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Ask Me Anything

TagLast edit: 18 Aug 2021 18:40 UTC by Leo

Ask Me Anything, or AMA, is a post format where people offer to answer questions from Forum users. The format originated with the IAmA subreddit.

External links

IAmA subreddit

Run­ning an AMA on the EA Forum

Aaron Gertler18 Feb 2021 1:44 UTC
38 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

AMA: Tim Fer­riss, Michael Pol­lan, and Dr. Matthew W. John­son on psychedelics re­search and philanthropy

Aaron Gertler13 May 2021 17:48 UTC
149 points
181 comments3 min readEA link

AMA: Lewis Bol­lard, Open Philanthropy

LewisBollard24 Feb 2021 18:02 UTC
69 points
123 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Joan Rohlfing, Pres­i­dent and COO of the Nu­clear Threat Initiative

Joan Rohlfing6 Dec 2021 20:58 UTC
74 points
35 comments1 min readEA link

Ask Me Any­thing!

William_MacAskill14 Aug 2019 15:52 UTC
153 points
138 comments3 min readEA link

We’re Re­think Pri­ori­ties. Ask us any­thing!

Peter Wildeford15 Nov 2021 16:25 UTC
102 points
135 comments2 min readEA link

AMA: Peter Wilde­ford (Co-CEO at Re­think Pri­ori­ties)

Peter Wildeford18 Jul 2023 21:40 UTC
94 points
71 comments1 min readEA link

Ask Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship Anything

Ula Zarosa11 Oct 2022 11:22 UTC
124 points
126 comments1 min readEA link

We’re Lin­coln Quirk & Ben Kuhn from Wave, AMA!

Ben Kuhn27 Oct 2020 17:34 UTC
77 points
45 comments3 min readEA link

AMA: Tom Chivers, sci­ence writer, sci­ence ed­i­tor at UnHerd

Tom Chivers10 Mar 2021 10:15 UTC
73 points
82 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Owen Cot­ton-Bar­ratt, RSP Director

Owen Cotton-Barratt28 Aug 2020 14:20 UTC
77 points
80 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Eliz­a­beth Ed­wards-Ap­pell, former State Representative

ElizabethE9 Jan 2021 18:05 UTC
94 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

AMA or dis­cuss my 80K pod­cast epi­sode: Ben Garfinkel, FHI researcher

bgarfinkel13 Jul 2020 16:17 UTC
87 points
140 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Ajeya Co­tra, re­searcher at Open Phil

Ajeya28 Jan 2021 17:38 UTC
84 points
105 comments1 min readEA link

I’m Linch Zhang, an am­a­teur COVID-19 fore­caster and gen­er­al­ist EA. AMA

Linch30 Jun 2020 19:35 UTC
77 points
80 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Andy We­ber (U.S. As­sis­tant Sec­re­tary of Defense from 2009-2014)

Lizka26 Sep 2023 9:40 UTC
132 points
49 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Ben West, former startup founder and EtGer

Ben_West7 Nov 2023 22:04 UTC
45 points
40 comments1 min readEA link

What We Owe The Fu­ture is out today

William_MacAskill16 Aug 2022 15:13 UTC
301 points
68 comments2 min readEA link

AMA: Sean May­berry, Founder & CEO of StrongMinds

Sean Mayberry24 Nov 2022 9:56 UTC
97 points
43 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Luke Free­man, ED of Giv­ing What We Can (GWWC)

Luke Freeman13 Jun 2023 11:16 UTC
110 points
72 comments2 min readEA link

Ask Re­think Pri­ori­ties Any­thing (AMA)

Marcus_A_Davis13 Dec 2020 17:23 UTC
101 points
136 comments4 min readEA link

AMA: We or­ga­nize EA Any­where. Ask Us Any­thing!

Marisa8 Aug 2021 23:30 UTC
23 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Chris­tian Ruhl (se­nior global catas­trophic risk re­searcher at Founders Pledge)

Lizka26 Sep 2023 9:50 UTC
68 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund Ask Us Any­thing (Jan­uary 2024)

Tom Barnes12 Jan 2024 18:36 UTC
33 points
22 comments2 min readEA link

I’m Buck Sh­legeris, I do re­search and out­reach at MIRI, AMA

Buck15 Nov 2019 22:44 UTC
122 points
228 comments2 min readEA link

AMA: Jeremiah John­son, Direc­tor/​Founder of the Ne­oliberal Project

JeremiahJohnson28 Sep 2021 16:08 UTC
71 points
69 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Rob Mather, founder and CEO of the Against Malaria Foundation

