Books

TagLast edit: 22 Apr 2022 13:18 UTC by Lizka

The books tag covers posts about books.

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New book on s-risks

Tobias_Baumann26 Oct 2022 12:04 UTC

294 points

27 comments1 min readEA link

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

Teo Ajantaival19 Jul 2024 13:00 UTC

60 points

8 comments5 min readEA link

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

MichaelA🔸17 Feb 2021 10:18 UTC

116 points

60 comments11 min readEA link

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

jeffsebo25 Jun 2024 21:10 UTC

135 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

The (Allegedly) Best Business Books

Joseph12 Sep 2022 0:38 UTC

40 points

3 comments14 min readEA link

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

Arturo Macias8 Jul 2024 14:53 UTC

21 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

Announcing the Publication of Animal Liberation Now

Peter Singer19 May 2023 16:34 UTC

473 points

16 comments3 min readEA link

I scraped all public “Effective Altruists” Goodreads reading lists

MaxRa23 Mar 2021 20:28 UTC

161 points

16 comments3 min readEA link

Book summary: ‘Why Intelligence Fails’ by Robert Jervis

Ben Stewart19 Jun 2023 16:04 UTC

40 points

3 comments12 min readEA link

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

davidfriva6 Jun 2023 1:11 UTC

14 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(drive.google.com)

The consequences of large-scale blackouts

FJehn21 Oct 2024 6:12 UTC

15 points

5 comments12 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

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

Drew Spartz21 Feb 2023 20:48 UTC

67 points

13 comments6 min readEA link

The people’s history of collapse

FJehn6 Aug 2025 8:09 UTC

13 points

2 comments23 min readEA link

(existentialcrunch.substack.com)

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

Jason Clinton5 Mar 2023 21:02 UTC

170 points

16 comments2 min readEA link

Announcing What We Owe The Future

William_MacAskill30 Mar 2022 19:37 UTC

300 points

36 comments5 min readEA link

Should EA Buy Distribution Rights for Foundational Books?

Cullen 🔸17 Jun 2020 5:38 UTC

108 points

39 comments2 min readEA link

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

[Error communicating with LW2 server]26 Jan 2022 15:53 UTC

78 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

Outline of Galef’s “Scout Mindset”

RobBensinger10 Aug 2021 0:18 UTC

104 points

9 comments14 min readEA link

New Spanish-language book on “classical EA”

Pablo Melchor 🔸20 Aug 2025 9:21 UTC

201 points

10 comments6 min readEA link

The Precipice: a risky review by a non-EA

Fernando Moreno 🔸8 Aug 2020 14:40 UTC

14 points

1 comment18 min readEA link

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

Magnus Vinding31 May 2020 9:27 UTC

110 points

20 comments3 min readEA link

What We Owe The Future is out today

William_MacAskill16 Aug 2022 15:13 UTC

293 points

68 comments2 min readEA link

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

imp4rtial 🔸26 Nov 2022 14:30 UTC

47 points

1 comment35 min readEA link

Book review: Strangers Drowning

EA for Christians11 Oct 2024 11:11 UTC

11 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

(christandcounterfactuals.substack.com)

Our tofu book has launched!!

George Stiffman27 Sep 2023 16:25 UTC

185 points

20 comments1 min readEA link

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

jvb15 Feb 2023 23:28 UTC

93 points

11 comments2 min readEA link

Book Giveaway Impact Analysis (Doing Good Better in NZ)

Ivan Burduk13 Jul 2021 13:52 UTC

62 points

14 comments8 min readEA link

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

Tyler Johnston31 Mar 2023 22:15 UTC

29 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

(www.goodreads.com)

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

Darren McKee3 Apr 2024 17:33 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Toby Ord’s ‘The Precipice’ is published!

matthew.vandermerwe4 Mar 2020 21:09 UTC

145 points

17 comments2 min readEA link

Announcing New Beginner-friendly Book on AI Safety and Risk

Darren McKee25 Nov 2023 15:57 UTC

117 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Notes on “Managing to Change the World”

