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Cause prioritization

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Cause prioritization refers to efforts to find the most pressing problems to work on and compare interventions across different cause areas so that we can do as much good as possible with the resources available to us.

Governments and philanthropists spend considerable resources attempting to do good in the world. How those resources are used, however, can make an even bigger difference than how many resources are available. Some work has been done on prioritizing within areas, but the question of how to prioritize between areas—which is arguably more important[1]—has received limited attention.

Cause-neutral prioritization research seeks to identify new promising focus areas and to compare their relative value (for instance by considering factors like scope, neglectedness, and tractability of the problems).

Cause prioritization research (or global priorities research) is often regarded as a highly promising area of work.[2]

Further reading

80,000 Hours (2016) Global priorities research, 80,000 Hours, April (updated July 2018).

Grace, Katja (2014) Conversation with Paul Christiano on cause prioritization research, 80,000 Hours, August 20.

Related entries

Cause X | cost-effectiveness | distribution of cost-effectiveness | global priorities research | impact assessment | intervention evaluation | ITN framework

  1. ^

    Todd, Benjamin (2013) Why pick a cause? 80,000 Hours website, December 10.

  2. ^

    Stafforini, Pablo (2014) Paul Christiano on cause prioritization research, Effective Altruism Forum, March 23.

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57 points
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96 points
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83 points
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32 points
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17 points
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8 points
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9 points
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20 points
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178 points
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6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
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107 points
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132 points
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61 points
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176 points
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32 points
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46 points
22 comments4 min readEA link

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7 points
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116 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

The or­di­nal util­ity ar­gu­ment against effec­tive al­tru­ism

Barracuda12 Jun 2022 13:20 UTC
8 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Le­gal As­sis­tance for Vic­tims of AI

bob17 Mar 2023 11:42 UTC
48 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

Scale of the welfare of var­i­ous an­i­mal populations

Vasco Grilo19 Mar 2023 7:10 UTC
41 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Assess­ment of Hap­pier Lives In­sti­tute’s Cost-Effec­tive­ness Anal­y­sis of StrongMinds

GiveWell22 Mar 2023 17:04 UTC
177 points
9 comments23 min readEA link
(www.givewell.org)

EA cause ar­eas are just ar­eas where great in­ter­ven­tions should be eas­ier to find

freedomandutility17 Jul 2021 12:16 UTC
35 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Im­mi­gra­tion re­form: a shal­low cause exploration

JoelMcGuire20 Feb 2023 15:57 UTC
99 points
7 comments36 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion: Sup­port for Men­tal Health Carers

Yuval Shapira14 Mar 2023 20:04 UTC
30 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

On the longter­mist case for work­ing on farmed an­i­mals [Uncer­tain­ties & re­search ideas]

MichaelA11 Apr 2021 6:49 UTC
78 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

Char­ity Thrift Shop launched for hu­man­i­tar­ian aid in Turkey.

Abigail.G10 Feb 2023 10:57 UTC
27 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.instagram.com)

How will we know if we are do­ing good bet­ter: The case for more and bet­ter mon­i­tor­ing and eval­u­a­tion

TomBill8 Feb 2023 16:31 UTC
161 points
16 comments9 min readEA link

A Case Against Strong Longtermism

A. Wolff2 Sep 2022 16:40 UTC
9 points
4 comments39 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)

De­con­fu­sion Part 3 - EA Com­mu­nity and So­cial Structure

Davidmanheim9 Feb 2023 8:19 UTC
82 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism De­con­fu­sion, Part 2: Causes, Philos­o­phy, and So­cial Con­straints

Davidmanheim5 Feb 2023 10:13 UTC
44 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Claim that US can­cer re­search is com­pa­rable to Givewell top char­i­ties in DALYs per $

Jalen_Lyle-Holmes9 Feb 2023 20:50 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(ascopubs.org)

[Question] How effec­tive are the “Best Char­i­ties by Cause” or­ga­ni­za­tions recom­mended by Char­ity Nav­i­ga­tor?

Max Pietsch10 Feb 2023 17:29 UTC
41 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] San­ity check—effec­tive­ness/​good­ness of Trans Res­cue?

David D20 Feb 2023 15:53 UTC
44 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Choos­ing causes re Flynn for Oregon

Zach Stein-Perlman18 May 2022 3:59 UTC
54 points
25 comments2 min readEA link

To fund re­search, or not to fund re­search, that is the question

Jack Malde24 Apr 2022 18:46 UTC
20 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

[Out­dated] In­tro­duc­ing the Stock Is­sues Frame­work: The INT Frame­work’s Cousin and an “Ad­vanced” Cost-Benefit Anal­y­sis Framework

Harrison Durland3 Oct 2020 7:18 UTC
14 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

An eval­u­a­tion of Mind Ease, an anti-anx­iety app

Hauke Hillebrandt26 Jul 2021 11:35 UTC
70 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

What I thought about child mar­riage as a cause area, and how I’ve changed my mind

Catherine Fist31 Jan 2023 19:50 UTC
214 points
44 comments7 min readEA link

A Long-run per­spec­tive on strate­gic cause se­lec­tion and philanthropy

CarlShulman5 Nov 2013 23:08 UTC
18 points
29 comments7 min readEA link

GiveWell’s Top Char­i­ties Are In­creas­ingly Hard to Beat

Peter Wildeford10 Jul 2019 0:34 UTC
42 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Pri­ori­tiz­ing COVID-19 in­ter­ven­tions & in­di­vi­d­ual donations

IanDavidMoss6 May 2020 21:29 UTC
85 points
25 comments26 min readEA link

Do­ing good eas­ier: how to have pas­sive impact

Kat Woods2 May 2022 14:48 UTC
50 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

Hedg­ing against deep and moral uncertainty

MichaelStJules12 Sep 2020 23:44 UTC
73 points
11 comments9 min readEA link

Are we ne­glect­ing ed­u­ca­tion? Philos­o­phy in schools as a longter­mist area

Jack Malde30 Jul 2020 16:31 UTC
61 points
29 comments18 min readEA link

[Question] Best EA use of $500,000AUD/​$340,000 USD for ba­sic sci­ence?

AspiringPhilanthropist27 Aug 2019 10:07 UTC
58 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

Luisa Ro­driguez: How to do em­piri­cal cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion re­search

EA Global21 Nov 2020 8:12 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Some­one should do a ‘meta-anal­y­sis’ of the Givewell contest

Ben Stewart13 Dec 2022 8:02 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Prob­lem Pro­file of Men­tal Health in the Philippines

rikaela8 Feb 2021 4:29 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

A pro­posed ad­just­ment to the as­tro­nom­i­cal waste argument

Nick_Beckstead27 May 2013 4:00 UTC
43 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Steel­man­ning the Case Against Un­quan­tifi­able Interventions

Davidmanheim13 Nov 2019 8:34 UTC
47 points
19 comments9 min readEA link

Wheel­ing and deal­ing: An in­ter­nal bar­gain­ing ap­proach to moral uncertainty

MichaelPlant10 Jul 2022 12:04 UTC
56 points
18 comments22 min readEA link

If Adult In­sects Mat­ter, How Much Do Ju­ve­niles Mat­ter?

Bob Fischer6 Feb 2023 13:33 UTC
92 points
10 comments25 min readEA link

[Question] Shifts in sub­jec­tive well-be­ing scales?

Milan_Griffes18 Aug 2020 18:27 UTC
31 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Reflect­ing on Steer­ing, Pit­falls, and History

Davidmanheim21 Nov 2021 8:05 UTC
31 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Cause X Guide

Joey1 Sep 2019 16:58 UTC
89 points
35 comments2 min readEA link

EA Malaysia Cause Pri­ori­ti­sa­tion Re­port (2021)

Yi-Yang24 Apr 2021 5:48 UTC
45 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

Q&A with Mar­cus Davis

EA Global29 Oct 2020 15:28 UTC
21 points
0 comments25 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Against im­mor­tal­ity?

Owen Cotton-Barratt28 Apr 2022 11:51 UTC
107 points
40 comments3 min readEA link

Thoughts on “tra­jec­tory changes”

BrownHairedEevee7 Apr 2021 2:18 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­per­i­ment in Retroac­tive Fund­ing: An EA Fo­rum Prize Contest

DC1 Jun 2022 21:15 UTC
95 points
16 comments8 min readEA link

EA needs more humor

SWK1 Dec 2022 5:30 UTC
35 points
14 comments5 min readEA link

Car­ing about the fu­ture doesn’t mean ig­nor­ing the present

Luke Freeman30 Aug 2022 7:21 UTC
15 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

Do­ing EA Better

ConcernedEAs17 Jan 2023 20:09 UTC
252 points
388 comments70 min readEA link

Find­ing more effec­tive causes

Michelle_Hutchinson1 Jan 2016 22:54 UTC
20 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

“Dis­ap­point­ing Fu­tures” Might Be As Im­por­tant As Ex­is­ten­tial Risks

MichaelDickens3 Sep 2020 1:15 UTC
94 points
18 comments25 min readEA link

Neil Buddy Shah: How to un­lock more impact

EA Global8 Jun 2018 7:15 UTC
8 points
0 comments15 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Find­ing bugs in GiveWell’s top charities

Vasco Grilo23 Jan 2023 16:49 UTC
40 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ists are already in­sti­tu­tion­al­ists and are do­ing far more than un­work­able longter­mism—A re­sponse to “On the Differ­ences be­tween Eco­mod­ernism and Effec­tive Altru­ism”

jackva21 Feb 2023 18:08 UTC
78 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

Open Philan­thropy’s Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes: $120k for writ­ten work on global health and wellbeing

ChrisSmith25 May 2022 12:06 UTC
190 points
22 comments1 min readEA link

[up­dated] Global de­vel­op­ment in­ter­ven­tions are gen­er­ally more effec­tive than cli­mate change interventions

Hauke Hillebrandt2 Oct 2019 8:36 UTC
108 points
44 comments17 min readEA link

Mo­ral Weights ac­cord­ing to EA Orgs

Simon_M8 Jan 2023 16:46 UTC
99 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

A liber­tar­ian so­cial­ist’s view on how EA can improve

freedomandutility30 Dec 2022 13:07 UTC
136 points
33 comments7 min readEA link

Re­place Neglectedness

Indra Gesink16 Jan 2023 17:42 UTC
50 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

Avoid­ing Mu­nich’s Mis­takes: Ad­vice for CEA and Lo­cal Groups

Larks14 Oct 2020 17:08 UTC
186 points
80 comments40 min readEA link

Un­der­stand­ing Open Philan­thropy’s evolu­tion on mi­gra­tion policy

vipulnaik18 Dec 2021 19:45 UTC
21 points
3 comments13 min readEA link

A bunch of new GPI papers

Pablo25 Sep 2019 13:32 UTC
104 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

EA Blog­ging Car­ni­val: My Cause Selection

MichaelDickens16 Aug 2015 1:07 UTC
11 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

Co­op­er­a­tive or Com­pet­i­tive Altru­ism, and An­ti­so­cial Counterfactuals

Davidmanheim20 Mar 2023 17:54 UTC
41 points
19 comments5 min readEA link

EA megapro­jects continued

mariushobbhahn3 Dec 2021 10:33 UTC
177 points
49 comments7 min readEA link

In­for­ma­tion se­cu­rity con­sid­er­a­tions for AI and the long term future

Jeffrey Ladish2 May 2022 20:53 UTC
118 points
7 comments11 min readEA link

Sur­vey on AI ex­is­ten­tial risk scenarios

Sam Clarke8 Jun 2021 17:12 UTC
148 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

When to get off the train to crazy town?

mariushobbhahn22 Nov 2021 7:30 UTC
63 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

Even Allo­ca­tion Strat­egy un­der High Model Ambiguity

MichaelStJules31 Dec 2020 9:10 UTC
15 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

The Hun­dred Billion Dol­lar Op­por­tu­nity that EAs mostly ignore

JeremiahJohnson22 Sep 2022 14:33 UTC
41 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes: An­nounc­ing our prizes

ChrisSmith9 Sep 2022 13:47 UTC
220 points
28 comments2 min readEA link

Why we look at the limit­ing fac­tor in­stead of the prob­lem scale

Joey28 Jan 2019 19:12 UTC
61 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] How many EA 2021 $s would you trade off against a 0.01% chance of ex­is­ten­tial catas­tro­phe?

Linch27 Nov 2021 23:46 UTC
54 points
91 comments1 min readEA link

On Priors

MichaelDickens26 Apr 2016 22:35 UTC
12 points
26 comments12 min readEA link

Is it bet­ter to be a wild rat or a fac­tory farmed cow? A sys­tem­atic method for com­par­ing an­i­mal welfare.

Joey17 Sep 2018 23:55 UTC
56 points
22 comments6 min readEA link

Max Dal­ton: Pri­ori­ti­za­tion and economics

EA Global3 Nov 2017 7:43 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

We’re (sur­pris­ingly) more pos­i­tive about tack­ling bio risks: out­comes of a survey

Sanjay25 Aug 2020 9:14 UTC
58 points
5 comments11 min readEA link

Ajeya Co­tra: Im­ple­ment­ing cause pri­ori­ti­sa­tion at Open Philanthropy

EA Global3 Nov 2017 7:43 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Pri­ori­ti­za­tion when size mat­ters: Model

jh17 Dec 2021 16:16 UTC
22 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

List of ways in which cost-effec­tive­ness es­ti­mates can be misleading

saulius20 Aug 2019 18:05 UTC
211 points
30 comments13 min readEA link

[Question] What are the key on­go­ing de­bates in EA?

richard_ngo8 Mar 2020 16:12 UTC
74 points
54 comments1 min readEA link

Owen Cot­ton-Bar­ratt: What does (and doesn’t) AI mean for effec­tive al­tru­ism?

EA Global11 Aug 2017 8:19 UTC
9 points
0 comments12 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

De­creas­ing pop­ulism and im­prov­ing democ­racy, ev­i­dence-based policy, and rationality

Hauke Hillebrandt27 Jul 2021 18:14 UTC
41 points
10 comments26 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on Star Trek Strange New Wor­lds S1 Epi­sode 1

ben.smith2 Jun 2022 4:22 UTC
14 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

AGI x-risk timelines: 10% chance (by year X) es­ti­mates should be the head­line, not 50%.

