Research summary

TagLast edit: 14 Jul 2022 17:49 UTC by Leo

Two directions for research on forecasting and decision making

Paal Fredrik Skjørten Kvarberg11 Mar 2023 15:33 UTC

48 points

6 comments21 min readEA link

The best places to weather global catastrophes

FJehn4 Mar 2024 7:57 UTC

31 points

10 comments7 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

What factors allow societies to survive a crisis?

FJehn9 Apr 2024 8:05 UTC

23 points

1 comment10 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

Trade collapse: Cascading risks in our global supply chains

FJehn25 Apr 2024 7:02 UTC

9 points

1 comment8 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

Distillation and research debt

Lizka15 Mar 2022 11:45 UTC

69 points

7 comments3 min readEA link

(distill.pub)

Promoting immediate skin-to-skin contact and early breastfeeding for all newborns: an underappreciated intervention to reduce neonatal mortality

Marshall28 Mar 2025 0:51 UTC

77 points

7 comments27 min readEA link

Comparing top forecasters and domain experts

technicalities6 Mar 2022 20:43 UTC

213 points

40 comments3 min readEA link

Utilitarianism with and without expected utility

Aaron Gertler 🔸24 Jul 2020 6:40 UTC

27 points

4 comments4 min readEA link

(davidmccarthy.org)

Critical summary of Meacham’s “Person-Affecting Views and Saturating Counterpart Relations”

Arden Koehler5 Jan 2021 2:18 UTC

55 points

30 comments11 min readEA link

Resilient foods: How to feed everyone, even in the worst of times

FJehn19 Dec 2024 11:12 UTC

11 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

Democratic Resilience

FJehn26 Jul 2024 7:50 UTC

22 points

3 comments8 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

Short Research Summary: Can insects feel pain? A review of the neural and behavioural evidence by Gibbons et al. 2022

Meghan Barrett22 Nov 2022 16:46 UTC

217 points

23 comments3 min readEA link

(authors.elsevier.com)

The state of global catastrophic risk research

FJehn22 Jul 2025 8:13 UTC

31 points

6 comments3 min readEA link

(esd.copernicus.org)

The people’s history of collapse

FJehn6 Aug 2025 8:09 UTC

13 points

2 comments23 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

The trouble with tipping points: Are we steering towards a climate catastrophe or a manageable challenge?

FJehn19 Jun 2023 8:57 UTC

24 points

18 comments8 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

How long until recovery after collapse?

FJehn24 Sep 2024 8:43 UTC

12 points

3 comments7 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

Simulating the end of the world: Exploring the current state of societal dynamics modeling

FJehn15 Nov 2023 12:53 UTC

11 points

2 comments10 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

How much food is there?

FJehn2 Sep 2024 6:29 UTC

40 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

Mapping out collapse research

FJehn7 Jun 2023 12:10 UTC

18 points

2 comments11 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

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

FJehn26 Aug 2020 10:59 UTC

47 points

6 comments8 min readEA link

Counterfactual catastrophes

FJehn20 Nov 2024 19:12 UTC

14 points

1 comment8 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

The consequences of large-scale blackouts

FJehn21 Oct 2024 6:12 UTC

15 points

5 comments12 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

Mini summaries of GPI papers

JackM2 Nov 2022 22:33 UTC

98 points

17 comments6 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo🔸20 Jun 2022 8:50 UTC

13 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

The case for strong longtermism—June 2021 update

JackM21 Jun 2021 21:30 UTC

64 points

12 comments3 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Initial research on social movements & protest

JamesÖz 🔸28 Mar 2022 14:02 UTC

39 points

6 comments12 min readEA link

Fewer but poorer: Benevolent partiality in prosocial preferences

David_Moss16 Jun 2020 7:54 UTC

38 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

(journal.sjdm.org)

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

FJehn28 Oct 2020 12:55 UTC

54 points

7 comments7 min readEA link

Preventing AI Misuse: State of the Art Research and its Flaws

Madhav Malhotra23 Apr 2023 10:50 UTC

24 points

2 comments11 min readEA link

PhD on Moral Progress—Bibliography Review

Rafael Ruiz10 Dec 2023 10:06 UTC

126 points

26 comments40 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities Institute13 Mar 2023 18:05 UTC

70 points

4 comments5 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Summary: Evidence, cluelessness and the long term | Hilary Greaves

Vasco Grilo🔸15 Apr 2022 17:22 UTC

6 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

The Possibility of an Ongoing Moral Catastrophe (Summary)

Linch2 Aug 2019 21:55 UTC

169 points

21 comments4 min readEA link

(docs.google.com)

Large Study Examining the Effects of Cash Transfer Programs on Population-Level Mortality Rates

nshaff3r2 Jun 2023 18:37 UTC

47 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.nature.com)

Summary: Against Anti-Fanaticism (Christian Tarsney)

Noah Varley🔸25 Jan 2024 15:04 UTC

25 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (21 Aug − 27 Aug 22’)

Zoe Williams30 Aug 2022 1:37 UTC

144 points

14 comments11 min readEA link

Famine’s Role in Societal Collapse

FJehn5 Oct 2023 6:19 UTC

14 points

1 comment6 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

Research Summary: Forecasting with Large Language Models

Damien Laird2 Apr 2023 10:52 UTC

4 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

(damienlaird.substack.com)

EA & LW Forum Weekly Summary (27th Feb − 5th Mar 2023)

Zoe Williams6 Mar 2023 3:18 UTC

20 points

0 comments11 min readEA link

AI-nuclear integration: evidence of automation bias from humans and LLMs [research summary]

Tao27 Apr 2024 21:59 UTC

17 points

2 comments12 min readEA link

Summary: The Value of Giving Money to Different Groups | Toby Ord

Vasco Grilo🔸22 Apr 2022 10:33 UTC

23 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Summary of ‘Sharing the World With Digital Minds’ by Carl Shulman and Nick Bostrom

David Mathers🔸7 Oct 2022 13:36 UTC

35 points

1 comment8 min readEA link

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

Noah Varley🔸17 Feb 2024 14:11 UTC

7 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

Calling for Student Submissions: AI Safety Distillation Contest

a_e_r23 Apr 2022 20:24 UTC

102 points

28 comments3 min readEA link

My summary of “Pragmatic AI Safety”

Eleni_A5 Nov 2022 14:47 UTC

14 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

Is Genetic Code Swapping as risky as it seems?