Peter Wildeford9 Oct 2021 2:17 UTC

199 points

30 comments26 min readEA link

Book Review: The Precipice

Aaron Gertler 🔸9 Apr 2020 21:21 UTC

39 points

0 comments17 min readEA link

(slatestarcodex.com)

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

alex lawsen5 Aug 2019 13:39 UTC

28 points

59 comments1 min readEA link

Reza Negarestani’s Intelligence & Spirit

ukc1001427 Jun 2024 18:17 UTC

7 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

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

Ben Kuhn16 Jul 2019 7:59 UTC

161 points

20 comments13 min readEA link

(www.benkuhn.net)

Five Books Influential On How I Think About Global Poverty

ozymandias20 Sep 2021 7:14 UTC

32 points

1 comment12 min readEA link

(thingofthings.substack.com)

TikTok EA Book Giveaway Intermediate Results

Ben_West🔸11 Nov 2021 23:53 UTC

80 points

5 comments2 min readEA link

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

JonathanSalter27 Sep 2024 14:22 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

The Best Bits From Build, Baby, Build

Maxwell Tabarrok11 Jul 2024 14:10 UTC

13 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

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

MikhailSamin27 Dec 2022 11:07 UTC

39 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

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

Magnus Vinding3 Mar 2022 11:31 UTC

99 points

9 comments5 min readEA link

“The Tango of Ethics”—Book launch and discussion

Rasool14 Apr 2023 8:40 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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

MichaelA🔸29 Jan 2021 8:56 UTC

21 points

4 comments8 min readEA link

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

Michael Townsend🔸16 Aug 2022 14:19 UTC

45 points

4 comments9 min readEA link

(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

EA Projects I’d Like to See

finm13 Mar 2022 18:12 UTC

155 points

42 comments27 min readEA link

(www.finmoorhouse.com)

How to read more books

Joseph1 Mar 2025 17:30 UTC

18 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

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

MichaelA🔸18 Jul 2021 15:54 UTC

22 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

[Review and notes] How Democracy Ends—David Runciman

Ben13 Feb 2020 22:30 UTC

31 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

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

jonleighton2 Jan 2023 8:45 UTC

115 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

Notes on “The Art of Gathering”

DavidNash6 Dec 2018 15:48 UTC

73 points

6 comments13 min readEA link

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

Lizka8 May 2023 16:29 UTC

25 points

16 comments1 min readEA link

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

JackM21 Oct 2020 19:33 UTC

26 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

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

Benjamin_Todd21 Sep 2015 2:27 UTC

13 points

20 comments8 min readEA link

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

annaleptikon10 Jul 2022 17:31 UTC

73 points

28 comments14 min readEA link

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

John G. Halstead15 Apr 2022 13:43 UTC

178 points

6 comments13 min readEA link

 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)

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

imp4rtial 🔸30 Jan 2022 22:51 UTC

31 points

1 comment17 min readEA link

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

James Fodor11 May 2020 11:11 UTC

111 points

32 comments26 min readEA link

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

rileyharris28 Aug 2023 2:13 UTC

6 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(www.millionyearview.com)

‘The Precipice’ Book Review

Matt Goodman27 Jul 2020 22:10 UTC

14 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

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

Luca Parodi11 Oct 2022 15:46 UTC

6 points

17 comments1 min readEA link

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

MichaelA🔸6 Feb 2021 11:10 UTC

18 points

5 comments8 min readEA link

{Book Summary} The Art of Gathering

Tristan W16 Apr 2024 10:44 UTC

32 points

8 comments13 min readEA link

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

elte7 May 2024 9:52 UTC

12 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Why every EA group organizer should read The Culture Code

RobPra24 Mar 2022 21:18 UTC

34 points

2 comments5 min readEA link

Utilitarianism.net Updates

Richard Y Chappell🔸16 Sep 2024 22:03 UTC

112 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(www.goodthoughts.blog)

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

Joseph29 Apr 2023 14:05 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

80 000 hours books give-away—ebooks

Ondřej Kubů27 May 2022 11:59 UTC

16 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Economics and Population Growth Reading List

LMF30 Nov 2022 15:17 UTC

8 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

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

JakubK2 May 2023 22:50 UTC

15 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(nyupress.org)

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

J. Birch6 Aug 2024 20:21 UTC

104 points

5 comments2 min readEA link

Write a Book?

