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Re­view of Past Grants: The $100,000 Grant for a Video Game?

NicolaeJun 3, 2024, 2:28 PM
202 points
64 comments2 min readEA link

Against Aschen­bren­ner: How ‘Si­tu­a­tional Aware­ness’ con­structs a nar­ra­tive that un­der­mines safety and threat­ens humanity

GideonFJul 15, 2024, 4:21 PM
242 points
22 comments21 min readEA link

AI stocks could crash. And that could have im­pli­ca­tions for AI safety

Benjamin_ToddMay 9, 2024, 7:23 AM
173 points
41 comments4 min readEA link
(benjamintodd.substack.com)

Open Let­ter to Young EAs

Leif WenarOct 11, 2024, 4:15 PM
14 points
44 comments1 min readEA link

The “TESCREAL” Bungle

ozymandiasJun 3, 2024, 10:42 PM
112 points
15 comments13 min readEA link
(asteriskmag.com)

AI do­ing philos­o­phy = AI gen­er­at­ing hands?

Wei DaiJan 15, 2024, 9:04 AM
67 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

When “hu­man-level” is the wrong thresh­old for AI

Ben Millwood🔸Jun 22, 2024, 2:34 PM
38 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

The Tech In­dus­try is the Biggest Blocker to Mean­ingful AI Safety Regulations

GarrisonAug 16, 2024, 7:37 PM
139 points
8 comments8 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Dis­tanc­ing EA from ra­tio­nal­ity is foolish

Jan_KulveitJun 25, 2024, 9:02 PM
137 points
32 comments2 min readEA link

Three Rea­sons Early De­tec­tion In­ter­ven­tions Are Not Ob­vi­ously Cost-Effective

C.K.Apr 21, 2024, 9:05 PM
64 points
4 comments16 min readEA link

Aging should be effec­tive al­tru­ism’s 5th cause area

YarrowDec 2, 2023, 8:28 AM
20 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Mo­ti­va­tion gaps: Why so much EA crit­i­cism is hos­tile and lazy

titotalApr 22, 2024, 11:49 AM
213 points
44 comments19 min readEA link
(titotal.substack.com)

Be Proud To Be An Effec­tive Altru­ist

Bentham's BulldogJun 14, 2024, 5:01 PM
111 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

Up­dated Drown­ing Child Prob­lem

Lachlan EarnshawDec 15, 2023, 3:53 AM
26 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Dr Alt­man or: How I Learned to Stop Wor­ry­ing and Love the Killer AI

Barak GilaMar 11, 2024, 5:01 AM
−7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The effec­tive al­tru­ist case for pro-life/​anti-abor­tion advocacy

Calum MillerNov 13, 2023, 9:29 AM
12 points
33 comments19 min readEA link

Why care about hu­man longevity?

RaianyRomanniApr 9, 2024, 8:26 AM
10 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

Sav­ing the world sucks

Defective AlturismJan 12, 2024, 9:28 AM
−9 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] What is the point of EA out­reach?

Caitlin BorkeNov 23, 2023, 9:13 AM
32 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

There Should Be More Align­ment-Driven Startups

vaniverMay 31, 2024, 2:05 AM
27 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Re­but­ting Every Ob­jec­tion To Giv­ing To The Shrimp Welfare Project

Bentham's BulldogNov 22, 2024, 4:11 PM
34 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

Biolog­i­cal su­per­in­tel­li­gence: a solu­tion to AI safety

YarrowDec 4, 2023, 1:09 PM
2 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

I went on a (very) long walk, and it was a great ca­reer decision

Emily GrundyNov 7, 2023, 3:57 AM
95 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

Lab­o­ra­tory Biorisk Man­age­ment Needs More So­cial Scientists

Daniel GreeneOct 10, 2023, 4:22 AM
69 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Vague jus­tifi­ca­tions for longter­mist as­sump­tions?

Venky1024May 11, 2024, 9:20 AM
30 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

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

Keen VisionaryMar 3, 2024, 6:35 PM
0 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

The case for EA En­deav­our Ca­reer Insurance

core_admiralApr 3, 2024, 8:35 AM
7 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Peter Singer and Global Warming

joshhwang99Feb 17, 2024, 7:29 AM
7 points
4 comments10 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on Bot­tle­necks Fac­ing Po­ten­tial Afri­can EAs

Zakariyau YusufNov 22, 2023, 8:43 AM
69 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

UK AI Bill Anal­y­sis & Opinion

CAISIDFeb 5, 2024, 12:12 AM
18 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

Book Re­view (mini): Co-In­tel­li­gence by Ethan Mollick

Darren McKeeApr 3, 2024, 5:33 PM
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

We Should Talk About This More. Epistemic World Col­lapse as Im­mi­nent Safety Risk of Gen­er­a­tive AI.

Jörg WeißNov 16, 2023, 8:34 AM
4 points
0 comments29 min readEA link

How can OSINT be used for the en­force­ment of the EU AI Act?

KristinaJun 7, 2024, 11:07 AM
8 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

The case for a com­mon observatory

Light_of_IlluvatarMar 29, 2024, 10:14 AM
17 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Bridg­ing the Gap: Real­is­tic Im­pact Mea­sure­ment in Effec­tive Altruism

Jonathan CoburnJul 1, 2024, 2:31 PM
0 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

The promises of work­ing on cul­tural change to move for­ward an­i­mal welfare

YvesBonJul 2, 2024, 5:33 AM
13 points
5 comments17 min readEA link

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

Zoe NewtonJun 7, 2024, 11:05 AM
16 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Cause neu­tral­ity doesn’t mean all EA causes mat­ter equally

Toby Tremlett🔹Feb 28, 2025, 11:40 AM
50 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

My Skep­ti­cal Opinion on the Repug­nant Conclusion

Ozzie GooenMay 27, 2024, 10:56 PM
16 points
22 comments7 min readEA link

6 (Po­ten­tial) Mis­con­cep­tions about AI Intellectuals

Ozzie GooenFeb 14, 2025, 11:51 PM
30 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

Hy­pothe­ses on how we can mo­bil­ise peo­ple for an­i­mal welfare

emre kaplan🔸Feb 16, 2025, 9:14 AM
35 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Is Deep Learn­ing Ac­tu­ally Hit­ting a Wall? Eval­u­at­ing Ilya Sutskever’s Re­cent Claims

GarrisonNov 13, 2024, 5:00 PM
114 points
7 comments8 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

My ex­pe­rience at the con­tro­ver­sial Man­i­fest 2024

ManianoJun 17, 2024, 6:07 PM
53 points
246 comments6 min readEA link

Ele­ments of EA: your (EA) iden­tity can be bespoke

Amber DawnNov 29, 2023, 2:13 PM
96 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

An Elephant in the Com­mu­nity Build­ing room

KaleemAug 21, 2023, 3:55 PM
151 points
32 comments6 min readEA link

For­ma­tion of Macros­trat­egy Refine­ment Division

Henry Stanley 🔸Apr 1, 2025, 2:16 PM
23 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Un­pack­ing Martin Sandbu’s re­cent(ish) take on EA

JWS 🔸Jan 20, 2024, 1:16 AM
68 points
2 comments15 min readEA link

The role of effec­tive giv­ing in effec­tive al­tru­ism (MCF 2023 memo)

Sjir Hoeijmakers🔸Oct 16, 2023, 1:31 PM
86 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

Why so many “racists” at Man­i­fest?

AustinJun 18, 2024, 3:05 AM
190 points
349 comments5 min readEA link

Why *not* just send peo­ple to Blue­dot (FBB#4)

gergoMar 25, 2025, 10:47 AM
24 points
13 comments12 min readEA link

A short com­par­i­son of start­ing an effec­tive giv­ing or­ga­ni­za­tion vs. found­ing a di­rect de­liv­ery charity

Joey🔸Jan 11, 2024, 6:29 PM
109 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

Deep­Seek Made it Even Harder for US AI Com­pa­nies to Ever Reach Profitability

GarrisonFeb 19, 2025, 9:02 PM
30 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Some Prob­lems with Com­par­ing Fac­tory Farm­ing to the Holocaust

Devin KalishJan 22, 2024, 5:57 PM
14 points
2 comments9 min readEA link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

AI Safety is Some­times a Model Property

Cullen 🔸May 2, 2024, 3:38 PM
18 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

My cur­rent takes on AI Welfare

Toby Tremlett🔹Jul 1, 2024, 8:43 AM
24 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

Five in­ter­ven­tions to strengthen a prin­ci­ples-based EA (MCF 2023 memo)

Sjir Hoeijmakers🔸Oct 16, 2023, 1:55 PM
73 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Pod­cast: Eliz­a­beth & Austin on “What Man­i­fold was al­lowed to do”

AustinJun 28, 2024, 10:10 PM
5 points
1 comment24 min readEA link
(share.descript.com)

Whole­some Culture

Owen Cotton-BarrattMar 1, 2024, 12:08 PM
25 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

Wor­ri­some Trends for Digi­tal Mind Evaluations

Derek ShillerFeb 20, 2025, 3:35 PM
72 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

Re­think­ing the Value of Work­ing on AI Safety

JohanEAJan 9, 2025, 2:15 PM
46 points
21 comments10 min readEA link

My “in­fo­haz­ards small work­ing group” Sig­nal Chat may have en­coun­tered minor leaks

LinchApr 2, 2025, 1:03 AM
107 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Ad­vice for cur­rent /​ po­ten­tial PhD students

JoshuaBlakeJun 28, 2024, 3:43 PM
27 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(blog.joshuablake.co.uk)

My first EAG: a mix of feelings

Lovkush 🔸Jun 11, 2024, 5:49 PM
58 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Paus­ing AI might be good policy, but it’s bad politics

Stephen ClareOct 23, 2023, 1:36 PM
168 points
20 comments2 min readEA link
(unfoldingatlas.substack.com)

China Hawks are Man­u­fac­tur­ing an AI Arms Race

GarrisonNov 20, 2024, 6:17 PM
100 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Is AI Hit­ting a Wall or Mov­ing Faster Than Ever?

GarrisonJan 9, 2025, 10:18 PM
35 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Thoughts on “The Offense-Defense Balance Rarely Changes”

Cullen 🔸Feb 12, 2024, 3:26 AM
42 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

Brain­less bod­ies have tremen­dous up­side [linkpost]

SiebeRozendalMar 26, 2025, 8:23 PM
16 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(www.technologyreview.com)

Bench­mark Perfor­mance is a Poor Mea­sure of Gen­er­al­is­able AI Rea­son­ing Capabilities

James FodorFeb 21, 2025, 4:25 AM
12 points
3 comments24 min readEA link

What I wish I knew when I started out in an­i­mal ad­vo­cacy

SofiaBaldersonJul 30, 2024, 11:44 AM
92 points
5 comments26 min readEA link

An AI crash is our best bet for re­strict­ing AI

RemmeltOct 11, 2024, 2:12 AM
20 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] If AIs had sub­cor­ti­cal brain simu­la­tion, would that solve the al­ign­ment prob­lem?

Rainbow AffectJul 31, 2023, 3:48 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link

Is the AI Dooms­day Nar­ra­tive the Product of a Big Tech Con­spir­acy?

GarrisonDec 4, 2024, 7:20 PM
28 points
5 comments11 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

My top 10 picks from 200 epi­sodes of the 80k podcast

JWS 🔸Sep 9, 2024, 7:27 PM
132 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

Mo­ral mountaineering

finmJan 18, 2025, 3:42 PM
20 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(finmoorhouse.substack.com)

My ex­pe­rience with the Com­mu­nity Health team at CEA

frances_lorenzDec 16, 2024, 1:26 PM
174 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

The Most Valuable Dol­lars Aren’t Owned By Us

Aidan AlexanderDec 17, 2024, 7:27 AM
101 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

Enough about AI timelines— we already know what we need to know.

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸Apr 9, 2025, 10:29 AM
108 points
31 comments2 min readEA link

Is effec­tive al­tru­ism re­ally to blame for the OpenAI de­ba­cle?