Invert_DOG_about_centre_O12 Jan 2025 18:38 UTC

23 points

2 comments10 min readEA link

Call For Distillers

johnswentworth6 Apr 2022 3:03 UTC

70 points

6 comments3 min readEA link

Summaries are underrated

Nathan Young1 Sep 2022 22:34 UTC

53 points

24 comments8 min readEA link

Key Papers in Language Model Safety

aog20 Jun 2022 14:59 UTC

20 points

0 comments22 min readEA link

New Faunalytics Study on Reforming Animal Agriculture Subsidies: A Guide for Advocates

JLRiedi25 Jan 2023 16:34 UTC

35 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (28th Nov − 4th Dec 22′)

Zoe Williams6 Dec 2022 9:38 UTC

36 points

0 comments17 min readEA link

Should we tell people they are morally obligated to give to charity? [Recent Paper]

benleo21 Feb 2023 13:26 UTC

81 points

23 comments4 min readEA link

Research summary: brain cell counts in Black Soldier Flies (Hermetia illucens; Diptera: Stratiomyidae)

Rethink Priorities15 Aug 2022 23:44 UTC

69 points

2 comments14 min readEA link

(www.sciencedirect.com)

New Faunalytics Study on Animal Agriculture in Climate Change Media Coverage

JLRiedi31 May 2023 15:35 UTC

24 points

3 comments6 min readEA link

Final Report of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI, 2021)

MichaelA🔸1 Jun 2021 8:19 UTC

51 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

(www.nscai.gov)

Comparing Utilities

Habryka [Deactivated]15 Sep 2020 3:27 UTC

20 points

2 comments7 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Summary thread: ‘Essays on Longtermism’ Chapters

Toby Tremlett🔹8 Sep 2025 9:36 UTC

34 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

An overview of WHO Prequalification: Process, usage, and potential improvements

Rethink Priorities25 Jul 2023 0:04 UTC

24 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

(rethinkpriorities.org)

Summary: Against the Singularity Hypothesis (David Thorstad)

Noah Varley🔸27 Mar 2024 13:48 UTC

65 points

10 comments5 min readEA link

Utility Cascades

Aaron Gertler 🔸29 Jul 2020 7:16 UTC

25 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

(academic.oup.com)

Research Summary: Prediction Polling

Damien Laird13 Mar 2023 18:31 UTC

8 points

0 comments10 min readEA link

(damienlaird.substack.com)

Mini GPI Paper Summaries (Sept 2023 - March 2024)

JackM5 May 2024 21:20 UTC

33 points

1 comment6 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities Institute16 Dec 2022 16:12 UTC

18 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

EA & LW Forum Weekly Summary (20th − 26th March 2023)

Zoe Williams27 Mar 2023 20:46 UTC

30 points

1 comment6 min readEA link

Problem Profile of Mental Health in the Philippines

Rika Gabriel8 Feb 2021 4:29 UTC

13 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Paper Summary: The Effectiveness of AI Existential Risk Communication to the American and Dutch Public

Otto9 Mar 2023 10:40 UTC

97 points

11 comments4 min readEA link

Suggestion: EAs should post more summaries and collections

MichaelA🔸9 Mar 2020 10:04 UTC

76 points

7 comments4 min readEA link

New intervention: paying farmers to not burn crops

Karthik Tadepalli22 Dec 2022 17:18 UTC

88 points

6 comments12 min readEA link

‘The AI Dilemma: Growth vs Existential Risk’: An Extension for EAs and a Summary for Non-economists

TomHoulden21 Apr 2024 16:28 UTC

68 points

1 comment16 min readEA link

Literature review of TAI timelines

Jaime Sevilla27 Jan 2023 20:36 UTC

148 points

10 comments2 min readEA link

(epochai.org)

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

EdoArad4 Mar 2021 16:57 UTC

75 points

16 comments7 min readEA link

[Summary] Impacts of Animal Well‐Being and Welfare Media on Meat Demand

Michael St Jules 🔸5 Nov 2020 9:11 UTC

40 points

11 comments6 min readEA link

Migraine studies

Vasco Grilo🔸29 Jan 2025 17:59 UTC

19 points

0 comments17 min readEA link

Summary: The scope of longtermism

Global Priorities Institute18 Dec 2023 13:25 UTC

52 points

4 comments4 min readEA link

Top Idea Reports from the EA Philippines Mental Health Charity Ideas Research Project

Shen Javier24 May 2023 10:30 UTC

43 points

4 comments6 min readEA link

Unveiling the American Public Opinion on AI Moratorium and Government Intervention: The Impact of Media Exposure

Otto8 May 2023 10:49 UTC

28 points

5 comments6 min readEA link

Summary and Takeaways: Hanson’s “Shall We Vote on Values, But Bet on Beliefs?”

