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TagLast edit: Apr 22, 2022, 1:18 PM by Lizka

The books tag covers posts about books.

If you’re looking for summaries and reviews, you might also find LessWrong’s “Book reviews” tag relevant. On the Forum, the “collections and resources” tag might also be related.

Some EA books have their own tag: The Precipice | Doing Good Better | Poor Economics | Superintelligence | The Life You Can Save | Human Compatible | What We Owe the Future

New book on s-risks

Tobias_BaumannOct 26, 2022, 12:04 PM
292 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

A ranked list of all EA-rele­vant (au­dio)books I’ve read

MichaelA🔸Feb 17, 2021, 10:18 AM
116 points
60 comments11 min readEA link

New Book: “Min­i­mal­ist Ax­iolo­gies: Alter­na­tives to ‘Good Minus Bad’ Views of Value”

Teo AjantaivalJul 19, 2024, 1:00 PM
60 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

I scraped all pub­lic “Effec­tive Altru­ists” Goodreads read­ing lists

MaxRaMar 23, 2021, 8:28 PM
157 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

The (Allegedly) Best Busi­ness Books

JosephSep 12, 2022, 12:38 AM
40 points
3 comments14 min readEA link

Book sum­mary: ‘Why In­tel­li­gence Fails’ by Robert Jervis

Ben StewartJun 19, 2023, 4:04 PM
40 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

Why not par­li­a­men­tar­i­anism? [book by Ti­ago Ribeiro dos San­tos]

Arturo MaciasJul 8, 2024, 2:53 PM
21 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Publi­ca­tion of An­i­mal Liber­a­tion Now

Peter SingerMay 19, 2023, 4:34 PM
473 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing The Mo­ral Cir­cle: Who Mat­ters, What Mat­ters, and Why

jeffseboJun 25, 2024, 9:10 PM
135 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The con­se­quences of large-scale blackouts

FJehnOct 21, 2024, 6:12 AM
15 points
5 comments12 min readEA link
(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

Span­ish Trans­la­tion of “The Precipice” by Toby Ord (Unoffi­cial)

davidfrivaJun 6, 2023, 1:11 AM
14 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(drive.google.com)

EA In­fosec: skill up in or make a tran­si­tion to in­fosec via this book club

Jason ClintonMar 5, 2023, 9:02 PM
170 points
16 comments2 min readEA link

A list of EA-rele­vant busi­ness books I’ve read

Drew SpartzFeb 21, 2023, 8:48 PM
66 points
13 comments6 min readEA link

New book — “Suffer­ing-Fo­cused Ethics: Defense and Im­pli­ca­tions”

Magnus VindingMay 31, 2020, 9:27 AM
105 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

What We Owe The Fu­ture is out today

William_MacAskillAug 16, 2022, 3:13 PM
293 points
68 comments2 min readEA link

Drexler’s Nanosys­tems is now available online

MikhailSaminJun 1, 2024, 2:41 PM
32 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(nanosyste.ms)

Should EA Buy Distri­bu­tion Rights for Foun­da­tional Books?

Cullen 🔸Jun 17, 2020, 5:38 AM
108 points
39 comments2 min readEA link

The Precipice: a risky re­view by a non-EA

Fernando Moreno 🔸Aug 8, 2020, 2:40 PM
14 points
1 comment18 min readEA link

Notes on “Bar­ri­ers to Bioweapons” (Ben Oua­grham-Gorm­ley, 2014)

imp4rtial 🔸Nov 26, 2022, 2:30 PM
47 points
1 comment35 min readEA link

So you want to be a char­ity en­trepreneur. Read these first.

[Error communicating with LW2 server]Jan 26, 2022, 3:53 PM
78 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing What We Owe The Future

William_MacAskillMar 30, 2022, 7:37 PM
300 points
36 comments5 min readEA link

Out­line of Galef’s “Scout Mind­set”

RobBensingerAug 10, 2021, 12:18 AM
96 points
9 comments14 min readEA link

Book re­view: Strangers Drowning

EA for ChristiansOct 11, 2024, 11:11 AM
11 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(christandcounterfactuals.substack.com)

Book Re­view: Parfit—A Philoso­pher and His Mis­sion to Save Morality

Tyler JohnstonMar 31, 2023, 10:15 PM
22 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(www.goodreads.com)

[Question] What book(s) would you want a gifted teenager to come across?

alex lawsenAug 5, 2019, 1:39 PM
28 points
59 comments1 min readEA link

Reza Ne­garestani’s In­tel­li­gence & Spirit

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

[Question] I have thou­sands of copies of HPMOR in Rus­sian. How to use them with the most im­pact?

