Less-discussed causes

TagLast edit: 31 Jan 2024 15:30 UTC by Will Howard🔹

Less-discussed causes are causes that receive comparatively less attention within the effective altruism community. Posts tagged with this topic can suggest, consider, or present a cause or intervention. This is independent of the quality of the suggestion, the community consensus about it, or the level of specificity.

Why I prioritize moral circle expansion over reducing extinction risk through artificial intelligence alignment

Jacy20 Feb 2018 18:29 UTC

107 points

72 comments35 min readEA link

(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Aligning Recommender Systems as Cause Area

IvanVendrov8 May 2019 8:56 UTC

150 points

48 comments13 min readEA link

A New X-Risk Factor: Brain-Computer Interfaces

Jack10 Aug 2020 10:24 UTC

76 points

12 comments42 min readEA link

Reducing long-term risks from malevolent actors

David_Althaus29 Apr 2020 8:55 UTC

341 points

93 comments37 min readEA link

Space governance is important, tractable and neglected

Tobias_Baumann7 Jan 2020 11:24 UTC

108 points

18 comments7 min readEA link

Cash prizes for the best arguments against psychedelics being an EA cause area

Milan_Griffes10 May 2019 18:13 UTC

51 points

123 comments13 min readEA link

Milan Griffes on EA blindspots

Gavin18 Mar 2022 16:17 UTC

79 points

52 comments2 min readEA link

Problem areas beyond 80,000 Hours’ current priorities

Arden Koehler22 Jun 2020 12:49 UTC

280 points

62 comments15 min readEA link

Decreasing populism and improving democracy, evidence-based policy, and rationality

Hauke Hillebrandt27 Jul 2021 18:14 UTC

47 points

11 comments26 min readEA link

Genetic Enhancement as a Cause Area

Galton25 Dec 2019 11:30 UTC

112 points

21 comments12 min readEA link

Big List of Cause Candidates

NunoSempere25 Dec 2020 16:34 UTC

282 points

71 comments47 min readEA link

[Cause Exploration Prizes] Jhana meditation

Milan_Griffes12 Aug 2022 5:26 UTC

73 points

6 comments11 min readEA link

Democratizing the workplace as a cause area

Bob Jacobs 🔸26 Nov 2022 18:31 UTC

38 points

19 comments8 min readEA link

Corporate Global Catastrophic Risks (C-GCRs)

Hauke Hillebrandt30 Jun 2019 16:53 UTC

63 points

17 comments10 min readEA link

Growth and the case against randomista development

Hauke Hillebrandt16 Jan 2020 10:11 UTC

432 points

197 comments31 min readEA link

Cause X Guide

Joey🔸1 Sep 2019 16:58 UTC

93 points

35 comments3 min readEA link

A Case for Voluntary Abortion Reduction

Ariel Simnegar 🔸20 Dec 2022 13:23 UTC

39 points

150 comments13 min readEA link

Tax Havens and the case for Tax Justice

Alex Barnes 15 Sep 2020 18:06 UTC

60 points

10 comments10 min readEA link

Snakebites kill 100,000 people every year, here’s what you should know

MathiasKB🔸27 Apr 2022 14:30 UTC

319 points

42 comments5 min readEA link

Democracy Promotion as an EA Cause Area

bryanschonfeld1 Jul 2020 1:56 UTC

84 points

15 comments7 min readEA link

Intervention Report: Charter Cities

David Bernard12 Jun 2021 13:54 UTC

126 points

19 comments51 min readEA link

The Future Fund’s Project Ideas Competition

Nick_Beckstead28 Feb 2022 17:27 UTC

236 points

726 comments1 min readEA link

(ftxfuturefund.org)

My list of effective altruism ideas that seem to be underexplored

turchin31 May 2022 12:33 UTC

57 points

21 comments2 min readEA link

Big List of Cause Candidates: January 2021–March 2022 update

Leo30 Apr 2022 17:21 UTC

123 points

18 comments19 min readEA link

New cause area: Violence against women and girls

Akhil6 Jun 2022 14:48 UTC

268 points

61 comments11 min readEA link

Global lead exposure report

David Bernard29 May 2021 16:56 UTC

126 points

2 comments47 min readEA link

New EA Cause Area: Run Blackwell’s Bookstore

Ben Pace5 Feb 2022 5:57 UTC

74 points

33 comments8 min readEA link

Questions for Reflection on Gaza

gb20 Nov 2023 6:01 UTC

15 points

18 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Sanity check—effectiveness/goodness of Trans Rescue?

David D20 Feb 2023 15:53 UTC

43 points

12 comments1 min readEA link

My preliminary research on the Adtech marketplace

Venkatesh30 Mar 2021 4:42 UTC

2 points

3 comments7 min readEA link

EA and the Possible Decline of the US: Very Rough Thoughts

Cullen 🔸8 Jan 2021 7:30 UTC

56 points

19 comments4 min readEA link

An Informal Review of Space Exploration

kbog31 Jan 2020 13:16 UTC

51 points

5 comments35 min readEA link

Cause Area: Human Rights in North Korea

Dawn Drescher20 Nov 2017 20:52 UTC

64 points

12 comments20 min readEA link

New EA cause area: chewier food for children

Andre Popovitch25 Dec 2022 5:16 UTC

40 points

19 comments3 min readEA link

(chadnauseam.com)

The Future Might Not Be So Great

Jacy30 Jun 2022 13:01 UTC

142 points

118 comments34 min readEA link

(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Deep Report on Diabetes

Joel Tan🔸6 Oct 2023 2:33 UTC

26 points

39 comments4 min readEA link

Cost-Effectiveness of Air Purifiers against Pollution

Lukas Trötzmüller🔸30 Jul 2020 8:37 UTC

67 points

11 comments14 min readEA link

EA for Biodiversity: EcoResilience Initiative

EcologyInterventions1 Jun 2024 5:33 UTC

18 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

The Scale of Fetal Suffering in Late-Term Abortions

Ariel Simnegar 🔸17 Mar 2024 19:46 UTC

222 points

25 comments3 min readEA link

On AI Weapons

kbog13 Nov 2019 12:48 UTC

76 points

10 comments30 min readEA link

Ending The War on Drugs—A New Cause For Effective Altruists?

MichaelPlant6 May 2021 13:18 UTC

123 points

20 comments2 min readEA link

(www.newstatesman.com)

[Question] Is there a list of causes that have been evaluated and rejected?

Tyner30 Mar 2022 16:36 UTC

26 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Science policy as a possible EA cause area: problems and solutions

PabloAMC 🔸23 Jan 2022 0:32 UTC

26 points

8 comments3 min readEA link

Biodiversity Loss: In the Shadow of Climate Change

Madhav Malhotra9 May 2022 22:10 UTC

32 points

3 comments6 min readEA link

Desensitizing Deepfakes

Phib29 Mar 2023 1:20 UTC

22 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

Sci-Hub sued in India

cflexman30 Dec 2021 2:48 UTC

113 points

5 comments7 min readEA link

Populism in Africa :The need to promote democracy as a cause area

Halwenge 20 Aug 2023 10:35 UTC

11 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

Juan García Martínez: Industrial alternative foods for global catastrophic risks

EA Global21 Nov 2020 8:12 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

Longlist of Causes + Cause Exploration Contest

Joel Tan🔸30 Jun 2023 12:15 UTC

46 points

6 comments2 min readEA link

(exploratory-altruism.org)

Problem area report: Pain

Sid Sharma13 Nov 2020 19:26 UTC

113 points

8 comments50 min readEA link

Assessing the Dangerousness of Malevolent Actors in AGI Governance: A Preliminary Exploration

Callum Hinchcliffe14 Oct 2023 21:18 UTC

28 points

4 comments9 min readEA link

What Are Dreams Worth?

Hans Gundlach14 May 2023 7:06 UTC

19 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

Mosul Dam Could Kill 1 Million Iraqis.

DC1 Mar 2022 3:28 UTC

73 points

10 comments8 min readEA link

The extreme cost-effectiveness of cell-based meat R&D

Stijn10 Aug 2020 14:00 UTC

37 points

20 comments5 min readEA link

Space governance—problem profile

finm8 May 2022 17:16 UTC

65 points

11 comments15 min readEA link

Opportunities that surprised us during our Clearer Thinking Regrants program

spencerg7 Nov 2022 13:09 UTC

116 points

5 comments9 min readEA link

AGI safety and losing electricity/industry resilience cost-effectiveness

Ross_Tieman17 Nov 2019 8:42 UTC

31 points

10 comments37 min readEA link

Shallow Report on Hypertension

Joel Tan🔸21 Nov 2022 5:22 UTC

55 points

17 comments16 min readEA link

Effective [Re]location

samuel11 May 2022 21:39 UTC

26 points

8 comments3 min readEA link

Brain preservation to prevent involuntary death: a possible cause area

AndyMcKenzie22 Mar 2022 12:33 UTC

50 points

29 comments10 min readEA link

Soaking Beans—a cost-effectiveness analysis

NickLaing6 Aug 2023 13:32 UTC

154 points

64 comments7 min readEA link

Non-pharmaceutical interventions in pandemic preparedness and response

Anon-biosec-account8 Apr 2021 14:13 UTC

51 points

16 comments12 min readEA link

Fix Prison Telecom

Benj Azose13 Aug 2022 9:11 UTC

31 points

3 comments6 min readEA link

Mind Enhancement: A High Impact, High Neglect Cause Area?

timfarkas24 Mar 2022 20:33 UTC

29 points

5 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Neglected biodiversity protection by EA.