Lizka25 Aug 2021 0:43 UTC

38 points

12 comments14 min readEA link

CE Research Report: Aid Quality Advocacy

weeatquince🔸16 Mar 2022 12:46 UTC

39 points

0 comments31 min readEA link

Summaries of top forum posts (24th − 30th April 2023)

Zoe Williams2 May 2023 2:30 UTC

44 points

0 comments10 min readEA link

Animal Advocacy Digest #2 (Nov 18th—Dec 2nd)

JamesÖz 🔸2 Dec 2022 11:54 UTC

31 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

Biological Anchors external review by Jennifer Lin (linkpost)

peterhartree30 Nov 2022 13:06 UTC

36 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(docs.google.com)

Summaries of top forum posts (17th − 23rd April 2023)

Zoe Williams24 Apr 2023 4:13 UTC

26 points

0 comments8 min readEA link

‘Chat with impactful research & evaluations’ (Unjournal NotebookLMs)

david_reinstein24 Sep 2024 20:19 UTC

8 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

Animal Advocacy Digest #3: Dec 2nd—Dec 23rd

JamesÖz 🔸23 Dec 2022 13:02 UTC

35 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Summary: Simulation expectation

Global Priorities Institute27 Sep 2023 10:58 UTC

10 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Vox on cash transfers vs “graduation programs” for fighting extreme poverty

Lizka7 Jul 2022 15:09 UTC

29 points

5 comments5 min readEA link

(www.vox.com)

Summaries of top forum posts (27th March to 16th April)

Zoe Williams17 Apr 2023 0:28 UTC

31 points

1 comment12 min readEA link

Announcing Million Year View

rileyharris4 Sep 2023 7:09 UTC

9 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Drawing attention to invasive Lymantria dispar dispar spongy moth outbreaks as an important, neglected issue in wild animal welfare

Meghan Barrett28 May 2023 14:18 UTC

93 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(rethinkpriorities.org)

2023: highlights from the year, from the EA Newsletter

Lizka5 Jan 2024 21:57 UTC

68 points

2 comments33 min readEA link

End time economics: Supply and demand after global catastrophes

FJehn16 Jan 2026 10:46 UTC

9 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

AI X-risk in the News: How Effective are Recent Media Items and How is Awareness Changing? Our New Survey Results.

Otto4 May 2023 14:04 UTC

49 points

1 comment9 min readEA link

Summary of Major Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Winter

Isabel9 Jul 2022 6:23 UTC

7 points

0 comments23 min readEA link

Summaries for 80k Hours Podcasts (and some other EA things)

Trish23 Oct 2022 22:04 UTC

27 points

6 comments4 min readEA link

Welfare Footprint Project—a blueprint for quantifying animal pain

Michael St Jules 🔸26 Jun 2021 20:05 UTC

74 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

Labor markets in LMICs (what we know about growth, part 3)

Karthik Tadepalli12 Feb 2024 19:13 UTC

56 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

Summary: In Defence of Fanaticism (Hayden Wilkinson)

Noah Varley🔸15 Jan 2024 14:21 UTC

30 points

3 comments6 min readEA link

Deep Report on Diabetes

Joel Tan🔸6 Oct 2023 2:33 UTC

28 points

45 comments3 min readEA link

Violence Before Agriculture

John G. Halstead2 Oct 2023 8:01 UTC

143 points

7 comments9 min readEA link

Study results: The most convincing argument for effective donations

Aaron Gertler 🔸28 Jun 2020 22:45 UTC

87 points

13 comments12 min readEA link

(schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com)

Research Summary: What works to promote charitable donations: A meta-review with meta-meta-analysis

PeterSlattery24 Jun 2022 1:33 UTC

67 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

A Bayesian framework for interpreting impact evaluations

Lizka28 Apr 2022 12:27 UTC

23 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

Introducing the Animal Advocacy Bi-Weekly Digest (Nov 4 - Nov 18)

JamesÖz 🔸18 Nov 2022 14:56 UTC

81 points

8 comments5 min readEA link

An Extremely Opinionated Annotated List of My Favourite Mechanistic Interpretability Papers

Neel Nanda18 Oct 2022 21:23 UTC

19 points

0 comments12 min readEA link

(www.neelnanda.io)

Announcing the Distillation for Alignment Practicum (DAP)

Jonas Hallgren 🔸18 Aug 2022 22:31 UTC

20 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

When Giving People Money Doesn’t Help

Zvi 8 Jul 2022 12:00 UTC

45 points

4 comments10 min readEA link

Empathy and compassion toward other species decrease with evolutionary divergence time

David_Moss21 Feb 2020 15:31 UTC

48 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

(www.nature.com)

Radical tactics can increase support for more moderate groups

JamesÖz 🔸16 Dec 2022 11:36 UTC

92 points

18 comments15 min readEA link

Quantifying the probability of existential catastrophe: A reply to Beard et al.

MichaelA🔸10 Aug 2020 5:56 UTC

21 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

(gcrinstitute.org)

GWWC is hiring a Research Communicator!

Giving What We Can🔸9 May 2023 23:32 UTC

24 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

Summary of Situational Awareness—The Decade Ahead

OscarD🔸8 Jun 2024 11:29 UTC

143 points

5 comments18 min readEA link

Disruptive climate protests in the UK didn’t lead to a loss of public support for climate policies

JamesÖz 🔸20 Jun 2022 15:07 UTC

34 points

4 comments18 min readEA link

Research summary: farmed cricket welfare

abrahamrowe6 Mar 2024 22:10 UTC

112 points

3 comments15 min readEA link

Large Language Models as Fiduciaries to Humans

johnjnay24 Jan 2023 19:53 UTC

25 points

0 comments34 min readEA link

(papers.ssrn.com)

[EAG talk] The likelihood and severity of a US-Russia nuclear exchange (Rodriguez, 2019)

Will Aldred3 Jul 2022 13:53 UTC

32 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

Does climate science focus on the right temperature range?