Jeff Kaufman 🔸16 Mar 2023 0:11 UTC

189 points

24 comments3 min readEA link

Brief book review 2020

D_M_x3 Dec 2020 21:30 UTC

56 points

3 comments4 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.smith27 Dec 2023 6:18 UTC

61 points

37 comments9 min readEA link

TikTok DGB Giveaway Results

Ben_West🔸15 Apr 2022 9:51 UTC

33 points

2 comments5 min readEA link

Join Pathways to Progress’s Book Discussion in December

lmessner1 Dec 2024 23:53 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Notes on “Bioterror and Biowarfare” (2006)

MichaelA🔸1 Mar 2021 9:42 UTC

29 points

6 comments4 min readEA link

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

Aaron Gertler 🔸18 Sep 2019 0:23 UTC

37 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

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

Eevee🔹13 Jun 2023 22:04 UTC

25 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.pushkin.fm)

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

MichaelA🔸25 Mar 2021 5:04 UTC

44 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

[Notes] Climate Shock by Wagner and Weitzman

Ben13 Apr 2020 9:41 UTC

25 points

1 comment10 min readEA link

Detailed notes on 20 EA-relevant/recommended books

Calvin_Baker27 Feb 2021 17:09 UTC

24 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Your World, Better: Global progress for middle schoolers

Aaron Gertler 🔸11 Apr 2021 21:57 UTC

15 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(www.cgdev.org)

Open Philanthropy is seeking proposals for outreach projects

abergal16 Jul 2021 20:34 UTC

171 points

13 comments10 min readEA link

Key points from The Dead Hand, David E. Hoffman

Kit9 Aug 2019 13:59 UTC

71 points

8 comments7 min readEA link

Review of The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does

Richard Y Chappell🔸2 May 2023 15:45 UTC

221 points

55 comments10 min readEA link

(rychappell.substack.com)

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

rileyharris7 Aug 2023 3:57 UTC

9 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

(www.millionyearview.com)

Online EA bookclub, anyone?

Manuel Del Río Rodríguez 🔹31 Jan 2023 14:26 UTC

10 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] (More) recommendations for non-technical readings on AI?

Joseph25 Sep 2025 1:12 UTC

9 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

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

imp4rtial 🔸24 May 2022 15:02 UTC

42 points

2 comments20 min readEA link

Book Review: Seeing Like A State

Vasco Grilo🔸5 Sep 2024 15:25 UTC

11 points

1 comment9 min readEA link

(slatestarcodex.com)

A Biosecurity and Biorisk Reading+ List

Tessa A 🔸14 Mar 2021 2:30 UTC

135 points

13 comments12 min readEA link

Book review: The Doomsday Machine

eukaryote10 Sep 2018 1:43 UTC

49 points

6 comments5 min readEA link

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

Darren McKee3 Apr 2024 16:51 UTC

18 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

[Link] GCRI’s Seth Baum reviews The Precipice

Aryeh Englander6 Jun 2022 19:33 UTC

21 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Review of WWOTF

Richard Y Chappell🔸15 Aug 2022 18:53 UTC

25 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

(rychappell.substack.com)

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

MichaelA🔸29 May 2021 18:53 UTC

22 points

9 comments5 min readEA link

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

Ofer11 Aug 2020 17:24 UTC

11 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

Questioning Beneficence: Four Philosophers on Effective Altruism and Doing Good

Richard Y Chappell🔸28 Sep 2024 15:45 UTC

35 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(www.goodthoughts.blog)

[Question] How should EAs manage their copyrights?