MikhailSaminDec 27, 2022, 11:07 AM
39 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing New Begin­ner-friendly Book on AI Safety and Risk

Darren McKeeNov 25, 2023, 3:57 PM
114 points
9 comments1 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

Five Books In­fluen­tial On How I Think About Global Poverty

ozymandiasSep 20, 2021, 7:14 AM
32 points
1 comment12 min readEA link
(thingofthings.substack.com)

No­body Wants to Read Your Sh*t: my fa­vorite book of writ­ing ad­vice, con­densed for your convenience

jvbFeb 15, 2023, 11:28 PM
92 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

“Why Na­tions Fail” and the long-ter­mist view of global poverty

Ben KuhnJul 16, 2019, 7:59 AM
161 points
20 comments13 min readEA link
(www.benkuhn.net)

Our tofu book has launched!!

George StiffmanSep 27, 2023, 4:25 PM
184 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

TikTok EA Book Give­away In­ter­me­di­ate Results

Ben_West🔸Nov 11, 2021, 11:53 PM
80 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Book Re­view: The Precipice

Aaron Gertler 🔸Apr 9, 2020, 9:21 PM
39 points
0 comments17 min readEA link
(slatestarcodex.com)

The Best Bits From Build, Baby, Build

Maxwell TabarrokJul 11, 2024, 2:10 PM
13 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

Ste­fan Schu­bert dis­cusses his new book “Effec­tive Altru­ism and the Hu­man Mind”

JonathanSalterSep 27, 2024, 2:22 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Notes on “Manag­ing to Change the World”

Peter WildefordOct 9, 2021, 2:17 AM
196 points
27 comments26 min readEA link

New Book: “Rea­soned Poli­tics” + Why I have writ­ten a book about politics

Magnus VindingMar 3, 2022, 11:31 AM
95 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

Book Give­away Im­pact Anal­y­sis (Do­ing Good Bet­ter in NZ)

Ivan BurdukJul 13, 2021, 1:52 PM
62 points
14 comments8 min readEA link

Toby Ord’s ‘The Precipice’ is pub­lished!

matthew.vandermerweMar 4, 2020, 9:09 PM
146 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

A book re­view for “An­i­mal Weapons” and cross-ap­ply­ing the les­sons to x-risk.

Habeeb AbdulMay 30, 2023, 8:24 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.super-linear.org)

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

Kyle J. LuccheseFeb 8, 2023, 10:35 PM
41 points
43 comments4 min readEA link
(www.amazon.com)

Sum­mary of “The Precipice” (4 of 4): Our place in the story of humanity

rileyharrisAug 28, 2023, 2:13 AM
6 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.millionyearview.com)

On Back­ground: Effec­tive Altru­ism Still Has Friends (Michael Lewis’s Against the Rules)

Eevee🔹Jun 13, 2023, 10:04 PM
25 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.pushkin.fm)

Crit­i­cal Re­view of ‘The Precipice’: A Re­assess­ment of the Risks of AI and Pandemics

James FodorMay 11, 2020, 11:11 AM
111 points
32 comments26 min readEA link

Book re­view: The Dooms­day Machine

eukaryoteSep 10, 2018, 1:43 AM
49 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

‘The Precipice’ Book Review

Matt GoodmanJul 27, 2020, 10:10 PM
14 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

A re­view of Our Fi­nal Warn­ing: Six De­grees of Cli­mate Emer­gency by Mark Lynas

John G. HalsteadApr 15, 2022, 1:43 PM
176 points
6 comments13 min readEA link

Only mam­mals and birds are sen­tient, ac­cord­ing to neu­ro­scien­tist Nick Humphrey’s the­ory of con­scious­ness, re­cently ex­plained in “Sen­tience: The in­ven­tion of con­scious­ness”

ben.smithDec 27, 2023, 6:18 AM
61 points
37 comments9 min readEA link

Notes on “The Poli­tics of Cri­sis Man­age­ment” (Boin et al., 2016)

imp4rtial 🔸Jan 30, 2022, 10:51 PM
31 points
1 comment17 min readEA link

Book Re­view (mini) - Not The End of the World by Han­nah Ritchie

Darren McKeeApr 3, 2024, 4:51 PM
18 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Book launch: “Effec­tive Altru­ism: Philo­soph­i­cal Is­sues” (Oxford)