Greg_Colbourn1 Mar 2022 12:02 UTC
67 points
22 comments1 min readEA link

Prospect­ing for Gold (Owen Cot­ton-Bar­ratt)

EA Global18 Nov 2016 12:11 UTC
42 points
5 comments22 min readEA link

Web of virtue the­sis [re­search note]

Owen Cotton-Barratt1 Jan 2021 16:21 UTC
55 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Con­di­tional in­ter­ests, asym­me­tries and EA priorities

MichaelStJules21 Oct 2019 6:13 UTC
22 points
23 comments14 min readEA link

We’re Re­think Pri­ori­ties. AMA.

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

Value of Life: VSL Es­ti­mates vs Com­mu­nity Per­spec­tive Evaluations

Joel Tan (CEARCH)6 Sep 2022 14:35 UTC
49 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

What Is the To­tal Global Ca­pa­bil­ity for Suffer­ing and Joy? A Call for a Col­lab­o­ra­tive EA Project

alamo 291426 Nov 2022 12:42 UTC
−2 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Hilary Greaves: Ev­i­dence, clue­less­ness and the long term

EA Global25 Oct 2020 5:48 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Niel Bow­er­man: Why and how we should prioritise

EA Global28 Aug 2015 8:37 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

It’s OK To Also Donate To Non-EA Causes

orthonormal2 Jun 2020 20:24 UTC
31 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

Four com­po­nents of strat­egy research

MichaelA30 Jan 2020 19:08 UTC
26 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

The EA move­ment is ne­glect­ing phys­i­cal goods

ruthgrace18 Jun 2020 14:39 UTC
27 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

EA read­ing list: suffer­ing-fo­cused ethics

richard_ngo3 Aug 2020 9:40 UTC
42 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing GPI’s new re­search agenda

Global Priorities Institute15 Feb 2019 17:11 UTC
60 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Cause pro­file: men­tal health

MichaelPlant31 Dec 2018 12:09 UTC
135 points
31 comments24 min readEA link

Re­place­abil­ity with differ­ing priorities

MichaelStJules8 Mar 2020 6:59 UTC
22 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

Re­search vs. non-re­search work to im­prove the world: In defense of more re­search and re­flec­tion [linkpost]

Magnus Vinding20 May 2022 16:25 UTC
24 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(magnusvinding.com)

How are re­sources in EA al­lo­cated across is­sues?

Benjamin_Todd8 Aug 2021 12:52 UTC
131 points
23 comments9 min readEA link

Why long-run fo­cused effec­tive al­tru­ism is more com­mon sense

Benjamin_Todd21 Nov 2014 0:12 UTC
26 points
19 comments2 min readEA link

How I Formed My Own Views About AI Safety

Neel Nanda27 Feb 2022 18:52 UTC
130 points
12 comments13 min readEA link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Good al­tru­is­tic de­ci­sion-mak­ing as a deep basin of at­trac­tion in meme-space

Owen Cotton-Barratt1 Jan 2021 17:11 UTC
31 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

Kit Har­ris: Which cause to work on?

EA Global24 Oct 2020 19:56 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

The Global Pri­ori­ties of the Copen­hagen Consensus

Aaron Gertler7 Jan 2019 19:53 UTC
46 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

What ar­eas are the most promis­ing to start new EA meta char­i­ties—A sur­vey of 40 EAs

Joey23 Dec 2020 12:24 UTC
150 points
13 comments16 min readEA link

What does ‘one dol­lar of value’ mean?

Aaron Bergman7 Jun 2022 3:00 UTC
48 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Longter­mist EA needs more Phase 2 work

Owen Cotton-Barratt20 Apr 2022 14:42 UTC
239 points
35 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Why might one value an­i­mals far less than hu­mans?

IsabelHasse8 Jun 2020 1:54 UTC
28 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Cri­te­ria for sci­en­tific choice I, II

EdoArad29 Jul 2020 10:21 UTC
30 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

End­ing The War on Drugs—A New Cause For Effec­tive Altru­ists?

MichaelPlant6 May 2021 13:18 UTC
120 points
20 comments2 min readEA link
(www.newstatesman.com)

Cause area: Devel­op­men­tal Cog­ni­tive Neuroepidemiology

Hauke Hillebrandt11 Aug 2022 20:47 UTC
41 points
5 comments3 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

[Question] Which pos­si­ble AI im­pacts should re­ceive the most ad­di­tional at­ten­tion?

David Johnston31 May 2022 2:01 UTC
10 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are novel ma­jor in­sights from longter­mist macros­trat­egy or global pri­ori­ties re­search found since 2015?

Max_Daniel13 Aug 2020 9:15 UTC
85 points
56 comments1 min readEA link

Pri­ori­ti­za­tion in Science—cur­rent view

EdoArad31 Oct 2020 15:22 UTC
37 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Con­ver­gence the­sis be­tween longter­mism and neartermism

weeatquince30 Dec 2021 16:03 UTC
100 points
32 comments9 min readEA link

Con­cerns with Differ­ence-Mak­ing Risk Aversion

Charlotte17 Jun 2022 13:59 UTC
41 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Some Writ­ings on Cause Selection

MichaelDickens8 Sep 2015 21:56 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

We are in triage ev­ery sec­ond of ev­ery day

Holly_Elmore26 Aug 2016 20:20 UTC
145 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

What does (and doesn’t) AI mean for effec­tive al­tru­ism?

EA Global12 Aug 2017 7:00 UTC
8 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Find­ing be­fore fund­ing: Why EA should prob­a­bly in­vest more in research

Falk Lieder17 Aug 2022 8:48 UTC
102 points
11 comments9 min readEA link

Mea­sur­ing Good Better

MichaelPlant14 Oct 2022 13:36 UTC
225 points
19 comments15 min readEA link

Longter­mists Should Work on AI—There is No “AI Neu­tral” Sce­nario

simeon_c7 Aug 2022 16:43 UTC
42 points
62 comments6 min readEA link

Five Ways to Han­dle Flow-Through Effects

Peter Wildeford28 Jul 2016 3:39 UTC
33 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Do­ing good while clueless

Milan_Griffes15 Feb 2018 5:04 UTC
46 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

A Case for Em­piri­cal Cause Prioritization

Peter Wildeford6 Jun 2016 17:32 UTC
25 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Notes on sup­port­ing Hap­pier Lives Institute

Pawel Sysiak6 Oct 2022 13:01 UTC
20 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

The world is full of wasted motion

Neel Nanda5 Aug 2020 20:41 UTC
21 points
2 comments11 min readEA link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Ra­tional Ed­u­ca­tion as a Cause Pri­or­ity?

Yassin Alaya9 Apr 2022 11:11 UTC
10 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing sci­ence: In­fluenc­ing the di­rec­tion of re­search and the choice of re­search questions

C Tilli20 Dec 2021 10:20 UTC
62 points
13 comments16 min readEA link

Why those who care about catas­trophic and ex­is­ten­tial risk should care about au­tonomous weapons

aaguirre11 Nov 2020 17:27 UTC
101 points
31 comments15 min readEA link

Nar­ra­tion: We are in triage ev­ery sec­ond of ev­ery day

D0TheMath23 Jul 2021 20:59 UTC
24 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

Pri­ori­ti­za­tion Ques­tions for Ar­tifi­cial Sentience

Jamie_Harris18 Oct 2021 14:07 UTC
22 points
2 comments8 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Democ­racy Pro­mo­tion as an EA Cause Area

bryanschonfeld1 Jul 2020 1:56 UTC
73 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

Scope Insensitivity

EA Handbook13 May 2007 23:08 UTC
36 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] Is trans­for­ma­tive AI the biggest ex­is­ten­tial risk? Why or why not?

BrownHairedEevee5 Mar 2022 3:54 UTC
9 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Col­lec­tion of work on ‘Should you should fo­cus on the EU if you’re in­ter­ested in AI gov­er­nance for longter­mist/​x-risk rea­sons?’

MichaelA6 Aug 2022 16:49 UTC
36 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

‘High-hang­ing Fruits’ and Coordination

EdisonY25 Jul 2021 15:46 UTC
17 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Why does EA use QALYs in­stead of ex­pe­rience sam­pling?

Milan_Griffes24 Apr 2019 0:58 UTC
57 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

How Should a Large Donor Pri­ori­tize Cause Areas?

MichaelDickens25 Apr 2016 20:46 UTC
15 points
9 comments11 min readEA link

[Question] Are there lists of causes (that seemed promis­ing but are) known to be in­effec­tive?

Maxime Perrigault8 Jul 2020 6:06 UTC
39 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

What Re­think Pri­ori­ties Gen­eral Longter­mism Team Did in 2022, and Up­dates in Light of the Cur­rent Situation

Linch14 Dec 2022 13:37 UTC
155 points
9 comments19 min readEA link

Sam Deere: Giv­ing what we can to erad­i­cate global poverty

EA Global28 Aug 2015 17:21 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] What value would Open Phil’s Global Health and Wel­lbe­ing frame­work put on eco­nomic growth?

BrownHairedEevee6 Jan 2022 7:43 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Long Covid: mass dis­abil­ity and broad so­cietal con­se­quences [Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes]

SiebeRozendal11 Aug 2022 13:52 UTC
37 points
31 comments15 min readEA link

On the Differ­ences Between Eco­mod­ernism and Effec­tive Altruism

PeterSlattery6 Dec 2022 1:21 UTC
34 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(thebreakthrough.org)

“Ne­glect­ed­ness” is a po­ten­tially con­fus­ing sim­plifi­ca­tion of true impact

JoshYou18 Aug 2022 17:58 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

How we can make it eas­ier to change your mind about cause areas

ClaireZabel11 Aug 2015 6:21 UTC
59 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

What should Founders Pledge re­search?

John G. Halstead9 Sep 2019 17:41 UTC
52 points
31 comments1 min readEA link

A Brief Sum­mary Of The Most Im­por­tant Century

Maynk0225 Oct 2022 15:28 UTC
3 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Global health is im­por­tant for the epistemic foun­da­tions of EA, even for longtermists

Owen Cotton-Barratt2 Jun 2022 13:57 UTC
160 points
16 comments2 min readEA link

Nick Beck­stead: Pri­ori­ti­za­tion research

EA Global28 Aug 2015 15:25 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Move­ment build­ing and in­vest­ing to give later

abergal15 Jul 2020 22:46 UTC
48 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

What is go­ing on in the world?

Katja_Grace18 Jan 2021 4:47 UTC
101 points
25 comments3 min readEA link
(meteuphoric.com)

Let’s Fund Liv­ing re­view: 2020 update

Hauke Hillebrandt12 Feb 2021 18:49 UTC
31 points
12 comments7 min readEA link

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

John Halstead: Is im­pact in­vest­ing im­pact­ful?

EA Global29 Jun 2020 12:56 UTC
26 points
4 comments14 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

8 pos­si­ble high-level goals for work on nu­clear risk

MichaelA29 Mar 2022 6:30 UTC
46 points
4 comments13 min readEA link

Adapt­ing the ITN frame­work for poli­ti­cal in­ter­ven­tions & anal­y­sis of poli­ti­cal polarisation

OlafvdVeen27 Apr 2020 10:05 UTC
30 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Post on max­i­miz­ing EV by di­ver­sify­ing w/​ de­clin­ing marginal re­turns and uncertainty

Alexander_Berger11 Aug 2021 4:32 UTC
19 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Some per­sonal thoughts on EA and sys­temic change

CarlShulman26 Sep 2019 21:40 UTC
198 points
17 comments6 min readEA link

[Link] The Op­ti­mizer’s Curse & Wrong-Way Reductions

Chris Smith4 Apr 2019 13:28 UTC
84 points
61 comments1 min readEA link

Paul Chris­ti­ano on cause prioritization

admin323 Mar 2014 22:44 UTC
5 points
2 comments11 min readEA link

How the Ukraine con­flict may in­fluence spend­ing on longter­mist pro­jects

Frank_R16 Mar 2022 8:15 UTC
23 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

A pseudo math­e­mat­i­cal for­mu­la­tion of di­rect work choice be­tween two x-risks

Joseph Bloom11 Aug 2022 0:28 UTC
7 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Light­ning talks on global pri­ori­ties research

EA Global25 Oct 2020 5:48 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

In­ter­est­ing vs. Im­por­tant Work—A Place EA is Pri­ori­tiz­ing Poorly

Davidmanheim28 Jul 2022 10:08 UTC
112 points
54 comments3 min readEA link

Should UBI be a top pri­or­ity for longter­mism?

Michael Simm8 Jan 2023 12:45 UTC
3 points
33 comments4 min readEA link

An In­tro­duc­tion to the Mo­ral Weight Project

Bob Fischer31 Oct 2022 9:13 UTC
169 points
6 comments10 min readEA link

Rossa O’Keeffe-O’Dono­van: An in­tro­duc­tion to global pri­ori­ties research

EA Global25 Oct 2020 5:48 UTC
8 points
0 comments14 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Which stage of effec­tive­ness mat­ters most?