Danny Forest4 Sep 2021 8:19 UTC

13 points

14 comments1 min readEA link

Risks from atomically precise manufacturing—Problem profile

Benjamin Hilton9 Aug 2022 13:41 UTC

53 points

4 comments5 min readEA link

(80000hours.org)

The transformative potential of cryptocurrencies

bejaq5 Feb 2021 14:27 UTC

9 points

10 comments3 min readEA link

Shallow Report on Coronary Heart Disease

Joel Tan🔸20 Feb 2023 4:49 UTC

26 points

11 comments18 min readEA link

Should Chronic Pain be a cause area?

mariushobbhahn18 May 2021 11:31 UTC

69 points

12 comments12 min readEA link

Cause area: Short-sleeper genes

JohnBoyle10 Aug 2022 12:51 UTC

93 points

32 comments8 min readEA link

New Cause Area: Demographic Collapse

Malcolm Collins30 Jun 2022 19:38 UTC

−30 points

28 comments34 min readEA link

Charities I Would Like to See

MichaelDickens20 Sep 2015 15:22 UTC

7 points

31 comments3 min readEA link

Inbreeding and global health & development

pafnuty11 Jul 2021 6:32 UTC

40 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

A framework for self-determination

kbog21 Jul 2021 11:33 UTC

18 points

0 comments45 min readEA link

[Link] The Case for Charter Cities Within the EA Framework (CCI)

Milan_Griffes23 Sep 2019 20:08 UTC

34 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

Work Test for Charity Entrepreneurship: Delaying Aging

Heye Groß7 Mar 2022 17:56 UTC

7 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Coronavirus and long term policy [UK focus]

weeatquince5 Apr 2020 8:29 UTC

52 points

3 comments17 min readEA link

Truthful AI

Owen Cotton-Barratt20 Oct 2021 15:11 UTC

55 points

14 comments10 min readEA link

Insects raised for food and feed — global scale, practices, and policy

abrahamrowe29 Jun 2020 13:57 UTC

95 points

13 comments29 min readEA link

The EA movement is neglecting physical goods

ruthgrace18 Jun 2020 14:39 UTC

27 points

17 comments1 min readEA link

The rodent birth control landscape

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸29 Apr 2022 20:00 UTC

113 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

(doi.org)

Cause prioritisation: Preventing lake Kivu in Africa eruption which could kill two million.

turchin28 Dec 2022 12:32 UTC

70 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Is preventing child abuse a plausible Cause X?

Milan_Griffes4 May 2019 0:58 UTC

62 points

34 comments1 min readEA link

Against immortality?

Owen Cotton-Barratt28 Apr 2022 11:51 UTC

110 points

40 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Is trauma a potential EA cause area?

nonzerosum31 May 2019 22:04 UTC

5 points

14 comments1 min readEA link

Can we drive development at scale? An interim update on economic growth work

Stephen Clare27 Oct 2020 11:14 UTC

98 points

15 comments20 min readEA link

Principia Qualia: blueprint for a new cause area, consciousness research with an eye toward ethics and x-risk

MikeJohnson9 Dec 2016 5:47 UTC

30 points

49 comments5 min readEA link

35-150 billion fish are raised in captivity to be released into the wild every year

saulius2 Apr 2019 13:16 UTC

98 points

16 comments36 min readEA link

Three Heuristics for Finding Cause X

Kerry_Vaughan4 Nov 2016 14:36 UTC

5 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

EAF’s ballot initiative doubled Zurich’s development aid

Jonas V13 Jan 2020 11:32 UTC

309 points

23 comments12 min readEA link

Improving Pest Management for Wild Insect Welfare

Wild_Animal_Initiative26 Dec 2019 17:47 UTC

35 points

1 comment41 min readEA link

[Question] Preserving natural ecosystems?

carlbaatz21 Mar 2021 11:28 UTC

11 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Jasper Synowski and Clare Donaldson: Identifying the most cost-effective programmes to improve mental health

EA Global21 Aug 2020 21:36 UTC

15 points

0 comments16 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

High Time For Drug Policy Reform. Part 1/4: Introduction and Cause Summary

MichaelPlant9 Aug 2017 13:17 UTC

24 points

15 comments6 min readEA link

Cause Selection Blogging Carnival Conclusion

MichaelDickens5 Oct 2015 20:16 UTC

7 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Consider raising IQ to do good

Lila_Rieber13 May 2014 5:53 UTC

16 points

7 comments7 min readEA link

OPIS initiative on access to psilocybin for cluster headaches

jonleighton10 Sep 2020 8:22 UTC

61 points

5 comments3 min readEA link

Risks from Asteroids

finm11 Feb 2022 21:01 UTC

44 points

9 comments8 min readEA link

(www.finmoorhouse.com)

The Case for Education

SamuelKnoche14 Aug 2020 17:26 UTC

24 points

10 comments10 min readEA link

Prioritization Questions for Artificial Sentience

Jamie_Harris18 Oct 2021 14:07 UTC

30 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Dignity as alternative EA priority—request for feedback

tomwein25 Jun 2020 13:50 UTC

29 points

21 comments2 min readEA link

Deliberation May Improve Decision-Making

Neil_Dullaghan🔹 5 Nov 2019 0:34 UTC

66 points

12 comments39 min readEA link

Is there a hedonistic utilitarian case for Cryonics? (Discuss)

Ozzie Gooen27 Aug 2015 17:50 UTC

9 points

34 comments1 min readEA link

Steering AI to care for animals, and soon

Andrew Critch14 Jun 2022 1:13 UTC

224 points

37 comments1 min readEA link

Extinguishing or preventing coal seam fires is a potential cause area

kbog7 Jul 2019 18:42 UTC

64 points

15 comments3 min readEA link

Plant-Based Seafood: A Promising Intervention in Food Technology? - Charity Entrepreneurship Approach Report

vicky_cox17 Jan 2020 14:35 UTC

23 points

8 comments3 min readEA link

Preprint is out! 100,000 lumens to treat seasonal affective disorder

Fabienne13 Nov 2021 18:37 UTC

62 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Chloramphenicol as intervention in heart attacks

Gordon Seidoh Worley17 Feb 2020 18:47 UTC

1 point

5 comments1 min readEA link

(www.cringely.com)

How to get a new cause into EA

Joey🔸10 Jan 2018 6:41 UTC

46 points

26 comments5 min readEA link

How should we prioritize cause prioritization?

Peter Wildeford13 Jun 2016 17:03 UTC

25 points

7 comments11 min readEA link

Missing Market: Sustainable African ETF

James Bailey3 Mar 2021 14:57 UTC

50 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

Cause Exploration Prizes: Could New Technology Help Solve the Glasses Problem?

Open Philanthropy12 Jul 2022 7:35 UTC

44 points

2 comments15 min readEA link

Anti-tribalism and positive mental health as high-value cause areas

Kaj_Sotala17 Oct 2017 11:10 UTC

31 points

31 comments2 min readEA link

Certificates of impact

Paul_Christiano11 Nov 2014 5:22 UTC

54 points

41 comments8 min readEA link

Intervention report: Agricultural land redistribution

David Bernard14 Jul 2021 14:29 UTC

65 points

6 comments38 min readEA link

[Question] What actions most effective if you care about reproductive rights in America?

Gordon Seidoh Worley26 Jun 2022 15:35 UTC

11 points

11 comments1 min readEA link

Leah Utyasheva: Preventing deaths from pesticide self-poisoning

EA Global3 Nov 2017 7:43 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

[Question] How to help the Amazon Rainforest (fires)

Iris Amazon27 Sep 2021 11:00 UTC

11 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Georgia on my Mind: Effectively Flipping the Senate

sapphire8 Nov 2020 7:24 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

The climate change policy with the most potential is the most neglected

Henry Stanley 🔸12 Jul 2019 17:19 UTC

18 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.vox.com)

Helping wild animals through vaccination: could this happen for coronaviruses like SARS-CoV-2?