Aaron Gertler 🔸Sep 18, 2019, 12:23 AM
37 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Co-Creation of the Library of Effec­tive Altru­ism [In­for­ma­tion De­sign] (1/​2)

annaleptikonJul 10, 2022, 5:31 PM
73 points
28 comments14 min readEA link

{Book Sum­mary} The Art of Gathering

Tristan WilliamsApr 16, 2024, 10:44 AM
32 points
8 comments13 min readEA link

Utili­tar­i­anism.net Updates

Richard Y Chappell🔸Sep 16, 2024, 10:03 PM
112 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

New EA book: “How to Launch a High-Im­pact Non­profit” by Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship is now available wor­ld­wide in pa­per and eBook for­mat.

Joey🔸Feb 11, 2022, 10:13 AM
78 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Notes on “The Myth of the Nu­clear Revolu­tion” (Lie­ber & Press, 2020)

imp4rtial 🔸May 24, 2022, 3:02 PM
42 points
2 comments20 min readEA link

[Question] What is a book that gen­uinely changed your life for the bet­ter?

JackMOct 21, 2020, 7:33 PM
26 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Vir­tual Book Club on Nick Bostrom’s “Deep Utopia: Life and Mean­ing in a Solved World”

elteerkersMay 7, 2024, 9:52 AM
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Books /​ book re­views on nu­clear risk, WMDs, great power war?

MichaelA🔸Dec 15, 2020, 1:40 AM
16 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Notes on “The Art of Gather­ing”

DavidNashDec 6, 2018, 3:48 PM
65 points
6 comments13 min readEA link

Ques­tion­ing Benefi­cence: Four Philoso­phers on Effec­tive Altru­ism and Do­ing Good

Richard Y Chappell🔸Sep 28, 2024, 3:45 PM
35 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

New book: The Tango of Ethics: In­tu­ition, Ra­tion­al­ity and the Preven­tion of Suffering

jonleightonJan 2, 2023, 8:45 AM
114 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

EA Pro­jects I’d Like to See

finmMar 13, 2022, 6:12 PM
153 points
42 comments27 min readEA link
(www.finmoorhouse.com)

[Question] What are great mar­ket­ing ideas to en­courage pre-or­ders of What We Owe The Fu­ture?

abierMar 30, 2022, 8:42 PM
38 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

Key points from The Dead Hand, David E. Hoffman

KitAug 9, 2019, 1:59 PM
71 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

Thoughts on Mo­ral Am­bi­tion by Rut­ger Bregman

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

[Re­view and notes] How Democ­racy Ends—David Runciman

BenFeb 13, 2020, 10:30 PM
31 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Open Philan­thropy is seek­ing pro­pos­als for out­reach projects

abergalJul 16, 2021, 8:34 PM
171 points
13 comments10 min readEA link

[Question] Books and lec­ture se­ries rele­vant to AI gov­er­nance?

MichaelA🔸Jul 18, 2021, 3:54 PM
22 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Join Path­ways to Progress’s Book Dis­cus­sion in December

lmessnerDec 1, 2024, 11:53 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Progress book recommendations

Daniel MayAug 8, 2019, 8:47 PM
73 points
7 comments16 min readEA link
(danielmamay.github.io)

[Question] What’s your favourite Science Fic­tion book/​TV se­ries/​movie/​anime/​other?

Luca ParodiOct 11, 2022, 3:46 PM
6 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

What We Owe The Fu­ture: A re­view and sum­mary of what I learned

Michael Townsend🔸Aug 16, 2022, 2:19 PM
45 points
4 comments9 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

Your World, Bet­ter: Global progress for mid­dle schoolers

Aaron Gertler 🔸Apr 11, 2021, 9:57 PM
15 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.cgdev.org)

The Edge of Sen­tience: Risk and Pre­cau­tion in Hu­mans, Other An­i­mals, and AI

J. BirchAug 6, 2024, 8:21 PM
104 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Notes on Schel­ling’s “Strat­egy of Con­flict” (1960)

MichaelA🔸Jan 29, 2021, 8:56 AM
20 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

De­tailed notes on 20 EA-rele­vant/​recom­mended books

Calvin_BakerFeb 27, 2021, 5:09 PM
24 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Book re­view of “Mengzi”

anonymous6Mar 16, 2022, 10:58 PM
17 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

New Data Science Re­source: Hansen Econo­met­rics Books

LixiangJan 23, 2023, 6:57 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

On­line EA book­club, any­one?