Katja_Grace22 Oct 2013 17:23 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

EAs un­der­es­ti­mate un­cer­tainty in cause prioritisation

freedomandutility23 Aug 2022 14:04 UTC
115 points
20 comments2 min readEA link

Eva Vi­valt: Choos­ing effec­tive causes in a rad­i­cally un­cer­tain world

EA Global21 Nov 2020 8:12 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Life Satis­fac­tion and its Discontents

MichaelPlant25 Sep 2020 7:54 UTC
71 points
24 comments3 min readEA link

Will MacAskill, Rossa O’Keeffe-O’Dono­van, & An­dreas Mo­gensen: Global Pri­ori­ties In­si­tute’s 2018 goals and research

EA Global26 Oct 2018 8:37 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

How to be a good ag­nos­tic (and some good rea­sons to be dog­matic)

peterhartree4 Feb 2023 11:08 UTC
11 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

On Com­mon Goods in Pri­ori­ti­za­tion Research

EdoArad10 Dec 2020 10:25 UTC
23 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

How a ven­tila­tion rev­olu­tion could help miti­gate the im­pacts of air pol­lu­tion and air­borne pathogens

Mike Cassidy16 Nov 2021 11:19 UTC
65 points
5 comments15 min readEA link

[Question] EA an­a­lyst/​in­tern wanted

alsilverback17 May 2022 9:09 UTC
37 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Should Chronic Pain be a cause area?

mariushobbhahn18 May 2021 11:31 UTC
64 points
12 comments13 min readEA link

Help, Please: In­te­grat­ing EA Ideas into Large Re­search Organization

Lauren Zitney30 Oct 2021 1:23 UTC
37 points
11 comments4 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing The Log­i­cal Foun­da­tion, an EA-Aligned Non­profit with a Plan to End Poverty With Guaran­teed Income

Michael Simm18 Nov 2022 8:13 UTC
17 points
3 comments24 min readEA link

The Case for Space: A Longter­mist Alter­na­tive to Ex­is­ten­tial Threat Reduction

Giga18 Nov 2020 13:09 UTC
8 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

A can of worms: the non-sig­nifi­cant effect of de­worm­ing on hap­piness in the KLPS

Samuel Dupret21 Dec 2022 13:10 UTC
46 points
17 comments23 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Pri­ori­ti­za­tion when size mat­ters: Value of information

jh7 Jan 2022 5:16 UTC
23 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Is any­one co­or­di­nat­ing am­a­teurs to do cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion re­search in groups?

TrenchFloat21 Sep 2020 7:07 UTC
19 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is ex­is­ten­tial risk more press­ing than other ways to im­prove the long-term fu­ture?

BrownHairedEevee20 Aug 2020 3:50 UTC
23 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

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

Zoe Williams12 Sep 2022 23:21 UTC
36 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

My take on What We Owe the Future

elifland1 Sep 2022 18:07 UTC
351 points
51 comments26 min readEA link

How tractable is chang­ing the course of his­tory?

Jamie_Harris22 May 2019 15:29 UTC
41 points
2 comments7 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

We are still in triage

JulianHazell30 Aug 2022 13:59 UTC
43 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(hazell.substack.com)

Quan­tify­ing Uncer­tainty in GiveWell’s GiveDirectly Cost-Effec­tive­ness Analysis

SamNolan27 May 2022 3:10 UTC
130 points
19 comments7 min readEA link

Re­duc­ing Trans­ac­tion Costs, or Coasean Effec­tive Altruism

IvanVendrov31 May 2021 1:11 UTC
23 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] If EA has over­es­ti­mated its pro­jected fund­ing, which de­ci­sions must be re­vised?

strawberry calm11 Nov 2022 5:27 UTC
37 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

May 5th Event: Democ­racy, Altru­ism, & the Ethics of Transna­tional Aid

Mahendra Prasad5 May 2021 5:33 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Why the EA aver­sion to lo­cal al­tru­is­tic ac­tion?

Locke10 Jun 2022 23:01 UTC
5 points
12 comments4 min readEA link

Make the Drought Eva­po­rate!

Anthony Repetto19 Nov 2022 23:48 UTC
4 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

How I Came To Longter­mism On My Own & An Out­sider Per­spec­tive On EA Longtermism

Jordan Arel7 Aug 2022 2:42 UTC
34 points
2 comments20 min readEA link

Health and hap­piness re­search top­ics—Part 3: The sHALY: Devel­op­ing sub­jec­tive wellbe­ing-based health metrics

Derek30 Dec 2020 15:27 UTC
37 points
2 comments38 min readEA link

Help us find pain points in AI safety

Esben Kran12 Apr 2022 18:43 UTC
31 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

Pre­sent-day good in­ten­tions aren’t suffi­cient to make the longterm fu­ture good in expectation

trurl2 Sep 2022 3:22 UTC
7 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

An app to as­sess the de­gree of ne­glect­ed­ness of each field of study

Raphaël S28 Jun 2022 23:23 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

In­ter­nal Mi­gra­tion: A Cost-Effec­tive Method for Rais­ing Wages, Im­prov­ing Liv­ing Stan­dards, and Pro­mot­ing Eco­nomic Growth

JamieSimonson6 Aug 2022 8:45 UTC
29 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

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

rikaela20 Dec 2020 8:04 UTC
33 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

The Role of In­di­vi­d­ual Con­sump­tion De­ci­sions in An­i­mal Welfare and Cli­mate are Analogous

Gabriel Weil10 Jun 2022 6:18 UTC
40 points
33 comments11 min readEA link

In­stead of tech­ni­cal re­search, more peo­ple should fo­cus on buy­ing time

Akash5 Nov 2022 20:43 UTC
106 points
32 comments1 min readEA link

What are cur­rent smaller prob­lems re­lated to top EA cause ar­eas (eg deep­fake poli­cies for AI risk, on­go­ing covid var­i­ants for bio risk) and would it be benefi­cial for these small and not-catas­trophic challenges to get more EA re­sources, as a way of de­vel­op­ing ca­pac­ity to pre­vent the catas­trophic ver­sions?

nonzerosum13 Jun 2022 17:32 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Beyond Sim­ple Ex­is­ten­tial Risk: Sur­vival in a Com­plex In­ter­con­nected World

Gideon Futerman21 Nov 2022 14:35 UTC
82 points
67 comments21 min readEA link

Hyper­ten­sion is Ex­tremely Im­por­tant, Tractable, and Neglected

Marshall13 May 2022 15:00 UTC
19 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Why com­plex­ity sci­ence is im­por­tant for effec­tive altruism

Nikiz15 Dec 2022 12:34 UTC
−21 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Are poul­try birds re­ally im­por­tant? Yes...

Vasco Grilo19 Jun 2022 18:24 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Causal Net­work Model II: Tech­ni­cal Guide

Alex_Barry19 Nov 2017 21:16 UTC
7 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

Launch of High Im­pact Medicine Ger­many (Hi-Med Ger­many)

erikjentzen27 Mar 2022 19:27 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

StrongMinds should not be a top-rated char­ity (yet)

Simon_M27 Dec 2022 23:53 UTC
331 points
127 comments6 min readEA link
(simonm.substack.com)

What can we learn from a short pre­view of a su­per-erup­tion and what are some tractable ways of miti­gat­ing it

Mike Cassidy3 Feb 2022 11:26 UTC
52 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Against Longter­mism: I wel­come our robot over­lords, and you should too!

MattBall2 Jul 2022 2:05 UTC
2 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Un­der­stand­ing and eval­u­at­ing EA’s cause pri­ori­ti­sa­tion methodology

MichaelPlant14 Oct 2019 19:55 UTC
39 points
2 comments19 min readEA link

Might stop­ping mis­car­riages be a very im­por­tant cause area?

SaraAzubuike5 Dec 2021 17:18 UTC
12 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

Tom Moynihan on why prior gen­er­a­tions missed some of the biggest pri­ori­ties of all

80000_Hours29 Jul 2021 16:38 UTC
20 points
0 comments158 min readEA link

A case for the adop­tion of Phage ther­apy in Africa

emmannaemeka7 Dec 2022 1:38 UTC
11 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Does EA do any work to change our in­ad­e­quate so­ciety into an ad­e­quate so­ciety?

Elliot Temple9 Nov 2022 17:18 UTC
22 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

The great en­ergy de­scent—Post 3: What we can do, what we can’t do

Corentin Biteau31 Aug 2022 21:51 UTC
10 points
0 comments22 min readEA link

Time con­sis­tency for the EA com­mu­nity: Pro­jects that bridge the gap be­tween near-term boot­strap­ping and long-term targets

Arturo Macias12 Nov 2022 7:44 UTC
7 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Short-Term AI Align­ment as a Pri­or­ity Cause

len.hoang.lnh11 Feb 2020 16:22 UTC
17 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism and global pal­li­a­tive care: One pro­ject case

Phil Di Sorbo21 Dec 2022 5:58 UTC
2 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

So­cial Re­la­tion­ships: A Ne­glected Fac­tor in Wellbeing

Minh Nguyen11 Aug 2022 16:15 UTC
31 points
2 comments11 min readEA link

In Sup­port of Paradigm Shifting

helmetedhornbill9 Aug 2022 18:27 UTC
3 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

AI ac­cel­er­a­tion from a safety per­spec­tive: Trade-offs and con­sid­er­a­tions

mariushobbhahn19 Jan 2022 9:44 UTC
12 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­tion to Effec­tive Altru­ism (Ajeya Co­tra)

EA Global24 May 2016 16:03 UTC
73 points
4 comments16 min readEA link

[Question] Does Fac­tory Farm­ing Make Nat­u­ral Pan­demics More Likely?

brook31 Oct 2022 12:50 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Ben Garfinkel: How sure are we about this AI stuff?

bgarfinkel9 Feb 2019 19:17 UTC
120 points
17 comments18 min readEA link

[Question] In­ves­ti­gat­ing Cause Areas vs. Jump­ing In

SeanEngelhart11 Apr 2022 2:56 UTC
13 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Baby Cause Areas, Ex­is­ten­tial Risk, and Longtermism

Davidmanheim25 May 2022 13:13 UTC
60 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Strate­gic Risks and Un­likely Benefits

Anthony Repetto4 Dec 2021 6:01 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readEA link

How Im­por­tant is “Get­ting Out the Vote?”

Ceteris Paribus1 Nov 2022 9:53 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Look­ing for col­lab­o­ra­tors af­ter last 80k pod­cast with Tris­tan Harris

Jan-Willem7 Dec 2020 22:23 UTC
19 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] De­ci­sion mak­ing un­der model am­bi­guity, moral un­cer­tainty, and other agents with free will?

Jobst Heitzig (vodle.it)2 Nov 2022 12:52 UTC
15 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

The im­por­tance of get­ting digi­tal con­scious­ness right

Derek Shiller13 Jun 2022 10:41 UTC
66 points
13 comments6 min readEA link

Reflec­tions for In­tro­duc­tions to Altruism

Philip Windred11 Sep 2022 10:23 UTC
6 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Anatomy of change

JoseCyC28 Oct 2022 1:12 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Quan­tify­ing the Far Fu­ture Effects of Interventions

MichaelDickens18 May 2016 2:15 UTC
8 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

The ‘In­ter­nal Fam­ily Sys­tems (IFS)’ Ther­apy Model. So­ciolog­i­cal, and psy­cholog­i­cal po­ten­tials.

Penguino14 Jun 2022 10:01 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The Im­por­tance of Ar­tifi­cial Sentience

Jamie_Harris3 Mar 2021 17:17 UTC
64 points
10 comments12 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

We’re search­ing for mean­ing, not hap­piness (et al.)

Joshua Clingo1 Sep 2022 7:34 UTC
18 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

What 80000 Hours gets wrong about so­lar geoengineering

Gideon Futerman29 Aug 2022 13:24 UTC
32 points
4 comments23 min readEA link

Are some SDGs more im­por­tant than oth­ers? Re­vealed coun­try pri­ori­ties from four years of VNRs

BrownHairedEevee16 Aug 2020 6:56 UTC
10 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(www.un.org)

GiveWell’s Mo­ral Weights Un­der­weight the Value of Trans­fers to the Poor

Trevor Woolley13 Dec 2022 7:23 UTC
83 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

The Threat of Cli­mate Change Is Exaggerated

Samrin Saleem11 Jul 2022 15:44 UTC
6 points
15 comments14 min readEA link

Sur­vey-Pro­posal: Cause-Area Switching

rodeo_flagellum6 Aug 2021 2:23 UTC
18 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

What if states don’t listen? A fun­da­men­tal gap in x-risk re­duc­tion strate­gies

HTC30 Aug 2022 4:27 UTC
24 points
1 comment17 min readEA link

New Global Pri­ori­ties In­sti­tute work­ing pa­pers—and an up­dated ver­sion of “The case for strong longter­mism”

Global Priorities Institute9 Aug 2021 16:57 UTC
46 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] How should we in­vest in “long-term short-ter­mism” given the like­li­hood of trans­for­ma­tive AI?

James_Banks12 Jan 2021 23:54 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Eval­u­at­ing ne­glect­ed­ness. Where is the ‘world port­fo­lio’?

Val19 Oct 2022 14:39 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Why I’m skep­ti­cal about un­proven causes (and you should be too)

Peter Wildeford7 Aug 2013 4:00 UTC
41 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

[Cross­post]: Huge vol­canic erup­tions: time to pre­pare (Na­ture)

Mike Cassidy19 Aug 2022 12:02 UTC
107 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.nature.com)

A Fair Vote Can Change the World

Rob Richie15 Aug 2022 5:26 UTC
3 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

[Question] What is the state of the art in EA cost-effec­tive­ness mod­el­ling?

Froolow4 Jun 2022 12:08 UTC
26 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

69 things that might be pretty effec­tive to fund

Hauke Hillebrandt21 Jan 2018 22:47 UTC
34 points
26 comments15 min readEA link

Why EA needs Oper­a­tions Re­search: the sci­ence of de­ci­sion making

wesg21 Jul 2022 0:47 UTC
74 points
20 comments14 min readEA link

[Question] Where the QALY’s at in poli­ti­cal sci­ence?

Timothy_Liptrot5 Aug 2020 5:04 UTC
7 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Fo­rum rank­ing sys­tem pro­to­type: Cause Pri­orit­sa­tion Con­test posts ranked by pre­dic­tion markets

Nathan Young5 Sep 2022 15:55 UTC
18 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

The Multi-Class Op­ti­mizer’s Curse

FeelingSentient4 Jul 2021 12:04 UTC
23 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Cen­tre for Ex­plo­ra­tory Altru­ism Re­search (CEARCH)

Joel Tan (CEARCH)18 Oct 2022 7:23 UTC
121 points
15 comments5 min readEA link

Cause se­lec­tion: a flowchart [link]

Owen Cotton-Barratt10 Sep 2015 11:52 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Why don’t many effec­tive al­tru­ists work on nat­u­ral re­source scarcity?