Animal_Ethics12 May 2020 18:25 UTC

31 points

9 comments25 min readEA link

Neglected EA Regions

DavidNash17 Feb 2020 11:25 UTC

31 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Arden Koehler: Ideas for high-impact careers beyond 80,000 Hours’ priority paths

EA Global25 Oct 2020 5:48 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

[Question] Ineffective Altruism: Are there ideologies which generally cause there adherents to have worse impacts?

Nathan Young17 Oct 2019 9:24 UTC

1 point

6 comments1 min readEA link

A Qualitative Analysis of Value Drift in EA

Marisa12 Feb 2020 5:41 UTC

145 points

5 comments19 min readEA link

AI Governance: Opportunity and Theory of Impact

Allan Dafoe17 Sep 2020 6:30 UTC

262 points

19 comments12 min readEA link

Rationality as an EA Cause Area

Chris Leong13 Nov 2018 14:48 UTC

31 points

31 comments2 min readEA link

Why Charity Entrepreneurship?

kierangreig🔸29 Oct 2015 21:53 UTC

31 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

List of cause areas that EA should potentially prioritise more

freedomandutility17 Dec 2022 14:07 UTC

37 points

14 comments2 min readEA link

Wikipedia editing is important, tractable, and neglected

DM28 Nov 2021 15:47 UTC

200 points

43 comments17 min readEA link

Advancing antivenom by Mathias Kirk Bonde for Works in Progress

Nick Whitaker8 Dec 2022 15:55 UTC

31 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(www.worksinprogress.co)

New cause area: bivalve aquaculture

Brian Lui12 Jun 2022 11:14 UTC

99 points

38 comments4 min readEA link

Institutions for Future Generations

tylermjohn11 Nov 2019 20:33 UTC

118 points

55 comments5 min readEA link

Friendship Forever (new EA cause area?)

rogersbacon115 Nov 2022 16:51 UTC

91 points

14 comments13 min readEA link

(www.secretorum.life)

Should GMOs (e.g. golden rice) be a cause area?

mariushobbhahn31 Jan 2022 13:42 UTC

106 points

18 comments11 min readEA link

Reducing nightmares as a cause area

Drew Housman18 Jul 2022 20:29 UTC

159 points

45 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Effectiveness of Malala fund versus Global Health and Development Fund

Joseph Gardi1 Oct 2022 2:35 UTC

2 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Eva Vivalt: Forecasting research results

EA Global19 Feb 2020 16:34 UTC

18 points

0 comments11 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

EA needs a cause prioritization journal

kbog12 Sep 2018 22:40 UTC

3 points

16 comments4 min readEA link

New Top EA Cause: Politics

Davidmanheim1 Apr 2020 7:53 UTC

38 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

£4bn for the global poor: the UK’s 0.7%

Sanjay30 Nov 2020 15:50 UTC

148 points

20 comments2 min readEA link

Clean cookstoves may be competitive with GiveWell-recommended charities

Sanjay10 Feb 2020 18:00 UTC

32 points

7 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Are social media algorithms an existential risk?

Barry Grimes15 Sep 2020 8:52 UTC

24 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

Would a reduction in the number of owned cats outdoors in Canada and the US increase animal welfare?

kcudding25 Oct 2019 19:14 UTC

74 points

6 comments49 min readEA link

Quantifying the Impact of Economic Growth on Meat Consumption

kbog22 Dec 2015 11:30 UTC

24 points

37 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Does biodiversity loss warrant being it’s own cause area?

emwalz10 Jul 2022 20:25 UTC

44 points

42 comments1 min readEA link

Should we buy coal mines?

John G. Halstead4 May 2022 7:28 UTC

216 points

31 comments7 min readEA link

The Importance of Unknown Existential Risks

MichaelDickens23 Jul 2020 19:09 UTC

72 points

11 comments12 min readEA link

Long-term investment fund at Founders Pledge

Sjir Hoeijmakers🔸10 Jan 2020 19:09 UTC

138 points

28 comments3 min readEA link

Does climate change deserve more attention within EA?

Ben17 Apr 2019 6:50 UTC

152 points

65 comments15 min readEA link

Antibiotic resistance: Should animal advocates intervene?

Bella14 Aug 2020 12:29 UTC

61 points

5 comments11 min readEA link

Antifungal Resistance—The Neglected Cousin of Antibiotic Resistance

Madhav Malhotra4 Feb 2022 15:47 UTC

49 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Kidney stone pain as a potential cause area

Dan Elton3 May 2022 1:30 UTC

67 points

6 comments14 min readEA link

Improving local governance in fragile states—practical lessons from the field

Timothy_Liptrot12 Aug 2020 3:07 UTC

22 points

7 comments6 min readEA link

“Fixing Adolescence” as a Cause Area?

kirchner.jan23 Jan 2022 10:57 UTC

89 points

16 comments14 min readEA link

(universalprior.substack.com)

Hypertension is Extremely Important, Tractable, and Neglected

Marshall13 May 2022 15:00 UTC

19 points

6 comments4 min readEA link

Review of Climate Cost-Effectiveness Analyses

mchr3k20 Oct 2019 20:39 UTC

34 points

17 comments15 min readEA link

Some personal thoughts on EA and systemic change

CarlShulman26 Sep 2019 21:40 UTC

198 points

17 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Looking for collaborators after last 80k podcast with Tristan Harris

Jan-Willem7 Dec 2020 22:23 UTC

19 points

7 comments2 min readEA link

Want to alleviate developing world poverty? Alleviate price risk. (2018)

RomeoStevens23 Mar 2021 0:16 UTC

23 points

6 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Will Three Gorges Dam Collapse And Kill Millions?

DC26 Jul 2020 2:43 UTC

80 points

9 comments3 min readEA link

Effective animal advocacy movement building: a neglected opportunity?

Jamie_Harris11 Jun 2019 20:33 UTC

68 points

11 comments17 min readEA link

How does fighting diarrhoea stack up to malaria in effectiveness?

MichaelDello9 Oct 2015 0:28 UTC

3 points

8 comments3 min readEA link

State of the land: Misinformation and its effects on global catastrophic risks

ruthgrace21 Mar 2022 20:04 UTC

32 points

4 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] What analysis has been done of space colonization as a cause area?

Eli Rose9 Oct 2019 20:33 UTC

14 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

The Possibility of an Ongoing Moral Catastrophe (Summary)

Linch2 Aug 2019 21:55 UTC

144 points

17 comments4 min readEA link

(docs.google.com)

Increasing Access to Pain Relief in Developing Countries—An EA Perspective

Lee_Sharkey31 Jan 2017 16:13 UTC

89 points

19 comments10 min readEA link

Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work

80000_Hours27 Aug 2021 18:37 UTC

5 points

0 comments99 min readEA link

Silk production: global scale and animal welfare issues

abrahamrowe20 Apr 2021 1:38 UTC

75 points

9 comments16 min readEA link

Fish used as live bait by recreational fishermen

saulius8 Aug 2018 20:56 UTC

65 points

20 comments6 min readEA link

Organized Cause Evaluation

Elliot Temple28 Nov 2022 20:31 UTC

5 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

(curi.us)

Promoting Simple Altruism

LiaH1 Sep 2021 15:49 UTC

20 points

11 comments4 min readEA link

Snails used for human consumption: The case of meat and slime

Daniela Waldhorn6 Feb 2020 17:00 UTC

89 points

8 comments26 min readEA link

Preventing atherosclerosis, the easiest way to improve your life expectancy?

Eli_30 Nov 2022 6:31 UTC

18 points

7 comments15 min readEA link

[Question] How should I judge the impact of giving $5k to a family of three kids and two mentally ill parents?

Blake5 Dec 2022 13:52 UTC

8 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Need for safeguards to mitigate technology risk

tech_vulnerability_society31 Jul 2020 10:53 UTC

−13 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Addressing Neglectedness in Animal Advocacy: Focus on the “Invisible Animals”

Zoe Newton7 Jun 2024 11:05 UTC

16 points

2 comments5 min readEA link

Population Size/Growth & Reproductive Choice: Highly effective, synergetic & neglected

RafaelF14 Feb 2021 7:14 UTC

17 points

19 comments7 min readEA link

Understanding Open Philanthropy’s evolution on migration policy

vipulnaik18 Dec 2021 19:45 UTC

22 points

3 comments12 min readEA link

Short-Term AI Alignment as a Priority Cause

len.hoang.lnh11 Feb 2020 16:22 UTC

17 points

11 comments7 min readEA link

Metaverse democratisation as a potential EA cause area

Paul_Lang22 Feb 2022 0:42 UTC

26 points

13 comments3 min readEA link

Is Combatting Ageism The Most Potentially Impactful Form of Social Activism?