Eevee🔹9 Mar 2021 18:42 UTC

15 points

5 comments2 min readEA link

Long-Term Future Fund: April 2019 grant recommendations

Habryka [Deactivated]23 Apr 2019 7:00 UTC

142 points

242 comments47 min readEA link

Notion Templates for Reading Groups

Kyal23 May 2023 10:11 UTC

22 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Notes on ‘Atomic Obsession’ (2009)

lukeprog26 Oct 2019 0:30 UTC

62 points

16 comments8 min readEA link

Book review of “Mengzi”

anonymous616 Mar 2022 22:58 UTC

17 points

0 comments12 min readEA link

New Data Science Resource: Hansen Econometrics Books

Lixiang23 Jan 2023 18:57 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 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)

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

MichaelA🔸15 Dec 2020 1:40 UTC

16 points

16 comments1 min readEA link

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

abier30 Mar 2022 20:42 UTC

38 points

20 comments1 min readEA link

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

Habeeb Abdul🔹30 May 2023 8:24 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.super-linear.org)

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

MichaelA🔸2 Feb 2021 3:52 UTC

20 points

21 comments1 min readEA link

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

Lizka22 Dec 2021 4:10 UTC

67 points

2 comments5 min readEA link

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

Joey🔸11 Feb 2022 10:13 UTC

79 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

EA Infrastructure Fund: May 2021 grant recommendations

Jonas_3 Jun 2021 1:01 UTC

92 points

99 comments42 min readEA link

Thoughts on Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman

Patrick Gruban 🔸9 Jan 2025 11:50 UTC

185 points

30 comments2 min readEA link

Progress book recommendations

Daniel May8 Aug 2019 20:47 UTC

73 points

7 comments16 min readEA link

(danielmamay.github.io)

How democracy ends: a review and reevaluation

richard_ngo24 Nov 2018 17:41 UTC

27 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)

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

tlevin4 Sep 2023 19:02 UTC

21 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

New s-risks audiobook available now

Alistair Webster24 May 2023 20:27 UTC

87 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

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

Enginar16 Jul 2022 8:31 UTC

9 points

2 comments17 min readEA link

Book Review: Churchill and Orwell

SammyDMartin10 Oct 2021 11:06 UTC

28 points

0 comments11 min readEA link

What We Don’t Do by Nick Cooney—a book review

Rakefet Cohen Ben-Arye 🔸6 Jun 2025 2:00 UTC

10 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

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

Alex Shenderov19 May 2022 15:52 UTC

−6 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Request books be placed into your (university) library

Devin Lam13 Sep 2022 14:17 UTC

14 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

Lessons from Strangers Drowning by Larissa MacFarquhar

Xing Shi Cai9 Jul 2021 19:35 UTC

14 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

EA should help Tyler Cowen publish his drafted book in China

Matt Brooks14 Jan 2023 21:10 UTC

38 points

8 comments3 min readEA link

10 non-EA books you might find interesting

ryan_duplock20 May 2022 20:47 UTC

3 points

1 comment9 min readEA link

[Question] Memoirs or biographies on global health?

Wenmar B27 Aug 2025 3:35 UTC

4 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Going Infinite—Quick Review

Darren McKee7 Oct 2023 21:07 UTC

25 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

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

NickLaing25 Sep 2023 9:21 UTC

14 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

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

Hauke Hillebrandt1 Oct 2019 7:18 UTC

17 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

Join Pathways to Progress’s Book Discussion on Vannevar Bush’s Pieces of the Action

lmessner1 Jul 2025 20:26 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Review: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy

L Rudolf L21 Dec 2024 17:17 UTC

7 points

1 comment23 min readEA link

(nosetgauge.substack.com)

Book Review: Going Infinite

Zvi 25 Oct 2023 19:08 UTC

55 points

3 comments97 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

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

Tristan W5 Oct 2023 13:26 UTC

11 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

The Righteous Mind book review

Justis5 Sep 2018 18:08 UTC

36 points

2 comments7 min readEA link

What We Owe The Future: a Flashcard-based Summary

Florence12 Sep 2022 12:24 UTC

31 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

Intro to the book: Animal Weapons by Douglas Emlen.