Manuel Del Río Rodríguez 🔹Jan 31, 2023, 2:26 PM
10 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Book rec] The War with the Newts as “EA fic­tion”

LizkaDec 22, 2021, 4:10 AM
59 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

[Notes] Cli­mate Shock by Wag­ner and Weitzman

BenApr 13, 2020, 9:41 AM
25 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

Short sum­mary of What We Owe The Future

finmFeb 12, 2023, 4:27 PM
29 points
3 comments7 min readEA link
(finmoorhouse.com)

Book re­view: Ar­chi­tects of In­tel­li­gence by Martin Ford (2018)

OferAug 11, 2020, 5:24 PM
11 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Why ev­ery EA group or­ga­nizer should read The Cul­ture Code

RobPraMar 24, 2022, 9:18 PM
34 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Write a Book?

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Mar 16, 2023, 12:11 AM
189 points
24 comments1 min readEA link

[Link] GCRI’s Seth Baum re­views The Precipice

Aryeh EnglanderJun 6, 2022, 7:33 PM
21 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Notes on ‘Atomic Ob­ses­sion’ (2009)

lukeprogOct 26, 2019, 12:30 AM
62 points
16 comments8 min readEA link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: April 2019 grant recommendations

HabrykaApr 23, 2019, 7:00 AM
142 points
242 comments46 min readEA link

A Biose­cu­rity and Biorisk Read­ing+ List

Tessa A 🔸Mar 14, 2021, 2:30 AM
135 points
13 comments12 min readEA link

EA In­fras­truc­ture Fund: May 2021 grant recommendations

Jonas VJun 3, 2021, 1:01 AM
92 points
99 comments42 min readEA link

Book Re­view: See­ing Like A State

Vasco Grilo🔸Sep 5, 2024, 3:25 PM
11 points
1 comment9 min readEA link
(slatestarcodex.com)

TikTok DGB Give­away Results

Ben_West🔸Apr 15, 2022, 9:51 AM
33 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] How should EAs man­age their copy­rights?

Eevee🔹Mar 9, 2021, 6:42 PM
15 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Brief book re­view 2020

Denise_MelchinDec 3, 2020, 9:30 PM
56 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Notes on Mochary’s “The Great CEO Within” (2019)

MichaelA🔸May 29, 2021, 6:53 PM
22 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

“The Tango of Ethics”—Book launch and discussion

RasoolApr 14, 2023, 8:40 AM
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Re­source: read­ings to learn more about HR/​peo­ple op­er­a­tions work

JosephApr 29, 2023, 2:05 PM
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Sum­mary of “The Precipice” (1 of 4): As­teroids, vol­ca­noes and ex­plod­ing stars

rileyharrisAug 7, 2023, 3:57 AM
9 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.millionyearview.com)

Eco­nomics and Pop­u­la­tion Growth Read­ing List

Luis Mota FreitasNov 30, 2022, 3:17 PM
8 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Re­view of The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does

Richard Y Chappell🔸May 2, 2023, 3:45 PM
215 points
55 comments10 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

Avert­ing Catas­tro­phe: De­ci­sion The­ory for COVID-19, Cli­mate Change, and Po­ten­tial Disasters of All Kinds

JakubKMay 2, 2023, 10:50 PM
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(nyupress.org)

Re­view of WWOTF

Richard Y Chappell🔸Aug 15, 2022, 6:53 PM
25 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

[Question] Books — what do you recom­mend? What are you look­ing for?

LizkaMay 8, 2023, 4:29 PM
25 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Notes on Hen­rich’s “The WEIRDest Peo­ple in the World” (2020)

MichaelA🔸Mar 25, 2021, 5:04 AM
44 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Notes on “The Bomb: Pres­i­dents, Gen­er­als, and the Se­cret His­tory of Nu­clear War” (2020)

MichaelA🔸Feb 6, 2021, 11:10 AM
18 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

Notes on “Bioter­ror and Biowar­fare” (2006)

MichaelA🔸Mar 1, 2021, 9:42 AM
29 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Thread for dis­cussing crit­i­cal re­view of Do­ing Good Bet­ter in the Lon­don Re­view of Books

Benjamin_ToddSep 21, 2015, 2:27 AM
13 points
20 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Books on au­thor­i­tar­i­anism, Rus­sia, China, NK, demo­cratic back­slid­ing, etc.?