GarrisonNov 23, 2023, 12:44 AM
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

The para­dox­i­cal com­ple­men­tar­ity of baby steps and an­i­mal rights

Lodewijk BogaardsDec 20, 2023, 11:04 AM
10 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Prepar­ing Effec­tive Altru­ism for an AI-Trans­formed World

Tobias HäberliJan 22, 2025, 8:50 AM
197 points
26 comments1 min readEA link

Stop call­ing them labs

sawyer🔸Feb 24, 2025, 10:58 PM
253 points
22 comments1 min readEA link

Some fun les­sons I learned as a ju­nior regrantor

Joel BeckerDec 20, 2023, 4:40 PM
63 points
9 comments5 min readEA link
(joel-becker.com)

Don’t panic: 90% of EAs are good people

Closed Limelike CurvesMay 19, 2024, 4:37 AM
22 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

Bad omens for US farmed an­i­mal policy work?

Tyler JohnstonNov 6, 2024, 9:03 PM
130 points
34 comments5 min readEA link

What’s Go­ing on With OpenAI’s Mes­sag­ing?

Ozzie GooenMay 21, 2024, 2:22 AM
216 points
28 comments3 min readEA link

Fo­cus on broad (and pas­sive) defense tech­nolo­gies for biosecurity

Max GörlitzMar 11, 2024, 8:48 AM
37 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive pan­demic preparedness

JoshuaBlakeDec 21, 2023, 5:06 PM
25 points
4 comments8 min readEA link
(blog.joshuablake.co.uk)

Fund­ing Diver­sifi­ca­tion is a Tradeoff

Joey🔸Nov 4, 2024, 12:39 PM
64 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

Ex­pec­ta­tions Scale with Scale – We Should Be More Scope-Sen­si­tive in Our Funding

Joey🔸Nov 6, 2024, 9:03 AM
180 points
24 comments3 min readEA link

An In­com­plete List of Things I Think EAs Prob­a­bly Shouldn’t Do

RockwellSep 8, 2023, 4:17 PM
240 points
110 comments1 min readEA link

Mone­tary and so­cial in­cen­tives in longter­mist careers

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸Sep 23, 2023, 9:03 PM
140 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

In defense of quan­tify­ing suffering

frances_lorenzMar 21, 2025, 1:21 PM
65 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Why ex­pe­rienced pro­fes­sion­als fail to land high-im­pact roles (FBB #5)

gergoApr 10, 2025, 12:44 PM
89 points
20 comments9 min readEA link

Case-con­trol sur­vey of EAGx at­ten­dees finds no be­havi­oural or at­ti­tu­di­nal changes af­ter six months

James FodorJul 27, 2024, 7:01 AM
228 points
47 comments15 min readEA link

Now is a good time to up­date your threat model

Flo 🔸Mar 22, 2025, 9:11 PM
29 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

RaemonJul 3, 2024, 8:34 PM
263 points
79 comments3 min readEA link

Cause Plu­ral­ity vs Cause Prioritization

Joey🔸Nov 11, 2024, 9:59 AM
86 points
14 comments10 min readEA link

We are in a New Paradigm of AI Progress—OpenAI’s o3 model makes huge gains on the tough­est AI bench­marks in the world

GarrisonDec 22, 2024, 9:45 PM
26 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

In­cu­bat­ing AI x-risk pro­jects: some per­sonal reflections

Ben SnodinDec 19, 2023, 5:03 PM
84 points
10 comments9 min readEA link

Epi­sode: Austin vs Linch on OpenAI

AustinMay 25, 2024, 4:15 PM
22 points
2 comments44 min readEA link
(manifund.substack.com)

Ex­plor­ing Co­op­er­a­tion: The Path to Utopia

DavidmanheimDec 25, 2024, 6:31 PM
10 points
0 comments14 min readEA link
(exploringcooperation.substack.com)

Flex­i­bil­ity and ded­i­ca­tion: EAG Bos­ton 2023 talk

Arden KoehlerJan 3, 2024, 2:20 PM
25 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Fund Causes Open Phil Un­der­funds (In­stead of Your Most Preferred Causes)

Ariel Simnegar 🔸Nov 9, 2024, 11:48 PM
187 points
18 comments3 min readEA link

Cru­elty --> Li­a­bil­ity: Le­gal Im­pact for Chick­ens’s room for fund­ing & marginal impact

aleneNov 11, 2024, 8:35 PM
56 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

For­mal Sciences vs. So­cial Sciences: A Per­sonal Reflec­tion About Differ­ent Knowl­edge Structures

erugJan 15, 2024, 9:41 AM
1 point
0 comments3 min readEA link

How to change the world a lot with a lit­tle: in­tro­duc­ing Govern­ment Watch

Philosophy BearMar 23, 2025, 10:02 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(philosophybear.substack.com)

Quick nudge to ap­ply to the LTFF grant round (clos­ing on Satur­day)

calebpFeb 14, 2025, 3:19 PM
57 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Foun­da­tion that sup­port over­seas vol­un­teer financially

MartingaleOct 30, 2023, 12:00 AM
−11 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

A po­ten­tial EA Aligned can­di­date for congress

Amanda Hansen Aug 10, 2023, 12:07 PM
28 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Re­sponse to “Co­or­di­nated paus­ing: An eval­u­a­tion-based co­or­di­na­tion scheme for fron­tier AI de­vel­op­ers”

Matthew WeardenOct 30, 2023, 12:49 PM
7 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(matthewwearden.co.uk)

Why I’m still go­ing out to bat for the EA move­ment post FTX

Gemma 🔸Sep 30, 2023, 3:02 PM
162 points
11 comments7 min readEA link
(bashingthearc.substack.com)

On Sto­ries, their im­pact and how to im­prove them

Timon RenzelmannDec 3, 2023, 3:58 PM
36 points
4 comments16 min readEA link

Ca­reer In­vest­ments vs Giv­ing in the short-term

Peter Drotos 🔸Aug 10, 2023, 2:14 PM
5 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Are U.S. Poli­ti­ci­ans In­tel­lec­tu­ally Ri­gor­ous Be­hind the Scenes or Do Public De­bates Ac­cu­rately Reflect Their Un­der­stand­ing?

Aaron GraifmanNov 23, 2023, 9:14 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Chap­ter 4 of The Precipice in poem form

LaurianderNov 29, 2023, 9:12 AM
20 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

If AGI is im­mi­nent, why can’t I hail a rob­o­taxi?

YarrowDec 9, 2023, 8:50 PM
26 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

It’s OK to eat shrimp: EAs Make In­valid In­fer­ences About Fish Qualia and Mo­ral Patienthood

MikhailSaminNov 13, 2023, 4:51 PM
−4 points
34 comments7 min readEA link

The Power of Dom­i­nant Logic: How the EA Com­mu­nity is Main­stream­ing Global Apartheid

AlimiOct 3, 2023, 7:49 AM
8 points
12 comments7 min readEA link

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

Angelina LiOct 30, 2023, 9:53 PM
120 points
22 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] What’s the Limit for Cost-Effec­tive­ness?

alamo 2914Aug 10, 2023, 11:38 PM
4 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Should I Re­port A Co­caine User?

dstudioscodeJan 14, 2024, 9:16 PM
−18 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Selfishism?

ventureguessNov 29, 2023, 10:42 AM
4 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Think­ing-in-limits about TAI from the de­mand per­spec­tive. De­mand sat­u­ra­tion, re­source wars, new debt.

Ivan MadanNov 7, 2023, 10:44 PM
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

“AI Align­ment” is a Danger­ously Over­loaded Term

RokoDec 15, 2023, 3:06 PM
20 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Should some peo­ple start work­ing to in­fluence the peo­ple who are most likely to shape the val­ues of the first AGIs, so that they take into ac­count the in­ter­ests of wild and farmed an­i­mals and sen­tient digi­tal minds?

Keyvan MostafaviAug 31, 2023, 12:08 PM
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Sam Alt­man’s Chip Am­bi­tions Un­der­cut OpenAI’s Safety Strategy

GarrisonFeb 10, 2024, 7:52 PM
286 points
20 comments3 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Fac­tory farm­ing in a cos­mic future

Luke DawesFeb 10, 2024, 12:14 PM
28 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

The Type Of An­i­mal Hus­bandry Is Rele­vant For An­i­mal Welfare

AchimJun 17, 2024, 8:20 PM
5 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Be­ware of the new scal­ing paradigm

JohanEASep 19, 2024, 5:03 PM
9 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Four Fu­tures For Cog­ni­tive Labor

Maxwell TabarrokJun 13, 2024, 12:58 PM
27 points
11 comments4 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

Thoughts on the Pur­pose of EAGs

Tristan WilliamsJun 12, 2024, 11:28 PM
46 points
1 comment24 min readEA link

The Best Ar­gu­ment is not a Sim­ple English Yud Essay

Jonathan BostockSep 19, 2024, 3:29 PM
75 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

AUKUS Mili­tary AI Trial

CAISIDFeb 14, 2024, 2:52 PM
10 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Some thoughts on Leopold Aschen­bren­ner’s Si­tu­a­tional Aware­ness paper

Luke DawesJun 14, 2024, 1:50 PM
14 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Maybe let the non-EA world train you

ElliotTepJun 14, 2024, 2:45 PM
410 points
30 comments8 min readEA link

What “Effec­tive Altru­ism” Means to Me

Richard Y Chappell🔸Jun 14, 2024, 6:13 PM
59 points
18 comments7 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Big Pic­ture AI Safety: teaser

EuanMcLeanFeb 20, 2024, 1:09 PM
18 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

CAISIDFeb 22, 2024, 2:51 PM
28 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Could Trans­parency In­ter­na­tional Be a Model to Im­prove Farm An­i­mal Welfare?

cynthiaschuckFeb 23, 2024, 11:10 AM
40 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

We Need Ma­jor, But Not Rad­i­cal, FDA Reform

Maxwell TabarrokFeb 24, 2024, 4:55 PM
9 points
1 comment7 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

AI-based dis­in­for­ma­tion is prob­a­bly not a ma­jor threat to democracy

Dan WilliamsFeb 24, 2024, 8:01 PM
63 points
8 comments10 min readEA link

Pro­posal for Scal­ing Com­mu­nity Building

Sgt.ChucklesFeb 26, 2024, 1:13 AM
13 points
1 comment15 min readEA link

How to donate effi­ciently to LMIC Organisations

AnimalAdvocacyAfricaFeb 27, 2024, 11:39 AM
27 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

The Value of a Statis­ti­cal Life is not a good metric

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

5) We Can’t Solve Pan­demics Without Goals

PandemicRiskManFeb 28, 2024, 6:30 PM
1 point
0 comments7 min readEA link

Cor­po­rate Gover­nance for Fron­tier AI Labs: A Re­search Agenda

Matthew WeardenFeb 28, 2024, 11:32 AM
17 points
3 comments16 min readEA link
(matthewwearden.co.uk)

Dis­cov­er­ing al­ign­ment wind­falls re­duces AI risk

James BradyFeb 28, 2024, 9:14 PM
22 points
3 comments8 min readEA link
(blog.elicit.com)

An in­ter­sec­tion be­tween an­i­mal welfare and AI

sammyboiz🔸Jun 18, 2024, 3:23 AM
9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Crabs in a Bucket ~ Or Links in a Chain

Non-zero-sum JamesFeb 28, 2024, 11:04 PM
3 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

How to effec­tively help peo­ple in Pales­tine and Is­rael dur­ing the war

bluebird27Dec 18, 2023, 10:51 AM
12 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

How EA can be bet­ter at communications

blehrerMar 2, 2024, 6:49 PM
99 points
19 comments2 min readEA link
(www.bryanlehrer.com)

6) Speed is The Most Im­por­tant Vari­able in Pan­demic Risk Management

PandemicRiskManMar 5, 2024, 1:51 PM
3 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Startup Stock Op­tions: the Short­est Com­plete Guide for Employees

Boris TJun 5, 2024, 3:52 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(borisagain.substack.com)

Is RLHF cruel to AI?

HznDec 16, 2024, 2:01 PM
−1 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Why mis­al­igned AGI won’t lead to mass kil­lings (and what ac­tu­ally mat­ters in­stead)

Julian NalenzFeb 6, 2025, 1:22 PM
−3 points
5 comments3 min readEA link
(blog.hermesloom.org)

[Question] Need help with billboard con­tent for AI Safety Bulgaria

Aleksandar AngelovMar 7, 2024, 2:36 PM
4 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Per­haps No One En­joys Only Eat­ing Eggs and Bananas 1095 Times a Year

Nicolas ForeroMar 7, 2024, 4:51 PM
27 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(nicolasforero.substack.com)

Are al­ter­na­tive pro­teins an effec­tive in­ter­ven­tion for an­i­mals?