JosephBronski11 Feb 2022 4:40 UTC

−14 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

OPIS policy paper: Legalising access to psilocybin for the treatment of cluster headaches

jonleighton12 Nov 2020 11:10 UTC

43 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

Improving the lives of millions of Latin Americans through better welfare targeting algorithms

NORIEGA10 Jul 2021 5:39 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Family Planning: A Significant Opportunity for Impact

Sarah Eustis-Guthrie12 Aug 2022 0:01 UTC

99 points

9 comments14 min readEA link

The scale of direct human impact on invertebrates

abrahamrowe2 Sep 2020 13:22 UTC

91 points

6 comments13 min readEA link

Humanities Research Ideas for Longtermists

Lizka9 Jun 2021 4:39 UTC

151 points

13 comments13 min readEA link

A general framework for evaluating aging research. Part 1: reasoning with Longevity Escape Velocity

Emanuele_Ascani17 Jan 2019 16:33 UTC

21 points

18 comments20 min readEA link

The case of the missing cause prioritisation research

weeatquince16 Aug 2020 0:21 UTC

309 points

88 comments16 min readEA link

North Korea faces Covid and Drought [Linkpost]

aogara11 Jul 2022 2:07 UTC

15 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

(www.economist.com)

Love seems like a high priority

kbog19 Jan 2020 0:41 UTC

55 points

31 comments12 min readEA link

[Question] Is rapid diagnostic testing (RDT), such as for coronavirus, a neglected area in Global Health?

Ramiro17 Mar 2020 22:24 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Paris-compliant offsets—a high leverage climate intervention?

Ben5 Oct 2020 16:55 UTC

12 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Which nuclear wars should worry us most?

Luisa_Rodriguez16 Jun 2019 23:31 UTC

103 points

13 comments6 min readEA link

Seeking a Collaboration to Stop Hurricanes?

Anthony Repetto4 Dec 2021 12:39 UTC

16 points

10 comments4 min readEA link

Cause Area Proposal: Paperwork Reduction

Ja3k8 Aug 2022 20:23 UTC

20 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is Mineral Resource Scarcity a Risk Anyone is Researching? Worth Researching?

haywyer9 Jun 2022 21:30 UTC

4 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

On the assessment of volcanic eruptions as global catastrophic or existential risks

Mike Cassidy13 Oct 2021 14:32 UTC

112 points

18 comments19 min readEA link

The Importance of Artificial Sentience

Jamie_Harris3 Mar 2021 17:17 UTC

70 points

10 comments11 min readEA link

(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

A love letter to civilian OSINT, and possibilities as a tool in EA

eukaryote10 Jul 2020 20:55 UTC

81 points

4 comments9 min readEA link

(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Invertebrate Welfare Cause Profile

Jason Schukraft9 Jul 2019 17:28 UTC

118 points

14 comments42 min readEA link

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

Joey🔸6 Jan 2021 15:47 UTC

88 points

20 comments10 min readEA link

[Question] What is the increase in expected value of effective altruist Wayne Hsiung being mayor of Berkeley instead of its current incumbent?

DC7 Aug 2020 1:50 UTC

7 points

32 comments1 min readEA link

Coronavirus Research Ideas for EAs

Peter Wildeford27 Mar 2020 21:01 UTC

118 points

20 comments23 min readEA link

Humane Pesticides as the Most Marginally Effective Cause

JeffMJordan22 Sep 2015 6:35 UTC

26 points

20 comments10 min readEA link

Enlightenment How?

thisisntrob25 Jun 2020 12:46 UTC

18 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Cost-Effectiveness of Aging Research

SarahC31 Jan 2019 20:47 UTC

52 points

16 comments6 min readEA link

Insomnia: a promising cure

John G. Halstead16 Nov 2018 18:33 UTC

42 points

18 comments3 min readEA link

The Intellectual and Moral Decline in Academic Research

gavintaylor7 Feb 2020 16:47 UTC

26 points

26 comments1 min readEA link

(www.jamesgmartin.center)

Finding more effective causes

Michelle_Hutchinson1 Jan 2016 22:54 UTC

20 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

A brief look at reducing the efficiency of genocides

NLHeath11 Nov 2020 18:07 UTC

35 points

5 comments9 min readEA link

[updated] Global development interventions are generally more effective than climate change interventions

Hauke Hillebrandt2 Oct 2019 8:36 UTC

119 points

44 comments16 min readEA link

Benefits of EA engaging with mainstream (addressed) cause areas

blehrer8 May 2019 20:38 UTC

31 points

14 comments7 min readEA link

Prioritization in Science—current view

EdoArad31 Oct 2020 15:22 UTC

37 points

7 comments4 min readEA link

Fisher & Syed on Tradable Obligations to Enhance Health

Cullen 🔸12 Aug 2018 22:17 UTC

6 points

5 comments2 min readEA link

Sex work as part of mental health and wellbeing services

Mary 3 Mar 2022 5:59 UTC

48 points

9 comments2 min readEA link

Mind Ease: a promising new mental health intervention

PeterBrietbart23 Oct 2018 17:34 UTC

24 points

8 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] What new EA project or org would you like to see created in the next 3 years?

Ozzie Gooen11 Jun 2019 20:56 UTC

75 points

82 comments1 min readEA link

Monkeypox: Is it worth worrying about?

MarcusAbramovitch17 Aug 2022 5:59 UTC

27 points

11 comments4 min readEA link

Further thoughts on charter cities and effective altruism

marklutter20 Jul 2021 19:56 UTC

78 points

13 comments7 min readEA link

A Case for Empirical Cause Prioritization

Peter Wildeford6 Jun 2016 17:32 UTC

25 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

Global cochineal production: scale, welfare concerns, and potential interventions

abrahamrowe11 Feb 2020 21:33 UTC

49 points

3 comments12 min readEA link

[Question] What are some software development needs in EA causes?

Eevee🔹6 Mar 2020 5:25 UTC

10 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

Taking advantage of climate change concerns to channel donations to EA-recommended organizations at low marginal cost (proposal and call for more research)

ianps19 Dec 2019 14:06 UTC

26 points

7 comments4 min readEA link

Measuring Change in Diet for Animal Advocacy

Jacob_Peacock9 Nov 2018 20:21 UTC

9 points

2 comments11 min readEA link

Psychedelics Normalization

andzuck26 Apr 2019 2:50 UTC

53 points

26 comments1 min readEA link

Why and how to start a for-profit company serving emerging markets

Ben Kuhn6 Nov 2019 1:00 UTC

148 points

15 comments6 min readEA link

(www.benkuhn.net)

Justice and Global Priorities Research Reading List

Luis Mota Freitas30 Aug 2022 19:46 UTC

35 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

Why You Should Donate a Kidney—The Neoliberal Podcast

Eevee🔹27 Jun 2021 4:01 UTC

8 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(podcasts.apple.com)

Ineffective entrepreneurship: post-mortem of Hippo, the happiness app that never quite was

MichaelPlant23 May 2018 10:30 UTC

92 points

37 comments13 min readEA link

Effective Slacktivism: why somebody should do prioritization research on slacktivism

Kat Woods3 Dec 2021 20:32 UTC

36 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

What you can do to help stop violence against women and girls

Akhil12 Jan 2023 11:51 UTC

333 points

24 comments16 min readEA link

[Question] Which countries are most receptive to more immigration?

Eevee🔹6 Jul 2020 21:46 UTC

19 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How impactful is being a suicide hotline volunteer?

OliverHayman5 Feb 2024 5:02 UTC

12 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

What I thought about child marriage as a cause area, and how I’ve changed my mind

Catherine F31 Jan 2023 19:50 UTC

218 points

44 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Is The Freedom Fund still the best charity addressing human trafficking / modern slavery, and why is this cause area not of more interest to EA?

Brain_in_a_Vat4 Dec 2023 9:24 UTC

24 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Charity Thrift Shop launched for humanitarian aid in Turkey.

Abigail.G10 Feb 2023 10:57 UTC

27 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(www.instagram.com)

Immigration reform: a shallow cause exploration

JoelMcGuire20 Feb 2023 15:57 UTC

104 points

7 comments36 min readEA link

(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Cholesterol and Blood Pressure as Neglected Dietary Interventions?

RomeoStevens26 Feb 2023 18:06 UTC

6 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Effective Selfishism?

ventureguess29 Nov 2023 10:42 UTC

4 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Shrimp paste might cause more animal deaths than any other food product. Who’s working on this?