FJehn26 Nov 2025 15:56 UTC

33 points

1 comment11 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

A summary of Nicholas Beckstead’s writing on Bayesian Ethics

Jaime Sevilla4 Sep 2019 9:44 UTC

41 points

1 comment6 min readEA link

Conclusion and Bibliography for “Understanding the diffusion of large language models”

Ben Cottier21 Dec 2022 13:50 UTC

12 points

0 comments11 min readEA link

Evidence on how cash transfers empower women in poverty

GiveDirectly8 Mar 2023 6:17 UTC

106 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

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

AlexisAt7 Feb 2025 14:05 UTC

13 points

1 comment6 min readEA link

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

Noah Varley🔸28 Jun 2024 14:03 UTC

8 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Implications of Quantum Computing for Artificial Intelligence alignment research (ABRIDGED)

Jaime Sevilla5 Sep 2019 14:56 UTC

25 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

Changing the Rules to Soften Humanity’s Hard Landing: A Systemic Risk Approach to Everything Going Wrong at Once

Matt Boyd27 Jun 2025 9:44 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(adaptresearchwriting.com)

Summary of 80k’s AI problem profile

JakubK1 Jan 2023 7:48 UTC

19 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Can Black Soldier Fly Larvae (BSFL) producers displace fishmeal?

Rethink Priorities17 Dec 2024 15:59 UTC

58 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

AI-Safety Mexico: A Pilot Survey in Yucatán.

Janeth Valdivia28 May 2025 23:19 UTC

5 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

Contrails: an underrated climate mitigation opportunity?

JuanGarcia16 Dec 2024 19:15 UTC

17 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

Intermediate Report on Hypertension

Joel Tan🔸3 Apr 2023 3:54 UTC

50 points

12 comments5 min readEA link

Mass Media, Propaganda, and Social Influence: Evidence of Effectiveness from Courchesne et al. (2021)

Janet Pauketat10 Jul 2023 20:10 UTC

13 points

0 comments30 min readEA link

(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Is CBT effective for poor households? Two recent papers (evaluated by The Unjournal) with contrasting results

david_reinstein17 Apr 2023 20:46 UTC

38 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(unjournal.pubpub.org)

Newsletter for Alignment Research: The ML Safety Updates

Esben Kran22 Oct 2022 16:17 UTC

30 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

Can we do useful meta-analysis? Unjournal evaluations of “Meaningfully reducing consumption of meat and animal products is an unsolved problem...”

david_reinstein7 Nov 2025 0:30 UTC

33 points

21 comments6 min readEA link

Deep Report on Hypertension

Joel Tan🔸1 Aug 2023 2:39 UTC

67 points

34 comments3 min readEA link

Research summary: A Meta-Review of Interventions that Influence Animal-Product Consumption

PeterSlattery13 Aug 2021 6:46 UTC

44 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

Twenty Year Economic Impacts of Deworming

SamiM22 Aug 2020 0:40 UTC

13 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

A Potential Strategy for AI Safety — Chain of Thought Monitorability

Strad Slater19 Sep 2025 18:42 UTC

3 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

(williamslater2003.medium.com)

AI Wellbeing

Simon 11 Jul 2023 0:34 UTC

11 points

0 comments9 min readEA link

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

jachym_simko18 Jan 2025 13:12 UTC

6 points

0 comments10 min readEA link

How much parenting harms productivity and how you can reduce it

Noah Varley🔸25 Feb 2024 14:13 UTC

85 points

25 comments3 min readEA link

Climate change donation recommendations

Sanjay16 Jul 2020 21:17 UTC

46 points

7 comments14 min readEA link

Decentralizing Model Evaluation: Lessons from AI4Math

SMalagon5 Jun 2025 18:57 UTC

23 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

Immigration and Crime In The United States

Lauren Gilbert10 Dec 2024 17:56 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.laurenpolicy.com)

Distillation of The Offense-Defense Balance of Scientific Knowledge

Arjun Yadav 🔸12 Aug 2022 7:01 UTC

17 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (24 − 30th Oct 22′)

Zoe Williams1 Nov 2022 2:58 UTC

23 points

0 comments14 min readEA link

Road to AnimalHarmBench

Artūrs Kaņepājs1 Jul 2025 13:37 UTC

138 points

11 comments7 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities Institute12 Sep 2023 16:31 UTC

69 points

20 comments5 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

CE Research Report: Road Traffic Safety

vicky_cox7 Mar 2022 12:45 UTC

61 points

13 comments38 min readEA link

Considerations on transformative AI and explosive growth from a semiconductor-industry perspective

Muireall31 May 2023 1:11 UTC

23 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

(muireall.space)

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

Global Priorities Institute21 Jul 2022 15:23 UTC

43 points

7 comments7 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Research report: adding a plant-based option (or two) doesn’t change behavior

Seth Ariel Green 🔸8 Sep 2025 14:02 UTC

95 points

24 comments2 min readEA link

#205 – The most insane things fish can do (Sébastien Moro on The 80,000 Hours Podcast)

80000_Hours24 Oct 2024 19:27 UTC

52 points

0 comments16 min readEA link

How hard to achieve is eutopia?