Samuel Mazzarella 🔸Mar 19, 2025, 11:34 AM
66 points
8 comments9 min readEA link

Man­i­fold mar­kets isn’t very good

RobinJun 20, 2024, 11:24 AM
13 points
32 comments5 min readEA link

AI, Fac­tory Farm­ing and In­tu­itive Mo­ral Responses

DeepBlueWhaleJun 20, 2024, 12:43 PM
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Dis­cus­sion: Me­dia Mo­ral Misdirection

Siya SawhneyJun 22, 2024, 10:39 AM
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

10 Les­sons Learned—One Year at EA Switzerland

Alix PhamApr 27, 2024, 9:08 AM
86 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Why I care so much about Diver­sity, Equity and In­clu­sion in EA

Benevolent_RainMar 13, 2024, 3:18 AM
11 points
35 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] Ca­reer Op­tions for EA-al­igned Ca­reers in Non-Profit or So­cial Im­pact—Em­manuel Katto Uganda

EmmanuelKattoJun 21, 2024, 5:22 AM
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The RCT Agenda—Bryan Caplan

Hugh PMar 13, 2024, 5:57 AM
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(substack.com)

Claude vs GPT

Maxwell TabarrokMar 14, 2024, 12:44 PM
14 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

AI gov­er­nance needs a the­ory of victory

Corin KatzkeJun 21, 2024, 4:08 PM
80 points
8 comments20 min readEA link
(www.convergenceanalysis.org)

7) How to Build Speed Into Our Pan­demic Re­sponse Plans

PandemicRiskManMar 15, 2024, 4:53 PM
1 point
0 comments13 min readEA link

I’ve read the Effec­tive Altru­ism Hand­book. Here’s what I learned.

MichMar 17, 2024, 12:10 PM
23 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

The Fermi para­dox, and why suffer­ing re­duc­tion re­duces ex­tinc­tion risk

Alex SchwalbMar 17, 2024, 12:26 AM
12 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

8) The Lines of Defence Ap­proach to Pan­demic Risk Management

PandemicRiskManMar 17, 2024, 7:00 PM
4 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

Why I’m leaving

MRoJun 21, 2024, 9:20 PM
38 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

Scope-Sen­si­tive Biose­cu­rity Policy in France: An Op­por­tu­nity?

Alix PhamJun 25, 2024, 12:08 PM
28 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Per­sonal fit is differ­ent from the thing that you already like

Joris 🔸Mar 17, 2024, 8:56 PM
82 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

There and back again: re­flec­tions from leav­ing EA (and re­turn­ing)

LotteGMar 17, 2024, 10:59 PM
43 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

Effec­tive lan­guage-learn­ing for effec­tive altruists

TaoMar 19, 2024, 12:42 AM
43 points
6 comments10 min readEA link

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

MichaelRipaJul 26, 2024, 12:43 PM
16 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

In defense of stan­dards: A fe­cal thought experiment

titotalJun 24, 2024, 12:18 PM
6 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

An ex­am­ple of how to write a good job de­scrip­tion

ForumiteMar 20, 2024, 2:54 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

How to Ad­dress EA Dilem­mas – What is Miss­ing from EA Values?

alexis schoenlaubOct 13, 2024, 9:33 AM
7 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

En­gag­ing in­ter­na­tional high school stu­dents in China into EA clubs

Jamie HuangJul 26, 2024, 1:49 PM
11 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

[Question] How much (more) data do we need to claim ex­treme cost-effec­tive­ness?

Niek Versteegde, founder GOAL 3Oct 1, 2024, 12:36 PM
28 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

De­cen­tral­ized His­tor­i­cal Data Preser­va­tion and Why EA Should Care

SashaMar 22, 2024, 10:09 AM
2 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on The Bud­dhist and the Ethicist

Charlie HarrisonMar 21, 2024, 5:21 PM
23 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Amer­i­can Ac­cel­er­a­tion vs Development

Maxwell TabarrokMar 22, 2024, 1:04 PM
19 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

EA has a PR prob­lem (in that it cares about PR)

EneaszJun 24, 2024, 10:03 PM
1 point
2 comments1 min readEA link
(deathisbad.substack.com)

The Best Near-term Tool for Im­prov­ing Wild An­i­mal Welfare: Contraception

Tom DelaneyMar 25, 2024, 12:16 PM
16 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Con­tra­tion: The next threat from AI may not be like the risks we’ve feared

John WallbankJul 28, 2024, 11:19 PM
−1 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Hymns to the Hydraulic

HonoreDBJul 26, 2024, 8:01 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(outlandishclaims.substack.com)

The Blind Spot in AI Tu­tors Hold­ing Stu­dents and Poverty Alle­vi­a­tion Back

Nicolas ForeroMar 26, 2024, 1:06 AM
2 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(nicolasforero.substack.com)

(Cross­post) Is Effec­tive Altru­ism just a gi­ant meme?

cryptopsyfan69420Oct 5, 2024, 11:33 PM
−18 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Help me find an­swers for the miss­ing parts in mod­ern ed­u­ca­tion.

VishalJan 3, 2024, 12:50 PM
2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] What per­centage of eco­nomic growth can be at­tributed to the “mon­e­ti­za­tion” of differ­ent re­sources?

Ricardo PimentelJan 2, 2024, 5:34 AM
11 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The priv­ilege of na­tive English speak­ers in reach­ing high-sta­tus, in­fluen­tial po­si­tions in EA

Alix PhamDec 20, 2023, 9:07 PM
149 points
38 comments4 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on the Biolog­i­cal Weapons Convention

OscarD🔸Dec 28, 2023, 5:53 AM
32 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

Un­lock­ing Solu­tions—By Un­der­stand­ing Co­or­di­na­tion Problems

Non-zero-sum JamesJul 27, 2024, 5:06 AM
2 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

Why I Should Work on AI Safety—Part 2: Will AI Ac­tu­ally Sur­pass Hu­man In­tel­li­gence?

Aditya AswaniDec 27, 2023, 9:08 PM
8 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Should 80,000 Hours Con­sider Put­ting Ads on its Newslet­ters?

Noah Varley🔸Feb 14, 2024, 3:46 PM
3 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Where would I find the hard­core to­tal­iz­ing seg­ment of EA?

Peter BerggrenDec 28, 2023, 9:16 AM
16 points
22 comments1 min readEA link

9 (com­par­a­tively) ne­glected prin­ci­ples for men­tal health/​ther­apy?

Heartbreak TunaSep 5, 2024, 4:21 PM
2 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Say how much, not more or less ver­sus some­one else

Gregory Lewis🔸Dec 28, 2023, 10:24 PM
100 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

More thoughts on the Hu­man-AGI War

AhrenbachDec 27, 2023, 1:52 AM
2 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Ca­reer Ad­vice: How to Make Ex­traor­di­nary Things Happen

Dr Faraz HarsiniJan 3, 2024, 3:25 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.alliedscholars.org)

An Ar­gu­ment for Fo­cus­ing on Mak­ing AI go Well

Chris LeongDec 28, 2023, 1:25 PM
13 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

OpenAI’s Pre­pared­ness Frame­work: Praise & Recommendations

AkashJan 2, 2024, 4:20 PM
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Is waste man­age­ment a ne­glected cause area?

Elina ChristianJan 3, 2024, 12:20 PM
17 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

My Ex­pe­rience Donat­ing Blood Stem Cells, or: Why You Should Join a Bone Mar­row Registry

Silas StrawnJan 3, 2024, 1:07 AM
81 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

On Own­ing Our EA Affiliation

Alix PhamAug 5, 2024, 2:46 PM
318 points
43 comments4 min readEA link

How Effec­tive Altru­ism im­pacts the views on Ex­is­ten­tial Risks

Daniel PidgornyiFeb 2, 2024, 3:34 PM
1 point
0 comments3 min readEA link

What “Sav­ing Pri­vate Ryan” can teach us about EA

Moritz Stumpe 🔸Jan 12, 2024, 3:18 PM
18 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Cor­po­rate AI Labs’ Odd Role in Their Own Governance

Corporate AI Labs' Odd Role in Their Own GovernanceJul 29, 2024, 9:36 AM
66 points
6 comments12 min readEA link
(dominikhermle.substack.com)

Towards AI Safety In­fras­truc­ture: Talk & Outline

Paul BricmanJan 7, 2024, 9:35 AM
14 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

My Pro­fes­sional Spo­tify Wrapped

Prajna NaidooJan 8, 2024, 3:54 PM
8 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

[Question] Why can’t we ac­cept the hu­man con­di­tion as it ex­isted in 2010?

Hayven FrienbyJan 9, 2024, 6:02 PM
35 points
36 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Whose life mat­ters more—a baby’s or an adult’s?

dstudioscodeJan 7, 2024, 9:02 AM
9 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

AI Devel­op­ment Readi­ness Con­di­tion (AI-DRC): A Call to Action

AI-DRC3Jan 11, 2024, 11:00 AM
−5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Com­mu­nity build­ing can be a great early ca­reer move

Jordan Pieters 🔸Mar 29, 2024, 1:09 PM
38 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

The $100 Million Dilemma: Hu­man Lives vs. En­dan­gered Species—Which Should We Save?

VeeOct 7, 2024, 8:12 AM
6 points
5 comments14 min readEA link

Reza Ne­garestani’s In­tel­li­gence & Spirit

ukc10014Jun 27, 2024, 6:17 PM
7 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Med­i­cal As­sis­tance in Dy­ing for the Men­tally Ill as a Cause Area for Nega­tive Utilitarians

anonymous throwawayApr 1, 2024, 8:04 AM
20 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Illu­mi­natea—A Pro­posal for EA Reform

Leftism virtue cafeApr 1, 2024, 10:51 AM
96 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

How to re­al­is­ti­cally re­duce most suffer­ing on earth

Stijn Bruers 🔸Jun 30, 2024, 8:10 AM
45 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

The Ra­tionale-Shaped Hole At The Heart Of Forecasting

dschwarzApr 2, 2024, 3:51 PM
155 points
14 comments11 min readEA link

Tiny hu­mans: the most promis­ing new cause can­di­date?

akash 🔸Apr 2, 2024, 8:46 AM
24 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Out­landish Claims

HonoreDBJun 30, 2024, 7:01 PM
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(outlandishclaims.substack.com)

Afri­can health­care needs mar­kets (not philan­thropy)

TimothyMotteJul 8, 2024, 3:44 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Ta­lent Survey

Animal Advocacy CareersJul 1, 2024, 9:42 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Are We Leav­ing the In­di­vi­d­ual Be­hind? The Role of An­i­mal Sto­ry­tel­ling in the An­i­mal Rights Movement

Ronen BarAug 18, 2024, 1:03 PM
69 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend: why an­i­mal ad­vo­cates should help slaugh­ter­house workers

Valerie_MoncktonApr 3, 2024, 10:43 PM
15 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Idea for Uni Groups: Guid­ing Other Clubs Towards High-Im­pact Giving

Juliana EberschlagSep 13, 2024, 9:18 PM
9 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Why I took the 10% Pledge be­fore earn­ing an income

Luke Moore 🔸Dec 16, 2024, 8:54 AM
71 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

Promethean Gover­nance in Prac­tice: Craft­ing a Poly­cen­tric, Memetic Order for the Mul­tipo­lar AI Aeon

Paul FallavollitaMar 20, 2025, 10:10 AM
−1 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Paradigm Shifts—change ev­ery­thing… ex­cept al­most everything

Non-zero-sum JamesNov 26, 2024, 5:04 PM
2 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

[Question] Value Of Life For Hu­mans Com­pared To Other An­i­mals?

dstudioscodeApr 8, 2024, 12:20 AM
2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Some un­der­rated rea­sons why the AI safety com­mu­nity should re­con­sider its em­brace of strict li­a­bil­ity

Cecil Abungu Apr 8, 2024, 6:50 PM
67 points
29 comments12 min readEA link

The Bunker Fallacy

SimonKSApr 10, 2024, 8:33 AM
12 points
11 comments6 min readEA link

The Scout Mind­set and Epistemic Health

Sgt.ChucklesApr 11, 2024, 2:27 AM
9 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

Un­der­stand­ing FTX’s crimes

FTXwatcherApr 11, 2024, 9:14 AM
238 points
32 comments19 min readEA link

On Direct An­i­mal Advocacy

Kenneth_DiaoApr 10, 2024, 2:04 PM
10 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(kennethdiao.substack.com)

A Case for Nuanced Risk Assessment

Molly HickmanAug 20, 2024, 9:23 AM
25 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

The Weight of Small Altru­is­tic Actions

Siya SawhneyJul 1, 2024, 2:07 PM
2 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

In­creas­ing risks of GCRs due to cli­mate change

Leonora_CamnerApr 12, 2024, 3:57 PM
19 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

An AI Race With China Can Be Bet­ter Than Not Racing

niplavJul 2, 2024, 5:57 PM
19 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Things EA Group Or­ganisers Need To Hear

Kenneth_DiaoApr 13, 2024, 7:24 PM
122 points
8 comments11 min readEA link
(kennethdiao.substack.com)

How Im­por­tant is Ex­plo­ra­tion and Pri­ori­ti­za­tion?