Angelina Li30 Oct 2023 21:53 UTC

119 points

22 comments4 min readEA link

Aging should be effective altruism’s 5th cause area

Yarrow2 Dec 2023 8:28 UTC

20 points

15 comments1 min readEA link

Land redistribution, revisited.

dEAsign15 Aug 2023 7:28 UTC

13 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

Legal Assistance for Victims of AI

bob17 Mar 2023 11:42 UTC

52 points

19 comments1 min readEA link

Charter Cities: why they’re exciting & how they might work

Jackson Wagner18 Jul 2023 13:57 UTC

24 points

13 comments8 min readEA link

CEARCH’s Cause Exploration Contest: Awards

Joel Tan🔸7 Sep 2023 3:39 UTC

38 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

Memo on some neglected topics

Lukas Finnveden11 Nov 2023 2:01 UTC

71 points

3 comments7 min readEA link

(open.substack.com)

New Cause Area: Portrait Welfare (+introducing SPEWS)

Luke Freeman31 Mar 2023 21:22 UTC

73 points

17 comments15 min readEA link

Engineered plant pandemics and societal collapse risk

freedomandutility4 Aug 2023 17:06 UTC

13 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Trans Rescue’s operations in Uganda: high impact giving opportunity

David D11 Apr 2023 16:21 UTC

61 points

6 comments6 min readEA link

RIP Medical Debt

Layla S10 May 2023 20:59 UTC

0 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

(ripmedicaldebt.org)

The Effectiveness of Volunteering for Crisis Support Hotlines

William Spaul9 May 2023 12:33 UTC

26 points

9 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Can increasing Trust amongst humans be considered our greatest priority?

Firas Najjar24 Aug 2023 8:45 UTC

4 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Combating narcissistic politicians

Dave Cortright 🔸18 Nov 2023 23:43 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(youtu.be)

[Question] How could VR advancements be leveraged to improve the world?

michel2 Jun 2023 10:28 UTC

11 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Why microplastics should matter to EAs

BiancaCojocaru4 Dec 2023 9:27 UTC

4 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Can we confidently dismiss the existence of near aliens? Probabilities and implications

Magnus Vinding25 Jul 2023 11:37 UTC

46 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

(magnusvinding.com)

Cooperating with aliens and AGIs: An ECL explainer

Chi24 Feb 2024 22:58 UTC

53 points

9 comments20 min readEA link

Everett branches, inter-light cone trade and other alien matters: Appendix to “An ECL explainer”

Chi24 Feb 2024 23:09 UTC

26 points

1 comment11 min readEA link

Evidential Cooperation in Large Worlds: Potential Objections & FAQ

Chi28 Feb 2024 18:58 UTC

36 points

5 comments18 min readEA link

Kathryn Mannix: What happens as we die? | TED Talk

Eevee🔹17 Dec 2023 18:24 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.ted.com)

Education: Teaching Love (Philia/Brotherly love) as a Priority Cause

Keen Visionary3 Mar 2024 18:35 UTC

0 points

5 comments2 min readEA link

Why UFOs matter

Magnus Vinding21 Jun 2024 10:53 UTC

31 points

14 comments10 min readEA link

Wild animal welfare? Stable totalitarianism? Predict which new EA cause area will go mainstream!

Jackson Wagner11 Mar 2024 14:27 UTC

48 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

Reasons for optimism about measuring malevolence to tackle x- and s-risks

Jamie_Harris2 Apr 2024 10:26 UTC

85 points

12 comments8 min readEA link

Public transit advocacy as an effective cause area

Eevee🔹12 Jul 2024 19:53 UTC

19 points

5 comments2 min readEA link

(sunyshore.substack.com)

Intermediate Report on Low Physical Activity

Joel Tan🔸24 Jan 2024 2:50 UTC

31 points

6 comments4 min readEA link

International tax policy as a potential cause area

Tax Geek23 Jan 2024 16:36 UTC

60 points

6 comments12 min readEA link

Agricultural research and development

David_Goll30 Jul 2014 21:38 UTC

4 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

Veg*n recidivism seems important, tractable, and neglected

xccf28 Jun 2015 18:33 UTC

18 points

23 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Has anyone done an analysis on the importance, tractability, and neglectedness of keeping human-digestible calories in the ocean in case we need it after some global catastrophe?

Mati_Roy17 Feb 2020 7:47 UTC

9 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

Cause: Better political systems and policy making.

weeatquince22 Nov 2016 12:37 UTC

21 points

6 comments9 min readEA link

Estimating the Philanthropic Discount Rate

MichaelDickens3 Jul 2020 16:58 UTC

81 points

21 comments40 min readEA link

Rodents farmed for pet snake food

saulius20 Feb 2019 19:54 UTC

83 points

19 comments20 min readEA link

[Question] Should local EA groups support political causes?

lukasb21 Jul 2020 19:54 UTC

16 points

11 comments1 min readEA link

HLI’s Mental Health Programme Evaluation Project—Update on the First Round of Evaluation

Jasper Synowski10 Jun 2020 16:45 UTC

59 points

9 comments7 min readEA link

EA should invest more in exploration

Michael_PJ5 Feb 2017 17:11 UTC

23 points

27 comments7 min readEA link

Getting money out of politics and into charity

Eric Neyman6 Oct 2020 5:28 UTC

113 points

47 comments3 min readEA link

Intervention Profile: Ballot Initiatives

Jason Schukraft13 Jan 2020 15:41 UTC

117 points

5 comments42 min readEA link

[Question] What Are Effective Alternatives to Party Politics for Effective Public Policy Advocacy?

Evan_Gaensbauer30 Jan 2019 2:52 UTC

24 points

6 comments3 min readEA link

What should Founders Pledge research?

John G. Halstead9 Sep 2019 17:41 UTC

52 points

31 comments1 min readEA link

Funding Proposal: Supporting a Campaign to Increase Canadian Official Development Assistance

jonathancourtney8 Feb 2019 23:51 UTC

21 points

0 comments13 min readEA link

Are we neglecting education? Philosophy in schools as a longtermist area

JackM30 Jul 2020 16:31 UTC

68 points

29 comments17 min readEA link

Responding to COVID-19 in India

Suvita26 Apr 2020 19:07 UTC

57 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Is promoting veganism neglected and if so what is the most effective way of promoting it?

samuel07222 Aug 2019 14:47 UTC

1 point

2 comments1 min readEA link

Effective Lobbying Discussion Group

Noah Wescombe13 Dec 2020 23:43 UTC

13 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

New Cause Proposal: International Supply Chain Accountability

NunoSempere1 Apr 2020 7:56 UTC

32 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

Trying to help coral reefs survive climate change seems incredibly neglected.

capybaralet17 Jan 2021 18:47 UTC

9 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

[Link] A Modest Proposal: Eliminate Email

arikr18 Mar 2019 0:26 UTC

9 points

11 comments1 min readEA link

How can we reduce s-risks?

Tobias_Baumann29 Jan 2021 15:46 UTC

42 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

Improving disaster shelters to increase the chances of recovery from a global catastrophe

Nick_Beckstead19 Feb 2014 22:17 UTC

24 points

5 comments26 min readEA link

Vote Pairing is a Cost-Effective Political Intervention

Ben_West🔸26 Feb 2017 13:54 UTC

19 points

14 comments9 min readEA link

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

Denkenberger🔸19 Nov 2018 21:57 UTC

29 points

5 comments10 min readEA link

On Values Spreading

MichaelDickens11 Sep 2015 3:57 UTC

32 points

13 comments11 min readEA link

[Draft] Fighting Aging as an Effective Altruism Cause

turchin16 Apr 2018 10:18 UTC

1 point

39 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Global basic education as a missing cause priority

lucy.ea88 Aug 2019 1:19 UTC

5 points

16 comments1 min readEA link

Climate Change Is Neglected By EA

mchr3k23 May 2020 19:16 UTC

36 points

57 comments15 min readEA link

Notes: Stubble Burning in India

Jason Schukraft13 Jan 2021 2:58 UTC

38 points

8 comments6 min readEA link

Increase Impact by Waiting for a Recession to Donate or Invest in a Cause.

maxwell20 Jun 2019 21:22 UTC

12 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

The Case for Rare Chinese Tofus

George Stiffman8 Feb 2022 6:12 UTC

203 points

55 comments9 min readEA link

Dietary habits – Another potential Cause Area?

peter_janicki19 Jun 2021 9:16 UTC

14 points

1 comment8 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Millions face starvation in Afghanistan

aogara4 Dec 2021 23:46 UTC

23 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

[Cause Exploration Prizes] Crime Reduction

Sashworthhayes31 Aug 2022 19:21 UTC

70 points

18 comments15 min readEA link

On ‘causes’

Owen Cotton-Barratt24 Jun 2014 17:19 UTC

10 points

29 comments3 min readEA link

Ideological engineering and social control: A neglected topic in AI safety research?