RobM22 Jan 2020 21:40 UTC
82 points
47 comments2 min readEA link

AMA: Emma Slaw­in­ski, the RSPCA’s Direc­tor of Policy, Preven­tion and Cam­paigns.

tobytrem24 Jan 2024 9:16 UTC
46 points
32 comments2 min readEA link

My Mid-Ca­reer Tran­si­tion into Biosecurity

Jeff Kaufman2 Oct 2023 21:13 UTC
63 points
22 comments2 min readEA link

Cu­ri­ous about EAGxVir­tual? Ask the team any­thing!

OllieBase3 Nov 2023 10:03 UTC
30 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: I’ve au­thored a new book (After Meat) about the tech­nolog­i­cal limits of an­i­mals for pro­duc­tion and why we’ll do better

Karthik Sekar1 Dec 2021 20:51 UTC
66 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

AMA: JP Ad­di­son and Sam Deere on soft­ware en­g­ineer­ing at CEA

JP Addison12 Mar 2021 22:54 UTC
53 points
56 comments1 min readEA link

I am Seth Baum, AMA!

SethBaum3 Mar 2015 19:38 UTC
13 points
35 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Leah Edger­ton, Ex­ec­u­tive Direc­tor of An­i­mal Char­ity Evaluators

Leah_E17 Mar 2020 2:39 UTC
36 points
66 comments1 min readEA link

AMA Pa­trick Stadler, Direc­tor of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship: Start­ing Char­i­ties from Scratch

Patrick Stadler27 Mar 2020 19:23 UTC
62 points
25 comments1 min readEA link

Hi, I’m Luke Muehlhauser. AMA about Open Philan­thropy’s new re­port on con­scious­ness and moral patienthood

lukeprog28 Jun 2017 15:49 UTC
28 points
66 comments1 min readEA link

I’m Michelle Hutch­in­son, head of ad­vis­ing at 80,000 Hours, AMA

Michelle_Hutchinson4 Dec 2019 10:53 UTC
90 points
57 comments1 min readEA link

Ques­tions for Peter Singer’s fireside chat in EAGxAPAC this weekend

Wanyi19 Nov 2020 12:34 UTC
25 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Funds Pro­ject Updates

SamDeere20 Dec 2019 22:23 UTC
46 points
36 comments6 min readEA link

[AMA] Open Philan­thropy is still seek­ing pro­pos­als for out­reach and com­mu­nity-build­ing projects

Eli Rose17 Aug 2022 4:01 UTC
50 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Ques­tions for Jaan Tal­linn’s fireside chat in EAGxAPAC this weekend

BrianTan17 Nov 2020 2:12 UTC
13 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: The new Open Philan­thropy Tech­nol­ogy Policy Fellowship

lukeprog26 Jul 2021 15:11 UTC
38 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Toby Ord @ EA Global: Reconnect

Barry Grimes12 Mar 2021 15:11 UTC
16 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

I knew a bit about mis­in­for­ma­tion and fact-check­ing in 2017. AMA, if you’re re­ally des­per­ate.

MichaelA11 May 2020 9:35 UTC
20 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

AI views and dis­agree­ments AMA: Chris­ti­ano, Ngo, Shah, Soares, Yudkowsky

RobBensinger1 Mar 2022 1:13 UTC
30 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

An­i­mal Welfare Fund AMA

Jamie_Spurgeon19 Dec 2018 14:48 UTC
21 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

Let’s Fund: an­nual re­view /​ fundrais­ing /​ hiring /​ AMA

Hauke Hillebrandt31 Dec 2019 14:54 UTC
38 points
13 comments7 min readEA link

EA Meta Fund AMA: 20th Dec 2018

agdfoster19 Dec 2018 18:06 UTC
21 points
32 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Who would you like to see do an AMA on this fo­rum?

nonzerosum25 Aug 2019 16:58 UTC
16 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Ask MIRI Any­thing (AMA)

RobBensinger11 Oct 2016 19:54 UTC
18 points
77 comments1 min readEA link

Un­jour­nal’s 1st eval is up: Re­silient foods pa­per (Denken­berger et al) & AMA ~48 hours

david_reinstein6 Feb 2023 19:18 UTC
77 points
10 comments3 min readEA link
(sciety.org)

AMA: Six Open Philan­thropy staffers dis­cuss OP’s new GCR hiring round

Open Philanthropy18 Oct 2023 16:05 UTC
71 points
67 comments1 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund Ask Us Any­thing (Septem­ber 2023)

Linch30 Aug 2023 23:02 UTC
64 points
127 comments2 min readEA link

AMA: We’re the Fo­rum team (and we’re hiring). Ask us any­thing!