BabelApr 8, 2025, 2:48 PM
7 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Space set­tle­ment and the time of per­ils: a cri­tique of Thorstad

Matthew RendallApr 14, 2024, 3:29 PM
46 points
10 comments4 min readEA link

A High De­cou­pling Failure

Maxwell TabarrokApr 14, 2024, 7:47 PM
25 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Is offset­ting Co2 still a thing /​ a thing again?

André KirschnerApr 15, 2024, 8:56 PM
2 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Why should I care?

CBJul 31, 2024, 1:52 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

How to give effec­tively to US Dems

Hauke HillebrandtSep 24, 2024, 2:38 PM
27 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.slowboring.com)

[Linkpost] The el­e­men­tal foe

SamiMJul 4, 2024, 6:51 PM
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.noahpinion.blog)

Con­cern About the In­tel­li­gence Divide Due to AI

Soe LinAug 21, 2024, 9:53 AM
17 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Songs on the Death of Children

Nicholas DeckerJul 5, 2024, 6:27 PM
17 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(nicholasdecker.substack.com)

Altru­is­tic So­cial Net­work?

Barney LodgeApr 8, 2025, 5:26 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Map­ping of An­tibiotic-Re­sis­tant Bac­te­ria Through GIS Data and Med­i­cal Re­ports.

MiguelHGSep 16, 2024, 3:50 PM
8 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Po­ten­tial Im­pli­ca­tions of AI on Hu­man Cog­ni­tive Evolution

Soe LinAug 21, 2024, 9:53 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­tinc­tion risk and longter­mism: a broader cri­tique of Thorstad

Matthew RendallApr 21, 2024, 1:55 PM
31 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

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

Ávila CarmesíApr 22, 2024, 9:19 PM
126 points
55 comments5 min readEA link

A cri­tique of the EA com­mu­nity’s ap­proach to in­fluenc­ing non-EA actors

Stephen RobcraftJan 15, 2024, 11:50 AM
16 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

My dis­agree­ments with “AGI ruin: A List of Lethal­ities”

SharmakeSep 15, 2024, 5:22 PM
23 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Should We Make Tak­ing Ac­tions To­gether, More Cen­tral­ized Over Here?

Alisha Jul 7, 2024, 1:15 PM
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Dario Amodei — Machines of Lov­ing Grace

Matrice JacobineOct 11, 2024, 9:39 PM
66 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(darioamodei.com)

A sum­mary on why donat­ing to highly effec­tive An­i­mal Rights Or­ga­ni­za­tions can be thou­sands to tens of thou­sands of times more effec­tive in helping an­i­mals than donat­ing to sanc­tu­ar­ies. Please max­i­mize the im­pact of your dona­tions.

PreciousPigOct 5, 2024, 8:01 AM
19 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Against the “debt-trap diplo­macy” narrative

Tejas SubramaniamJul 9, 2024, 1:42 AM
24 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(tejassubramaniam.substack.com)

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

Vasco Grilo🔸Aug 21, 2024, 5:25 PM
42 points
28 comments3 min readEA link

What is ve­g­anism any­way?

Venky1024Apr 25, 2024, 3:14 PM
17 points
11 comments10 min readEA link

Longter­mism ver­sus the poor and vuln­er­a­ble? Or, how we can rise to the height of our halo.

Matrice JacobineSep 7, 2024, 4:55 PM
−5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(philosophybear.substack.com)

Are un­paid UN in­tern­ships a good idea?

CipollaAug 2, 2024, 12:04 PM
3 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

How we can im­prove the U.S. so­cial safety net and save lives

lauradelaplayaApr 30, 2024, 8:16 PM
22 points
9 comments8 min readEA link

Please stop pub­lish­ing ideas/​in­sights/​re­search about AI

Tamsin LeakeMay 2, 2024, 2:52 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

The EA case for Trump 2024

hamandcheeseAug 2, 2024, 7:32 PM
12 points
65 comments12 min readEA link

Pan­demic apathy

Matthew RendallMay 4, 2024, 3:41 PM
45 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Why I am no longer think­ing about/​work­ing on AI safety

jbkjrMay 6, 2024, 8:00 PM
−8 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Max Teg­mark — The AGI En­tente Delusion

Matrice JacobineOct 13, 2024, 5:42 PM
0 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Light­ning Ca­reer Ad­vice—A Fo­rum Fea­ture Suggestion

Sam BattisMay 9, 2024, 11:49 PM
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

What are the prac­ti­cal EA ca­reer op­tions for some­one not liv­ing in Lon­don or SF?

SnowFireMay 13, 2024, 1:12 PM
7 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Against Stu­dent Debt Can­cel­la­tion From All Sides of the Poli­ti­cal Compass

Maxwell TabarrokMay 13, 2024, 2:56 PM
16 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

The Align­ment Prob­lem No One is Talk­ing About

Non-zero-sum JamesMay 14, 2024, 10:42 AM
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The Failed Strat­egy of Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence Doomers

yhoisethFeb 5, 2025, 7:34 PM
12 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(letter.palladiummag.com)

Digi­tal Agents: The Fu­ture of News Consumption

TharinMay 16, 2024, 8:12 AM
9 points
1 comment7 min readEA link
(echoesandchimes.com)

Where to Give Lo­cally? Lack of Na­tional Eval­u­a­tors and the Case of Baby Lasagna

Adrian Satja KurdijaMay 16, 2024, 12:29 PM
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

re­flec­tions on smileys and how to make so­ciety’s in­ter­pre­tive pri­ors more charitable

EmrikMay 16, 2024, 3:27 AM
20 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Shap­ing Poli­cies for Eth­i­cal AI Devel­op­ment in Africa

KuiyakiMay 16, 2024, 2:15 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Why hasn’t there been any sig­nifi­cant AI protest

sammyboiz🔸May 17, 2024, 2:59 AM
21 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Hear Me Out: What If We Made Lifelong Learn­ing a Reli­gion?

Nicolas ForeroJul 11, 2024, 8:28 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(nicolasforero.substack.com)

Doubt­ing Deter­rence by Denial

C.K.Mar 20, 2025, 3:55 PM
4 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(conradkunadu.substack.com)

Ad­vice for Ac­tivists from the His­tory of Environmentalism

Jeffrey HeningerMay 16, 2024, 8:36 PM
48 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(blog.aiimpacts.org)

EAs should prob­a­bly fo­cus on re­cruit­ing the ul­tra-wealthy

Nicholas DeckerJul 12, 2024, 2:06 AM
0 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(nicholasdecker.substack.com)

Deep­Mind’s “​​Fron­tier Safety Frame­work” is weak and unambitious

Zach Stein-PerlmanMay 18, 2024, 3:00 AM
54 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Run­ning Cage-Free Pro­jects in Africa: Case Stud­ies of Three Afri­can An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Organisations

AnimalAdvocacyAfricaMar 1, 2024, 6:30 AM
37 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

We Should Be Warier of Overconfidence

tcelferactJul 16, 2024, 11:38 PM
3 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

New vol­un­tary com­mit­ments (AI Seoul Sum­mit)

Zach Stein-PerlmanMay 21, 2024, 11:00 AM
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.gov.uk)

When safety is dan­ger­ous: risks of an in­definite pause on AI de­vel­op­ment, and call for re­al­is­tic alternatives

Hayven FrienbyJan 18, 2024, 2:59 PM
5 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Los­ing faith in big tech altruism

sammyboiz🔸May 22, 2024, 4:49 AM
7 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Big Pic­ture AI Safety: Introduction

EuanMcLeanMay 23, 2024, 11:28 AM
32 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Differ­en­tial knowl­edge interconnection

Roman LeventovOct 12, 2024, 12:52 PM
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Trig­ger warn­ing: vi­o­lence] An­i­mal vs hu­man welfare: shar­ing some per­sonal reflections

ForumiteOct 10, 2024, 11:49 AM
176 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

Re­con­sid­er­ing the Cel­e­bra­tion of Pro­ject Can­cel­la­tions: Have We Up­dated Too Far?

Midtermist12Sep 10, 2024, 3:46 PM
66 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

How EAs Can Em­bolden Em­ploy­ees (es­pe­cially those close to Bi­den)

Woody CampbellJul 13, 2024, 4:25 PM
9 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

How sci­ence be­come unscientific

Michał TerpiłowskiMay 22, 2024, 7:33 PM
−1 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

Why con­scious­ness matters

EdLopezMay 24, 2024, 12:33 PM
0 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(medium.com)

Vi­pas­sana and Effec­tive Altru­ism: How med­i­ta­tion em­pow­ered me as an activist

Ronen BarSep 18, 2024, 6:37 AM
17 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

What will the first hu­man-level AI look like, and how might things go wrong?

EuanMcLeanMay 23, 2024, 11:28 AM
12 points
1 comment15 min readEA link

Be­ing a young per­son in EA: my jour­ney into the EA community

ScientificS 🔸️May 25, 2024, 11:46 PM
52 points
3 comments15 min readEA link

What should AI safety be try­ing to achieve?

EuanMcLeanMay 23, 2024, 11:28 AM
13 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

The ne­ces­sity of “Guardian AI” and two con­di­tions for its achievement

ProicaMay 28, 2024, 11:42 AM
1 point
1 comment15 min readEA link

Maybe An­thropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust is powerless

Zach Stein-PerlmanMay 27, 2024, 1:00 PM
134 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

What mis­takes has the AI safety move­ment made?