William_MacAskill6 Aug 2025 17:43 UTC

56 points

11 comments7 min readEA link

Climate Change and Emerging Fungal Infections: Impacts, Challenges, and Opportunities

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi23 Jun 2023 15:19 UTC

7 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

(journals.plos.org)

The 25 researchers who have published the largest number of academic articles on existential risk

FJehn12 Aug 2023 8:57 UTC

34 points

21 comments4 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

Existential Risk of Misaligned Intelligence Augmentation (Particularly Using High-Bandwidth BCI Implants)

Damian Gorski24 Jan 2023 17:02 UTC

1 point

0 comments9 min readEA link

EA & LW Forum Weekly Summary (23rd − 29th Jan ’23)

Zoe Williams31 Jan 2023 0:36 UTC

16 points

0 comments13 min readEA link

What Vegan Advocates Can Learn From The Social Spread Of Quitting Smoking

JLRiedi26 Dec 2024 17:15 UTC

32 points

4 comments9 min readEA link

Article Summary: Current and Near-Term AI as a Potential Existential Risk Factor

AndreFerretti7 Jun 2023 13:53 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(dl.acm.org)

Concepts of existential catastrophe (Hilary Greaves)

Global Priorities Institute9 Nov 2023 17:42 UTC

41 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Which Post Idea Is Most Effective?

Jordan Arel25 Apr 2022 4:47 UTC

26 points

6 comments2 min readEA link

Report: Evaluating an AI Chip Registration Policy

Deric Cheng12 Apr 2024 4:40 UTC

15 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(www.convergenceanalysis.org)

Information in risky technology races

nemeryxu2 Aug 2022 23:35 UTC

15 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

Humane & Sustainable Food Lab: 2024 in review

MMathur🔸16 Dec 2024 13:33 UTC

28 points

6 comments7 min readEA link

Quantifying the cost-effectiveness of the top biodiversity interventions

Iska Knuuttila4 Nov 2025 13:33 UTC

13 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

Differential technology development: preprint on the concept

Hamish_Hobbs12 Sep 2022 13:52 UTC

65 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities Institute7 Jun 2022 13:14 UTC

25 points

6 comments6 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Remittance Hell in Paradise

CB26 Jan 2024 12:35 UTC

3 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

Types of information hazards

Vasco Grilo🔸29 May 2022 14:30 UTC

15 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

[Feedback Request] Problem Profile of Mental Health in the Philippines

Rika Gabriel20 Dec 2020 8:04 UTC

33 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

The EA’s guide to Moral Ambition

OGTutzauer🔸3 Jun 2025 9:06 UTC

91 points

17 comments6 min readEA link

Video and transcript of talk on giving AIs safe motivations

Joe_Carlsmith22 Sep 2025 16:47 UTC

10 points

1 comment50 min readEA link

Eradicating rodenticides from U.S. pest management is less practical than we thought

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸24 Mar 2023 21:11 UTC

78 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(osf.io)

Effective altruism as a lifestyle movement (A Master’s Thesis)

Ada-Maaria Hyvärinen6 Nov 2022 11:50 UTC

39 points

4 comments5 min readEA link

EJOR special issue on role of operational research in future pandemics

wesg17 Aug 2022 13:34 UTC

21 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(www.sciencedirect.com)

Who Supports Animal Rights?

zdgroff29 Jul 2019 10:58 UTC

34 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Measuring happiness increases happiness

Alexander Herwix 🔸15 Apr 2020 15:08 UTC

8 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(link.springer.com)

Grokking “Forecasting TAI with biological anchors”

anson6 Jun 2022 18:56 UTC

43 points

0 comments14 min readEA link

Unexpected Global Response to WFF Study on Trout Slaughter and Welfare Impact

jan pavuk helping16 Jul 2025 21:16 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Noah Varley🔸7 Mar 2024 14:31 UTC

24 points

7 comments7 min readEA link

Positive Wild Animal Welfare

Vasco Grilo🔸16 Sep 2025 18:04 UTC

40 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(link.springer.com)

New experimental paper on LLM welfare

LeonardDung11 Sep 2025 8:05 UTC

13 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

A guide about (seemingly) conscious AI: WhenAISeemsConscious.org

Lucius Caviola27 Aug 2025 15:15 UTC

34 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(outpaced.substack.com)

EU farmed fish policy reform roadmap

Neil_Dullaghan🔹 22 Aug 2023 19:00 UTC

95 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

(rethinkpriorities.org)

Effective Altruism, Disaster Prevention, and the Possibility of Hell: A Dilemma for Secular Longtermists

AgentMa🔸29 Mar 2025 17:43 UTC

18 points

7 comments5 min readEA link

Short agony or long ache: comparing sources of suffering that differ in duration and intensity

cynthiaschuck21 Feb 2024 16:58 UTC

98 points

25 comments20 min readEA link

Summaries: Alignment Fundamentals Curriculum

Leon Lang19 Sep 2022 15:43 UTC

25 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(docs.google.com)

How To Help Neglected Animals

Bentham's Bulldog13 May 2025 15:05 UTC

64 points

6 comments8 min readEA link

AI and Evolution

Dan H30 Mar 2023 13:09 UTC

41 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

(arxiv.org)

EA & LW Forum Weekly Summary (20th − 26th Feb 2023)

Zoe Williams27 Feb 2023 3:46 UTC

29 points

1 comment14 min readEA link

The best evidence about what matters most for well-being

BenefitOfTheDoubt30 May 2025 16:10 UTC

17 points

1 comment11 min readEA link

Detection of Asymptomatically Spreading Pathogens

Jeff Kaufman 🔸5 Dec 2024 19:17 UTC

52 points

6 comments7 min readEA link

How does a basic income affect recipients during COVID-19?