Lizka5 Jul 2023 13:12 UTC
64 points
48 comments3 min readEA link

AMA: 80,000 Hours Ca­reer Ad­vis­ing Team

Abby Hoskin8 Sep 2023 10:42 UTC
74 points
54 comments2 min readEA link

Ques­tions for Will MacAskill’s fireside chat in EAGxAPAC this weekend

Bridget_Williams19 Nov 2020 12:16 UTC
21 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

I’m a Former Is­raeli Officer. AMA

Yovel Rom10 Oct 2023 10:35 UTC
65 points
33 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Ja­son Bren­nan, au­thor of “Against Democ­racy” and cre­ator of a Ge­orge­town course on EA

Jason Brennan17 Aug 2021 19:19 UTC
76 points
92 comments2 min readEA link

AMA: Work­ing at the Cen­tre for Effec­tive Altruism

Aaron Gertler22 May 2021 15:12 UTC
53 points
34 comments1 min readEA link

[LINK] AMA by An­i­mal Char­ity Eval­u­a­tors on Reddit

EricHerboso30 Nov 2017 16:45 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Holden Karnofsky @ EA Global: Reconnect

Barry Grimes12 Mar 2021 15:12 UTC
27 points
31 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Fu­ture of Life In­sti­tute’s EU Team

Risto Uuk31 Jan 2022 17:14 UTC
44 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

AMA: Ian David Moss, strat­egy con­sul­tant to foun­da­tions and other institutions

IanDavidMoss2 Mar 2021 16:55 UTC
40 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

I am Nate Soares, AMA!

So8res10 Jun 2015 15:47 UTC
18 points
128 comments1 min readEA link

link to AMA from An­i­mal Char­ity Eval­u­a­tors

davidc28 Nov 2022 18:09 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

I’m Cul­len O’Keefe, a Policy Re­searcher at OpenAI, AMA

Cullen11 Jan 2020 4:13 UTC
45 points
68 comments1 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund AMA

Helen19 Dec 2018 4:10 UTC
39 points
30 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Ask (Every­one) Any­thing — “EA 101”

Lizka5 Oct 2022 10:17 UTC
110 points
236 comments2 min readEA link

AMA: Markus An­der­ljung (PM at GovAI, FHI)

MarkusAnderljung21 Sep 2020 11:23 UTC
49 points
24 comments2 min readEA link

AMA: Ought

stuhlmueller3 Aug 2022 17:24 UTC
41 points
52 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: “The Oxford Hand­book of So­cial Move­ments”

Evan_Gaensbauer18 Mar 2020 3:34 UTC
26 points
24 comments2 min readEA link

AMA: To­bias Bau­mann, Cen­ter for Re­duc­ing Suffering

Tobias_Baumann6 Sep 2020 10:45 UTC
48 points
45 comments1 min readEA link

[Link] We run the Cen­ter for Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity, AMA

Adam_Scholl20 Dec 2019 9:51 UTC
27 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund: Ask us any­thing!

Jonas V3 Jun 2021 1:06 UTC
70 points
117 comments3 min readEA link

We’re Re­think Pri­ori­ties. AMA.

Peter Wildeford12 Dec 2019 16:09 UTC
91 points
126 comments3 min readEA link

AMA: Elie Hassen­feld, co-founder and CEO of GiveWell

ElieHassenfeld17 Mar 2020 2:38 UTC
28 points
32 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Toby Ord, au­thor of “The Precipice” and co-founder of the EA movement

Toby_Ord17 Mar 2020 2:39 UTC
68 points
82 comments1 min readEA link

We’re Aligned AI, AMA

Stuart Armstrong1 Mar 2022 11:57 UTC
28 points
18 comments1 min readEA link

We’re Red­wood Re­search, we do ap­plied al­ign­ment re­search, AMA

Buck5 Oct 2021 5:04 UTC
107 points
49 comments1 min readEA link

[Link] Stu­art Rus­sell will have an AMA on Red­dit on 12/​16

Caro15 Dec 2019 8:26 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: We are Jon and Kathryn. We work with The Life You Can Save. Ask us any­thing!

