 15:17 UTC
48 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

Which prop­er­ties does the EA move­ment share with deep-time or­gani­sa­tions?

FJehn26 Aug 2020 10:59 UTC
47 points
6 comments8 min readEA link

Why do so­cial move­ments fail: Two con­crete ex­am­ples.

NunoSempere4 Oct 2019 19:56 UTC
101 points
16 comments8 min readEA link

Mud­dling Along Is More Likely Than Dystopia

Jeffrey Heninger21 Oct 2023 9:30 UTC
87 points
3 comments8 min readEA link
(blog.aiimpacts.org)

Eisen­hower’s Atoms for Peace Speech

Akash17 May 2023 16:10 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Defend­ing against hy­po­thet­i­cal moon life dur­ing Apollo 11

eukaryote7 Jan 2024 23:59 UTC
67 points
3 comments32 min readEA link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

At­tempt at un­der­stand­ing the role of moral philos­o­phy in moral progress

alexhill28 Oct 2019 16:32 UTC
32 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Ex­am­ples of pure al­tru­ism to­wards fu­ture gen­er­a­tions?

richard_ngo26 Jan 2022 16:42 UTC
16 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Has Life Got­ten Bet­ter?

Holden Karnofsky5 Oct 2021 8:31 UTC
79 points
23 comments7 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

A Primer on God, Liber­al­ism and the End of History

Mahdi Complex28 Mar 2022 5:26 UTC
8 points
3 comments14 min readEA link

Is Democ­racy a Fad?

bgarfinkel13 Mar 2021 12:40 UTC
149 points
36 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Why doesn’t WWOTF men­tion the Bronze Age Col­lapse?

BrownHairedEevee19 Sep 2022 6:29 UTC
16 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

9/​26 is Petrov Day

Lizka25 Sep 2022 23:14 UTC
72 points
10 comments2 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

On the longter­mist case for work­ing on farmed an­i­mals [Uncer­tain­ties & re­search ideas]

MichaelA11 Apr 2021 6:49 UTC
78 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

Re­quest for pro­pos­als: Help Open Philan­thropy quan­tify biolog­i­cal risk

djbinder12 May 2022 21:28 UTC
137 points
10 comments6 min readEA link

How the Jains built a cul­ture of re­spect for non­hu­man animals

siwani agrawal11 Jul 2023 18:51 UTC
29 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

H-Day, a case study in co­or­di­nated change

EdoArad16 Apr 2022 7:51 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(en.wikipedia.org)

The Pug­wash Con­fer­ences and the Anti-Bal­lis­tic Mis­sile Treaty as a case study of Track II diplomacy

rani_martin16 Sep 2022 10:42 UTC
82 points
5 comments27 min readEA link

Some promis­ing ca­reer ideas be­yond 80,000 Hours’ pri­or­ity paths

Arden Koehler26 Jun 2020 10:34 UTC
141 points
28 comments15 min readEA link

Cel­e­brat­ing Ben­jamin Lay (died on this day 265 years ago)

Lizka8 Feb 2024 14:33 UTC
146 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

First clean wa­ter, now clean air

finm30 Apr 2023 18:01 UTC
187 points
14 comments17 min readEA link
(finmoorhouse.com)

Bruce Kent (1929–2022)

Gavin10 Jun 2022 14:03 UTC
47 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Epistemic Hell

rogersbacon127 Jan 2024 17:17 UTC
10 points
1 comment14 min readEA link
(www.secretorum.life)

How big a deal was the In­dus­trial Revolu­tion?

lukeprog16 Sep 2017 7:00 UTC
31 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(lukemuehlhauser.com)

Case stud­ies of self-gov­er­nance to re­duce tech­nol­ogy risk

jia6 Apr 2021 8:49 UTC
55 points
6 comments7 min readEA link

So­cial Move­ment Les­sons from the Fair Trade Movement

Jamie_Harris2 Apr 2021 10:51 UTC
44 points
0 comments42 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

[Question] How many times would nu­clear weapons have been used if ev­ery state had them since 1950?

eca4 May 2021 15:34 UTC
16 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Who are some less-known peo­ple like Petrov?