Maynk0211 Oct 2023 21:26 UTC

7 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Effective altruism reading list

Richard_Batty28 Oct 2013 19:10 UTC

12 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

Join Pathways to Progress’s Book Discussion in November

lmessner26 Oct 2024 17:40 UTC

6 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Popular EA Authors Should Give Libraries More Copies of Their EBooks

RedTeamPseudonym30 Aug 2022 5:16 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Jamie_Harris17 Dec 2018 22:26 UTC

9 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(butcantheysuffer.wordpress.com)

I enjoyed most of IABIED

Buck17 Sep 2025 4:34 UTC

73 points

3 comments8 min readEA link

Summary of Ethics into Action, a biography of Henry Spira

Elijah Whipple23 Oct 2023 20:40 UTC

13 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

Effective Altruism Handbook—Now Online

RyanCarey23 Apr 2015 14:23 UTC

32 points

14 comments2 min readEA link

[Book Review] asterisk #2

Tristan W5 Nov 2023 22:35 UTC

13 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

New Publication: Effective Altruism and Religion

dominicroser25 Jan 2022 9:22 UTC

74 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

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

RandomEA5 Sep 2017 21:10 UTC

10 points

31 comments1 min readEA link

Reading Group: The Good Ancestor

Sasha Berezhnoi 🔸1 Dec 2021 12:02 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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

JWS 🔸18 Aug 2023 15:57 UTC

12 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

Book fund? HTML book rights?

Larissa Schiavo2 Jun 2022 2:16 UTC

5 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

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

Matt Boyd21 Nov 2021 4:30 UTC

32 points

3 comments11 min readEA link

Light read: Free Trade, by Judy Eby

James_Banks13 Feb 2021 21:39 UTC

3 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Book Review: Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham

ketchupduck17 Jun 2021 1:49 UTC

20 points

0 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Books on social movements?

michel17 Sep 2022 6:27 UTC

9 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

New eBook: Essays on UFOs and Related Conjectures

Magnus Vinding4 Aug 2024 7:34 UTC

27 points

3 comments7 min readEA link

What are some good books about AI safety?

Vishakha Agrawal17 Feb 2025 11:54 UTC

7 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

(aisafety.info)

Join Pathways to Progress’s Book Discussion on Joel Mokyr’s A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy

lmessner5 Mar 2025 23:36 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Are Humans ‘Human Compatible’?

Matt Boyd6 Dec 2019 5:49 UTC

23 points

8 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)

A Human Abundance Agenda

Richard Y Chappell🔸9 Jul 2025 15:15 UTC

8 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

(www.goodthoughts.blog)

The Case for Reading Books

xander_balwit21 Jun 2022 3:50 UTC

39 points

10 comments6 min readEA link

David Edmonds’s biography of Parfit is out

Pablo23 Apr 2023 12:25 UTC

115 points

2 comments4 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 Panickssery13 Oct 2024 20:21 UTC

3 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Organising Bookclub: How to Create a Vegan World

Indra Gesink 🔸7 Jul 2025 15:01 UTC

42 points

0 comments10 min readEA link

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

Fergus Fettes28 Oct 2023 20:17 UTC

7 points

0 comments16 min readEA link

Update on Book Review Dominant Assurance Contract

Arjun Panickssery3 Feb 2023 23:16 UTC

8 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

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

Cody_Fenwick31 Dec 2022 20:28 UTC

42 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

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

Giles24 Jan 2015 4:40 UTC

2 points

8 comments9 min readEA link

Consider Preordering If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies

peterbarnett12 Aug 2025 22:03 UTC

48 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

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

Gemma 🔸7 Apr 2023 12:18 UTC

11 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(bashingthearc.substack.com)

Learn to Write a Book But Not Sell One

Unwobblypanda23 Oct 2025 6:06 UTC

6 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

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

Aaron Boddy🔸28 Jan 2022 9:21 UTC

42 points

4 comments18 min readEA link

(www.principles.com)

The Precipice—Summary/Review

Nikola11 Oct 2022 0:06 UTC

10 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

Review and Summary of ‘Moral Uncertainty’

finm2 Oct 2020 15:41 UTC

37 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(www.finmoorhouse.com)

[Question] Copies sold of What We Owe the Future

Anthony Fleming21 Oct 2022 0:18 UTC

15 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

IABIED Review—An Unfortunate Miss

Darren McKee18 Sep 2025 22:39 UTC

22 points

2 comments9 min readEA link

Policy and research ideas to reduce existential risk

80000_Hours27 Apr 2020 8:46 UTC

3 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(80000hours.org)

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

Milan Griffes27 Sep 2019 18:42 UTC

13 points

8 comments8 min readEA link

The Rules of Rescue—out now!