GiveDirectly3 Sep 2020 11:01 UTC

19 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

A Paradox for Tiny Probabilities and Enormous Values

Global Priorities Institute1 Jul 2021 7:00 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

A brief explanation of the Myanmar coup

Timothy_Liptrot2 Feb 2021 15:47 UTC

32 points

7 comments2 min readEA link

Research Summary: Prediction Markets

Damien Laird22 Mar 2023 17:07 UTC

3 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(damienlaird.substack.com)

AI Safety Landscape & Strategic Gaps

MichaelDickens17 Sep 2025 23:02 UTC

94 points

4 comments57 min readEA link

Animal Welfare − 6 Months in 6 Minutes

Zoe Williams8 Feb 2023 21:45 UTC

145 points

5 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)

Beliefs About Chickens & Fish And Their Relationship To Animal-Positive Behaviors

Casey Riordan11 Nov 2020 17:04 UTC

11 points

0 comments8 min readEA link

Forecasting Biosecurity Risks from LLMs

Forecasting Research Institute1 Jul 2025 12:43 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(forecastingresearch.org)

Mental Health Report (CEARCH) [Executive Summary]

Stan Pinsent17 Jan 2024 15:16 UTC

41 points

5 comments5 min readEA link

Lessons from the past for our global civilization

FJehn10 Aug 2023 9:54 UTC

4 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

The Decreasing Value of Chain of Thought in Prompting

Matrice Jacobine🔸🏳️‍⚧️8 Jun 2025 15:11 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(papers.ssrn.com)

[Link] Discounting for uncertainty in health

Owen Cotton-Barratt7 May 2015 18:43 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers

RyanCarey4 Jul 2019 19:06 UTC

10 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

(www.sciencedirect.com)

The Impact of Protest On Animal Advocacy

Björn 🔹16 Jun 2025 15:22 UTC

35 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

AI Safety Bounties

PatrickL24 Aug 2023 14:30 UTC

37 points

2 comments7 min readEA link

(rethinkpriorities.org)

Plain(er) English Rewrite of ‘Discounting for Public Policy: A Survey’ by Hilary Greaves

jojo_lee26 Apr 2020 3:34 UTC

13 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Summary: “Imagining and building wise machines: The centrality of AI metacognition” by Johnson, Karimi, Bengio, et al.

Chris Leong5 Jun 2025 12:16 UTC

12 points

0 comments10 min readEA link

(arxiv.org)

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

Global Priorities Institute29 Apr 2022 15:52 UTC

43 points

27 comments4 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Reducing LLM deception at scale with self-other overlap fine-tuning

Marc Carauleanu13 Mar 2025 19:09 UTC

8 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

Summary: The Importance of End-of-Life Welfare | Browning & Veit

Vasco Grilo🔸22 Apr 2022 10:19 UTC

7 points

0 comments2 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

The Future of Animal Wellbeing in 2050

Aaron Boddy🔸6 Sep 2025 19:36 UTC

33 points

1 comment17 min readEA link

(www.firetail.co.uk)

Grokking “Semi-informative priors over AI timelines”

anson12 Jun 2022 22:15 UTC

60 points

1 comment14 min readEA link

Is the Far Future Irrelevant for Moral Decision-Making?

Tristan D1 Oct 2024 7:42 UTC

35 points

31 comments2 min readEA link

(www.sciencedirect.com)

New Faunalytics Economic Analysis of the Chicken, Egg, and Fish Industries in USA, China, and Brazil

JLRiedi27 Sep 2023 16:33 UTC

18 points

1 comment14 min readEA link

New Faunalytics’ Study On The Barriers And Strategies For Success When Going Vegan or Vegetarian

JLRiedi7 Sep 2022 16:20 UTC

42 points

4 comments5 min readEA link

Which Image Do You Prefer?: a study of visual communication in six African countries

Cullen 🔸3 Dec 2018 6:38 UTC

12 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(perma.cc)

Why I Think All The Species Of Significantly Debated Consciousness Are Conscious And Suffer Intensely

Bentham's Bulldog20 Nov 2024 16:11 UTC

65 points

27 comments33 min readEA link

Discovering Language Model Behaviors with Model-Written Evaluations

evhub20 Dec 2022 20:09 UTC

25 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

(www.anthropic.com)

Sleep loss leads to the withdrawal of human helping across individuals, groups, and large-scale societies

Akash Kulgod31 Aug 2022 7:18 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(journals.plos.org)

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

Global Priorities Institute4 Jul 2023 13:37 UTC

45 points

7 comments3 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Predicting Virus Relative Abundance in Wastewater

Jeff Kaufman 🔸10 Aug 2023 15:46 UTC

46 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

(naobservatory.org)

Outdoor Biting: A Growing Challenge for Malaria Elimination

Christina Barstow8 Sep 2025 23:29 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.linkedin.com)

The Economic Lives of the Poor

cole_haus20 Nov 2019 21:17 UTC

32 points

8 comments3 min readEA link

International AI Institutions: a literature review of models, examples, and proposals

MMMaas26 Sep 2023 15:26 UTC

53 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Research summary: farmed yellow mealworm welfare

abrahamrowe3 Jan 2024 17:45 UTC

70 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (12 − 18 Sep 22’)

Zoe Williams19 Sep 2022 5:06 UTC

34 points

2 comments13 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities Institute29 Apr 2022 15:54 UTC

21 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Quantifying The Small Body Problem: A Meta-Analysis Of Animal Product Reduction Interventions

JLRiedi3 Sep 2025 22:18 UTC

18 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

Abundance Estimates of Three Wild Populations

Rethink Priorities28 Oct 2024 20:26 UTC

62 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

(rethinkpriorities.org)

Beware Isolated Demands for Rigor (Alexander, 2014)

Will Aldred18 Jul 2022 11:48 UTC

48 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(slatestarcodex.com)