MichaelA🔸Feb 2, 2021, 3:52 AM
14 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

No­tion Tem­plates for Read­ing Groups

Kyal PindoliaMay 23, 2023, 10:11 AM
22 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

80 000 hours books give-away—ebooks

Ondřej KubůMay 27, 2022, 11:59 AM
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Book Sum­mary: Good Strat­egy, Bad Strat­egy by Richard Rumelt

DavidNashAug 22, 2024, 11:13 AM
20 points
4 comments8 min readEA link
(www.tosummarise.com)

First book fo­cus­ing on EA and Farmed An­i­mals: The Farm An­i­mal Move­ment: Effec­tive Altru­ism, Ven­ture Philan­thropy, and the Fight to End Fac­tory Farm­ing in America

Jeff ThomasJan 17, 2024, 4:09 PM
103 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

#192 – What would hap­pen if North Korea launched a nu­clear weapon at the US (An­nie Ja­cob­sen on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursJul 12, 2024, 7:38 PM
13 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

GWWC Pledge fea­tured in new book from Head of TED, Chris Anderson

Giving What We CanJan 25, 2024, 9:33 PM
156 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and the Hu­man Mind [5000 Word Sum­mary]

Alex Savard 🔸Aug 27, 2024, 5:18 PM
140 points
5 comments20 min readEA link

Recom­mend­ing How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur

Siya SawhneyOct 17, 2024, 6:37 PM
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Join Path­ways to Progress’s Book Dis­cus­sion in November

lmessnerOct 26, 2024, 5:40 PM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Re­view: Good Strat­egy, Bad Strategy

L Rudolf LDec 21, 2024, 5:17 PM
7 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(nosetgauge.substack.com)

An­nounc­ing ‘The Fu­ture Loves You: How and Why We Should Abol­ish Death’

Ariel_ZJOct 31, 2024, 12:31 AM
12 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

The Dic­ta­tor’s Hand­book [book by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alas­tair Smith]

Arturo MaciasJan 27, 2025, 5:24 PM
8 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

You should read Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Mill via Ear­lyModernTexts.com

Arjun PanicksseryJan 30, 2025, 12:35 PM
37 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

[Question] PDF of EA Hand­book?

Simon HolmAug 15, 2022, 7:39 AM
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Will MacAskill coau­thors new book ti­tled “An In­tro­duc­tion to Utili­tar­i­anism”, with Richard Chap­pell and Dar­ius Meissner

Rían O.M Dec 2, 2024, 5:48 PM
24 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(x.com)

Sum­mary of Deep Time Reck­on­ing by Vin­cent Ialenti

vinegar10@gmail.comOct 31, 2022, 8:00 PM
10 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

Book Re­view: Lost Connections

Sam EnrightJul 20, 2021, 3:20 PM
15 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

Re­view of EA New Zealand’s ‘Do­ing Good Bet­ter’ book giveaway

Catherine Low🔸Jun 9, 2017, 6:38 PM
23 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

Book Re­view: En­light­en­ment Now, by Steven Pinker

Aaron Gertler 🔸Oct 21, 2018, 11:12 PM
24 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

What We Owe the Fu­ture is an NYT bestseller

Anonymous_EAAug 25, 2022, 12:18 AM
114 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

En­light­ened Con­cerns of Tomorrow

cassidynelsonMar 15, 2018, 5:29 AM
15 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Yet an­other biose­cu­rity read­ing list

cwbakerleeFeb 3, 2022, 7:24 PM
37 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Book recom­men­da­tion—The Ci­ti­zen’s Guide to Cli­mate Suc­cess by Mark Jaccard

Xing Shi CaiJul 2, 2021, 10:58 PM
15 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Dis­cus­sion Ques­tions for Books with Ex­pe­rienced Pro­fes­sion­als’ Audience

brb243Jul 17, 2022, 12:29 PM
5 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

[Question] What books/​blogs/​ar­ti­cles were most im­pact­ful on you re: EA?