Theron17 Dec 2022 9:02 UTC

60 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

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

SiebeRozendal23 Aug 2023 12:42 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Kaleem18 Feb 2023 0:11 UTC

19 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

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 Thomas17 Jan 2024 16:09 UTC

104 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

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

Mau8 Nov 2021 8:42 UTC

86 points

7 comments34 min readEA link

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

peterhartree27 Mar 2024 11:23 UTC

105 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

(nickbostrom.com)

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

Luisa_Rodriguez13 Sep 2023 12:23 UTC

87 points

136 comments2 min readEA link

Bill Gates book on pandemic prevention

PabloAMC 🔸1 May 2022 10:42 UTC

25 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

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

hkoos15 Feb 2025 23:32 UTC

23 points

4 comments4 min readEA link

My Notes from ‘So Good They Can’t Ignore You’ by Cal Newport

Matt Beard18 Feb 2025 14:29 UTC

11 points

0 comments9 min readEA link

Naturalistic dualism

Arturo Macias11 Dec 2024 15:51 UTC

2 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Someone should create an ‘EA Blinkist’ book summary service

Forumite13 Jul 2022 11:41 UTC

22 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

[Book Review] asterisk #1

Tristan W18 Oct 2023 19:40 UTC

37 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

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

Ariel_ZJ31 Oct 2024 0:31 UTC

10 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

Title: “Nurturing AI: A Different Vision for Safety and Growth”

Brad Wilkins28 Apr 2025 19:21 UTC

0 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Recommendations for the lending library at a technology strategy consulting firm

Emily Paulson9 Aug 2022 22:15 UTC

3 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

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

Cristina Schmidt Ibáñez17 May 2023 19:15 UTC

36 points

3 comments9 min readEA link

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

Mahendra Prasad11 Feb 2021 7:43 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

The Scientist Mode, the Scout Mindset and Flashcards

JaimeRV29 Aug 2021 18:56 UTC

7 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

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

Rohin Shah19 Oct 2019 19:56 UTC

33 points

1 comment15 min readEA link

(www.alignmentforum.org)

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

SolenoidEntity30 Aug 2022 14:56 UTC

9 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

More Everything Forever—a new book critique of EA

Manuel Del Río Rodríguez 🔹6 Jun 2025 9:53 UTC

52 points

17 comments7 min readEA link

[Book] On Assessing the Risk of Nuclear War

Aryeh Englander7 Jul 2022 21:08 UTC

28 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

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

arikr11 Jun 2019 22:22 UTC

7 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

Join Pathways to Progress’ Book Discussion on Dean Spears’ After the Spike

lmessner5 Sep 2025 4:01 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Discussion Questions for Books with Experienced Professionals’ Audience

brb24317 Jul 2022 12:29 UTC

5 points

0 comments12 min readEA link

Giving away copies of Uncontrollable by Darren McKee

Greg_Colbourn ⏸️ 14 Dec 2023 17:00 UTC

39 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Book critique of Effective Altruism

Manuel Del Río Rodríguez 🔹17 Jan 2023 22:48 UTC

70 points

27 comments1 min readEA link

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

Xing Shi Cai2 Jul 2021 22:58 UTC

15 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

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

Vivian4 Jul 2023 15:48 UTC

−16 points

5 comments6 min readEA link

Book Review: The Book Against Death

Conor Barnes 🔶22 Apr 2025 1:12 UTC

11 points

0 comments8 min readEA link

(parhelia.conorbarnes.com)

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

Joseph12 Jul 2022 23:23 UTC

8 points

11 comments1 min readEA link

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

Arjun Panickssery15 Jan 2023 4:50 UTC

40 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Review of Animal Liberation Now

Richard Y Chappell🔸23 May 2023 19:07 UTC

81 points

22 comments8 min readEA link

(rychappell.substack.com)

Five books to make you super effective

John_Maxwell2 Apr 2015 2:31 UTC

7 points

7 comments3 min readEA link

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

Arturo Macias27 Jan 2025 17:24 UTC

8 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

Book Summary: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt

DavidNash22 Aug 2024 11:13 UTC

28 points

4 comments8 min readEA link

(www.tosummarise.com)