[Linkpost] Shorter version of report on existential risk from power-seeking AI

Joe_Carlsmith22 Mar 2023 18:06 UTC

49 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Summary of John Halstead’s Book-Length Report on Existential Risks From Climate Change

Bentham's Bulldog25 Jun 2025 15:13 UTC

53 points

12 comments22 min readEA link

The impacts of AI on animal advocacy

Animal Charity Evaluators11 Sep 2025 14:21 UTC

62 points

2 comments10 min readEA link

GPT-2 as step toward general intelligence (Alexander, 2019)

Will Aldred18 Jul 2022 16:14 UTC

42 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(slatestarcodex.com)

Giving AIs safe motivations

Joe_Carlsmith18 Aug 2025 18:02 UTC

22 points

1 comment51 min readEA link

Paper summary––Protecting future generations: A global survey of legal academics

rileyharris5 Sep 2023 10:29 UTC

25 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

(www.legalpriorities.org)

A new strategy for broadening the appeal of effective giving (GivingMultiplier.org)

Lucius Caviola26 Oct 2020 23:18 UTC

190 points

13 comments7 min readEA link

Priority review vouchers for tropical diseases: Impact, distribution, effectiveness, and potential improvements

Rethink Priorities2 Jan 2024 21:48 UTC

30 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

(rethinkpriorities.org)

Kotlikoff et al., ‘Making Carbon Taxation a Generational Win Win’

Matt_Lerner24 Nov 2019 16:27 UTC

15 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Biosecurity Statements Repository

Shiying. H3 Oct 2025 14:22 UTC

26 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

AI Safety − 7 months of discussion in 17 minutes

Zoe Williams15 Mar 2023 23:41 UTC

90 points

2 comments17 min readEA link

Most Efficient Message Framing to Promote Charitable Giving [Literature Review Report]

Zoé Roy-Stang14 May 2023 14:26 UTC

14 points

1 comment8 min readEA link

A write-up on the biosecurity landscape in China

Chloe Lee8 Apr 2023 3:47 UTC

82 points

4 comments7 min readEA link

When will AI automate all mental work, and how fast?

A.G.G. Liu31 May 2025 16:18 UTC

10 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

(youtu.be)

Giving Multiplier Paper

JMonty🔸28 Jan 2023 19:06 UTC

37 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.science.org)

New podcast episode: Forecasting the future of global health funding

GiveWell26 Jun 2025 21:29 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Are recent immigrants a “ticking time bomb” for British public finances?

Lauren Gilbert27 Aug 2025 14:36 UTC

1 point

2 comments10 min readEA link

[linkpost] AI NOW Institute’s 2023 Annual Report & Roadmap

Tristan W12 Apr 2023 20:00 UTC

9 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(ainowinstitute.org)

Implications of large language model diffusion for AI governance

Ben Cottier21 Dec 2022 13:50 UTC

14 points

0 comments38 min readEA link

Short summary of What We Owe The Future

finm12 Feb 2023 16:27 UTC

29 points

3 comments7 min readEA link

(finmoorhouse.com)

Narrative but Not Philosophical Argument Motivates Giving to Charity

Jon_Behar26 Nov 2018 18:18 UTC

13 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

(schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com)

How U.S. Voters Respond To Candidates Making Farmed Animal Policy Proposals

JLRiedi29 Oct 2025 21:02 UTC

19 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

New article from Oren Etzioni

Aryeh Englander25 Feb 2020 15:38 UTC

24 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

Investigating the scope of consumer-initiated genetic testing in the US

37aaron29 Apr 2022 8:00 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readEA link

Summary of Eliezer Yudkowsky’s “Cognitive Biases Potentially Affecting Judgment of Global Risks”

Damin Curtis🔹7 Nov 2023 18:19 UTC

5 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

Comparing the Effect of Rational and Emotional Appeals on Donation Behavior

Gordon Seidoh Worley26 May 2020 0:24 UTC

23 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(philpapers.org)

An expert survey on social movements and protest

JamesÖz 🔸12 Jul 2023 14:08 UTC

93 points

3 comments6 min readEA link

AI Safety For Dummies (Like Me)

Madhav Malhotra24 Aug 2022 20:26 UTC

22 points

7 comments20 min readEA link

Summary: Maximal Cluelessness (Andreas Mogensen)

Noah Varley🔸6 Feb 2024 14:49 UTC

40 points

17 comments4 min readEA link

Famine, Affluence and Morality [Link Post to PDF]

Nathan Young29 Aug 2022 16:00 UTC

23 points

4 comments16 min readEA link

(www.google.com)

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

Global Priorities Institute11 Oct 2022 11:29 UTC

39 points

5 comments4 min readEA link

(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Analysis: Which animal products cause the most animal suffering and deaths in the United States?

Casey Riordan16 Sep 2020 18:38 UTC

65 points

8 comments11 min readEA link

Automated Evaluation of LLMs for Math Benchmark.