SolenoidEntityAug 30, 2022, 2:56 PM
9 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

The Scien­tist Mode, the Scout Mind­set and Flashcards

JaimeRVAug 29, 2021, 6:56 PM
7 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Stu­art Rus­sell Hu­man Com­pat­i­ble AI Roundtable with Allan Dafoe, Rob Re­ich, & Ma­ri­etje Schaake

Mahendra PrasadFeb 11, 2021, 7:43 AM
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Some­one should cre­ate an ‘EA Blinkist’ book sum­mary service

ForumiteJul 13, 2022, 11:41 AM
22 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Take­aways on US Policy Ca­reers (Part 2): Ca­reer Advice

MauNov 8, 2021, 8:42 AM
86 points
7 comments34 min readEA link

The Rules of Res­cue—out now!

TheronDec 17, 2022, 9:02 AM
60 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Policy and re­search ideas to re­duce ex­is­ten­tial risk

80000_HoursApr 27, 2020, 8:46 AM
3 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

[Question] Copies sold of What We Owe the Future

Anthony FlemingOct 21, 2022, 12:18 AM
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Precipice—Sum­mary/​Review

NikolaOct 11, 2022, 12:06 AM
10 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Re­view and Sum­mary of ‘Mo­ral Uncer­tainty’

finmOct 2, 2020, 3:41 PM
37 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.finmoorhouse.com)

Com­ments on Ernest Davis’s com­ments on Bostrom’s Superintelligence

GilesJan 24, 2015, 4:40 AM
2 points
8 comments9 min readEA link

Are Hu­mans ‘Hu­man Com­pat­i­ble’?

Matt BoydDec 6, 2019, 5:49 AM
23 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

Famine, Affluence and Mo­ral­ity [Link Post to PDF]

Nathan YoungAug 29, 2022, 4:00 PM
23 points
4 comments16 min readEA link
(www.google.com)

Book Re­view: Prin­ci­ples of Mo­rals and Leg­is­la­tion by Jeremy Bentham

ketchupduckJun 17, 2021, 1:49 AM
20 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

Light read: Free Trade, by Judy Eby

James_BanksFeb 13, 2021, 9:39 PM
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Book fund? HTML book rights?

Larissa SchiavoJun 2, 2022, 2:16 AM
5 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Hand­book—Now Online

RyanCareyApr 23, 2015, 2:23 PM
32 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

New pop­u­lar sci­ence book on x-risks: “End Times”

Hauke HillebrandtOct 1, 2019, 7:18 AM
17 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

10 non-EA books you might find interesting

ryan_duplockMay 20, 2022, 8:47 PM
3 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Les­sons from Strangers Drown­ing by Larissa MacFarquhar

Xing Shi CaiJul 9, 2021, 7:35 PM
14 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Re­quest books be placed into your (uni­ver­sity) library

Devin LamSep 13, 2022, 2:17 PM
14 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Non-du­al­ity of the­ism and athe­ism: hu­man­ity as an ap­pren­tice God hypothesis

Alex ShenderovMay 19, 2022, 3:52 PM
−6 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes: Pub­lish­ing Com­pre­hen­sive Books Which Make the Case for Effec­tive Cor­po­rate An­i­mal Welfare Cam­paigns via a Writ­ing Con­test for Po­ten­tial Authors

EnginarJul 16, 2022, 8:31 AM
9 points
2 comments17 min readEA link

[Question] WWOTF: Is there an ex­ist­ing read­ing guide or read­ing group syl­labus?

a_e_rJul 7, 2022, 6:51 PM
8 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Book Re­view: Deon­tol­ogy by Jeremy Bentham

ketchupduckAug 12, 2020, 1:45 PM
50 points
10 comments16 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 SekarDec 1, 2021, 8:51 PM
66 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Publi­ca­tion of Stu­art Rus­sell’s new book on AI safety—re­views needed

CaroOct 8, 2019, 5:29 AM
40 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Crowd­sourc­ing Anki Decks

EarthlingAug 16, 2022, 1:30 AM
10 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Book Re­view: The Sig­nal and the Noise

Sam EnrightJul 18, 2021, 9:32 PM
30 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Book recom­men­da­tion: Loonshots

nonzerosumMay 3, 2019, 6:30 PM
25 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Five books to make you su­per effective

John_MaxwellApr 2, 2015, 2:31 AM
7 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Recom­men­da­tions for non-tech­ni­cal books on AI?