Lizka6 Sep 2022 13:22 UTC
54 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

The Germy Para­dox—Filters: Hard and soft skills

eukaryote3 Oct 2019 1:28 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

[Part 2] Am­plify­ing gen­er­al­ist re­search via fore­cast­ing – re­sults from a pre­limi­nary exploration

jacobjacob19 Dec 2019 16:36 UTC
32 points
1 comment15 min readEA link

EA is too fo­cused on the Man­hat­tan Project

trevor15 Sep 2022 2:00 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Some AI Gover­nance Re­search Ideas

MarkusAnderljung3 Jun 2021 10:51 UTC
99 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Model­ling the odds of re­cov­ery from civ­i­liza­tional collapse

MichaelA17 Sep 2020 11:58 UTC
41 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What pieces of ~his­tor­i­cal re­search have been ac­tion-guid­ing for you, or for EA?

rosehadshar29 Mar 2022 10:31 UTC
31 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

The sense of a start

Gavin28 Sep 2022 13:37 UTC
53 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.gleech.org)

Will MacAskill: The Begin­ning of History

Zach Stein-Perlman13 Aug 2022 22:45 UTC
36 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.foreignaffairs.com)

[Pod­cast] Tom Moynihan on why prior gen­er­a­tions missed some of the biggest pri­ori­ties of all

BrownHairedEevee25 Jun 2021 15:39 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Welfare sto­ries: How his­tory should be writ­ten, with an ex­am­ple (early his­tory of Guam)

kbog2 Jan 2020 23:32 UTC
48 points
3 comments60 min readEA link

Violence Be­fore Agriculture

John G. Halstead2 Oct 2023 8:01 UTC
143 points
7 comments9 min readEA link

Marginal Revolu­tion Univer­sity’s courses and series

Vasco Grilo1 Mar 2024 18:25 UTC
28 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(mru.org)

[Question] Pro­jects for EA historians

quinn7 Jun 2022 14:48 UTC
10 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Notes on ‘Atomic Ob­ses­sion’ (2009)

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

GovAI An­nual Re­port 2021

GovAI5 Jan 2022 16:57 UTC
52 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

[Pod­cast] Thomas Moynihan on the His­tory of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

finm22 Mar 2021 11:07 UTC
26 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(hearthisidea.com)

[Linkpost] Fran­cis at a Fac­tory Farm – Fran­cis of As­sisi and an­i­mal welfare

EA for Christians13 Oct 2023 11:44 UTC
21 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(christandcounterfactuals.substack.com)

Who or­dered al­ign­ment’s ap­ple?

Eleni_A28 Aug 2022 14:24 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

An­drew Carnegie and Public Libraries: A Model of Effec­tive Altruism

Sue Lyons21 Aug 2022 4:24 UTC
18 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] What are some moral catas­tro­phes events in his­tory?

Adriana Arauzo22 Jun 2021 6:37 UTC
29 points
11 comments1 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)

[Question] Was cen­tral place food shar­ing the origi­nal effec­tive al­tru­ism?

Lee Cronk27 Aug 2022 8:27 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

His­tory of the the­ory of well-being

davidhartsough22 Jun 2022 8:17 UTC
23 points
8 comments23 min readEA link

Tainted dona­tions: the Pres­i­dents Club din­ner – a case study

Sanjay15 Nov 2022 3:45 UTC
15 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Les­sons from the past for our global civilization

FJehn10 Aug 2023 9:54 UTC
4 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

[Question] Which sci­en­tific dis­cov­ery was most ahead of its time?

richard_ngo16 May 2019 12:28 UTC
34 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Ex­am­ples of self-gov­er­nance to re­duce tech­nol­ogy risk?

jia25 Sep 2020 13:26 UTC
32 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

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

DannyBressler20 May 2021 0:39 UTC
66 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

My notes on: A Very Ra­tional End of the World | Thomas Moynihan

Vasco Grilo20 Jun 2022 8:50 UTC
13 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

The ‘Old AI’: Les­sons for AI gov­er­nance from early elec­tric­ity regulation

Sam Clarke19 Dec 2022 2:46 UTC
58 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

The Germy Para­dox – The empty sky: A his­tory of state biolog­i­cal weapons programs

eukaryote24 Sep 2019 5:26 UTC
24 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

[Question] Any­one has a refer­ence for “It’s es­ti­mated that abo­li­tion cost Bri­tain 2% of its GDP for 50 years”?

mikbp16 Aug 2022 19:26 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are some his­tor­i­cal ex­am­ples of peo­ple and or­ga­ni­za­tions who’ve in­fluenced peo­ple to do more good?

Marisa11 Apr 2020 21:44 UTC
8 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

[Video] How hav­ing Fast Fourier Trans­forms sooner could have helped with Nu­clear Disar­ma­ment—Veritasium

mako yass3 Nov 2022 20:52 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

The His­tory, Episte­mol­ogy and Strat­egy of Tech­nolog­i­cal Res­traint, and les­sons for AI (short es­say)

MMMaas10 Aug 2022 11:00 UTC
90 points
6 comments9 min readEA link
(verfassungsblog.de)

How to Be­come a World His­tor­i­cal Figure (Péladan’s Dream)

rogersbacon17 Jul 2022 22:41 UTC
−4 points
2 comments30 min readEA link

[Question] Books on so­cial move­ments?