Geoffrey Miller1 Sep 2017 18:52 UTC

17 points

8 comments2 min readEA link

Why those who care about catastrophic and existential risk should care about autonomous weapons

aaguirre11 Nov 2020 17:27 UTC

103 points

31 comments15 min readEA link

Project Proposal: Gears and Aging

johnswentworth11 May 2020 7:29 UTC

11 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

Cause profile: mental health

MichaelPlant31 Dec 2018 12:09 UTC

147 points

31 comments24 min readEA link

[Question] 12 years of education as a missing cause priority

lucy.ea87 Aug 2019 2:49 UTC

1 point

5 comments1 min readEA link

Cosmic EA: How Cost Effective Is Informing ET?

TruePath31 Dec 2017 8:37 UTC

3 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] might targeting malnutrition (not undernourishment!) be an important cause area?

peter_janicki20 Sep 2020 11:01 UTC

9 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Animal Equality showed that advocating for diet change works. But is it cost-effective?

Peter Wildeford7 Jun 2018 4:06 UTC

28 points

22 comments26 min readEA link

Informational Lobbying: Theory and Effectiveness

Matt_Lerner30 Jul 2020 22:02 UTC

75 points

20 comments32 min readEA link

An argument that EA should focus more on climate change

Ann Garth 🔸8 Dec 2020 2:48 UTC

30 points

3 comments10 min readEA link

Recommendations for prioritizing political engagement in the 2020 US elections

IanDavidMoss14 Oct 2020 13:52 UTC

38 points

22 comments6 min readEA link

Managed Honey Bee Welfare: Problems and Potential Interventions

Jason Schukraft14 Nov 2019 19:03 UTC

76 points

5 comments66 min readEA link

Wild animal suffering caused by fires and ways to prevent it: a noncontroversial intervention

Animal_Ethics29 Aug 2020 14:09 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

How to evaluate neglectedness and tractability of aging research

Emanuele_Ascani2 Aug 2019 10:29 UTC

11 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

Increasing Urban Density as a Recommended Cause Area?

Niki Kotsenko11 Sep 2022 13:23 UTC

7 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

Shallow Report on Nuclear War (Abolishment)

Joel Tan🔸18 Oct 2022 7:36 UTC

35 points

14 comments18 min readEA link

Shallow Report on Access to Mental Health Drugs

Joel Tan🔸22 Nov 2022 2:27 UTC

37 points

8 comments18 min readEA link

Vegaphobia—A Brief Presentation

dlnrbts28320 Dec 2022 21:08 UTC

10 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Cosmic AI safety

Magnus Vinding6 Dec 2024 22:32 UTC

22 points

3 comments6 min readEA link

Customized COVID-19 risk analysis as a high value area

Askell23 Jul 2020 20:28 UTC

48 points

7 comments3 min readEA link

Intermediate Report on Hypertension

Joel Tan🔸3 Apr 2023 3:54 UTC

50 points

12 comments5 min readEA link

Food security and catastrophic famine risks—Managing complexity and climate

Michael Hinge5 Apr 2023 20:33 UTC

26 points

0 comments23 min readEA link

Peacebuilding and Violent Conflict

Charlie Dougherty5 Aug 2022 11:01 UTC

19 points

5 comments8 min readEA link

Phytomining for Effective Altruism

Benjamin M.10 Sep 2023 21:03 UTC

17 points

3 comments29 min readEA link

Everything I didn’t know about fertilizers

Helene_K 🔸27 Jun 2023 10:34 UTC

53 points

11 comments12 min readEA link

Quantum Computing : A preliminary research analysis report

Jaime Sevilla5 Nov 2019 14:25 UTC

49 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Intermediate Report on Diabetes Mellitus Type 2

Joel Tan🔸24 Apr 2023 7:11 UTC

28 points

6 comments5 min readEA link

Announcing the Patient Philanthropy Fund

Sjir Hoeijmakers🔸27 Oct 2021 15:44 UTC

131 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

Might stopping miscarriages be a very important cause area?

SaraAzubuike5 Dec 2021 17:18 UTC

16 points

13 comments2 min readEA link

Better weather forecasting: Agricultural and non-agricultural benefits in low- and lower-middle-income countries

Rethink Priorities28 Apr 2023 16:25 UTC

41 points

6 comments3 min readEA link

(rethinkpriorities.org)

Assessing the impact of quantum cryptanalysis

Jaime Sevilla22 Jul 2020 11:26 UTC

39 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

The Case for Non-Technical AI Safety/Alignment Growth & Funding

Algo_Law28 Apr 2022 16:31 UTC

17 points

9 comments8 min readEA link

Vertical farming to lessen our reliance on the Sun

Ty5 May 2022 5:57 UTC

12 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

Relieving extreme physical pain in humans – an opportunity for effective funding

jonleighton10 Oct 2018 12:28 UTC

38 points

16 comments15 min readEA link

Shallow Investigation: Arsenic Remediation

Francis10 Jan 2023 2:54 UTC

41 points

3 comments19 min readEA link

[BBC News] Postpartum haemorrhage: Niger halves blood-loss deaths at clinics

Sean Ericson21 Jan 2023 18:36 UTC

32 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

(www.bbc.com)

Some governance research ideas to prevent malevolent control over AGI and why this might matter a hell of a lot

Jim Buhler23 May 2023 13:07 UTC

63 points

5 comments16 min readEA link

The Effective Altruist Case for Using Genetic Enhancement to End Poverty

1mkl32j20109128 Oct 2023 16:36 UTC

−3 points

21 comments35 min readEA link

A case for the adoption of Phage therapy in Africa

emmannaemeka7 Dec 2022 1:38 UTC

12 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

Road safety: Landscape of the problem and routes to effective policy advocacy

Rethink Priorities28 Nov 2023 15:38 UTC

40 points

6 comments5 min readEA link

(rethinkpriorities.org)

The (California) case for State Capacity as an EA cause area

Locke4 Aug 2022 3:22 UTC

58 points

10 comments9 min readEA link

Ok Doomer! SRM and Catastrophic Risk Podcast

Gideon Futerman20 Aug 2022 12:22 UTC

10 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

(open.spotify.com)

[Question] What is the expected value of me giving blood?

Matt Goodman13 Oct 2022 17:09 UTC

21 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

Blind Spots: Compartmentalizing

Dale31 Dec 2014 22:25 UTC

20 points

55 comments14 min readEA link

[Question] What are some lists of open questions in effective altruism?

Aaron Gertler 🔸5 Feb 2019 2:23 UTC

28 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

Could Intentional Living (as a cause area) be an EA Blind Spot?

yanni kyriacos11 Jun 2023 1:38 UTC

4 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Cause Exploration Prize: Distribution of Information Among Humans

markov_user12 Aug 2022 0:58 UTC

31 points

3 comments13 min readEA link

Sperm sorting in cattle

Koushik Raghavan15 Jul 2019 2:50 UTC

20 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Increasing personal security of at-risk high-impact actors

MaxRa28 May 2020 14:03 UTC

19 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

Against Making Up Our Conscious Minds

Silica10 Feb 2024 7:12 UTC

13 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

Shallow Report on Fungal Diseases

Joel Tan🔸19 Oct 2022 5:13 UTC

17 points

0 comments15 min readEA link

Centre for Exploratory Altruism Research (CEARCH)

Joel Tan🔸18 Oct 2022 7:23 UTC

125 points

15 comments5 min readEA link

I Reviewed the 4000-page Disease Control Priorities Collection: Fund 4 Programs; Divest from Cost-ineffective Bednets and Deworming

brb2439 Jul 2022 22:36 UTC

20 points

9 comments18 min readEA link

We Probably Shouldn’t Solve Consciousness

Silica10 Feb 2024 7:12 UTC

33 points

5 comments16 min readEA link

Be the Match: a volunteer list for bone marrow donation

Evan Rysdam27 Oct 2019 5:44 UTC

29 points

30 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Could we do more for english speaking African countries?

Pseudonym1016 Nov 2022 6:15 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Shallow Report on Tinnitus

Joel Tan🔸23 Nov 2022 5:55 UTC

26 points

0 comments15 min readEA link

My favorite articles by Brian Tomasik and what they are about

Timothy Chan24 Feb 2024 18:10 UTC

76 points

4 comments4 min readEA link

Private Immigration Sponsorship: A High-Impact and Personal EA Opportunity

ZachGoldstein24 Feb 2024 14:31 UTC

15 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Could the drop in child vaccination and the latest news on poliomyelitis be a new cause area?

Ramiro9 Oct 2022 1:09 UTC

8 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Russian Resistance: a website about protesters and how one could support them

Svetoslav Palović18 Jul 2022 7:00 UTC

13 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

Shallow Report on Asteroids

Joel Tan🔸20 Oct 2022 1:34 UTC

27 points

7 comments13 min readEA link

Automated online suicide prevention: potentially high impact?

generic_username26 Jul 2022 9:46 UTC

19 points

11 comments7 min readEA link

Shallow Report on Diabetes Mellitus Type 2

Joel Tan🔸23 Jan 2023 3:45 UTC

41 points

11 comments14 min readEA link

Intactivism as a potential Effective Altruist cause area?