JosephJul 12, 2022, 11:23 PM
8 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

What books or bod­ies of work, not about EA or EA cause ar­eas, might be benefi­cial to EAs?

arikrJun 11, 2019, 10:22 PM
7 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

[Book] On Assess­ing the Risk of Nu­clear War

Aryeh EnglanderJul 7, 2022, 9:08 PM
28 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Sum­mary of Stu­art Rus­sell’s new book, “Hu­man Com­pat­i­ble”

Rohin ShahOct 19, 2019, 7:56 PM
33 points
1 comment15 min readEA link
(www.alignmentforum.org)

Recom­men­da­tions for the lend­ing library at a tech­nol­ogy strat­egy con­sult­ing firm

Emily PaulsonAug 9, 2022, 10:15 PM
3 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Bill Gates book on pan­demic prevention

PabloAMC 🔸May 1, 2022, 10:42 AM
25 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

[Link] Mo­ral In­ter­lude from “The Wizard and the Prophet”

Milan GriffesSep 27, 2019, 6:42 PM
13 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

Ray Dalio’s (Work) Prin­ci­ples (full list)

Aaron Boddy🔸Jan 28, 2022, 9:21 AM
42 points
4 comments18 min readEA link
(www.principles.com)

The Case for Read­ing Books

xander_balwitJun 21, 2022, 3:50 AM
39 points
10 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Books on so­cial move­ments?

michelSep 17, 2022, 6:27 AM
9 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Be a Stoic and build bet­ter democ­ra­cies: an Aussie-as take on x-risks (re­view es­say)

Matt BoydNov 21, 2021, 4:30 AM
32 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

New Publi­ca­tion: Effec­tive Altru­ism and Reli­gion

dominicroserJan 25, 2022, 9:22 AM
74 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Read­ing Group: The Good Ancestor

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸Dec 1, 2021, 12:02 PM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Which five books would you recom­mend to an 18 year old?

RandomEASep 5, 2017, 9:10 PM
10 points
31 comments1 min readEA link

Book Re­view: The End of An­i­mal Farm­ing (Jacy Reese, 2018)

Jamie_HarrisDec 17, 2018, 10:26 PM
9 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(butcantheysuffer.wordpress.com)

Pop­u­lar EA Authors Should Give Libraries More Copies of Their EBooks

RedTeamPseudonymAug 30, 2022, 5:16 AM
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism read­ing list

Richard_BattyOct 28, 2013, 7:10 PM
12 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

The Righ­teous Mind book review

JustisSep 5, 2018, 6:08 PM
36 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

What We Owe The Fu­ture: a Flash­card-based Summary

FlorenceSep 12, 2022, 12:24 PM
31 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

New eBook: Es­says on UFOs and Re­lated Conjectures

Magnus VindingAug 4, 2024, 7:34 AM
27 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

How democ­racy ends: a re­view and reevaluation

richard_ngoNov 24, 2018, 5:41 PM
27 points
2 comments6 min readEA link
(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

Book Re­view: Churchill and Orwell

SammyDMartinOct 10, 2021, 11:06 AM
28 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

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

Cody_FenwickDec 31, 2022, 8:28 PM
38 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Con­sider pay­ing for liter­a­ture or book re­views us­ing boun­ties and dom­i­nant as­surance contracts

Arjun PanicksseryJan 15, 2023, 4:50 AM
40 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

EA should help Tyler Cowen pub­lish his drafted book in China

Matt BrooksJan 14, 2023, 9:10 PM
38 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

Book cri­tique of Effec­tive Altruism

Manuel Del Río Rodríguez 🔹Jan 17, 2023, 10:48 PM
70 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

Up­date on Book Re­view Dom­i­nant As­surance Contract

Arjun PanicksseryFeb 3, 2023, 11:16 PM
8 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Nat­u­ral­is­tic dualism

Arturo MaciasDec 11, 2024, 3:51 PM
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Read­ing Group: “The Good it promises, the harm it does”

KaleemFeb 18, 2023, 12:11 AM
19 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Seek­ing in­put on a list of AI books for broader audience

Darren McKeeFeb 27, 2023, 10:40 PM
49 points
14 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Great books about char­ity, aid and de­vel­op­ment?