Robert_Wiblin20 Feb 2016 12:32 UTC
14 points
40 comments7 min readEA link

Oc­to­puses (Prob­a­bly) Don’t Have Nine Minds

Bob Fischer12 Dec 2022 11:59 UTC
93 points
19 comments10 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Fore­cast­ing of Pri­ori­ties: a tool for effec­tive poli­ti­cal par­ti­ci­pa­tion?

janklenha31 Dec 2020 15:24 UTC
27 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] What would “do­ing enough” to safe­guard the long-term fu­ture look like?

HStencil22 Apr 2020 21:47 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Differ­ence, Pro­jec­tion, and Adaptation

YOG10 Nov 2022 10:46 UTC
0 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

In­ter­na­tional co­op­er­a­tion as a tool to re­duce two ex­is­ten­tial risks.

johl@umich.edu19 Apr 2021 16:51 UTC
27 points
4 comments23 min readEA link

EA Un­der­val­ues Unseen Data

tcelferact24 Jul 2022 15:52 UTC
8 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

In­tro to Cy­ber­biose­cu­rity—Kathryn Millet | Biosecure

Madhav Malhotra6 Nov 2022 1:18 UTC
10 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

WFW?: Op­por­tu­nity and The­ory of Impact

DavidCorfield2 Nov 2022 0:45 UTC
2 points
5 comments14 min readEA link
(www.whatfuture.world)

[Question] Does EA have a model for sci­en­tific im­pact?

Jay Bailey8 Apr 2022 1:34 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

New cause area: train­ing health work­ers to pre­vent new­born deaths

Marshall20 Jun 2022 17:12 UTC
62 points
4 comments14 min readEA link

What Peter Singer Got Wrong (And Where Give Well Could Im­prove)

LiaH14 Oct 2022 16:15 UTC
4 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

Bring­ing Out The Best In Humanity

Marc Wong5 Oct 2022 15:20 UTC
3 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

[Question] Does EA need bet­ter ex­pla­na­tions of why Cli­mate Change isn’t so pop­u­lar a cause area?

Joseph Bloom4 Oct 2022 13:28 UTC
19 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Up­date on Cause Pri­ori­ti­za­tion at Open Philanthropy

Holden Karnofsky26 Jan 2018 16:40 UTC
11 points
2 comments40 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Pri­ori­tiz­ing among the Sus­tain­able Devel­op­ment Goals

BrownHairedEevee7 Feb 2020 5:05 UTC
8 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(oecd-development-matters.org)

Effec­tive Poli­ti­cal Action

Nathan Ashby22 Aug 2022 4:56 UTC
24 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Should GMOs (e.g. golden rice) be a cause area?

mariushobbhahn31 Jan 2022 13:42 UTC
105 points
18 comments12 min readEA link

How should we pri­ori­tize cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion?

Peter Wildeford13 Jun 2016 17:03 UTC
18 points
7 comments11 min readEA link

[Question] EA’s Achieve­ments in 2022

ElliotJDavies14 Dec 2022 14:33 UTC
98 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­is­ten­tial Risks: Hu­man Rights

Chiharu Saruwatari15 Dec 2022 12:35 UTC
5 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Wor­ld­view Diversification

Holden Karnofsky13 Dec 2016 14:15 UTC
4 points
0 comments15 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

[Question] Is im­prov­ing the welfare of arthro­pods and ne­ma­todes un­der­rated?

Vasco Grilo8 Nov 2022 10:26 UTC
35 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Po­ten­tial Risks from Ad­vanced Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence: The Philan­thropic Opportunity

Holden Karnofsky6 May 2016 12:55 UTC
2 points
0 comments23 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Crit­i­cism of the main frame­work in AI alignment

Michele Campolo31 Aug 2022 21:44 UTC
35 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

EA Cameroon—COVID-19 Aware­ness and Preven­tion in the Santa Divi­sion of Cameroon Pro­ject Pro­posal

brb24325 Jul 2020 20:19 UTC
62 points
12 comments12 min readEA link

Sce­nario Map­ping Ad­vanced AI Risk: Re­quest for Par­ti­ci­pa­tion with Data Collection

Kiliank27 Mar 2022 11:44 UTC
14 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Key Ques­tions about Philan­thropy, Part 2: Choos­ing Fo­cus Areas and Hiring Pro­gram Staff

Holden Karnofsky9 Jul 2015 13:31 UTC
3 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Should longter­mists fo­cus more on cli­mate re­silience?

Richard Ren3 May 2022 16:51 UTC
46 points
15 comments20 min readEA link

Linkpost for var­i­ous re­cent es­says on suffer­ing-fo­cused ethics, pri­ori­ties, and more

Magnus Vinding28 Sep 2022 8:58 UTC
86 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

Pri­ori­ti­za­tion when size matters

jh5 Jan 2022 22:11 UTC
39 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

Health and hap­piness re­search top­ics—Part 2: The HALY+: Im­prov­ing prefer­ence-based health metrics

Derek3 Jan 2021 15:08 UTC
56 points
3 comments73 min readEA link

Open Thread: Spring 2022

Aaron Gertler1 Nov 2021 10:05 UTC
29 points
252 comments1 min readEA link

Equity should be a part of effec­tive­ness eval­u­a­tions

Akhil31 Jan 2022 19:48 UTC
30 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] Should re­duc­ing gov­ern­ment funded an­i­mal ex­per­i­ments be on the agenda for EA?

ChristianKleineidam29 Oct 2022 13:58 UTC
16 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How can the ‘ego­tism’ of a sig­nifi­cantly large but scat­tered com­mu­nity af­fect the growth of EA?

Maynk0217 Oct 2022 7:50 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

A case for the effec­tive­ness of protest

James Özden29 Nov 2021 11:50 UTC
107 points
26 comments66 min readEA link

The in­ter­sec­tion of for­eign aid and EA: a U.S. case study

ljusten8 Jan 2021 20:57 UTC
19 points
4 comments18 min readEA link

Assess­ing Cost Effec­tive­ness: malnu­tri­tion, famine, and cause prioritization

leosn25 Sep 2022 15:14 UTC
14 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

Char­ity to sup­port star­tups in emerg­ing markets

Hendrik Broering9 Nov 2022 5:31 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Mar­ket De­sign Meets Effec­tive Altruism

Marshall19 Apr 2022 21:39 UTC
26 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

How of­ten does One Per­son suc­ceed?

Maynk0228 Oct 2022 19:32 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

The great en­ergy de­scent (short ver­sion) - An im­por­tant thing EA might have missed

Corentin Biteau31 Aug 2022 21:50 UTC
57 points
88 comments10 min readEA link

Weighted wellbe­ing pop­u­la­tion theory

brb2433 Nov 2021 3:01 UTC
2 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Sys­temic Cas­cad­ing Risks: Rele­vance in Longter­mism & Value Lock-In

Richard Ren2 Sep 2022 7:53 UTC
45 points
10 comments16 min readEA link

Lo­cal pri­ori­ties re­search: what is it, who should con­sider do­ing it, and why

Yi-Yang6 Sep 2020 14:57 UTC
82 points
9 comments14 min readEA link

Why I’m skep­ti­cal of moral cir­cle ex­pan­sion as a cause area

Question Mark14 Jul 2022 20:29 UTC
17 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Prob­lem area re­port: men­tal health

CaitlinWalker20 May 2021 11:20 UTC
74 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

In­sect farm­ing might cause more suffer­ing than other an­i­mal farming

ishankhire1 Nov 2022 9:54 UTC
48 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion: Adapt­ing to Ex­treme Heat Ex­po­sure in South Asia

Surbhi B9 Aug 2022 23:50 UTC
23 points
5 comments16 min readEA link

The Case for Non-Tech­ni­cal AI Safety/​Align­ment Growth & Funding

Algo_Law28 Apr 2022 16:31 UTC
17 points
9 comments8 min readEA link

Non-Con­se­quen­tial­ist Con­sid­er­a­tions For Cause-Pri­oritza­tion Part 1

Parker_Whitfill28 Nov 2018 22:22 UTC
14 points
2 comments15 min readEA link

Benefi­ciary prefer­ences and cause prioritization

v12 Dec 2020 18:03 UTC
10 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

I’m max­i­miz­ing good, not my con­tri­bu­tion to good

oh5432123 May 2022 23:26 UTC
41 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

In­no­va­tion Sys­tem needs fixing

Danila Medvedev3 May 2022 19:56 UTC
10 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

The Welfare Range Table

Bob Fischer7 Nov 2022 10:19 UTC
347 points
14 comments8 min readEA link

Mak­ing EA More Effective

Peter Kelly31 Aug 2022 5:02 UTC
7 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

Should we buy coal mines?

John G. Halstead4 May 2022 7:28 UTC
216 points
31 comments7 min readEA link

The case for be­com­ing a black-box in­ves­ti­ga­tor of lan­guage models

Buck6 May 2022 14:37 UTC
89 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Cor­po­rate Global Catas­trophic Risks (C-GCRs)

Hauke Hillebrandt30 Jun 2019 16:53 UTC
63 points
17 comments12 min readEA link

An­tifun­gal Re­sis­tance—The Ne­glected Cousin of An­tibiotic Resistance

Madhav Malhotra4 Feb 2022 15:47 UTC
49 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] How good an idea would a sys­tem to crowd­fund or part­ner with re­tail gi­ants for bet­ter con­sumer product safety test­ing and re­port­ing be?

Pseudonym1016 Nov 2022 6:15 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Assess­ing the im­pact of quan­tum cryptanalysis

Jaime Sevilla22 Jul 2020 11:26 UTC
35 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Re­place­abil­ity Con­cerns and Pos­si­ble Responses

sapphire2 Aug 2020 18:19 UTC
30 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

State of the land: Mis­in­for­ma­tion and its effects on global catas­trophic risks

ruthgrace21 Mar 2022 20:04 UTC
29 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

An­i­mal Test­ing Is Ex­ploita­tive and Largely Ineffective

Erich_Grunewald13 Jun 2021 10:46 UTC
27 points
3 comments11 min readEA link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Quadratic Pay­ments: A Primer (Vi­talik Bu­terin, 2019)

BrownHairedEevee5 Apr 2021 18:05 UTC
29 points
6 comments2 min readEA link
(vitalik.ca)

The Pos­si­bil­ity of an On­go­ing Mo­ral Catas­tro­phe (Sum­mary)

Linch2 Aug 2019 21:55 UTC
94 points
12 comments4 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

In­creas­ing Ac­cess to Pain Relief in Devel­op­ing Coun­tries—An EA Perspective

Lee_Sharkey31 Jan 2017 16:13 UTC
85 points
19 comments10 min readEA link

Cal New­port on an in­dus­trial rev­olu­tion for office work

80000_Hours27 Aug 2021 18:37 UTC
5 points
0 comments100 min readEA link

Sci-Hub sued in India

cflexman30 Dec 2021 2:48 UTC
113 points
7 comments8 min readEA link

Col­lec­tion of good 2012-2017 EA fo­rum posts

saulius10 Jul 2020 16:35 UTC
178 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

Wor­ld­view In­ves­ti­ga­tions Team: An Overview

Rethink Priorities25 Feb 2023 17:29 UTC
97 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

A frame­work for self-determination

kbog21 Jul 2021 11:33 UTC
17 points
0 comments45 min readEA link

[Link] The Case for Char­ter Cities Within the EA Frame­work (CCI)

Milan_Griffes23 Sep 2019 20:08 UTC
34 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

The effec­tive al­tru­ist case for parliamentarism

Tiago Santos28 Oct 2021 16:10 UTC
22 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Quan­tum com­put­ing timelines

Jaime Sevilla15 Sep 2020 14:15 UTC
21 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion in Canada.

yvosaurus27 Feb 2023 9:24 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Re­mote Health Cen­ters In Uganda—a cost effec­tive in­ter­ven­tion?

NickLaing27 Feb 2023 5:27 UTC
121 points
21 comments9 min readEA link

Should we her­bivorize preda­tors?

Stijn28 Feb 2022 18:34 UTC
4 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

EAs should recom­mend cost-effec­tive in­ter­ven­tions in more cause ar­eas (not just the most press­ing ones)

Amber Dawn1 Sep 2022 17:45 UTC
37 points
18 comments10 min readEA link

The ro­dent birth con­trol landscape

Holly_Elmore29 Apr 2022 20:00 UTC
107 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(osf.io)

[Question] Is pre­vent­ing child abuse a plau­si­ble Cause X?

Milan_Griffes4 May 2019 0:58 UTC
59 points
34 comments1 min readEA link

Three Heuris­tics for Find­ing Cause X

Kerry_Vaughan4 Nov 2016 14:36 UTC
5 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Pre­serv­ing nat­u­ral ecosys­tems?

carlbaatz21 Mar 2021 11:28 UTC
11 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Has any­one gone into the ‘High-Im­pact PA’ path?

TrenchFloat27 Sep 2020 15:23 UTC
40 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Con­sider rais­ing IQ to do good

Lila_Rieber13 May 2014 5:53 UTC
15 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

Risks from Asteroids

finm11 Feb 2022 21:01 UTC
44 points
9 comments5 min readEA link
(www.finmoorhouse.com)

The Case for Education

SamuelKnoche14 Aug 2020 17:26 UTC
21 points
10 comments10 min readEA link

I Re­viewed the 4000-page Disease Con­trol Pri­ori­ties Col­lec­tion: Fund 4 Pro­grams; Divest from Cost-in­effec­tive Bed­nets and Deworming

brb2439 Jul 2022 22:36 UTC
20 points
9 comments17 min readEA link

Dig­nity as al­ter­na­tive EA pri­or­ity—re­quest for feedback

tomwein25 Jun 2020 13:50 UTC
29 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

Steer­ing AI to care for an­i­mals, and soon

Andrew Critch14 Jun 2022 1:13 UTC
206 points
38 comments1 min readEA link

Ok Doomer! SRM and Catas­trophic Risk Podcast

Gideon Futerman20 Aug 2022 12:22 UTC
10 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(open.spotify.com)

Re­duc­ing long-term risks from malev­olent actors

David_Althaus29 Apr 2020 8:55 UTC
308 points
85 comments37 min readEA link

Blind Spots: Compartmentalizing

Dale31 Dec 2014 22:25 UTC
20 points
55 comments14 min readEA link

The case for study­ing sty­lo­met­ric deanonymi­sa­tion as surveillance tech

acylhalide8 Dec 2021 12:57 UTC
14 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Prevent­ing atheroscle­ro­sis, the eas­iest way to im­prove your life ex­pec­tancy?