Question Mark26 Jun 2021 7:21 UTC

1 point

8 comments3 min readEA link

My thoughts on nanotechnology strategy research as an EA cause area

Ben Snodin2 May 2022 9:41 UTC

137 points

17 comments33 min readEA link

Increasing existential hope as an effective cause?

Owen Cotton-Barratt10 Jan 2015 19:55 UTC

10 points

15 comments1 min readEA link

Shallow Report on Shigella

Joel Tan🔸24 Jan 2023 2:51 UTC

7 points

2 comments14 min readEA link

Against Loneliness: Cause Exploration

ColdButtonIssues10 Aug 2022 2:17 UTC

20 points

4 comments11 min readEA link

Poor power quality is a bottleneck to global health and development

Molly Hickman26 Feb 2024 13:44 UTC

37 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Road Safety: The Silent Epidemic Impacting Youth

AIPFoundation11 Aug 2022 16:07 UTC

52 points

5 comments28 min readEA link

Narration: Reducing long-term risks from malevolent actors

D0TheMath15 Jul 2021 16:26 UTC

23 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(anchor.fm)

Resilience & Biodiversity

emwalz11 Aug 2022 0:37 UTC

62 points

9 comments14 min readEA link

Open Philanthropy Shallow Investigation: Tobacco Control

Open Philanthropy25 Jan 2023 1:14 UTC

93 points

8 comments36 min readEA link

A direct way to reduce the catch of wild fish

Ren Ryba21 Jun 2022 10:09 UTC

17 points

12 comments10 min readEA link

Shallow Report on Productivity

Joel Tan🔸25 Jan 2023 8:18 UTC

24 points

4 comments17 min readEA link

Bounty: Guide To Switching From Farmed Fish To Wild-Caught Fish

ozymandias22 Feb 2019 16:10 UTC

37 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

(thingofthings.wordpress.com)

Are we already past the precipice?

Dem0sthenes10 Aug 2022 4:01 UTC

1 point

5 comments2 min readEA link

Evaluating Communal Violence from an Effective Altruist Perspective

Frank Fredericks13 Aug 2019 19:38 UTC

16 points

4 comments8 min readEA link

If you (mostly) believe in worms, what should you think about WASH?

alex lawsen18 Feb 2020 16:47 UTC

64 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

The Domestication of Zebras

Further or Alternatively9 Sep 2022 10:58 UTC

15 points

20 comments2 min readEA link

Two Concrete Ways to Help Feeder Rodents

Hazo13 Mar 2024 22:28 UTC

130 points

6 comments19 min readEA link

Potential new cause area: Obesity

Akhil26 Jul 2022 8:33 UTC

33 points

5 comments7 min readEA link

The Economic Benefits of Promoting and Protecting the Rights of LGBTQ+ Communities in Developing Countries (cause exploration)

Susannah Hares10 Aug 2022 15:14 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readEA link

(docs.google.com)

Cause Suggestion: Econ Literacy

Yonatan Cale18 Dec 2022 18:16 UTC

21 points

21 comments3 min readEA link

The Case for Promoting / Creating Public Goods Markets as a Cause Area

MikkW24 Oct 2020 5:23 UTC

33 points

2 comments14 min readEA link

The $100trn opportunity: ESG investing should be a top priority for EA careers

Sanjay18 Mar 2021 13:54 UTC

72 points

5 comments7 min readEA link

Paper is published! 100,000 lumens to treat seasonal affective disorder

Fabienne20 Aug 2022 19:44 UTC

49 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Prioritizing Mental Health: A Call to Action for the Effective Altruism Community

MichaelRipa26 Jul 2024 12:43 UTC

16 points

0 comments9 min readEA link

The Case for Space: A Longtermist Alternative to Existential Threat Reduction

Giga18 Nov 2020 13:09 UTC

9 points

5 comments2 min readEA link

Speedrun: Develop an affordable super PPE

Buhl7 Feb 2023 18:43 UTC

101 points

7 comments15 min readEA link

Tiny humans: the most promising new cause candidate?

akash 🔸2 Apr 2024 8:46 UTC

24 points

7 comments4 min readEA link

Why we should be doing more systematic research

Joey🔸14 Mar 2018 18:58 UTC

31 points

5 comments4 min readEA link

The Social Recession: By the Numbers

Antonomon29 Oct 2022 23:35 UTC

6 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Reimagining Malevolence: A Primer on Malevolence and Implications for EA

Kenneth_Diao11 Apr 2024 12:50 UTC

27 points

3 comments44 min readEA link

“Teaching to Give” Idea

Noah Starbuck22 Apr 2021 1:51 UTC

8 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

Internal Migration: A Cost-Effective Method for Raising Wages, Improving Living Standards, and Promoting Economic Growth

JamieSimonson6 Aug 2022 8:45 UTC

30 points

1 comment14 min readEA link

The case for becoming a black-box investigator of language models

Buck6 May 2022 14:37 UTC

90 points

7 comments3 min readEA link

Speedrun: AI Alignment Prizes

joe9 Feb 2023 11:55 UTC

27 points

0 comments18 min readEA link

Contrails: an underrated climate mitigation opportunity?

JuanGarcia16 Dec 2024 19:15 UTC

14 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

EAs should recommend cost-effective interventions in more cause areas (not just the most pressing ones)

Amber Dawn1 Sep 2022 17:45 UTC

37 points

18 comments10 min readEA link

Flooding is not a promising cause area—shallow investigation

OscarD🔸21 Dec 2022 10:57 UTC

65 points

13 comments12 min readEA link

Making EA More Effective

Peter Kelly31 Aug 2022 5:02 UTC

7 points

0 comments13 min readEA link

Project: bioengineering an all-female breed of chicken to end chick culling

Cienna28 Apr 2022 14:08 UTC

45 points

15 comments8 min readEA link

Charity Entrepreneurship Research Summary

Joey🔸21 Mar 2016 17:47 UTC

22 points

9 comments8 min readEA link

Should we herbivorize predators?

Stijn28 Feb 2022 18:34 UTC

13 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

[Question] Should we consider the sleep loss epidemic an urgent global issue?

orenmn6 May 2019 6:42 UTC

21 points

21 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Would it make sense to use human rights law against catastrophic risks—like some seem to be doing regarding climate change?

Ramiro26 Dec 2022 21:14 UTC

12 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

Cognitive Risks of Adolescent Binge Drinking

Elizabeth26 Jul 2022 17:09 UTC

25 points

2 comments10 min readEA link

(acesounderglass.com)

Effective altruism and global palliative care: One project case

Phil Di Sorbo21 Dec 2022 5:58 UTC

2 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Should reducing government funded animal experiments be on the agenda for EA?

ChristianKleineidam29 Oct 2022 13:58 UTC

16 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is nanotechnology (such as APM) important for EAs’ to work on?

pixel_brownie_software12 Mar 2020 15:36 UTC

6 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Four focus areas of effective altruism

lukeprog8 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC

13 points

7 comments5 min readEA link

Shallow Report on Nuclear War (Arsenal Limitation)

Joel Tan🔸21 Feb 2023 4:57 UTC

44 points

13 comments29 min readEA link

Next Steps in Invertebrate Welfare, Part 2: Possible Interventions

Daniela Waldhorn14 Nov 2019 0:40 UTC

44 points

6 comments43 min readEA link

[Question] Testing Impact: Longtermist TV Show

Anthony Fleming14 Oct 2022 23:30 UTC

4 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

The problem of artificial suffering

mlsbt24 Sep 2021 14:43 UTC

49 points

3 comments9 min readEA link

Buddha Was An Effective Altruist

maximizealtruism7 Oct 2022 23:28 UTC

8 points

6 comments6 min readEA link

Improving incentives in research—could we topple the h-index?

PCO Moore8 Aug 2022 10:11 UTC

8 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Corporate governance reform efforts?

samstowers18 Apr 2022 18:09 UTC

9 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How should EAs manage their copyrights?

Eevee🔹9 Mar 2021 18:42 UTC

15 points

5 comments2 min readEA link

Is The YouTube Algorithm Radicalizing You? It’s Complicated.