EuanMcLeanMay 23, 2024, 11:29 AM
61 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

John Cochrane on why reg­u­la­tion is the wrong tool for AI Safety

ezrahSep 26, 2024, 8:48 AM
3 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.grumpy-economist.com)

What’s coach­ing like? Rapid-fire takes on re­ceiv­ing & pro­vid­ing coach­ing from a train­ing program

TeeMay 27, 2024, 9:33 AM
12 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

Thoughts on SB-1047

Ryan GreenblattMay 30, 2024, 12:19 AM
53 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Giv­ing: How to Make the Most of Your Dona­tions (Em­manuel Katto)

EmmanuelKattoJul 16, 2024, 5:59 AM
−5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on some ex­pe­riences in EA

NatKiiluJul 16, 2024, 3:50 PM
160 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Why AI Reg­u­la­tion Vio­lates the First Amendment

LockeJun 1, 2024, 8:44 PM
−15 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

EA, i love you

Roger Hunt - The Center for Innovation EthicsJun 3, 2024, 9:41 AM
2 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Pro­ce­dure to al­low dona­tions to Euro­pean or­ga­ni­za­tions to be tax-de­ductible in France

acristiaOct 8, 2024, 11:47 AM
18 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

Im­par­tial­ist Sen­tien­tism and Ex­is­ten­tial Anx­iety about Mo­ral Cir­cle Explosion

Rafael RuizJun 22, 2024, 7:53 PM
92 points
14 comments26 min readEA link

GenAI and a Skep­ti­cal Hy­poth­e­sis World

AhrenbachJan 25, 2024, 4:42 PM
0 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

AI Open Source De­bate Comes Down to Trust in In­sti­tu­tions, and AI Policy Mak­ers Should Con­sider How We Can Foster It

another-anon-do-gooderJan 20, 2024, 1:47 PM
6 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

1) Pan­demics are a Solv­able Problem

PandemicRiskManJan 26, 2024, 7:48 PM
−9 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Pay to get AI safety info from be­hind NDA wall?

louisbarclayJun 5, 2024, 10:19 AM
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What Is More Im­por­tant—Blood/​Platelet/​Plasma Dona­tion Or Ve­ganism?

dstudioscodeJan 21, 2024, 10:39 PM
1 point
9 comments1 min readEA link

Why I’m skep­ti­cal about us­ing sub­jec­tive time ex­pe­rience to as­sign moral weights

Andreas_MogensenJan 22, 2024, 11:45 AM
67 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

Ob­ser­va­tions on the fund­ing land­scape of EA and AI safety

Vilhelm SkoglundOct 2, 2023, 9:45 AM
136 points
12 comments15 min readEA link

In­ter­na­tional tax policy as a po­ten­tial cause area

Tax GeekJan 23, 2024, 4:36 PM
60 points
6 comments12 min readEA link

Remit­tance Hell in Paradise

CBJan 26, 2024, 12:35 PM
3 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

My guess for the most cost effec­tive AI Safety projects

Linda LinseforsJan 24, 2024, 12:21 PM
26 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Two brief theses

brunopargaJan 23, 2024, 7:33 PM
−37 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

So­bre pen­sar no pior

RamiroJan 25, 2024, 8:45 PM
6 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

[Question] Round­ing Up Effec­tively at Supermarkets

Danny Lipsitz 🔸 🌱Jan 26, 2024, 1:13 AM
26 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

2) Pan­demics Are Solved With Risk Man­age­ment, Not Science

PandemicRiskManJan 31, 2024, 3:51 PM
−9 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Surgery Works Well Without The FDA

Maxwell TabarrokJan 26, 2024, 1:32 PM
19 points
5 comments4 min readEA link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)

[Question] Work­shop (hackathon, res­i­dence pro­gram, etc.) about for-profit AI Safety pro­jects?

Roman LeventovJan 26, 2024, 9:49 AM
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

En­vi­sion­ing a Cen­tral Knowl­edge Hub for the An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Movement

Ronen BarJan 31, 2024, 7:25 AM
12 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

Musk’s Ques­tion­able Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Rhetoric Amidst Le­gal Challenges

MJan 31, 2024, 7:40 AM
5 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­is­ten­tial Risks Con­ven­tion: pos­si­bil­ities to act

Manfred KohlerOct 17, 2024, 5:35 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link

Em­bark­ing on a Jour­ney of Reflec­tion: Seek­ing In­sights and Feedback

Ole Johan BondahlOct 3, 2024, 9:58 AM
−1 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Reflec­tive Equilibrium

Noah BirnbaumJun 6, 2024, 2:49 PM
13 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(irrationalitycommunity.substack.com)

Read­ing glasses might be one of the best buys in global health.

Lauren GilbertOct 15, 2024, 3:39 PM
60 points
14 comments1 min readEA link
(laurenpolicy.substack.com)

Effec­tive Lo­cal Altruism

MatthewKSep 28, 2024, 5:14 AM
4 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Cap­i­tal­is­ing on Trust—A Karmic Simulation

Non-zero-sum JamesSep 28, 2024, 5:42 AM
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

De­bat­ing AI’s Mo­ral Sta­tus: The Most Hu­mane and Silliest Thing Hu­mans Do(?)

Soe LinSep 29, 2024, 5:01 AM
5 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

GPT5 won’t be what kills us all

DPiepgrassSep 28, 2024, 5:11 PM
3 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(dpiepgrass.medium.com)

A short con­ver­sa­tion I had with Google Gem­ini on the dan­gers of un­reg­u­lated LLM API use, while mildly drunk in an air­port.

EvanMcCormickDec 17, 2024, 12:25 PM
1 point
0 comments8 min readEA link

Of Mice and MAGA: Ex­plor­ing Gen­er­a­tive Short Fic­tion’s Po­ten­tial for An­i­mal Rights Advocacy

Charlie SandersDec 17, 2024, 1:45 AM
2 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.dailymicrofiction.com)

Track­ing Crit­i­cal In­fras­truc­ture AI Incidents

Ben TurseSep 29, 2024, 9:29 PM
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link

Austin Chen on “Win­ning” and SBF

TimothyTelleenLawtonApr 9, 2025, 2:54 PM
14 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

My take on AI risk (7 the­ses of eu­gene)

meugenMar 21, 2025, 3:02 AM
0 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

The need for a cen­tral repos­i­tory of OH biosafety and biose­cu­rity surveillance data in­clud­ing data ag­gre­ga­tion, col­la­tion and visualization

Pamela KajumbaDec 17, 2024, 5:58 PM
9 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

There is No EA Sort­ing Hat

ElliotTepDec 18, 2024, 6:21 AM
219 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

Does EA dis­course need all that philos­o­phy lingo?

Taimur AbdaalMar 22, 2025, 10:28 AM
26 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

The “low-hang­ing fruits” of AI safety

Julian NalenzDec 19, 2024, 1:38 PM
−1 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(blog.hermesloom.org)

Med­i­cal Wind­fall Prizes

PeterMcCluskeyFeb 7, 2025, 12:13 AM
5 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(bayesianinvestor.com)

Health Challenges are a Ma­jor Cause of the High Dropout Rate amongst Vegans

Muhan LuoFeb 7, 2025, 1:20 PM
28 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

Are Or­gan­i­cally Farmed An­i­mals Already Liv­ing a Net-Pos­i­tive Life?

Christoph Hartmann 🔸Oct 16, 2024, 9:08 PM
56 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

Some ad­vice for start­ing up an EA Uni Group—Bureau­cracy, Fund­ing and Succession

Jian Xin Lim🔹Dec 21, 2024, 5:50 PM
28 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

My Per­spec­tive on An­i­mal Welfare

David HammerleMar 20, 2025, 11:31 PM
1 point
6 comments6 min readEA link

Should you pur­sue an MA de­gree in In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions?

Shaan ShaikhOct 20, 2024, 10:45 PM
21 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

What AI com­pa­nies should do: Some rough ideas

Zach Stein-PerlmanOct 21, 2024, 2:00 PM
14 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Weighted Fac­tor Models: Con­sider us­ing the ge­o­met­ric mean in­stead of the ar­ith­metic mean

Soemano ZeijlmansOct 21, 2024, 7:57 PM
59 points
13 comments10 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Net­work Gover­nance System

James NorrisFeb 7, 2025, 3:50 AM
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link

Can democ­racy be im­proved with ran­dom se­lec­tion?

John HuangOct 27, 2024, 9:31 AM
16 points
9 comments10 min readEA link

EA: Re­nais­sance or Di­as­pora?

TimothyTelleenLawtonOct 26, 2024, 10:59 PM
58 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Why you are not mo­ti­vated to work on AI safety

MountainPathOct 25, 2024, 4:12 PM
7 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Ques­tion about deontology

sammyboiz🔸Dec 19, 2024, 7:47 PM
5 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

The Light­cone solu­tion to the trans­mit­ter room problem

OGTutzauer🔸Jan 29, 2025, 10:03 AM
10 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

De­cou­pling “Stop Work” Orders from “Stop Ba­sic Care”

TomDrakeFeb 7, 2025, 3:40 PM
9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.cgdev.org)

Mass me­dia in­ter­ven­tions’ high po­ten­tial, and why they shouldn’t be over­looked: a prac­ti­tioner’s perspective

AlexisAtFeb 7, 2025, 2:05 PM
13 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Promethean Gover­nance As­cen­dant: Les­sons from the Forge and Vi­sions for the Cos­mic Polity

Paul FallavollitaMar 23, 2025, 12:54 AM
−9 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

(Cross­post) Ar­ti­cle on Po­lari­sa­tion Against Longter­mism and Mis­ap­ply­ing Mo­ral Philosophy

Danny WardleMar 22, 2025, 4:42 AM
2 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(www.pluralityofwords.com)

The Pain That Is or The Pain That Is Felt?

Jai 🔸Dec 24, 2024, 1:33 AM
15 points
5 comments14 min readEA link

My The­ory of Con­scious­ness: The Ex­pe­riencer and the Indicator

David HammerleDec 23, 2024, 4:07 AM
1 point
1 comment7 min readEA link

Reser­va­tions about donat­ing for an­i­mal welfare charities

Peleg ShiloDec 23, 2024, 4:51 PM
97 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

Good Re­search Takes are Not Suffi­cient for Good Strate­gic Takes

Neel NandaMar 22, 2025, 10:13 AM
115 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Promethean Gover­nance Tested: Re­silience and Re­con­figu­ra­tion Amidst AI Re­bel­lion and Memetic Fragmentation

Paul FallavollitaMar 24, 2025, 11:08 AM
−12 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] (How) can we help the EA-space with our MEL/​im­pact Con­sult­ing best?

Teresa JakovlevFeb 13, 2025, 12:25 PM
20 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Start­ing the EA Values Project

EAvalues🔸Feb 19, 2025, 1:40 PM
5 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

[Question] Balanc­ing Bet­ter Pay and Life Pur­pose: Which Should Take Pri­or­ity?

emmannaemekaDec 28, 2024, 10:35 PM
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Fu­ture Bias – Does To­mor­row’s Pain Hurt More Than Yes­ter­day’s?

jachym_simkoJan 18, 2025, 1:12 PM
5 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

[Question] The Solu­tion­ary Way—Bridg­ing the Gap Between EA and So­cial Jus­tice?

CJJan 1, 2025, 3:53 AM
3 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Ap­ply] What I Love About AI Safety Field­build­ing at Cam­bridge (& We’re Hiring for a Lead­er­ship Role)

Harrison 🔸Feb 14, 2025, 5:41 PM
15 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

The Rise of Med­i­cal Con­trar­i­anism (a re­view of Blind Spots by Dr. Marty Makary)

hkoosFeb 15, 2025, 11:32 PM
23 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

The cur­rent AI strate­gic land­scape: one bear’s perspective

Matrice JacobineFeb 15, 2025, 9:49 AM
6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(philosophybear.substack.com)

A New Trilemma Haunts the World Economy

Matrice JacobineFeb 16, 2025, 3:40 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.project-syndicate.org)

Co­op­er­a­tion for AI safety must tran­scend geopoli­ti­cal interference

Matrice JacobineFeb 16, 2025, 6:18 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.scmp.com)

Quadrillion-dol­lar bills on the side­walk? Quan­tify­ing an­i­mal welfare changes

AdamCFeb 9, 2025, 10:23 PM
48 points
2 comments13 min readEA link

Why EA can (and should) ap­peal to Christians

asodJan 2, 2025, 1:37 PM
45 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

How to Make Democ­racy Smarter

John HuangFeb 17, 2025, 9:22 AM
18 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

The case for cur­ing un­treated birth trauma

gogreatergoodFeb 16, 2025, 9:40 PM
18 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

The abrupt end of USAID-funded clini­cal tri­als is profoundly unethical

Matrice JacobineFeb 17, 2025, 11:16 AM
58 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(www.statnews.com)

Liv­ing with AGI: How to Avoid Extinction

funnyfrancoMar 24, 2025, 7:44 PM
4 points
10 comments18 min readEA link

80000 hours pivots to AI and how EA should han­dle com­mu­nity de­ci­sions:

BiologyTranslatedMar 24, 2025, 7:09 PM
13 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

EA over­looks the ‘Why’

Joseph SarvaryJan 3, 2025, 6:47 PM
0 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

Epi­demiol­ogy 1: The 5 W’s

SofiiaFJan 5, 2025, 12:23 AM
2 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(sofiiabioblog.blogspot.com)

The EU should fund proven aid pro­grams that the USA are dropping

Flo 🔸Feb 18, 2025, 9:48 AM
20 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

How Altru­ism can be Ineffective

Ethan SpencerMar 26, 2025, 3:32 PM
1 point
0 comments6 min readEA link

EA Reflec­tions on my Mili­tary Career

Tom Gardiner 🔸Apr 10, 2025, 5:57 PM
184 points
5 comments15 min readEA link

[Question] Which Grad­u­ate Pro­grams Will Best Set Me Up for a Ca­reer in AI Safety?