Eli_30 Nov 2022 6:31 UTC
16 points
7 comments15 min readEA link

[Question] Need for safe­guards to miti­gate tech­nol­ogy risk

tech_vulnerability_society31 Jul 2020 10:53 UTC
−13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Me­ta­verse democrati­sa­tion as a po­ten­tial EA cause area

Paul_Lang22 Feb 2022 0:42 UTC
25 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

Rus­sian Re­sis­tance: a web­site about protesters and how one could sup­port them

Svetoslav Palović18 Jul 2022 7:00 UTC
13 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Call for Papers:

Simon Ruiz-Martinez27 Feb 2023 19:11 UTC
17 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(revistas.upb.edu.co)

OPIS policy pa­per: Le­gal­is­ing ac­cess to psilo­cy­bin for the treat­ment of cluster headaches

jonleighton12 Nov 2020 11:10 UTC
43 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

In­tac­tivism as a po­ten­tial Effec­tive Altru­ist cause area?

Question Mark26 Jun 2021 7:21 UTC
1 point
8 comments3 min readEA link

The scale of di­rect hu­man im­pact on invertebrates

abrahamrowe2 Sep 2020 13:22 UTC
77 points
6 comments13 min readEA link

Every Gen­er­a­tor Is A Policy Failure [Works in Progress]

Lauren Gilbert27 Feb 2023 10:56 UTC
50 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(worksinprogress.co)

Milk EA, Casu Marzu EA

Jeff Kaufman27 Feb 2023 14:14 UTC
122 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

My pre­limi­nary re­search on the Adtech marketplace

Venkatesh30 Mar 2021 4:42 UTC
2 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

Re­silience & Biodiversity

emwalz11 Aug 2022 0:37 UTC
50 points
9 comments14 min readEA link

Hu­man­i­ties Re­search Ideas for Longtermists

Lizka9 Jun 2021 4:39 UTC
146 points
13 comments13 min readEA link

Bounty: Guide To Switch­ing From Farmed Fish To Wild-Caught Fish

ozymandias22 Feb 2019 16:10 UTC
37 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(thingofthings.wordpress.com)

Are we already past the precipice?

Dem0sthenes10 Aug 2022 4:01 UTC
1 point
5 comments2 min readEA link

North Korea faces Covid and Drought [Linkpost]

aogara11 Jul 2022 2:07 UTC
13 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(www.economist.com)

Love seems like a high priority

kbog19 Jan 2020 0:41 UTC
54 points
31 comments12 min readEA link

The Eco­nomic Benefits of Pro­mot­ing and Pro­tect­ing the Rights of LGBTQ+ Com­mu­ni­ties in Devel­op­ing Coun­tries (cause ex­plo­ra­tion)

Susannah Hares10 Aug 2022 15:14 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Cause Sugges­tion: Econ Literacy

Yonatan Cale18 Dec 2022 18:16 UTC
21 points
21 comments3 min readEA link

The Case for Pro­mot­ing /​ Creat­ing Public Goods Mar­kets as a Cause Area

MikkW24 Oct 2020 5:23 UTC
31 points
2 comments14 min readEA link

Paper is pub­lished! 100,000 lu­mens to treat sea­sonal af­fec­tive di­s­or­der

Fabienne20 Aug 2022 19:44 UTC
48 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Cause Area Pro­posal: Paper­work Reduction

Ja3k8 Aug 2022 20:23 UTC
20 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Cause area: Short-sleeper genes

JohnBoyle10 Aug 2022 12:51 UTC
87 points
31 comments7 min readEA link

On the as­sess­ment of vol­canic erup­tions as global catas­trophic or ex­is­ten­tial risks

Mike Cassidy13 Oct 2021 14:32 UTC
108 points
17 comments19 min readEA link

A love let­ter to civilian OSINT, and pos­si­bil­ities as a tool in EA

eukaryote10 Jul 2020 20:55 UTC
72 points
4 comments9 min readEA link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Why EA meta, and the top 3 char­ity ideas in the space

Joey6 Jan 2021 15:47 UTC
87 points
20 comments10 min readEA link

Ge­netic En­hance­ment as a Cause Area

Galton25 Dec 2019 11:30 UTC
102 points
21 comments12 min readEA link

En­light­en­ment How?

thisisntrob25 Jun 2020 12:46 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Cog­ni­tive Risks of Ado­les­cent Binge Drinking

Elizabeth26 Jul 2022 17:09 UTC
24 points
2 comments10 min readEA link
(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] Is nan­otech­nol­ogy (such as APM) im­por­tant for EAs’ to work on?

pixel_brownie_software12 Mar 2020 15:36 UTC
6 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] I want to go to De­sign and Ar­chi­tec­ture School to im­prove the world as I think it has a dis­pro­por­tionately large im­pact po­ten­tial—and I need ap­prox $25k for a stipend.

Darren_Tindall7 Apr 2022 17:21 UTC
2 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

A brief look at re­duc­ing the effi­ciency of genocides

NLHeath11 Nov 2020 18:07 UTC
34 points
5 comments9 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing in­cen­tives in re­search—could we top­ple the h-in­dex?

PCO Moore8 Aug 2022 10:11 UTC
8 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Benefits of EA en­gag­ing with main­stream (ad­dressed) cause areas

blehrer8 May 2019 20:38 UTC
31 points
14 comments7 min readEA link

Is The YouTube Al­gorithm Rad­i­cal­iz­ing You? It’s Com­pli­cated.

BrownHairedEevee1 Mar 2021 21:50 UTC
44 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Be­ing a donor for Fe­cal Micro­biota Trans­plants (FMT): Do good & earn easy money (up to 180k/​y)

Anton Rodenhauser6 Jul 2022 14:58 UTC
48 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

Sex work as part of men­tal health and wellbe­ing ser­vices

Mary 3 Mar 2022 5:59 UTC
47 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

An Ar­gu­ment To Pri­ori­tize “Pos­i­tively Shap­ing the Devel­op­ment of Crypto-as­sets”

rhys_lindmark3 Apr 2018 21:59 UTC
16 points
14 comments14 min readEA link

[Question] Is there any­one look­ing at the im­por­tance of sim­plify­ing com­plex so­cio-tech­ni­cal sys­tems?

mikbp12 Sep 2022 7:49 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What new EA pro­ject or org would you like to see cre­ated in the next 3 years?

Ozzie Gooen11 Jun 2019 20:56 UTC
75 points
83 comments1 min readEA link

Mon­key­pox: Is it worth wor­ry­ing about?

MarcusAbramovitch17 Aug 2022 5:59 UTC
27 points
11 comments4 min readEA link

Fur­ther thoughts on char­ter cities and effec­tive altruism

marklutter20 Jul 2021 19:56 UTC
75 points
13 comments7 min readEA link

Psychedelics Normalization

andzuck26 Apr 2019 2:50 UTC
52 points
26 comments1 min readEA link

The Case for a Strate­gic U.S. Coal Re­serve for Cli­mate and Catastrophes

ColdButtonIssues5 May 2022 1:24 UTC
30 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Jhana meditation

Milan_Griffes12 Aug 2022 5:26 UTC
69 points
5 comments10 min readEA link

Jus­tice and Global Pri­ori­ties Re­search Read­ing List

LuisMota30 Aug 2022 19:46 UTC
34 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Fa­nat­i­cal EAs should sup­port very weird projects

Derek Shiller30 Jun 2022 12:07 UTC
47 points
42 comments9 min readEA link

My list of effec­tive al­tru­ism ideas that seem to be un­der­ex­plored

turchin31 May 2022 12:33 UTC
57 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

Why You Should Donate a Kid­ney—The Ne­oliberal Podcast

BrownHairedEevee27 Jun 2021 4:01 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(podcasts.apple.com)

Tax Havens and the case for Tax Justice

Alex Barnes 15 Sep 2020 18:06 UTC
54 points
10 comments10 min readEA link

Mind En­hance­ment: A High Im­pact, High Ne­glect Cause Area?

timfarkas24 Mar 2022 20:33 UTC
28 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

Effec­tive Slack­tivism: why some­body should do pri­ori­ti­za­tion re­search on slacktivism

Kat Woods3 Dec 2021 20:32 UTC
35 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Suc­cess Max­i­miza­tion: An Alter­na­tive to Ex­pected Utility The­ory and a Gen­er­al­iza­tion of Max­ipok to Mo­ral Uncertainty

Mahendra Prasad26 Nov 2022 1:53 UTC
13 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

What you can do to help stop vi­o­lence against women and girls

Akhil12 Jan 2023 11:51 UTC
312 points
24 comments16 min readEA link

[Question] Which coun­tries are most re­cep­tive to more im­mi­gra­tion?

BrownHairedEevee6 Jul 2020 21:46 UTC
19 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of donat­ing a kidney

Vasco Grilo23 Apr 2022 21:50 UTC
15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Change Our Mind Con­test for cri­tiques of our cost-effec­tive­ness analyses

GiveWell6 Sep 2022 18:10 UTC
142 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

[Question] When should the in­verse-var­i­ance method be ap­plied to dis­tri­bu­tions?

Vasco Grilo14 Jun 2022 14:33 UTC
5 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Rough at­tempt to pro­file char­i­ties which sup­port Ukrainian war re­lief in terms of their cost-effec­tive­ness.

Michael27 Feb 2022 0:51 UTC
29 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Tree plant­ing cost-effectiveness

Vasco Grilo3 Dec 2022 9:20 UTC
47 points
14 comments46 min readEA link

If we ever want to start an “Amounts mat­ter” move­ment, covid re­sponse might be a good flag/​example

AnnaSalamon24 Jul 2022 2:26 UTC
53 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

How to de­ter­mine dis­tri­bu­tion pa­ram­e­ters from quantiles

Vasco Grilo30 May 2022 15:20 UTC
23 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness dis­tri­bu­tions, power laws and scale invariance

Stijn18 Mar 2021 19:27 UTC
23 points
4 comments10 min readEA link

The win­ners of the Change Our Mind Con­test—and some reflections

GiveWell15 Dec 2022 19:33 UTC
192 points
10 comments9 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

Changes to our top char­ity crite­ria, and a new giv­ing option

GiveWell17 Aug 2022 19:30 UTC
99 points
11 comments7 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

[Question] On GiveWell’s es­ti­mates of the cost of sav­ing a life

aaron_mai1 Oct 2020 10:22 UTC
16 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Five steps for quan­tify­ing spec­u­la­tive interventions

NunoSempere18 Feb 2022 20:39 UTC
91 points
8 comments11 min readEA link

The value of money go­ing to differ­ent groups

Toby_Ord16 May 2017 13:11 UTC
22 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of op­er­a­tions man­age­ment in high-im­pact organisations

Vasco Grilo27 Nov 2022 10:33 UTC
47 points
11 comments12 min readEA link

APE: Ac­tivist /​ Altru­is­tic Pri­vate Equity

Peter Porcino18 Sep 2022 16:16 UTC
27 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness es­ti­ma­tion with pro­gram, fund­ing, and in­sti­tu­tional coun­ter­fac­tual im­pact data

brb2438 Apr 2022 16:50 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] What is the cost-effec­tive­ness of GiveWell’s top life-sav­ing char­i­ties un­der to­tal util­i­tar­i­anism?

Vasco Grilo22 Apr 2022 17:22 UTC
14 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Pur­chase fuzzies and utilons separately

EliezerYudkowsky27 Dec 2019 2:21 UTC
75 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Es­ti­mat­ing the Value of Mo­bile Money

Jeff Kaufman21 Dec 2016 13:58 UTC
8 points
18 comments3 min readEA link

Cost Effec­tive­ness of Mind­ful­ness Based Stress Reduction

Elizabeth30 Nov 2017 19:04 UTC
13 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of The Hu­mane League’s cor­po­rate cam­paigns: 2015-2017

Avi Norowitz31 Mar 2018 22:17 UTC
14 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

A Hap­piness Man­i­festo: Why and How Effec­tive Altru­ism Should Re­think its Ap­proach to Max­imis­ing Hu­man Welfare

MichaelPlant25 Oct 2018 15:48 UTC
76 points
32 comments39 min readEA link

Rel­a­tive Im­pact of the First 10 EA Fo­rum Prize Winners

NunoSempere16 Mar 2021 17:11 UTC
81 points
35 comments18 min readEA link

Clean tech­nol­ogy in­no­va­tion as the most cost-effec­tive cli­mate action

Stijn6 Dec 2020 20:06 UTC
22 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

Shap­ley Values II: Philantropic Co­or­di­na­tion The­ory & other mis­cel­lanea.

NunoSempere10 Mar 2020 17:36 UTC
34 points
1 comment29 min readEA link

In defense of a “statis­ti­cal” life

GHuang17 Feb 2021 10:38 UTC
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

The TUILS/​COILS Frame­work for Im­prov­ing Pro-Con Analysis

Harrison Durland8 Apr 2021 1:37 UTC
11 points
1 comment14 min readEA link

[Question] What is the re­la­tion­ship be­tween im­pact and EA Fo­rum karma?

Vasco Grilo6 Dec 2022 10:42 UTC
14 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Pre­dict­ing the Value of Small Altru­is­tic Pro­jects: A Proof of Con­cept Ex­per­i­ment.

NunoSempere22 Nov 2020 20:07 UTC
62 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

What has Effec­tive Altru­ism ac­tu­ally done?