EA Poland—details of online book club

RafalGonsior7 Sep 2023 18:40 UTC

15 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

Book recommendation: Loonshots

nonzerosum3 May 2019 18:30 UTC

25 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Yet another biosecurity reading list

cwbakerlee3 Feb 2022 19:24 UTC

37 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Crowdsourcing Anki Decks

Earthling16 Aug 2022 1:30 UTC

10 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

Announcing our book, After the Spike, and an Opportunity to Help

deanspears7 Apr 2025 15:59 UTC

68 points

4 comments4 min readEA link

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

Caro8 Oct 2019 5:29 UTC

40 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

Utopia, for what?

Arturo Macias15 Sep 2025 14:50 UTC

−2 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

Giving effectively: Contemporary lessons from Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo

Cherish 10 Jul 2023 20:09 UTC

1 point

0 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

Book Review: Deontology by Jeremy Bentham

ketchupduck12 Aug 2020 13:45 UTC

50 points

10 comments16 min readEA link

Enlightened Concerns of Tomorrow

cassidynelson15 Mar 2018 5:29 UTC

15 points

7 comments4 min readEA link

Effective Altruism and the Human Mind [5000 Word Summary]

Alex Savard 🔸27 Aug 2024 17:18 UTC

146 points

5 comments20 min readEA link

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

Arjun Panickssery30 Jan 2025 12:35 UTC

39 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Books: Lend, Don’t Give

Jeff Kaufman 🔸22 Mar 2023 19:11 UTC

47 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

Tore Godal

rootpi9 Apr 2024 13:34 UTC

7 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Two Vernor Vinge Book Reviews

Maxwell Tabarrok27 Apr 2024 12:15 UTC

9 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(www.maximum-progress.com)

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

a_e_r7 Jul 2022 18:51 UTC

8 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

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

Halwenge 25 Feb 2024 14:06 UTC

2 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

The Rise of AI Agents: Consequences and Challenges Ahead

Tristan D28 Mar 2025 5:19 UTC

5 points

0 comments15 min readEA link

New Book: ‘Nexus’ by Yuval Noah Harari

timfarkas3 Oct 2024 13:54 UTC

15 points

2 comments5 min readEA link

Recommending How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur

Siya Sawhney17 Oct 2024 18:37 UTC

7 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

What We Owe the Future is an NYT bestseller

Anonymous_EA25 Aug 2022 0:18 UTC

114 points

14 comments1 min readEA link

Book Review: Enlightenment Now, by Steven Pinker

Aaron Gertler 🔸21 Oct 2018 23:12 UTC

24 points

6 comments11 min readEA link

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

Damin Curtis🔹4 Jul 2023 14:43 UTC

32 points

1 comment10 min readEA link

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

Giving What We Can🔸25 Jan 2024 21:33 UTC

156 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Catherine Low🔸9 Jun 2017 18:38 UTC

23 points

3 comments7 min readEA link

Seeking input on a list of AI books for broader audience

Darren McKee27 Feb 2023 22:40 UTC

49 points

14 comments5 min readEA link

Prologue | A Fire Upon the Deep | Vernor Vinge

semicycle17 Feb 2025 4:13 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.baen.com)

I. Starting Small

Maynk0211 Oct 2023 21:44 UTC

5 points

0 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_Hours12 Jul 2024 19:38 UTC

13 points

1 comment12 min readEA link

So You Created a Sociopath—New Book Announcement!

D0TheMath1 Apr 2024 18:02 UTC

47 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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

CAISID22 Feb 2024 14:51 UTC

28 points

1 comment6 min readEA link

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

Rían O'M 2 Dec 2024 17:48 UTC

24 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(x.com)

What We Owe The Future: A Buried Essay

haven_wh20 Jun 2023 17:49 UTC

19 points

0 comments16 min readEA link

Summary of Deep Time Reckoning by Vincent Ialenti

vinegar10@gmail.com31 Oct 2022 20:00 UTC

10 points

1 comment10 min readEA link

[Question] PDF of EA Handbook?

Simon Holm15 Aug 2022 7:39 UTC

3 points

3 comments1 min readEA link