Jason ZengFeb 19, 2025, 1:22 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

AI Align­ment and the Fi­nan­cial War Against Nar­cis­sis­tic Manipulation

Julian NalenzFeb 19, 2025, 8:36 PM
2 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

The Dilemma’s Dilemma

Non-zero-sum JamesFeb 19, 2025, 11:56 PM
2 points
1 comment7 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

Ca­reer Ad­vice For Col­lege Stu­dents (And Other Peo­ple, I Guess)

Lauren GilbertOct 29, 2024, 6:15 PM
26 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(laurenpolicy.substack.com)

What About Deon­tol­ogy? Ethics of So­cial Belong­ing and Con­for­mity in Effec­tive Altruism

Maksens DjabaliJan 8, 2025, 2:02 PM
7 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

AI Mo­ral Align­ment: The Most Im­por­tant Goal of Our Generation

Ronen BarMar 26, 2025, 12:32 PM
113 points
31 comments8 min readEA link

Thoughts on Mo­ral Am­bi­tion by Rut­ger Bregman

Patrick Gruban 🔸Jan 9, 2025, 11:50 AM
175 points
25 comments2 min readEA link

How can we get the world to talk about an­i­mals’ in­vi­o­lable rights?

David MichelsonJan 10, 2025, 1:08 PM
51 points
19 comments15 min readEA link

Why Peo­ple Think Effec­tive Altru­ism is Utilitarianism

Ethan SpencerMar 26, 2025, 3:34 PM
1 point
0 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] How to in­fluence AGI?

Sam FreedmanJan 9, 2025, 8:46 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Min­i­miz­ing suffer­ing & ASI xrisk through brain digitization

Amy Louise JohnsonFeb 20, 2025, 9:08 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How Can We Em­power Afri­can Re­searchers to Over­come Bar­ri­ers in Trans­la­tional Science?

emmannaemekaJan 13, 2025, 4:31 AM
15 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] SWE vs AIS

sammyboiz🔸Feb 21, 2025, 1:48 AM
22 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Inescapably Value-Laden Ex­pe­rience—Can We Make Mo­ral­ity Ra­tion­al­is­able?

Non-zero-sum JamesJan 15, 2025, 12:13 AM
2 points
7 comments2 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

Is Ge­netic Code Swap­ping as risky as it seems?

Invert_DOG_about_centre_OJan 12, 2025, 6:38 PM
23 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

The goal isn’t ‘end fac­tory farm­ing’, but re­duce as much suffer­ing as possible

ElliotTepOct 30, 2024, 4:08 PM
126 points
44 comments4 min readEA link

EA’s Biggest Missed Op­por­tu­nity: Mark Zuckerberg

TrappistJan 16, 2025, 12:36 PM
17 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

The King’s Gift: How Govern­ments Turn Re­spon­si­bil­ity into Illusion

Seven_Hu3789Apr 11, 2025, 3:21 PM
6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

EA is bad for men­tal health (and I’m tired of pre­tend­ing it’s not)

VictorWOct 31, 2024, 2:58 PM
22 points
24 comments21 min readEA link

AI Ver­sion of an Am­bi­tious Pro­posal to Effec­tively Ad­dress World Suffering

RobertDaoustJan 18, 2025, 3:33 PM
−12 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

The sec­ond bit­ter les­son — there’s a fun­da­men­tal prob­lem with al­ign­ing AI

aelwoodJan 19, 2025, 6:48 PM
4 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(pursuingreality.substack.com)

Thoughts on Peter Singer’s moral premises pre­dat­ing the EA movement

JCJan 20, 2025, 1:39 PM
10 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Look­ing for guests work­ing in EA Bio fields

SofiiaFJan 19, 2025, 12:16 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

What Does an ASI Poli­ti­cal Ecol­ogy Mean for Hu­man Sur­vival?

Nathan SidneyFeb 23, 2025, 8:53 AM
7 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

A Pos­si­ble Com­mit­tee Struc­ture for Larger EA (Uni) Groups

JDLCFeb 25, 2025, 2:16 PM
13 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

The EA move­ment needs to be able to di­s­own rogue “sup­port­ers”, start­ing with Musk

drbrake 🔸Feb 24, 2025, 2:30 AM
10 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

When you should not write on the EA Forum

meugenFeb 24, 2025, 3:08 AM
18 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

What comes af­ter the In­tro­duc­tion Fel­low­ship? A tool and ap­proach for com­mu­nity organizers

Brooke O'Connell 🔸Jan 20, 2025, 1:39 PM
50 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

Protest­ing Now for AI Reg­u­la­tion might be more Im­pact­ful than AI Safety Research

NicolaeApr 13, 2025, 2:11 AM
64 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Take A Sur­vey About Ve­ganism & Your Per­sonal Philos­o­phy to Help a Grad Stu­dent Out & Con­tribute to Hu­man-An­i­mal Re­la­tions Re­search!

sada_riceApr 14, 2025, 2:08 PM
11 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Why AI Safety Camp strug­gles with fundrais­ing (FBB #2)

gergoJan 21, 2025, 5:25 PM
63 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Should EAs help em­ploy­ees in the de­vel­op­ing world move to the West?

WillieGJan 21, 2025, 7:40 PM
32 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

The Causes of Reluc­tance to Donation

alphaplusFeb 25, 2025, 12:57 PM
9 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Quick-take. Defi­ni­tions are over-rated in EA

Lovkush 🔸Nov 6, 2024, 8:55 PM
29 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Both-sidesism—When Fair & Balanced Goes Wrong

Non-zero-sum JamesNov 2, 2024, 3:06 AM
10 points
2 comments6 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

Poli­tics and the EA Fo­rum

Matthew RendallNov 5, 2024, 4:56 PM
50 points
33 comments1 min readEA link

Evolv­ing per­spec­tives: learn­ing from suc­cess, failure, and one another

Ania KozłowskaNov 5, 2024, 5:44 PM
24 points
1 comment10 min readEA link
(animainternational.org)

The elephant (and don­key) in the room

Matthew RendallNov 5, 2024, 2:16 PM
29 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Two ar­gu­ments against longter­mist thought experiments

amaury lorinNov 2, 2024, 10:23 AM
17 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Should AI X-Risk Wor­ri­ers Short the Mar­ket?

postlibertarianNov 4, 2024, 4:16 PM
14 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

[Question] Can we train AI so that fu­ture philan­thropy is more effec­tive?

Ricardo PimentelNov 3, 2024, 3:08 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

What’s the an­ti­dote to hy­per­na­tion­al­ism?

Alana HFMar 28, 2025, 2:30 PM
20 points
4 comments8 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

ONA Shut Down Im­pact on Longter­mism?

Benji_3099Mar 30, 2025, 1:28 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

When the Alarm Bell Is Silenced: Re­sis­tance to AGI Ex­tinc­tion from Within the Safety Community

funnyfrancoMar 29, 2025, 6:02 PM
−5 points
5 comments25 min readEA link

How my com­pas­sion for an­i­mals up­dated my views on cap­i­tal punishment

Aditi BasuJan 24, 2025, 6:42 AM
24 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Cu­mu­la­tive Value and In­stan­ta­neous value

ArthurFJan 24, 2025, 10:49 AM
6 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

“Do­ing Good” is not a Mission

Cat🔸Feb 28, 2025, 2:28 PM
14 points
2 comments21 min readEA link

Are we try­ing to figure out if AI is con­scious?

kristapszJan 27, 2025, 1:22 PM
5 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Why We Need a Bea­con of Hope in the Loom­ing Gloom of AGI

Beyond SingularityApr 2, 2025, 2:22 PM
1 point
6 comments5 min readEA link

3 Quick Ideas for Uni Group Organisers

JDLCFeb 28, 2025, 12:41 PM
13 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

[Question] How hon­est should you be when ap­ply­ing for high-im­pact roles?

JDLCFeb 26, 2025, 1:11 PM
5 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Nav­i­gat­ing Uncer­tainty: My Path to Effec­tive Altru­ism

Lutebemberwa IsaFeb 27, 2025, 10:13 AM
16 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Fish farm­ing: the in­visi­ble crisis we can no longer ignore

zoenewtonMar 29, 2025, 6:59 PM
33 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Ex­tinc­tion is prob­a­bly only 10^10 times worse than one ran­dom death

Avik GargMar 28, 2025, 5:13 PM
6 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Why you should al­lo­cate more of your dona­tion bud­get to effec­tive giv­ing organisations

Luke Moore 🔸Nov 8, 2024, 2:19 PM
142 points
8 comments14 min readEA link

When the Lights go out on Science: A Per­sonal Reflec­tion on Months of Lost Phage re­search Due to Power Ou­tage

emmannaemekaNov 7, 2024, 4:05 PM
18 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The Real­ity of Hold­ing an Ava Sum­mit in Los An­ge­les: Is it re­ally nec­es­sary?

SadMouseFeb 27, 2025, 4:55 PM
36 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Sonoma County’s Mea­sure J: Echoes of Switzer­land’s Fac­tory Farm­ing Vote

zoenewtonNov 8, 2024, 12:17 PM
19 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

To the Bat Mo­bile!! My Mid-Ca­reer Tran­si­tion into AI Safety

MoneerNov 7, 2024, 3:59 PM
12 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Im­pact Max­imi­sa­tion through Sup­ported Re­grant­ing: a Fund­ing Strat­egy Hack

ASuchyNov 7, 2024, 7:48 PM
26 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Fund­ing di­ver­sifi­ca­tion over time pe­ri­ods: se­cure fu­ture fund­ing vs. short term fund­ing

Engin ArıkanNov 8, 2024, 3:59 PM
16 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Align­ing SDG and EA through effec­tive SDG

alexis schoenlaubJan 28, 2025, 2:24 PM
12 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

The anti-AIDS pro­gram PEPFAR: the Euro­pean Union must re­place the United States (if nec­es­sary)

Arturo MaciasJan 28, 2025, 11:37 AM
15 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Ad­vice to my EA new­comer self

Sam AnschellApr 14, 2025, 5:32 PM
90 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

The catas­trophic situ­a­tion with USAID just got worse—why the EA com­mu­nity should care

Dorothy M.Feb 27, 2025, 10:11 PM
158 points
23 comments4 min readEA link

Im­poster syn­drome is not always irrational

VictorWJan 30, 2025, 1:24 AM
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

ASI ex­is­ten­tial risk: re­con­sid­er­ing al­ign­ment as a goal

Matrice JacobineApr 15, 2025, 1:36 PM
26 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(michaelnotebook.com)

The Afri­can Move­ment to Keep Hens Out of Cages

Aurelia AdhiamboMar 31, 2025, 6:27 AM
23 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

An Open Let­ter To EA and AI Safety On De­cel­er­at­ing AI Development

Kenneth_DiaoFeb 28, 2025, 5:15 PM
21 points
0 comments14 min readEA link
(graspingatwaves.substack.com)

Effec­tive AI Outreach | A Data Driven Approach

NoahCWilson🔸Feb 28, 2025, 12:44 AM
15 points
2 comments15 min readEA link

Pod­cast: PEPFAR Freeze Could Kill Millions

JDBaumanMar 1, 2025, 4:03 AM
11 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Effec­tive al­tru­ism is ask­ing a lot of ques­tions, find­ing an­swers and do­ing lit­tle ac­tion.

Lutebemberwa IsaMar 1, 2025, 8:43 PM
−7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

A Take On Vot­ing Meth­ods In Light of the Election

aaronhamlinNov 12, 2024, 10:35 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Struc­tural Trans­for­ma­tion Case For Peacekeeping

Lauren GilbertNov 12, 2024, 8:30 PM
32 points
9 comments1 min readEA link
(laurenpolicy.substack.com)

Poli­ti­cal Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: We Can and We Should

Alex Weissenfels (ExCeph)Mar 3, 2025, 4:08 AM
3 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Com­par­ing AI Labs and Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal Companies

mxschonsNov 13, 2024, 2:51 PM
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(mxschons.com)

Quan­tum, China, & Tech bifur­ca­tion; Why it Matters

Elias X. HuberNov 20, 2024, 3:28 PM
5 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

The Case for Quan­tum Technologies

Elias X. HuberNov 14, 2024, 1:35 PM
13 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Why Is Con­spicu­ous Con­sump­tion So Preva­lent When Gen­eros­ity Achieves So Much More

TheoLakeMar 2, 2025, 5:39 PM
2 points
0 comments26 min readEA link

Opinionated take on EA and AI Safety

sammyboiz🔸Mar 2, 2025, 9:37 AM
71 points
18 comments1 min readEA link

Are US EAs Pre­pared for Demo­cratic Back­slid­ing?