Chris Leong14 Jan 2019 14:07 UTC
29 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Quan­tify­ing the Value of Evaluations

Elizabeth10 Jan 2021 22:59 UTC
23 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Are GiveWell Top Char­i­ties Too Spec­u­la­tive?

MichaelDickens21 Dec 2015 4:05 UTC
17 points
57 comments3 min readEA link

Eval­u­a­tion Frame­works (or: When Im­por­tance /​ Ne­glect­ed­ness /​ Tractabil­ity Doesn’t Ap­ply)

MichaelDickens10 Jun 2016 21:35 UTC
10 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Con­cerns with ACE research

John G. Halstead7 Sep 2018 14:56 UTC
40 points
10 comments11 min readEA link

Ways money can make things worse

Jan_Kulveit21 Jun 2022 15:26 UTC
161 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Is there some­thing like GiveWell for gov­ern­ment pro­grams?

aoreidmarr20 Dec 2021 22:25 UTC
10 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

An es­ti­mate of the value of Me­tac­u­lus questions

NunoSempere22 Oct 2021 17:45 UTC
47 points
19 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Should sur­veys about the qual­ity/​im­pact of re­search out­puts be more com­mon?

MichaelA8 Sep 2020 9:10 UTC
22 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Shal­low eval­u­a­tions of longter­mist organizations

NunoSempere24 Jun 2021 15:31 UTC
191 points
34 comments34 min readEA link

Pro­posal: Im­pact List—like the Forbes List ex­cept for im­pact via donations

Elliot_Olds30 May 2022 17:28 UTC
79 points
30 comments11 min readEA link

Many (many!) char­i­ties are too small to mea­sure their own impact

Aaron Gertler15 Feb 2021 6:39 UTC
55 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(giving-evidence.com)

Win­ners of the EA Crit­i­cism and Red Team­ing Contest

Lizka1 Oct 2022 1:50 UTC
224 points
42 comments19 min readEA link

Brief eval­u­a­tions of top-10 billionnaires

NunoSempere21 Oct 2022 15:29 UTC
79 points
66 comments6 min readEA link

As part of EA Fel­low­ship need the help of ex­perts in the field of ped­a­gogy and /​ or psychology

Daniel Shechter21 Apr 2021 5:15 UTC
14 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Im­pact is very complicated

Justis22 May 2022 4:24 UTC
94 points
12 comments6 min readEA link

What is the ex­pected value of cre­at­ing a GiveWell top char­ity?

Peter Wildeford18 Dec 2016 2:02 UTC
15 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties 2019 Im­pact and Strategy

Peter Wildeford2 Dec 2019 16:32 UTC
72 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

Pro­posal for Fore­cast­ing Givewell-Char­ity Im­pact-Metrics

Patrick Gruban13 Apr 2022 10:21 UTC
28 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

So­phie Her­manns: Big data in global health (light­ning talk)

EA Global3 Nov 2017 7:43 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

What are good rubrics or rubric el­e­ments to eval­u­ate and pre­dict im­pact?

NunoSempere3 Dec 2020 21:52 UTC
24 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

EA-Aligned Im­pact In­vest­ing: Mind Ease Case Study

Brendon_Wong15 Nov 2021 15:57 UTC
71 points
25 comments18 min readEA link

Lant Pritch­ett’s “smell test”: is your im­pact eval­u­a­tion ask­ing ques­tions that mat­ter?

Aaron Gertler18 Mar 2020 23:38 UTC
36 points
7 comments3 min readEA link
(www.cgdev.org)

Re­think Grants: an eval­u­a­tion of Dona­tional’s Cor­po­rate Am­bas­sador Program

Derek23 Jul 2019 23:53 UTC
54 points
23 comments67 min readEA link

Retroac­tive fund­ing im­pact quan­tifi­ca­tion and maximization

brb24310 Jun 2022 22:33 UTC
7 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

How much does it cost to save a life in the med­iter­ranean sea?

SamMumm9 Sep 2020 21:18 UTC
24 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Stu­dents for High-Im­pact Char­ity: 2018 Update

baxterb8 Aug 2018 23:52 UTC
17 points
19 comments9 min readEA link

Allo­cat­ing Global Aid to Max­i­mize Utility

Aaron Gertler15 Feb 2021 6:42 UTC
19 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(www.cgdev.org)

Shap­ley val­ues: Bet­ter than counterfactuals

NunoSempere10 Oct 2019 10:26 UTC
130 points
36 comments14 min readEA link

Why I’m con­cerned about Giv­ing Green

alex lawsen (previously alexrjl)20 Jan 2021 22:59 UTC
227 points
49 comments13 min readEA link

How the Giv­ing Games Pro­ject Tracks Its Impact

carrickflynn20 May 2019 16:56 UTC
34 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

Path­ways to im­pact for fore­cast­ing and evaluation

NunoSempere25 Nov 2021 17:59 UTC
29 points
16 comments2 min readEA link

High Time For Drug Policy Re­form. Part 4/​4: Es­ti­mat­ing Cost-Effec­tive­ness vs Other Causes; What EA Should Do Next

MichaelPlant12 Aug 2017 18:03 UTC
8 points
11 comments12 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)

Eval­u­at­ing Life Ex­ten­sion Ad­vo­cacy Foun­da­tion

Emanuele_Ascani30 Sep 2020 17:46 UTC
20 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis of a pro­gram pro­mot­ing a ve­gan diet

nadavb12 Nov 2020 17:24 UTC
44 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Im­pact of Char­ity Eval­u­a­tions on Eval­u­ated Char­i­ties’ Effectiveness

EdoArad25 Jan 2021 13:24 UTC
26 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

So­cial im­pact of the dona­tions of the 10 rich­est peo­ple in the world—very shal­low analysis

Vasco Grilo28 Jan 2023 7:40 UTC
−7 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Book Give­away Im­pact Anal­y­sis (Do­ing Good Bet­ter in NZ)

Ivan Burduk13 Jul 2021 13:52 UTC
62 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

Bulk­ing in­for­ma­tion ad­di­tion­al­ities in global de­vel­op­ment for medium-term lo­cal prosperity

brb24311 Apr 2022 17:52 UTC
4 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] How to mea­sure (hu­man) im­pact?

rodeo_flagellum27 Sep 2021 20:13 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

2017 LEAN Im­pact Assess­ment: Qual­i­ta­tive Findings

Richenda3 Jan 2018 20:42 UTC
21 points
11 comments27 min readEA link

Im­pactMat­ters was ac­quired by Char­i­tyNav­i­ga­tor; but it doesn’t seem to have been in­cor­po­rated, pre­sented, or used in a great way. (Up­date/​boost)

david_reinstein13 Jan 2022 19:00 UTC
25 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What should the norms around pri­vacy and eval­u­a­tion in the EA com­mu­nity be?

NunoSempere16 Jun 2021 17:31 UTC
65 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

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

MichaelStJules5 Nov 2020 9:11 UTC
40 points
11 comments6 min readEA link

A Land­scape Anal­y­sis of In­sti­tu­tional Im­prove­ment Opportunities

IanDavidMoss21 Mar 2022 0:15 UTC
101 points
24 comments29 min readEA link

An in­te­grated model to eval­u­ate the im­pact of an­i­mal products

kbog9 Jan 2019 11:04 UTC
40 points
18 comments4 min readEA link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties 2020 Im­pact and 2021 Strategy

Marcus_A_Davis25 Nov 2020 13:28 UTC
118 points
7 comments11 min readEA link

Why sci­en­tific re­search is less effec­tive in pro­duc­ing value than it could be: a mapping

C Tilli14 Jun 2021 8:24 UTC
109 points
32 comments19 min readEA link

Coun­ter­fac­tual credit assignment

Brian_Tomasik24 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Ex­pected Value Es­ti­mates You Can (Maybe) Take Literally

MichaelDickens6 Apr 2016 15:11 UTC
21 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

Triple count­ing im­pact in EA

Joey26 May 2018 23:00 UTC
43 points
19 comments4 min readEA link

Op­tion Value, an In­tro­duc­tory Guide

Caleb_Maresca21 Feb 2020 14:45 UTC
30 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

Overview of five short-term im­pact eval­u­a­tion methods

brb2438 Apr 2022 16:51 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties Im­pact Survey

Neil_Dullaghan21 Nov 2019 19:20 UTC
54 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Life­time Im­pact of a GiveWell Re­searcher?

agent1816 Aug 2021 23:26 UTC
11 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

Ini­ti­at­ing Ev­i­dence-Driven Com­mu­nity Building

Sabin Subedi9 May 2022 10:05 UTC
24 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Every­one—show us your numbers

Esben Kran26 Apr 2022 6:10 UTC
49 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Valu­ing re­search works by elic­it­ing com­par­i­sons from EA researchers

NunoSempere17 Mar 2022 19:58 UTC
109 points
20 comments8 min readEA link

How to al­lo­cate im­pact shares of a past project

brb24310 Jun 2022 22:32 UTC
13 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Do re­search or­gani­sa­tions make the­ory of change di­a­grams? Should they?

MichaelA22 Jul 2020 4:58 UTC
51 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

Assess­ing SERI/​CHERI/​CERI sum­mer pro­gram im­pact by sur­vey­ing fellows

LRudL26 Sep 2022 15:29 UTC
101 points
11 comments15 min readEA link

Es­ti­mat­ing long-term treat­ment effects with­out long-term out­come data

Global Priorities Institute29 Sep 2020 13:30 UTC
3 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

R. Daniel Bressler: Cli­mate change deaths in­crease the so­cial cost of carbon

EA Global13 Jan 2021 20:35 UTC
20 points
0 comments13 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Reliev­ing ex­treme phys­i­cal pain in hu­mans – an op­por­tu­nity for effec­tive funding

jonleighton10 Oct 2018 12:28 UTC
38 points
16 comments15 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Foun­da­tion: Plans for 2020

Jonas Vollmer23 Dec 2019 11:51 UTC
82 points
13 comments14 min readEA link

Please take a sur­vey on the qual­ity/​im­pact of things I’ve written

MichaelA1 Sep 2020 10:34 UTC
18 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

An ex­per­i­ment to eval­u­ate the value of one re­searcher’s work

NunoSempere1 Dec 2020 9:01 UTC
57 points
23 comments10 min readEA link

RC For­ward—Canada’s Effec­tive Giv­ing Ex­per­i­ment: Re­sults & Plans for 2019

Tee28 Dec 2018 19:28 UTC
43 points
9 comments10 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and In­ter­na­tional Trade

brb24315 Oct 2019 3:21 UTC
38 points
77 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Prize: In­ter­est­ing Ex­am­ples of Evaluations

Elizabeth28 Nov 2020 21:11 UTC
26 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

High School EA Outreach

Catherine Low7 May 2019 2:04 UTC
94 points
16 comments39 min readEA link

[Question] Are there good in­tro­duc­tory ma­te­ri­als that ex­plain how char­ity eval­u­a­tion works?

BrownHairedEevee6 May 2022 3:03 UTC
26 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Es­ti­mat­ing the marginal im­pact of outreach

Duncan Mcclements30 Nov 2022 9:29 UTC
42 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Please Share Your Per­spec­tives on the De­gree of So­cietal Im­pact from Trans­for­ma­tive AI Outcomes

Kiliank15 Apr 2022 1:23 UTC
3 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

2021 AI Align­ment Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

Larks23 Dec 2021 14:06 UTC
166 points
18 comments75 min readEA link

Long-last­ing in­sec­ti­cide treated nets: $3,340 per life saved, $100 per DALY averted. How is this calcu­lated?

Hauke Hillebrandt13 Jul 2015 16:08 UTC
10 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Pro­ject: A web plat­form for crowd­sourc­ing im­pact es­ti­mates of in­ter­ven­tions.

Max Clarke22 Apr 2022 6:54 UTC
41 points
18 comments5 min readEA link

Towards More Mo­du­lar Value/​Im­pact Estimates

Charlie_Guthmann3 Nov 2022 19:33 UTC
17 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

What do DALYs cap­ture?

Danae_Arroyos20 Sep 2017 21:18 UTC
15 points
10 comments11 min readEA link

Char­ity Nav­i­ga­tor ac­quired Im­pactMat­ters and is start­ing to men­tion “cost-effec­tive­ness” as important

Luke Freeman14 Oct 2020 21:43 UTC
48 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Les­sons from a full-time com­mu­nity builder. Part 1 of 4. Im­pact assessment

weeatquince4 Oct 2017 18:14 UTC
14 points
5 comments11 min readEA link

2020 AI Align­ment Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Comparison

Larks21 Dec 2020 15:25 UTC
154 points
16 comments70 min readEA link

The great calculator

MichaelDello26 Mar 2016 3:48 UTC
9 points
24 comments1 min readEA link

Get­ting past the DALY: differ­ent mea­sures of “pos­i­tive im­pact”

drbrake20 Nov 2018 5:45 UTC
10 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

“Is this risk ac­tu­ally ex­is­ten­tial?” may be less im­por­tant than we think

mikbp3 Mar 2023 22:18 UTC
8 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Why Char­i­ties Usu­ally Don’t Differ Astro­nom­i­cally in Ex­pected Cost-Effectiveness

Brian_Tomasik16 Sep 2017 10:40 UTC
89 points
7 comments28 min readEA link
(reducing-suffering.org)

How much fur­ther does your dol­lar go over­seas?

RandomEA4 Feb 2018 21:28 UTC
16 points
5 comments17 min readEA link

A Re­port on run­ning 1-1s with EA Vir­tual Pro­grams’ Participants

Elika10 Jan 2023 1:34 UTC
33 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

2018-2019 Long-Term Fu­ture Fund Gran­tees: How did they do?