Eevee🔹1 Mar 2021 21:50 UTC

44 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

Every Generator Is A Policy Failure [Works in Progress]

Lauren Gilbert27 Feb 2023 10:56 UTC

59 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

(worksinprogress.co)

New Cause Area: Baby Longtermism – Child Rights and Future Children

LiaH14 Sep 2022 20:22 UTC

26 points

10 comments8 min readEA link

Being a donor for Fecal Microbiota Transplants (FMT): Do good & earn easy money (up to 180k/y)

Anton Rodenhauser6 Jul 2022 14:58 UTC

50 points

13 comments8 min readEA link

Fighting corruption in aid—embezzling

MarcSerna8 Apr 2021 22:56 UTC

17 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

New cause area: Improving diagnosis and treatment of bipolar spectrum disorders

Karolina Soltys12 Aug 2022 9:08 UTC

39 points

13 comments22 min readEA link

An Argument To Prioritize “Positively Shaping the Development of Crypto-assets”

rhys_lindmark3 Apr 2018 21:59 UTC

16 points

13 comments14 min readEA link

The effective altruist case for parliamentarism

Tiago Santos28 Oct 2021 16:10 UTC

22 points

7 comments4 min readEA link

Should we do more to mitigate occupational noise exposure?

Drew Housman30 Jul 2022 19:11 UTC

23 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Is there anyone looking at the importance of simplifying complex socio-technical systems?

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)12 Sep 2022 7:49 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Cause profile: Cognitive Enhancement Research

George Altman27 Mar 2022 13:43 UTC

63 points

6 comments22 min readEA link

Speculation on Current Opportunities for Unusually High Impact in Global Health

johnswentworth11 Nov 2022 20:47 UTC

25 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Estimating the Value of Mobile Money

Jeff Kaufman 🔸21 Dec 2016 13:58 UTC

8 points

18 comments3 min readEA link

A Case for Climate Change as a Top Funding Priority

Ted Shields22 Dec 2022 23:50 UTC

2 points

9 comments4 min readEA link

Groundwater crisis: a threat of civilization collapse

RickJS24 Dec 2022 21:21 UTC

0 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

(drive.google.com)

[Question] What are the most underfunded EA organizations?

Question Mark17 Dec 2021 23:28 UTC

3 points

5 comments3 min readEA link

Suggest new charity ideas for Charity Entrepreneurship

CE8 Mar 2023 15:08 UTC

82 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

Why start a family planning charity? (Founders needed)

Ula Zarosa2 Apr 2021 10:29 UTC

28 points

7 comments4 min readEA link

Make the Drought Evaporate!

Anthony Repetto19 Nov 2022 23:48 UTC

4 points

8 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Any EA focus/funding on lymphatic filariasis?

Yitz28 Aug 2022 19:44 UTC

10 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Scouts need soldiers for their work to be worth anything

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸7 Nov 2024 7:23 UTC

96 points

19 comments3 min readEA link

Proposal: Impact List—like the Forbes List except for impact via donations

Elliot Olds30 May 2022 17:28 UTC

83 points

32 comments12 min readEA link

Cause Exploration: Adapting to Extreme Heat Exposure in South Asia

Surbhi B9 Aug 2022 23:50 UTC

26 points

5 comments16 min readEA link

The Case for a Strategic U.S. Coal Reserve for Climate and Catastrophes

ColdButtonIssues5 May 2022 1:24 UTC

30 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

Open Philanthropy Project Convening on Policy Priorities—November 10, 2014

EA Forum Archives13 Nov 2014 3:45 UTC

4 points

0 comments9 min readEA link

(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Assessing Cost Effectiveness: malnutrition, famine, and cause prioritization

leosn25 Sep 2022 15:14 UTC

15 points

4 comments4 min readEA link

Why Advocacy for Children in Developed Countries Could be a Top Cause Area

sn27 Nov 2022 5:40 UTC

4 points

15 comments2 min readEA link

Fanatical EAs should support very weird projects

Derek Shiller30 Jun 2022 12:07 UTC

66 points

42 comments9 min readEA link

Innovation System needs fixing

Danila Medvedev3 May 2022 19:56 UTC

10 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

Quadratic Payments: A Primer (Vitalik Buterin, 2019)

Eevee🔹5 Apr 2021 18:05 UTC

30 points

6 comments2 min readEA link

(vitalik.ca)

Open Philanthropy Shallow Investigation: Civil Conflict Reduction

Lauren Gilbert12 Apr 2022 18:18 UTC

122 points

12 comments24 min readEA link

Why are party politics not an EA priority?

Chantal2 Jan 2021 18:52 UTC

49 points

12 comments3 min readEA link

Animal Testing Is Exploitative and Largely Ineffective

Erich_Grunewald 🔸13 Jun 2021 10:46 UTC

27 points

3 comments11 min readEA link

(www.erichgrunewald.com)

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

simeon_c11 Aug 2022 17:21 UTC

30 points

2 comments10 min readEA link

[Reminder] Cause Exploration Contest

Joel Tan🔸16 Jul 2023 7:22 UTC

17 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(exploratory-altruism.org)

The Possibility of Microorganism Suffering

Elias Au-Yeung7 Aug 2022 6:02 UTC

48 points

5 comments30 min readEA link

Advocating for cost-effective life-saving care (fund us!)

AlexandraWS13 Jan 2023 14:07 UTC

20 points

6 comments3 min readEA link

Cause Area: Differential Neurotechnology Development

mwcvitkovic10 Aug 2022 2:39 UTC

95 points

7 comments36 min readEA link

Demodex mites: Large and neglected group of wild animals

Mai T27 Jan 2023 9:30 UTC

80 points

9 comments10 min readEA link

Pain relief: a shallow cause exploration

Samuel Dupret27 Jan 2023 9:55 UTC

84 points

17 comments37 min readEA link

(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Rational Education as a Cause Priority?

Yassin Alaya9 Apr 2022 11:11 UTC

10 points

5 comments6 min readEA link

The internet town square doesn’t have to suck. The solution to broken social media is obvious: democratic cooperative ownership.

blainehansen29 Oct 2022 1:57 UTC

3 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(blainehansen.me)

New cause area: training health workers to prevent newborn deaths

Marshall20 Jun 2022 17:12 UTC

65 points

4 comments14 min readEA link

[Question] Help me recommend effective charities to people who want to donate to specific causes and populations

Max Pietsch9 Feb 2023 1:07 UTC

10 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

Why We Think Tobacco Tax Advocacy Could be More Cost-Effective than AMF

calebp5 Mar 2020 15:03 UTC

45 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

Women’s Empowerment: Founders Pledge report and recommendations

Sjir Hoeijmakers🔸19 Dec 2018 20:34 UTC

25 points

24 comments6 min readEA link

Mind Enhancement Cause Exploration

timfarkas12 Aug 2022 5:49 UTC

39 points

4 comments52 min readEA link

A case for the effectiveness of protest

JamesÖz29 Nov 2021 11:50 UTC

123 points

27 comments67 min readEA link

Cause Exploration: Support for Mental Health Carers

Yuval Shapira14 Mar 2023 20:04 UTC

30 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

Shallow Investigation: Stillbirths

Joseph Pusey13 Mar 2023 16:19 UTC

96 points

15 comments14 min readEA link

New cause area: maternal morbidity

alexhill9 Aug 2022 21:21 UTC

34 points

2 comments13 min readEA link

How a ventilation revolution could help mitigate the impacts of air pollution and airborne pathogens

Mike Cassidy16 Nov 2021 11:19 UTC

68 points

5 comments14 min readEA link

An EA case for interest in UAPs/UFOs and an idea as to what they are

TheNotSoGreatFilter30 Dec 2021 17:13 UTC

39 points

14 comments5 min readEA link

Some preliminary notes towards a real Cost-Benefit analysis of prisons

Philosophy Bear19 Mar 2023 2:34 UTC

8 points

2 comments12 min readEA link

(philosophybear.substack.com)

Cost Effectiveness of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

Elizabeth30 Nov 2017 19:04 UTC

13 points

8 comments3 min readEA link

Do EAs underestimate opportunities to create many small benefits?

Peter Wildeford25 Jan 2016 4:20 UTC

11 points

11 comments3 min readEA link

[Final Call] Cause Exploration Contest

Joel Tan🔸28 Jul 2023 16:02 UTC

18 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Deep Report on Hypertension

Joel Tan🔸1 Aug 2023 2:39 UTC

67 points

13 comments3 min readEA link

Surveillance and free expression | Sunyshore

Eevee🔹23 Feb 2021 2:14 UTC

10 points

0 comments9 min readEA link

(sunyshore.substack.com)

Replaceability Concerns and Possible Responses

sapphire2 Aug 2020 18:19 UTC

34 points

7 comments4 min readEA link

[Opzionale] Una lunga lista di possibili cause

EA Italy18 Jan 2023 11:28 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readEA link

Shallow Investigation: Bacterial Meningitis

peetyxk28 Mar 2023 8:57 UTC

39 points

2 comments12 min readEA link

[Opzionale] La possibilità di una Catastrofe Morale in atto (Riassunto)

EA Italy31 Dec 2022 4:17 UTC

1 point

0 comments5 min readEA link

Is there a case for Pronatalism as an effective cause area?

ben.smith7 Jun 2023 0:42 UTC

18 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

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