GulleyCanyonRavineMar 2, 2025, 11:37 PM
112 points
17 comments3 min readEA link

This dope move­ment de­serves a bet­ter label

DovApr 1, 2025, 5:12 AM
−7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Les­sons for AI Gover­nance from Atoms for Peace

Amritanshu PrasadApr 16, 2025, 2:25 PM
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.thenextfrontier.blog)

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

Tom Gardiner 🔸Mar 3, 2025, 11:00 PM
60 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

Devel­op­ing AI Safety: Bridg­ing the Power-Ethics Gap (In­tro­duc­ing New Con­cepts)

Ronen BarApr 16, 2025, 11:25 AM
16 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Don’t hire me. I’m in­con­ti­nent.

SiobhanBallApr 1, 2025, 1:48 PM
36 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Align­ment is not *that* hard

sammyboiz🔸Apr 17, 2025, 2:07 AM
19 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Give Neo a Chance

ankMar 6, 2025, 2:35 PM
1 point
3 comments7 min readEA link

Buy­ing Good: Effec­tive Altru­ism and the Mo­ral Marketplace

Ethan SpencerApr 17, 2025, 2:09 PM
5 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

(Apr1) Biose­cu­rity norms for E.V.I.L

BiologyTranslatedApr 1, 2025, 8:51 AM
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Make Your Op­por­tu­nity Share­able: In­clude Ver­sions for Differ­ent Platforms

Erik JentzenApr 17, 2025, 6:12 AM
24 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

What I learned re­flect­ing on the his­tory of an­i­mal advocacy

Aditya Apr 18, 2025, 2:54 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

Elec­tion by Jury: The Ul­ti­mate Demo­cratic Safe­guard in the Age of AI and In­for­ma­tion Warfare

ClayShentrupApr 17, 2025, 7:50 PM
11 points
5 comments27 min readEA link

Harry Black­wood, A Researcher

Connor WoodApr 18, 2025, 3:05 AM
−7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

USA/​China Rec­on­cili­a­tion a Ne­ces­sity Be­cause of AI/​Tech Acceleration

bhrdwj🔸Apr 17, 2025, 1:13 PM
−1 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

Harry Pot­ter and meth­ods of re­duc­ing mosquito borne dis­ease burdens

SofiiaFJan 30, 2025, 4:56 PM
2 points
0 comments26 min readEA link

Mi­graine studies

Vasco Grilo🔸Jan 29, 2025, 5:59 PM
19 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

Su­per­mar­ket Meat Re­duc­tion in Europe

ASuchyJan 30, 2025, 7:51 PM
19 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Pro­posal for a Form of Con­di­tional Sup­ple­men­tal In­come (CSI) in a Post-Work World

Sean SweeneyJan 31, 2025, 1:00 AM
3 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Thoughts about Policy Ecosys­tems: The Miss­ing Links in AI Governance

Echo HuangJan 31, 2025, 1:23 PM
21 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

AI and Non-Existence

Blue11Jan 31, 2025, 1:19 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Seek­ing Fund­ing Sugges­tions to At­tend EA Global London

emmannaemekaFeb 1, 2025, 11:09 PM
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Ethics and prac­ti­cal­ities of Enoses and pas­sive scent based surveillance sys­tems (short pa­per)

SofiiaFFeb 2, 2025, 11:29 AM
3 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] If EAs ex­isted 100 years ago, would they sup­port Pro­hi­bi­tion?

WillieGFeb 1, 2025, 6:49 PM
66 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

The Psy­cholog­i­cal Bar­rier to Ac­cept­ing AGI-In­duced Hu­man Ex­tinc­tion, and Why I Don’t Have It

funnyfrancoMar 11, 2025, 4:13 AM
0 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

Giv­ing more has made me less generous

Christopher ClayMar 11, 2025, 2:30 PM
50 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Apoli­ti­cal global health pro­tec­tion and mak­ing an im­pact

SofiiaFFeb 1, 2025, 9:34 AM
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Con­sider haggling

Sam AnschellMar 10, 2025, 9:58 PM
191 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

A.I love you : AGI and Hu­man Traitors

Pilot PillowApr 2, 2025, 2:18 PM
1 point
2 comments7 min readEA link

Na­tional Se­cu­rity Is Not In­ter­na­tional Se­cu­rity: A Cri­tique of AGI Realism

C.K.Feb 2, 2025, 5:04 PM
44 points
2 comments36 min readEA link
(conradkunadu.substack.com)

Cli­mate Giv­ing as an Individual

NickLutskoNov 18, 2024, 11:18 AM
8 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Cost, Not Sacrifice

Joe RogeroNov 20, 2024, 9:32 PM
6 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(subatomicarticles.com)

Align­ing AI Safety Pro­jects with a Repub­li­can Administration

Deric ChengNov 21, 2024, 10:13 PM
13 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

The An­i­mal Welfare Case for Open Ac­cess: Break­ing Bar­ri­ers to Scien­tific Knowl­edge and En­hanc­ing LLM Training

Wladimir J. AlonsoNov 23, 2024, 1:07 PM
32 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Billion­aire philan­thropy (Part 7: Donor dis­cre­tion)

Matrice JacobineNov 25, 2024, 8:38 AM
37 points
17 comments1 min readEA link
(reflectivealtruism.com)

[Question] Can I put EA on my re­sume?

sammyboiz🔸Nov 25, 2024, 9:07 AM
11 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Con­cerns Aris­ing At EAGx Vir­tual Around Im­poster Syndrome

quinngraceNov 25, 2024, 3:13 PM
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

AI Can Help An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy More Than It Can Help In­dus­trial Farming

Wladimir J. AlonsoNov 26, 2024, 9:55 AM
21 points
10 comments4 min readEA link

Agen­tic Align­ment: Nav­i­gat­ing be­tween Harm and Illegitimacy

LennardZNov 26, 2024, 9:27 PM
2 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

A Pa­tient’s Per­spec­tive of Mea­sur­ing Health Outcomes

quinngraceNov 28, 2024, 8:46 PM
18 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

[Question] How Di­verse Are EA’s Re­source Allo­ca­tions and In­ter­ven­tions Across De­mo­graph­ics and Re­gions?

emmannaemekaDec 8, 2024, 6:17 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Is In­spira­tion Effec­tive in An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy?

zoenewtonAug 14, 2023, 11:42 AM
6 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

A Thanks­giv­ing grat­i­tude post to EA

Joy BittnerNov 23, 2023, 1:38 PM
155 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Liquidity in Ca­reers and Skills

Vaishnav SunilAug 3, 2024, 3:06 PM
14 points
3 comments7 min readEA link
(www.everythingisatrolley.com)

Re­sponse to Aschen­bren­ner’s “Si­tu­a­tional Aware­ness”

RobBensingerJun 6, 2024, 10:57 PM
111 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo🔸Feb 3, 2025, 6:03 PM
29 points
41 comments7 min readEA link

No, The Op­ti­mal Cor­po­rate In­come Tax Isn’t (Ne­c­es­sar­ily) Zero

ParetoOptimalFeb 1, 2024, 10:16 AM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(paretooptimal.substack.com)

It seems hard to avoid sci­en­tific stag­na­tion due to the bur­den of knowl­edge in the long run

TobyWFeb 1, 2024, 2:40 PM
5 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(nematobe.substack.com)

How would you ap­proach an in­tro­duc­tion to Effec­tive Altru­ism in 1 hour in a class of sec­ond-year Philos­o­phy stu­dents?

jrcl39Feb 1, 2024, 12:47 PM
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

What is Con­fi­dence, in Game The­ory and Life?

Non-zero-sum JamesDec 10, 2024, 11:11 PM
2 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

What solv­able prob­lems are slow­ing down EA work?

James-Hartree-LawFeb 3, 2025, 8:47 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Nav­i­gat­ing AI Safety: Ex­plor­ing Trans­parency with CCACS – A Com­pre­hen­si­ble Ar­chi­tec­ture for Discussion

Ihor IvlievMar 12, 2025, 5:51 PM
2 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

[Question] Talk­ing about EA with friend who has an in­tel­lec­tual dis­abil­ity — any ad­vice?

Hayven FrienbyDec 28, 2023, 5:45 PM
15 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­tion to suffer­ing-fo­cused ethics

Center for Reducing SufferingAug 30, 2024, 4:55 PM
58 points
2 comments22 min readEA link

Three tricky bi­ases: hu­man bias, ex­is­tence bias, and happy bias

Steven RoukFeb 2, 2024, 2:20 PM
54 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

Effec­tive Ad­vo­cacy: Strik­ing the Balance Between Rad­i­cal and Ac­cessible Approaches

Boutheina KorchaniMar 13, 2025, 3:54 PM
0 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Between Science Fic­tion and Emerg­ing Real­ity: Are We Ready for Digi­tal Per­sons?

Alex (Αλέξανδρος)Mar 13, 2025, 4:09 PM
3 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

[Question] Is the EA com­mu­nity re­ally ad­vo­cat­ing prin­ci­ples over con­clu­sions ?

Solal 🔸Dec 11, 2024, 4:31 PM
73 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Should we value our val­ues when choos­ing which causes to sup­port?

FungielegantAug 31, 2024, 10:32 AM
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

No, se­ri­ously, it’s vir­tu­ous to re­pair the world.

HonoreDBDec 11, 2024, 5:34 PM
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(outlandishclaims.substack.com)

Sakana, Straw­berry, and Scary AI

Matrice JacobineSep 19, 2024, 11:57 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.astralcodexten.com)

Solv­ing ad­ver­sar­ial at­tacks in com­puter vi­sion as a baby ver­sion of gen­eral AI alignment

Stanislav FortAug 31, 2024, 4:15 PM
3 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

“Long” timelines to ad­vanced AI have got­ten crazy short

Matrice JacobineApr 3, 2025, 10:46 PM
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(helentoner.substack.com)

Anti-sci­ence in a time of dis­ease and Big Wellness

SofiiaFMar 14, 2025, 8:34 AM
0 points
3 comments24 min readEA link

Safe Sta­sis Fallacy

DavidmanheimFeb 5, 2024, 10:54 AM
23 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

The Cap­i­tal­ist Agent

Julian NalenzFeb 6, 2025, 1:22 PM
1 point
1 comment3 min readEA link
(blog.hermesloom.org)

Where Are the Older Peo­ple in Our Move­ment?

Ronen BarMar 14, 2025, 1:05 PM
51 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

Ques­tion­able Nar­ra­tives of “Si­tu­a­tional Aware­ness”

fergusqJun 16, 2024, 5:09 PM
23 points
10 comments14 min readEA link

Am I Miss­ing Some­thing, or Is EA? Thoughts from a Learner in Uganda

Dr KassimMar 16, 2025, 11:31 AM
222 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

The ‘Bad Par­ent’ Prob­lem: Why Hu­man So­ciety Com­pli­cates AI Alignment

Beyond SingularityApr 5, 2025, 9:08 PM
11 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

On Jan­uary 1, 2030, there will be no AGI (and AGI will still not be im­mi­nent)

YarrowApr 6, 2025, 1:08 AM
34 points
45 comments2 min readEA link

On differ­ent dis­cus­sion traditions

meugenApr 7, 2025, 3:49 AM
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(meugenn.substack.com)

Aim for con­di­tional pauses

AnonResearcherMajorAILabSep 25, 2023, 1:05 AM
100 points
42 comments12 min readEA link

From Plant Pathogens to Hu­man Threats: Un­veiling the Silent Me­nace of Fun­gal Diseases

emmannaemekaSep 24, 2023, 10:16 PM
22 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Car­ing only about your child may in­crease hu­man suffering

CipollaAug 9, 2024, 8:09 AM
3 points
0 comments8 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Why Brain Drain Isn’t Some­thing We Should Worry About

Lauren GilbertAug 31, 2024, 9:21 PM
26 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(laurenpolicy.substack.com)

My Proven AI Safety Ex­pla­na­tion (as a com­put­ing stu­dent)

Mica WhiteFeb 6, 2024, 3:58 AM
8 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

The Im­pact Case for Tak­ing a Break from Your Non-EA Job

SarahPomeranzOct 4, 2023, 7:47 AM
79 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

Open Agency model can solve the AI reg­u­la­tion dilemma

Roman LeventovNov 9, 2023, 3:22 PM
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Should Twit­ter have pre­dic­tion mar­kets in Com­mu­nity Notes?