NunoSempere16 Jun 2021 17:31 UTC
197 points
23 comments5 min readEA link

Speedrun: AI Align­ment Prizes

joe9 Feb 2023 11:55 UTC
22 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

Fu­ture benefits of miti­gat­ing food shocks caused by abrupt sun­light re­duc­tion scenarios

Vasco Grilo4 Mar 2023 16:22 UTC
19 points
0 comments29 min readEA link

Effec­tive Th­e­sis—Ac­tivi­ties and Im­pact Eval­u­a­tion [June 2021-June 2022]

DavidJanku22 Aug 2022 17:00 UTC
38 points
2 comments32 min readEA link

A BOTEC-Model for Com­par­ing Im­pact Es­ti­ma­tions in Com­mu­nity Building

Patrick Gruban14 Mar 2023 6:26 UTC
44 points
7 comments8 min readEA link

Scihub back­ups for open research

acylhalide20 Nov 2021 17:18 UTC
37 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Cus­tomized COVID-19 risk anal­y­sis as a high value area

Askell23 Jul 2020 20:28 UTC
48 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Plant-Based Seafood: A Promis­ing In­ter­ven­tion in Food Tech­nol­ogy? - Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship Ap­proach Report

vicky_cox17 Jan 2020 14:35 UTC
23 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

Pro­ject: bio­eng­ineer­ing an all-fe­male breed of chicken to end chick culling

Cienna28 Apr 2022 14:08 UTC
45 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

The trans­for­ma­tive po­ten­tial of cryptocurrencies

bejaq5 Feb 2021 14:27 UTC
10 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

Agri­cul­tural re­search and development

David_Goll30 Jul 2014 21:38 UTC
4 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

The in­ter­net town square doesn’t have to suck. The solu­tion to bro­ken so­cial me­dia is ob­vi­ous: demo­cratic co­op­er­a­tive own­er­ship.

blainehansen29 Oct 2022 1:57 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(blainehansen.me)

Chlo­ram­pheni­col as in­ter­ven­tion in heart attacks

Gordon Seidoh Worley17 Feb 2020 18:47 UTC
1 point
5 comments2 min readEA link
(www.cringely.com)

Veg*n re­ci­di­vism seems im­por­tant, tractable, and neglected

xccf28 Jun 2015 18:33 UTC
16 points
23 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Would it make sense to use hu­man rights law against catas­trophic risks—like some seem to be do­ing re­gard­ing cli­mate change?

Ramiro26 Dec 2022 21:14 UTC
12 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Has any­one done an anal­y­sis on the im­por­tance, tractabil­ity, and ne­glect­ed­ness of keep­ing hu­man-di­gestible calories in the ocean in case we need it af­ter some global catas­tro­phe?

Mati_Roy17 Feb 2020 7:47 UTC
9 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Cause: Bet­ter poli­ti­cal sys­tems and policy mak­ing.

weeatquince22 Nov 2016 12:37 UTC
17 points
6 comments9 min readEA link

Es­ti­mat­ing the Philan­thropic Dis­count Rate

MichaelDickens3 Jul 2020 16:58 UTC
79 points
21 comments37 min readEA link

Anti-trib­al­ism and pos­i­tive men­tal health as high-value cause areas

Kaj_Sotala17 Oct 2017 11:10 UTC
24 points
31 comments2 min readEA link

Cer­tifi­cates of impact

Paul_Christiano11 Nov 2014 5:22 UTC
48 points
41 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Test­ing Im­pact: Longter­mist TV Show

Anthony Fleming14 Oct 2022 23:30 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

New EA cause area: chewier food for children

Andre Popovitch25 Dec 2022 5:16 UTC
21 points
16 comments3 min readEA link
(chadnauseam.com)

Bud­dha Was An Effec­tive Altruist

maximizealtruism7 Oct 2022 23:28 UTC
7 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

Do EAs un­der­es­ti­mate op­por­tu­ni­ties to cre­ate many small benefits?

Peter Wildeford25 Jan 2016 4:20 UTC
11 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

AGI safety and los­ing elec­tric­ity/​in­dus­try re­silience cost-effectiveness

Ross_Tieman17 Nov 2019 8:42 UTC
31 points
10 comments38 min readEA link

In­ter­ven­tion re­port: Agri­cul­tural land redistribution

David Rhys Bernard14 Jul 2021 14:29 UTC
63 points
6 comments38 min readEA link

[Question] Ge­or­gia on my Mind: Effec­tively Flip­ping the Senate

sapphire8 Nov 2020 7:24 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The cli­mate change policy with the most po­ten­tial is the most neglected

HenryStanley12 Jul 2019 17:19 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

Helping wild an­i­mals through vac­ci­na­tion: could this hap­pen for coro­n­aviruses like SARS-CoV-2?

Animal_Ethics12 May 2020 18:25 UTC
31 points
9 comments25 min readEA link

Ne­glected EA Regions

DavidNash17 Feb 2020 11:25 UTC
28 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Ar­den Koehler: Ideas for high-im­pact ca­reers be­yond 80,000 Hours’ pri­or­ity paths

EA Global25 Oct 2020 5:48 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] Ineffec­tive Altru­ism: Are there ide­olo­gies which gen­er­ally cause there ad­her­ents to have worse im­pacts?

Nathan Young17 Oct 2019 9:24 UTC
1 point
6 comments1 min readEA link

A Qual­i­ta­tive Anal­y­sis of Value Drift in EA

Marisa12 Feb 2020 5:41 UTC
144 points
5 comments19 min readEA link

Ro­dents farmed for pet snake food

saulius20 Feb 2019 19:54 UTC
74 points
18 comments20 min readEA link

Ra­tion­al­ity as an EA Cause Area

Chris Leong13 Nov 2018 14:48 UTC
31 points
31 comments2 min readEA link

Why Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship?

kierangreig29 Oct 2015 21:53 UTC
31 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Should lo­cal EA groups sup­port poli­ti­cal causes?

berglund21 Jul 2020 19:54 UTC
16 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

HLI’s Men­tal Health Pro­gramme Eval­u­a­tion Pro­ject—Up­date on the First Round of Evaluation

Jasper Synowski10 Jun 2020 16:45 UTC
61 points
9 comments8 min readEA link

In­sti­tu­tions for Fu­ture Generations

tylermjohn11 Nov 2019 20:33 UTC
110 points
55 comments5 min readEA link

Why You Should In­vest In Up­grad­ing Democ­racy And Give To The Cen­ter For Elec­tion Science

aaronhamlin15 Dec 2018 1:43 UTC
42 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

Eva Vi­valt: Fore­cast­ing re­search results

EA Global19 Feb 2020 16:34 UTC
17 points
0 comments10 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Brain preser­va­tion to pre­vent in­vol­un­tary death: a pos­si­ble cause area

AndyMcKenzie22 Mar 2022 12:33 UTC
37 points
29 comments10 min readEA link

Four fo­cus ar­eas of effec­tive altruism

lukeprog8 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC
13 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

EA needs a cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion journal

kbog12 Sep 2018 22:40 UTC
3 points
16 comments4 min readEA link

In­ter­ven­tion Pro­file: Bal­lot Initiatives

Jason Schukraft13 Jan 2020 15:41 UTC
117 points
5 comments36 min readEA link

New Top EA Cause: Politics

Davidmanheim1 Apr 2020 7:53 UTC
32 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] What Are Effec­tive Alter­na­tives to Party Poli­tics for Effec­tive Public Policy Ad­vo­cacy?

Evan_Gaensbauer30 Jan 2019 2:52 UTC
24 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

£4bn for the global poor: the UK’s 0.7%

Sanjay30 Nov 2020 15:50 UTC
148 points
20 comments2 min readEA link

Clean cook­stoves may be com­pet­i­tive with GiveWell-recom­mended charities

Sanjay10 Feb 2020 18:00 UTC
31 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

Would a re­duc­tion in the num­ber of owned cats out­doors in Canada and the US in­crease an­i­mal welfare?

kcudding25 Oct 2019 19:14 UTC
51 points
6 comments50 min readEA link

On AI Weapons

kbog13 Nov 2019 12:48 UTC
69 points
10 comments31 min readEA link

Quan­tify­ing the Im­pact of Eco­nomic Growth on Meat Consumption

kbog22 Dec 2015 11:30 UTC
23 points
37 comments4 min readEA link

Growth and the case against ran­domista development

Hauke Hillebrandt16 Jan 2020 10:11 UTC
396 points
193 comments31 min readEA link

The Im­por­tance of Un­known Ex­is­ten­tial Risks

MichaelDickens23 Jul 2020 19:09 UTC
72 points
11 comments9 min readEA link

Long-term in­vest­ment fund at Founders Pledge

SjirH10 Jan 2020 19:09 UTC
139 points
28 comments3 min readEA link

Does cli­mate change de­serve more at­ten­tion within EA?

Ben17 Apr 2019 6:50 UTC
137 points
66 comments15 min readEA link

An­tibiotic re­sis­tance: Should an­i­mal ad­vo­cates in­ter­vene?

Bella14 Aug 2020 12:29 UTC
58 points
5 comments11 min readEA link

Fund­ing Pro­posal: Sup­port­ing a Cam­paign to In­crease Cana­dian Offi­cial Devel­op­ment As­sis­tance

jonathancourtney8 Feb 2019 23:51 UTC
21 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

Risks from atom­i­cally pre­cise man­u­fac­tur­ing—Prob­lem profile

Benjamin Hilton9 Aug 2022 13:41 UTC
47 points
4 comments5 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

If you (mostly) be­lieve in worms, what should you think about WASH?

alex lawsen (previously alexrjl)18 Feb 2020 16:47 UTC
58 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

Eval­u­at­ing Com­mu­nal Violence from an Effec­tive Altru­ist Perspective

frankfredericks13 Aug 2019 19:38 UTC
16 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

Re­spond­ing to COVID-19 in India

Suvita26 Apr 2020 19:07 UTC
57 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing lo­cal gov­er­nance in frag­ile states—prac­ti­cal les­sons from the field

Timothy_Liptrot12 Aug 2020 3:07 UTC
22 points
7 comments6 min readEA link

“Fix­ing Ado­les­cence” as a Cause Area?

kirchner.jan23 Jan 2022 10:57 UTC
87 points
16 comments12 min readEA link
(universalprior.substack.com)

[Question] Is pro­mot­ing ve­g­anism ne­glected and if so what is the most effec­tive way of pro­mot­ing it?

samuel07222 Aug 2019 14:47 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Do you know some promis­ing French char­i­ties (which may or may not work globally) ?

Corentin Biteau8 Mar 2023 4:26 UTC
17 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

EA and the Pos­si­ble De­cline of the US: Very Rough Thoughts

Cullen8 Jan 2021 7:30 UTC
56 points
19 comments4 min readEA link

New cause area: Violence against women and girls

Akhil6 Jun 2022 14:48 UTC
245 points
60 comments11 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the Pa­tient Philan­thropy Fund

SjirH27 Oct 2021 15:44 UTC
128 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Re­view of Cli­mate Cost-Effec­tive­ness Analyses

mchr3k20 Oct 2019 20:39 UTC
34 points
17 comments16 min readEA link

Mo­sul Dam Could Kill 1 Million Iraqis.

DC1 Mar 2022 3:28 UTC
72 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Math­e­mat­i­cal mod­els of Ethics

Victor-SB8 Mar 2023 10:50 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Why We Think Tobacco Tax Ad­vo­cacy Could be More Cost-Effec­tive than AMF

calebp5 Mar 2020 15:03 UTC
45 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Want to alle­vi­ate de­vel­op­ing world poverty? Alle­vi­ate price risk.​ (2018)

RomeoStevens23 Mar 2021 0:16 UTC
23 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Will Three Gorges Dam Col­lapse And Kill Millions?

DC26 Jul 2020 2:43 UTC
80 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

Effec­tive an­i­mal ad­vo­cacy move­ment build­ing: a ne­glected op­por­tu­nity?

Jamie_Harris11 Jun 2019 20:33 UTC
68 points
11 comments17 min readEA link

How does fight­ing di­ar­rhoea stack up to malaria in effec­tive­ness?

MichaelDello9 Oct 2015 0:28 UTC
3 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

Effec­tive Lob­by­ing Dis­cus­sion Group

Noah Wescombe13 Dec 2020 23:43 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Women’s Em­pow­er­ment: Founders Pledge re­port and recommendations

SjirH19 Dec 2018 20:34 UTC
25 points
24 comments6 min readEA link

New Cause Pro­posal: In­ter­na­tional Sup­ply Chain Accountability

NunoSempere1 Apr 2020 7:56 UTC
26 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Snakebites kill 100,000 peo­ple ev­ery year, here’s what you should know

MathiasKB27 Apr 2022 14:30 UTC
315 points
38 comments5 min readEA link

Try­ing to help coral reefs sur­vive cli­mate change seems in­cred­ibly ne­glected.

capybaralet17 Jan 2021 18:47 UTC
8 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What anal­y­sis has been done of space coloniza­tion as a cause area?

Eli Rose9 Oct 2019 20:33 UTC
14 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Silk pro­duc­tion: global scale and an­i­mal welfare is­sues

abrahamrowe20 Apr 2021 1:38 UTC
72 points
9 comments16 min readEA link

Fish used as live bait by recre­ational fishermen

saulius8 Aug 2018 20:56 UTC
64 points
20 comments7 min readEA link

Pro­mot­ing Sim­ple Altruism

LiaH1 Sep 2021 15:49 UTC
16 points
10 comments4 min readEA link

Snails used for hu­man con­sump­tion: The case of meat and slime

Daniela R. Waldhorn6 Feb 2020 17:00 UTC
84 points
8 comments26 min readEA link

Char­i­ties I Would Like to See

MichaelDickens20 Sep 2015 15:22 UTC
6 points
31 comments3 min readEA link

In­breed­ing and global health & development

pafnuty11 Jul 2021 6:32 UTC
40 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Work Test for Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship: De­lay­ing Aging

Heye Groß7 Mar 2022 17:56 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Coron­avirus and long term policy [UK fo­cus]

weeatquince5 Apr 2020 8:29 UTC
52 points
3 comments17 min readEA link

Truth­ful AI

Owen Cotton-Barratt20 Oct 2021 15:11 UTC
55 points
14 comments10 min readEA link

[Link] A Modest Pro­posal: Elimi­nate Email

arikr18 Mar 2019 0:26 UTC
8 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

An EA case for in­ter­est in UAPs/​UFOs and an idea as to what they are

TheNotSoGreatFilter30 Dec 2021 17:13 UTC
30 points
13 comments5 min readEA link

In­sects raised for food and feed — global scale, prac­tices, and policy

abrahamrowe29 Jun 2020 13:57 UTC
88 points
9 comments30 min readEA link

[Question] Is trauma a po­ten­tial EA cause area?

nonzerosum31 May 2019 22:04 UTC
5 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Why we should be do­ing more sys­tem­atic research

Joey14 Mar 2018 18:58 UTC
31 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Can we drive de­vel­op­ment at scale? An in­terim up­date on eco­nomic growth work

Stephen Clare27 Oct 2020 11:14 UTC
98 points
14 comments23 min readEA link

Prin­cipia Qualia: blueprint for a new cause area, con­scious­ness re­search with an eye to­ward ethics and x-risk

MikeJohnson9 Dec 2016 5:47 UTC
29 points
49 comments5 min readEA link

35-150 billion fish are raised in cap­tivity to be re­leased into the wild ev­ery year

saulius2 Apr 2019 13:16 UTC
87 points
13 comments37 min readEA link

How can we re­duce s-risks?