NickLaingSep 25, 2023, 9:21 AM
14 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Notes on nukes, IR, and AI from “Arse­nals of Folly” (and other books)

tlevinSep 4, 2023, 7:02 PM
21 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

An­i­mal Weapons: Les­sons for Hu­mans in the Age of X-Risk

Damin Curtis🔹Jul 4, 2023, 2:43 PM
32 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

The Colo­nial­ism of William MacAskill’s What We Owe the Future

VivianJul 4, 2023, 3:48 PM
−16 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Sum­mary of Ethics into Ac­tion, a bi­og­ra­phy of Henry Spira

Elijah WhippleOct 23, 2023, 8:40 PM
13 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

[Book Re­view] Drugs Without the Hot Air: Min­i­miz­ing the Harms of Le­gal and Ille­gal Drugs

Tristan WilliamsOct 5, 2023, 1:26 PM
11 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Some ex­am­ples of EA Themes in Fic­tion—Please add your own!

JWS 🔸Aug 18, 2023, 3:57 PM
9 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Giv­ing effec­tively: Con­tem­po­rary les­sons from Dead Aid by Dam­bisa Moyo

Cherish Jul 10, 2023, 8:09 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

EA Poland—de­tails of on­line book club

RafalGonsiorSep 7, 2023, 6:40 PM
15 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Go­ing In­finite—Quick Review

Darren McKeeOct 7, 2023, 9:07 PM
25 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Book Re­view: Go­ing Infinite

Zvi Oct 25, 2023, 7:08 PM
55 points
3 comments97 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Books: Lend, Don’t Give

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Mar 22, 2023, 7:11 PM
47 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Book sum­mary: The Square and the Tower (Net­works and Hier­ar­chies in EA)

Gemma 🔸Apr 7, 2023, 12:18 PM
11 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(bashingthearc.substack.com)

[Book Re­view] as­ter­isk #2

Tristan WilliamsNov 5, 2023, 10:35 PM
13 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

[Book Re­view] as­ter­isk #1

Tristan WilliamsOct 18, 2023, 7:40 PM
37 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Who should we in­ter­view for The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast?

Luisa_RodriguezSep 13, 2023, 12:23 PM
87 points
136 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Thoughts on Pan­dora’s Gam­ble? (Book on GCBR/​Covid ori­gins by Ali­son Young)

SiebeRozendalAug 23, 2023, 12:42 PM
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

In­tro to the book: An­i­mal Weapons by Dou­glas Em­len.

Maynk02Oct 11, 2023, 9:26 PM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

I. Start­ing Small

Maynk02Oct 11, 2023, 9:44 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Les­sons on pro­ject man­age­ment from “How Big Things Get Done”

Cristina Schmidt IbáñezMay 17, 2023, 7:15 PM
35 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

David Ed­monds’s bi­og­ra­phy of Parfit is out

PabloApr 23, 2023, 12:25 PM
115 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Re­view of An­i­mal Liber­a­tion Now

Richard Y Chappell🔸May 23, 2023, 7:07 PM
81 points
22 comments8 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

New s-risks au­dio­book available now

Alistair WebsterMay 24, 2023, 8:27 PM
87 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

Book Re­view: Oral­ity and Liter­acy: The Tech­nol­o­giz­ing of the Word

Fergus FettesOct 28, 2023, 8:17 PM
7 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

What We Owe The Fu­ture: A Buried Es­say

haven_worshamJun 20, 2023, 5:49 PM
19 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

New Book: ‘Nexus’ by Yu­val Noah Harari

timfarkasOct 3, 2024, 1:54 PM
14 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Giv­ing away copies of Un­con­trol­lable by Dar­ren McKee

Greg_ColbournDec 14, 2023, 5:00 PM
39 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are your fa­vorite books or blogs that are out of print, or whose do­mains have ex­pired (es­pe­cially if they also aren’t on LibGen/​Way­back/​etc, or on Ama­zon)?

Arjun PanicksseryOct 13, 2024, 8:21 PM
3 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

An­i­mal Weapons: Les­son learned from biolog­i­cal arms race to mod­ern day weapons

Halwenge Feb 25, 2024, 2:06 PM
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Nick Bostrom’s new book, “Deep Utopia”, is out today

peterhartreeMar 27, 2024, 11:23 AM
105 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(nickbostrom.com)

So You Created a So­ciopath—New Book An­nounce­ment!

D0TheMathApr 1, 2024, 6:02 PM
47 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Tore Godal

rootpiApr 9, 2024, 1:34 PM
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Two Ver­nor Vinge Book Reviews

Maxwell TabarrokApr 27, 2024, 12:15 PM
9 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)