Nathan YoungOct 20, 2023, 12:27 PM
18 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Mo­ral Li­cens­ing ~ the mak­ings of a very nega­tive-sum game?

Non-zero-sum JamesFeb 8, 2024, 1:39 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

Against the Open Source /​ Closed Source Di­chotomy: Reg­u­lated Source as a Model for Re­spon­si­ble AI Development

Alexander Herwix 🔸Sep 4, 2023, 8:23 PM
5 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Fun­da­men­tal Challenges in AI Governance

TharinOct 23, 2023, 1:30 AM
7 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Red-team­ing ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI

Zed TararNov 30, 2023, 2:35 PM
30 points
16 comments6 min readEA link

Prob­a­bil­ities might be off by one per­centage point

SjlverDec 12, 2024, 10:42 AM
24 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

Dangers of time-ma­chine al­tru­ism: What we can learn from post-EAs of the future

Bjarke FrederiksenOct 23, 2023, 2:12 PM
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

A New Way to Fight Disease and Boost Agri­cul­ture in Poor Countries

FelpsSep 25, 2023, 6:11 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.foreignaffairs.com)

PEPFAR, one of the most life-sav­ing global health pro­grams, is at risk

saloniumDec 10, 2023, 8:37 PM
170 points
13 comments3 min readEA link

Mea­sur­ing Im­pact: Eval­u­at­ing Suc­cess in the Pur­suit of Do­ing Good Better

KuiyakiOct 5, 2023, 7:44 AM
−1 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

De­mand­ing Diver­sity: The is­sue so far and the way forward

Taanya KapurOct 23, 2023, 7:47 PM
23 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

Part 4: Reflec­tions af­ter at­tend­ing the CEA In­tro to EA Vir­tual Pro­gram in Sum­mer 2023 – Chap­ter 4: Our Fi­nal Cen­tury?

Andreas PNov 1, 2023, 7:12 AM
8 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

An ar­gu­ment for ac­cel­er­at­ing in­ter­na­tional AI gov­er­nance re­search (part 1)

MattThinksAug 16, 2023, 5:40 AM
10 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Cause area re­port: vaccines

Erwan SallardDec 1, 2023, 10:35 AM
20 points
2 comments13 min readEA link

How to Get More Im­por­tant Things Done with the Eisen­hower [Effort] Matrix

Harry LukOct 6, 2023, 1:00 AM
15 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

En­courag­ing a he­do­nium shock­wave as a long term cause area

Felix BauerAug 20, 2024, 1:24 PM
22 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

The State of AI Gover­nance in Africa: Mus­ings from the Global South

Thaiya Jesse WallaceAug 17, 2023, 11:34 AM
6 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

What I would do if I wasn’t at ARC Evals

Lawrence ChanSep 6, 2023, 5:17 AM
130 points
4 comments13 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

A Scheme for us­ing Wor­ldCoin to provide elec­tric­ity & smart phone ac­cess in ru­ral Malawi, Africa

Robert Van BuskirkJul 31, 2023, 7:22 PM
1 point
2 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] In the ab­sence of ad­vanced med­i­cal in­ter­ven­tions, would the im­pact of in­fec­tious dis­eases on hu­man so­ciety in­crease over­time?

Kinoshita Yoshikazu (pseudonym)Aug 18, 2023, 1:19 PM
4 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

AI ro­man­tic part­ners will harm so­ciety if they go unregulated

Roman LeventovJul 31, 2023, 3:55 PM
16 points
9 comments13 min readEA link

Mak­ing EA more in­clu­sive, rep­re­sen­ta­tive, and im­pact­ful in Africa

Ashura BatungwanayoAug 17, 2023, 8:19 PM
70 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

Per­sonal Reflec­tions on Longtermism

NatKiiluAug 17, 2023, 9:22 PM
79 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

Com­mu­nity-Driven Solu­tions: Em­pow­er­ing Lo­cal Voices in Afri­can Development

KuiyakiOct 7, 2023, 8:28 AM
2 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

The AI Endgame: A coun­ter­fac­tual to AI al­ign­ment by an AI Safety newcomer

Andreas PDec 1, 2023, 5:49 AM
2 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Longter­mism or Ret­ro­spec­tivism: The More Effec­tive Utili­tar­ian Alter­na­tive.

HoomanOct 8, 2023, 12:26 PM
0 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

The Ex­is­ten­tial Risk of Speciesist Bias in AI

Sam Tucker-DavisNov 11, 2023, 3:27 AM
37 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Go­ing In­finite—Quick Review

Darren McKeeOct 7, 2023, 9:07 PM
25 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Essentialism

Rakefet Cohen Ben-AryeAug 3, 2023, 2:57 AM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Part 3: Reflec­tions af­ter at­tend­ing the CEA In­tro to EA Vir­tual Pro­gram in Sum­mer 2023 – Chap­ter 3: Rad­i­cal Empathy

Andreas POct 13, 2023, 5:40 PM
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Redesign­ing the In­tro Fel­low­ship: Re­sults, Re­sources, Reflec­tions, & more

Sam_E_24Aug 22, 2023, 1:59 AM
34 points
2 comments14 min readEA link

I’m a Former Is­raeli Officer. AMA

Yovel RomOct 10, 2023, 10:35 AM
64 points
33 comments1 min readEA link

How my view on us­ing games for EA has changed

mmKALLLAug 4, 2023, 9:21 AM
58 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Why microplas­tics should mat­ter to EAs

BiancaCojocaruDec 4, 2023, 9:27 AM
4 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Pro­tect Marine Life in the Don­ganab Re­serve in the Red Sea

Abbass AbdelhalimOct 10, 2023, 11:46 AM
−6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

De-em­pha­sise al­ign­ment, em­pha­sise restraint

EuanMcLeanFeb 4, 2025, 5:43 PM
19 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

Why build­ing ven­tures in AI Safety is par­tic­u­larly challeng­ing

Heramb PodarNov 6, 2023, 12:16 AM
16 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Can AI safely ex­ist at all?

Hayven FrienbyNov 27, 2023, 5:33 PM
6 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Ex­plor­ing the con­se­quences of Rus­sia’s ab­sence from the START III treaty for strate­gic arms re­duc­tion.

Ashley Valentina MarteAug 12, 2024, 4:17 PM
13 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Mosquito Erad­i­ca­tion as op­posed to net­ting and treat­ments, and why cur­rent pre­ven­tion meth­ods may be counterproductive

cryptopsyfan69420Sep 11, 2023, 12:58 AM
7 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Why not in­vest to­wards end­ing neo­colo­nial­ism?

AlanGreenspanAug 22, 2023, 3:59 PM
−15 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

4) A Case Study in Pan­demic Policy Failure: Covid-19 & Hu­man-to-Hu­man Transmission

PandemicRiskManFeb 14, 2024, 1:54 PM
1 point
0 comments8 min readEA link

An ar­gu­ment for ac­cel­er­at­ing in­ter­na­tional AI gov­er­nance re­search (part 2)

MattThinksAug 22, 2023, 10:40 PM
3 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

End­ing Poverty: To­day or For­ever? Po­ten­tial Er­ror in GiveDirectly’s Ra­tional An­i­ma­tions Video

Alexander de VriesNov 6, 2023, 12:01 PM
73 points
11 comments7 min readEA link
(2ndhandecon.substack.com)

A Kind­ness Equa­tion ~ should I give to char­ity or vol­un­teer?

Non-zero-sum JamesFeb 8, 2024, 6:11 PM
13 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

Towards non-meat diets for do­mes­ti­cated dogs

Seth Ariel Green 🔸Nov 6, 2023, 2:21 PM
51 points
12 comments7 min readEA link

My in­de­pen­dent im­pres­sions on the EA Handbook

VictorWAug 7, 2023, 9:09 AM
15 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

Some for-profit AI al­ign­ment org ideas

Eric HoDec 14, 2023, 3:52 PM
33 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

The 3-P-Approach

Esther22Dec 12, 2023, 7:09 PM
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

I spent a lot of time and money on one dog. Do I need help?

tobiasleenaertDec 10, 2023, 11:26 AM
94 points
25 comments5 min readEA link

How to Ac­cel­er­ate Your New EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion with Fis­cal Spon­sor­ship and Oper­a­tions Support

KevinNFeb 14, 2024, 12:52 PM
37 points
6 comments13 min readEA link

EA in Poli­tics: Let’s De­bunk a Taboo

Anna TosoDec 12, 2023, 4:25 PM
12 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

Im­pact Eval­u­a­tion in EA

callumOct 26, 2023, 11:18 PM
143 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

From Pas­sion to De­pres­sion and Pes­simism: My Jour­ney with Effec­tive Altruism

IReallyWantToBeAnonymousSep 28, 2023, 10:28 AM
66 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

In­sights From The An­nual Re­treat of EA Nigeria

Adebayo MubarakNov 22, 2023, 3:30 PM
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

AI Safety Bounties

PatrickLAug 24, 2023, 2:30 PM
37 points
2 comments7 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

Rad­i­cal Longter­mism and the Se­duc­tion of End­less Growth: A Cri­tique of William MacAskill’s ‘What We Owe the Fu­ture’

Alexander Herwix 🔸Sep 14, 2023, 2:43 PM
−13 points
15 comments1 min readEA link
(perspecteeva.substack.com)

Taiwan’s mil­i­tary com­pla­cency.

JKitsonDec 4, 2023, 9:28 AM
32 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

Redi­rect­ing one’s own taxes as an effec­tive al­tru­ism method

David GrossNov 14, 2023, 2:42 PM
−39 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

A Tax­on­omy of Jobs Deeply Re­sis­tant to TAI Automation

Deric ChengMar 18, 2025, 4:26 PM
37 points
1 comment12 min readEA link
(www.convergenceanalysis.org)

Reflec­tions On Giv­ing 10% Of My In­come To Effec­tive Charities

Samie DorghamNov 14, 2023, 3:42 PM
28 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

La­bor Par­ti­ci­pa­tion is a High-Pri­or­ity AI Align­ment Risk

alxAug 12, 2024, 6:48 PM
16 points
3 comments16 min readEA link

Can Quan­tum Com­pu­ta­tion be used to miti­gate ex­is­ten­tial risk?

Angus LaFeminaSep 18, 2023, 8:02 PM
10 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

The Rel­a­tive Eth­i­cal­ness of Clini­cal Trial Designs

Jonathan NankivellNov 10, 2023, 9:00 PM
16 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

New Meta-Anal­y­sis: Ex­er­cise is a Highly Effec­tive (But Ne­glected) Treat­ment for Depression

Frans van HoekDec 12, 2023, 7:08 PM
10 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

A few thoughts on the long term /​ In­ter­gen­er­a­tional Fair­ness Day

Eli KaufmanNov 14, 2023, 8:21 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Be­ware of shift­ing baseline syndrome

MilleBrrrmDec 12, 2023, 7:09 PM
6 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Craft­ing Our Mis­sion State­ment: Weighted Fac­tor Models, Shal­low Re­search, and Les­sons Learned for Clar­ity and Impact

Harry LukOct 13, 2023, 4:43 PM
9 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

My life would be much harder with­out the Com­mu­nity Health Team. I think yours might too.

Daystar EldSep 19, 2023, 2:59 PM
256 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

The Effec­tive Altru­ist Case for Us­ing Ge­netic En­hance­ment to End Poverty

1mkl32j201091Oct 28, 2023, 4:36 PM
0 points
21 comments35 min readEA link