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

Cortés, Pizarro, and Afonso as Prece­dents for Takeover

AI Impacts2 Mar 2020 12:25 UTC
27 points
17 comments11 min readEA link
(aiimpacts.org)

Past and Fu­ture Tra­jec­tory Changes

N N28 Mar 2022 20:04 UTC
32 points
5 comments12 min readEA link
(goodoptics.wordpress.com)

Smal­lpox eradication

Lizka9 Dec 2022 3:29 UTC
93 points
3 comments6 min readEA link
(ourworldindata.org)

Pop­u­lar ed­u­ca­tion in Swe­den: much more than you wanted to know

Henrik Karlsson11 Sep 2022 22:04 UTC
9 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Dialec­tic of Enlightenment

ThomasW15 Jun 2022 4:58 UTC
5 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(monoskop.org)

The Germy Para­dox – The empty sky: How close did we get to BW us­age?

eukaryote27 Sep 2019 3:56 UTC
22 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Book re­view: The Dooms­day Machine

L Rudolf L18 Aug 2021 22:15 UTC
21 points
0 comments16 min readEA link
(strataoftheworld.blogspot.com)

[Question] Does any­one have a list of his­tor­i­cal ex­am­ples of so­cieties seek­ing to make things bet­ter for their de­scen­dants?

freedomandutility15 Aug 2022 13:13 UTC
6 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Nu­clear Es­pi­onage and AI Governance

GAA4 Oct 2021 18:21 UTC
32 points
3 comments24 min readEA link

FTX’s col­lapse mir­rors an in­fa­mous 18th cen­tury Bri­tish fi­nan­cial scandal

Michael Huang22 Dec 2022 6:58 UTC
34 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(theconversation.com)

Reli­gious Texts and EA: What Can We Learn and What Can We In­form?

Tony.Sena30 Jan 2021 12:04 UTC
29 points
11 comments5 min readEA link

List of past fraud­sters similar to SBF

NunoSempere28 Nov 2022 18:31 UTC
114 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Book recom­men­da­tions for the his­tory of ML?

Eleni_A28 Dec 2022 23:45 UTC
10 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the first is­sue of Asterisk

Clara Collier21 Nov 2022 18:51 UTC
275 points
47 comments1 min readEA link

‘Surveillance Cap­i­tal­ism’ and AI Gover­nance: Slip­pery Busi­ness Models, Se­cu­ri­ti­sa­tion, and ‘Best Prac­tices’

charlieh94329 Feb 2024 15:47 UTC
19 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

[Question] Best time-travel in­ter­ven­tion?

abramdemski27 Oct 2020 14:24 UTC
22 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Book Re­view: Churchill and Orwell

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

Wrong by Induction

Ales_Flidr6 Sep 2018 22:00 UTC
20 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Poverty in De­pres­sion-era England: Ex­cerpts from Or­well’s “Wi­gan Pier”

Aaron Gertler12 Feb 2020 1:01 UTC
16 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

The Cult Deficit: Anal­y­sis and Spec­u­la­tion (v2.0)

rogersbacon114 Jun 2022 4:14 UTC
3 points
0 comments13 min readEA link
(rogersbacon.substack.com)

CNAS re­port: ‘Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence and Arms Con­trol’

MMMaas13 Oct 2022 8:35 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.cnas.org)

Toby Ord’s new re­port on les­sons from the de­vel­op­ment of the atomic bomb

Ishan Mukherjee22 Nov 2022 10:37 UTC
65 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.governance.ai)

I am work­ing on a pro­ject to view sus­tain­abil­ity and welfare in a new evolu­tion­ary light

Sherry 4 Jan 2023 22:11 UTC
7 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Is Progress Real?

rogersbacon110 Jan 2023 17:45 UTC
7 points
0 comments14 min readEA link
(www.secretorum.life)

EA is too New & Im­por­tant to Schism

Wil Perkins23 Feb 2023 14:56 UTC
59 points
68 comments2 min readEA link

#168 – Whether deep his­tory says we’re head­ing for an in­tel­li­gence ex­plo­sion (Ian Mor­ris on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours24 Oct 2023 15:24 UTC
11 points
2 comments18 min readEA link

Scal­ing and Sus­tain­ing Stan­dards: A Case Study on the Basel Accords

Conrad K.16 Jul 2023 18:18 UTC
16 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

O mundo é hor­rível. O mundo está muito melhor. O mundo pode ser muito melhor.

AE Brasil / EA Brazil19 Jul 2023 19:37 UTC
5 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] I’m in­ter­view­ing his­to­rian Ian Mor­ris on the in­tel­li­gence ex­plo­sion — what should I ask him this time?

Robert_Wiblin21 Jul 2023 12:33 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
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