TLYCSAMA21 Jan 2020 19:29 UTC
40 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

An­i­mal Welfare Fund: Ask us any­thing!

kierangreig7 May 2021 19:54 UTC
63 points
130 comments2 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing EA Funds man­age­ment AMAs: 20th December

MarekDuda18 Dec 2018 11:48 UTC
24 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[AMA] An­nounc­ing Open Phil’s Univer­sity Group Or­ga­nizer and Cen­tury Fellowships

abergal29 Jul 2022 18:38 UTC
110 points
22 comments12 min readEA link

Hi, I’m Holden Karnofsky. AMA about jobs at Open Philanthropy

Holden Karnofsky26 Mar 2018 16:32 UTC
18 points
113 comments1 min readEA link

[LINK] Will MacAskill AMA on Reddit

Evan_Gaensbauer3 Aug 2015 20:45 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

All AGI Safety ques­tions wel­come (es­pe­cially ba­sic ones) [May 2023]

StevenKaas8 May 2023 22:30 UTC
19 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: GWWC re­search team

Sjir Hoeijmakers22 Nov 2023 16:26 UTC
62 points
26 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Earn­ing to Give

Jeff Kaufman7 Nov 2023 16:20 UTC
91 points
38 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: The Hu­mane League UK—farmed an­i­mal welfare, our fund­ing gap and match fund­ing cam­paign. Ask us any­thing.

Gavin Chappell-Bates13 Nov 2023 12:36 UTC
64 points
20 comments4 min readEA link

[Pod­cast + Tran­script] AMA: Founder and CEO of AMF, Rob Mather

tobytrem8 Jan 2024 16:39 UTC
49 points
2 comments30 min readEA link
(forum-podcasts.effectivealtruism.org)

AMA: Ja­son Crawford, The Roots of Progress

jasoncrawford3 Dec 2020 16:49 UTC
44 points
74 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Founder and CEO of the Against Malaria Foun­da­tion, Rob Mather

tobytrem11 Dec 2023 18:16 UTC
73 points
24 comments2 min readEA link

Ask Me Any­thing about par­ent­ing as an Effec­tive Altruist

Geoffrey Miller26 Sep 2022 23:35 UTC
69 points
56 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: We Work in Oper­a­tions at EA-al­igned or­ga­ni­za­tions. Ask Us Any­thing.

Marisa3 Feb 2021 20:14 UTC
78 points
35 comments3 min readEA link

AMA: Ed Mathieu, Head of Data & Re­search at Our World in Data

EdMathieu16 Jun 2023 12:37 UTC
86 points
39 comments1 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: Ask Us Any­thing!

AdamGleave3 Dec 2020 13:44 UTC
89 points
153 comments1 min readEA link

Ques­tions for Nick Beck­stead’s fireside chat in EAGxAPAC this weekend

BrianTan17 Nov 2020 15:05 UTC
12 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

High­lights From Our 2023 Red­dit AMA

Animal Charity Evaluators29 Nov 2023 11:41 UTC
16 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

An­i­mal Char­ity Eval­u­a­tors is do­ing a live AMA now!

Animal Charity Evaluators5 Mar 2024 16:18 UTC
35 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing plans for a Ger­man Effec­tive Altru­ism Net­work fo­cused on Com­mu­nity Building

alexherwix3 Jul 2019 13:05 UTC
32 points
14 comments13 min readEA link

Ask Ea­chother Any­thing: What EA num­bers are you look­ing for? Ask here and peo­ple will hope­fully find them/​sug­gest es­ti­mates.

Nathan Young18 Oct 2022 12:33 UTC
5 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

All AGI Safety ques­tions wel­come (es­pe­cially ba­sic ones) [~monthly thread]

robertskmiles1 Nov 2022 23:21 UTC
75 points
83 comments1 min readEA link

All AGI Safety ques­tions wel­come (es­pe­cially ba­sic ones) [July 2023]

Siao Si19 Jul 2023 18:08 UTC
12 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What are your ques­tions for World Malaria Day with Rob Mather (AMF), Maddy Maras­ciulo (Malaria Con­sor­tium), and Alekos Si­moni (Tar­get Malaria)?

Luke Freeman20 Apr 2021 3:18 UTC
17 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Seth Baum, Global Catas­trophic Risk Institute

SethBaum13 Dec 2021 19:13 UTC
38 points
23 comments2 min readEA link