CisnerosA30 Oct 2025 20:28 UTC

3 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

The trajectory of the future could soon get set in stone

William_MacAskill11 Aug 2025 11:04 UTC

34 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

EA & LW Forum Weekly Summary (6th − 12th March 2023)

Zoe Williams14 Mar 2023 3:01 UTC

15 points

0 comments12 min readEA link

The Mariel Boatlift

Lauren Gilbert30 Nov 2024 21:39 UTC

40 points

10 comments10 min readEA link

(laurenpolicy.substack.com)

Rational Animations’ video about scalable oversight and sandwiching

Writer6 Jul 2025 14:00 UTC

14 points

1 comment9 min readEA link

(youtu.be)

Animal welfare in the United States: Opportunities for impact

Animal Ask22 May 2024 8:57 UTC

31 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.animalask.org)

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

deanspears14 Apr 2021 0:48 UTC

114 points

16 comments1 min readEA link

(deanspears.medium.com)

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (14th Nov − 27th Nov 22′)

Zoe Williams29 Nov 2022 22:59 UTC

22 points

0 comments20 min readEA link

Highlights from “Futures with Digital Minds: Expert Forecasts in 2025”

Bradford Saad26 Aug 2025 10:36 UTC

28 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

AI alignment research links

Holden Karnofsky6 Jan 2022 5:52 UTC

16 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

(www.cold-takes.com)

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (28 Aug − 3 Sep 22’)

Zoe Williams6 Sep 2022 10:46 UTC

42 points

1 comment14 min readEA link

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

Cody_Fenwick31 Dec 2022 20:28 UTC

42 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

EA & LW Forum Weekly Summary (13th − 19th March 2023)

Zoe Williams20 Mar 2023 4:18 UTC

31 points

0 comments14 min readEA link

Antimicrobial surfaces for pandemic prevention

kirke16 Nov 2024 16:33 UTC

17 points

0 comments15 min readEA link

(k1rk3.github.io)

Psychology research identifying a bias against harm reduction

emre kaplan🔸16 May 2025 9:36 UTC

20 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(journals.sagepub.com)

My notes on: Searching for outliers

Vasco Grilo🔸3 Jun 2022 16:19 UTC

9 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Review: What works to promote charitable donations?

PeterSlattery24 Aug 2020 1:42 UTC

38 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

The illusion of science in comparative cognition

gavintaylor2 Nov 2019 19:17 UTC

27 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(psyarxiv.com)

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (5 − 11 Sep 22’)

Zoe Williams12 Sep 2022 23:21 UTC

36 points

0 comments14 min readEA link

Auroras, space weather and the threat to critical infrastructure

FJehn29 Oct 2025 10:53 UTC

18 points

2 comments12 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

Charity Entrepreneurship’s research into large-scale global health interventions

Ambitious Impact16 May 2023 11:51 UTC

76 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Summary: Training Effective Altruism (Mehmood et al.)

Noah Varley🔸20 Mar 2024 17:54 UTC

28 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

Second-wave endogenous growth models and automation

trammell11 May 2025 4:14 UTC

59 points

8 comments6 min readEA link

How to Incubate Self-Driven Individuals (for Leaders and Community Builders)

Per Ivar Friborg5 Aug 2022 14:36 UTC

52 points

4 comments7 min readEA link

Climate anomalies and societal collapse

FJehn8 Feb 2024 9:49 UTC

13 points

6 comments10 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

What’s Changing With the New Forum?

Aaron Gertler 🔸7 Nov 2018 23:09 UTC

19 points

15 comments4 min readEA link

Effectiveness of antimalarial bed nets with chlorfenapyr

Scott Smith 🔸11 Dec 2024 12:34 UTC

57 points

0 comments21 min readEA link

AISN #64: New AGI Definition and Senate Bill Would Establish Liability for AI Harms

Center for AI Safety16 Oct 2025 17:50 UTC

8 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(aisafety.substack.com)

Should We Try to Change Animal Welfare Laws in India or Taiwan?- Charity Entrepreneurship’s Approach Report

vicky_cox8 Jan 2020 18:45 UTC

27 points

13 comments2 min readEA link

My notes on: Why we can’t take expected value estimates literally (even when they’re unbiased)

Vasco Grilo🔸18 Apr 2022 13:10 UTC

15 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Civilizational vulnerabilities

Vasco Grilo🔸22 Apr 2022 9:37 UTC

7 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Manipulating the global thermostat: Climate change, nuclear winter, and stratospheric aerosol injections

FJehn3 Sep 2025 9:14 UTC

23 points

5 comments12 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

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

Kyle J. Lucchese 🔸8 Feb 2023 22:35 UTC

41 points

43 comments4 min readEA link

(www.amazon.com)

A rough and incomplete review of some of John Wentworth’s research

So8res28 Mar 2023 18:52 UTC

28 points

0 comments18 min readEA link

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

Noah Varley🔸10 Apr 2024 14:21 UTC

63 points

23 comments4 min readEA link

New Faunalytics Study on Chinese Consumers’ Attitudes Towards Farmed Animal Welfare

JLRiedi26 Oct 2022 17:21 UTC

32 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

How meat-free meal selection varies with menu options: an exploration (edited)

Sagar K Shah14 Feb 2023 11:51 UTC

65 points

10 comments2 min readEA link

(rethinkpriorities.org)

EA & LW Forum Summaries—Holiday Edition (19th Dec − 8th Jan)

Zoe Williams9 Jan 2023 21:06 UTC

24 points

0 comments8 min readEA link

The Industrial Explosion

rosehadshar26 Jun 2025 14:41 UTC

39 points

1 comment15 min readEA link

(www.forethought.org)

My notes on: Sequence thinking vs. cluster thinking

Vasco Grilo🔸25 May 2022 15:03 UTC

24 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

How cost-effective are AI safety YouTubers?

Marcus Abramovitch 🔸12 Sep 2025 3:13 UTC

191 points

59 comments7 min readEA link

Can a Vegan Diet Be Healthy? A Literature Review

Erich_Grunewald 🔸12 Mar 2021 12:47 UTC

65 points

21 comments11 min readEA link

(www.erichgrunewald.com)

doebem: Cause Prioritization Research in Brazil (2023/2024)

Gisele Fior29 Apr 2024 23:39 UTC

31 points

4 comments6 min readEA link

The First Generative Design of Complete Viral Genomes Using AI: A Review

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi18 Sep 2025 22:24 UTC

10 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

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