Tobias_Baumann29 Jan 2021 15:46 UTC
41 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

The $100trn op­por­tu­nity: ESG in­vest­ing should be a top pri­or­ity for EA careers

Sanjay18 Mar 2021 13:54 UTC
66 points
5 comments7 min readEA link

EAF’s bal­lot ini­ti­a­tive dou­bled Zurich’s de­vel­op­ment aid

Jonas Vollmer13 Jan 2020 11:32 UTC
307 points
24 comments12 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing Pest Man­age­ment for Wild In­sect Welfare

Wild_Animal_Initiative26 Dec 2019 17:47 UTC
34 points
1 comment33 min readEA link

Road Safety: The Silent Epi­demic Im­pact­ing Youth

AIPFoundation11 Aug 2022 16:07 UTC
52 points
5 comments28 min readEA link

The ex­treme cost-effec­tive­ness of cell-based meat R&D

Stijn10 Aug 2020 14:00 UTC
34 points
20 comments5 min readEA link

Jasper Synowski and Clare Don­ald­son: Iden­ti­fy­ing the most cost-effec­tive pro­grammes to im­prove men­tal health

EA Global21 Aug 2020 21:36 UTC
14 points
0 comments16 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Im­prov­ing dis­aster shelters to in­crease the chances of re­cov­ery from a global catastrophe

Nick_Beckstead19 Feb 2014 22:17 UTC
24 points
5 comments26 min readEA link

High Time For Drug Policy Re­form. Part 1/​4: In­tro­duc­tion and Cause Summary

MichaelPlant9 Aug 2017 13:17 UTC
24 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

Cause Selec­tion Blog­ging Car­ni­val Conclusion

MichaelDickens5 Oct 2015 20:16 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

OPIS ini­ti­a­tive on ac­cess to psilo­cy­bin for cluster headaches

jonleighton10 Sep 2020 8:22 UTC
57 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

In­creas­ing ex­is­ten­tial hope as an effec­tive cause?

Owen Cotton-Barratt10 Jan 2015 19:55 UTC
10 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Fix Pri­son Telecom

Benj Azose13 Aug 2022 9:11 UTC
31 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

Vote Pairing is a Cost-Effec­tive Poli­ti­cal Intervention

Ben_West26 Feb 2017 13:54 UTC
18 points
13 comments9 min readEA link

De­liber­a­tion May Im­prove De­ci­sion-Making

Neil_Dullaghan5 Nov 2019 0:34 UTC
65 points
12 comments43 min readEA link

Is there a he­do­nis­tic util­i­tar­ian case for Cry­on­ics? (Dis­cuss)

Ozzie Gooen27 Aug 2015 17:50 UTC
9 points
34 comments1 min readEA link

Milan Griffes on EA blindspots

Gavin18 Mar 2022 16:17 UTC
74 points
52 comments2 min readEA link

Cost-Effec­tive­ness of Foods for Global Catas­tro­phes: Even Bet­ter than Be­fore?

Denkenberger19 Nov 2018 21:57 UTC
29 points
4 comments10 min readEA link

On Values Spreading

MichaelDickens11 Sep 2015 3:57 UTC
32 points
13 comments11 min readEA link

[Draft] Fight­ing Aging as an Effec­tive Altru­ism Cause

turchin16 Apr 2018 10:18 UTC
1 point
39 comments1 min readEA link

Sperm sort­ing in cattle

Koushik Raghavan15 Jul 2019 2:50 UTC
20 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Suggest new char­ity ideas for Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship

CE8 Mar 2023 15:08 UTC
82 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

[Question] In­creas­ing per­sonal se­cu­rity of at-risk high-im­pact actors

MaxRa28 May 2020 14:03 UTC
19 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

The Fu­ture Fund’s Pro­ject Ideas Competition

Nick_Beckstead28 Feb 2022 17:27 UTC
236 points
731 comments1 min readEA link
(ftxfuturefund.org)

Be the Match: a vol­un­teer list for bone mar­row donation

Evan Rysdam27 Oct 2019 5:44 UTC
27 points
30 comments1 min readEA link

Bounty to dis­close new x-risks

acylhalide5 Nov 2021 12:53 UTC
1 point
5 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Could the drop in child vac­ci­na­tion and the lat­est news on po­liomyelitis be a new cause area?

Ramiro9 Oct 2022 1:09 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Is Com­bat­ting Ageism The Most Po­ten­tially Im­pact­ful Form of So­cial Ac­tivism?

JosephBronski11 Feb 2022 4:40 UTC
−15 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing the lives of mil­lions of Latin Amer­i­cans through bet­ter welfare tar­get­ing algorithms

NORIEGA10 Jul 2021 5:39 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ver­ti­cal farm­ing to lessen our re­li­ance on the Sun

Ty5 May 2022 5:57 UTC
12 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Global ba­sic ed­u­ca­tion as a miss­ing cause priority

lucy.ea88 Aug 2019 1:19 UTC
4 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

Fam­ily Plan­ning: A Sig­nifi­cant Op­por­tu­nity for Impact

Sarah H12 Aug 2022 0:01 UTC
98 points
9 comments14 min readEA link

Against Loneli­ness: Cause Exploration

ColdButtonIssues10 Aug 2022 2:17 UTC
20 points
4 comments12 min readEA link

Risks from Au­tonomous Weapon Sys­tems and Mili­tary AI

christian.r19 May 2022 10:45 UTC
71 points
10 comments37 min readEA link

Nar­ra­tion: Re­duc­ing long-term risks from malev­olent actors

D0TheMath15 Jul 2021 16:26 UTC
23 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

Th­e­ses on Sleep

guzey11 Feb 2022 18:05 UTC
51 points
22 comments35 min readEA link

A gen­eral frame­work for eval­u­at­ing ag­ing re­search. Part 1: rea­son­ing with Longevity Es­cape Velocity

Emanuele_Ascani17 Jan 2019 16:33 UTC
21 points
18 comments21 min readEA link

[Question] Is rapid di­ag­nos­tic test­ing (RDT), such as for coro­n­avirus, a ne­glected area in Global Health?

Ramiro17 Mar 2020 22:24 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Paris-com­pli­ant offsets—a high lev­er­age cli­mate in­ter­ven­tion?

Ben5 Oct 2020 16:55 UTC
12 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Po­ten­tial new cause area: Obesity

Akhil26 Jul 2022 8:33 UTC
33 points
5 comments7 min readEA link

Which nu­clear wars should worry us most?

Luisa_Rodriguez16 Jun 2019 23:31 UTC
96 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

Notes: Stub­ble Burn­ing in India

Jason Schukraft13 Jan 2021 2:58 UTC
38 points
8 comments6 min readEA link

Seek­ing a Col­lab­o­ra­tion to Stop Hur­ri­canes?

Anthony Repetto4 Dec 2021 12:39 UTC
16 points
10 comments4 min readEA link

In­crease Im­pact by Wait­ing for a Re­ces­sion to Donate or In­vest in a Cause.

maxwell20 Jun 2019 21:22 UTC
12 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

The Case for Rare Chi­nese Tofus

George Stiffman8 Feb 2022 6:12 UTC
201 points
55 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] Is Min­eral Re­source Scarcity a Risk Any­one is Re­search­ing? Worth Re­search­ing?

haywyer9 Jun 2022 21:30 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Die­tary habits – Another po­ten­tial Cause Area?

peter_janicki19 Jun 2021 9:16 UTC
14 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Millions face star­va­tion in Afghanistan

aogara4 Dec 2021 23:46 UTC
23 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Crime Reduction

Sashworthhayes31 Aug 2022 19:21 UTC
62 points
18 comments15 min readEA link

The So­cial Re­ces­sion: By the Numbers

Antonomon29 Oct 2022 23:35 UTC
6 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Ide­olog­i­cal en­g­ineer­ing and so­cial con­trol: A ne­glected topic in AI safety re­search?

Geoffrey Miller1 Sep 2017 18:52 UTC
17 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Men­tor­ship re­quest on near-term AI and bureaucracies

acylhalide18 May 2022 19:14 UTC
10 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

A di­rect way to re­duce the catch of wild fish

Ren Springlea21 Jun 2022 10:09 UTC
17 points
12 comments9 min readEA link

Pro­ject Pro­posal: Gears and Aging

johnswentworth11 May 2020 7:29 UTC
11 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

In­ver­te­brate Welfare Cause Profile

Jason Schukraft9 Jul 2019 17:28 UTC
111 points
14 comments35 min readEA link

[Question] What is the in­crease in ex­pected value of effec­tive al­tru­ist Wayne Hsi­ung be­ing mayor of Berkeley in­stead of its cur­rent in­cum­bent?

DC7 Aug 2020 1:50 UTC
1 point
32 comments1 min readEA link

“Teach­ing to Give” Idea

Noah Starbuck22 Apr 2021 1:51 UTC
8 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Coron­avirus Re­search Ideas for EAs

Peter Wildeford27 Mar 2020 21:01 UTC
118 points
20 comments23 min readEA link

[Question] 12 years of ed­u­ca­tion as a miss­ing cause priority

lucy.ea87 Aug 2019 2:49 UTC
1 point
5 comments1 min readEA link

Hu­mane Pes­ti­cides as the Most Marginally Effec­tive Cause

JeffMJordan22 Sep 2015 6:35 UTC
16 points
20 comments10 min readEA link

Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship Re­search Summary

Joey21 Mar 2016 17:47 UTC
22 points
9 comments8 min readEA link

Cost-Effec­tive­ness of Aging Re­search

SarahC31 Jan 2019 20:47 UTC
47 points
16 comments6 min readEA link

Global lead ex­po­sure report

David Rhys Bernard29 May 2021 16:56 UTC
124 points
2 comments42 min readEA link

Science policy as a pos­si­ble EA cause area: prob­lems and solutions

PabloAMC23 Jan 2022 0:32 UTC
22 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

Cos­mic EA: How Cost Effec­tive Is In­form­ing ET?

TruePath31 Dec 2017 8:37 UTC
3 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing In­sti­tu­tional De­ci­sion-Mak­ing: a new work­ing group

IanDavidMoss28 Dec 2020 5:47 UTC
147 points
24 comments10 min readEA link

In­som­nia: a promis­ing cure

John G. Halstead16 Nov 2018 18:33 UTC
42 points
18 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] might tar­get­ing malnu­tri­tion (not un­der­nour­ish­ment!) be an im­por­tant cause area?

peter_janicki20 Sep 2020 11:01 UTC
8 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

An­i­mal Equal­ity showed that ad­vo­cat­ing for diet change works. But is it cost-effec­tive?

Peter Wildeford7 Jun 2018 4:06 UTC
25 points
22 comments26 min readEA link

Spec­u­la­tion on Cur­rent Op­por­tu­ni­ties for Unusu­ally High Im­pact in Global Health

johnswentworth11 Nov 2022 20:47 UTC
25 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

The In­tel­lec­tual and Mo­ral De­cline in Aca­demic Research

gavintaylor7 Feb 2020 16:47 UTC
26 points
26 comments1 min readEA link
(www.jamesgmartin.center)

Next Steps in In­ver­te­brate Welfare, Part 2: Pos­si­ble Interventions

Daniela R. Waldhorn14 Nov 2019 0:40 UTC
43 points
5 comments43 min readEA link

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

Global Priorities Institute13 Mar 2023 18:05 UTC
61 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Ground­wa­ter crisis: a threat of civ­i­liza­tion collapse

RickJS24 Dec 2022 21:21 UTC
0 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(drive.google.com)

In­for­ma­tional Lob­by­ing: The­ory and Effectiveness

Matt_Lerner30 Jul 2020 22:02 UTC
74 points
20 comments33 min readEA link

[Question] Cor­po­rate gov­er­nance re­form efforts?

samstowers18 Apr 2022 18:09 UTC
9 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Why are party poli­tics not an EA pri­or­ity?

Chantal2 Jan 2021 18:52 UTC
39 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

Recom­men­da­tions for pri­ori­tiz­ing poli­ti­cal en­gage­ment in the 2020 US elections

IanDavidMoss14 Oct 2020 13:52 UTC
38 points
22 comments7 min readEA link

Fisher & Syed on Trad­able Obli­ga­tions to En­hance Health

Cullen12 Aug 2018 22:17 UTC
6 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

How to make cli­mate ac­tivists care for other ex­is­ten­tial risks

ExponentialDragon12 Mar 2023 9:05 UTC
22 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Fight­ing cor­rup­tion in aid—embezzling

MarcSerna8 Apr 2021 22:56 UTC
16 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

New cause area: Im­prov­ing di­ag­no­sis and treat­ment of bipo­lar spec­trum disorders

Karolina Soltys12 Aug 2022 9:08 UTC
38 points
13 comments19 min readEA link

Man­aged Honey Bee Welfare: Prob­lems and Po­ten­tial Interventions

Jason Schukraft14 Nov 2019 19:03 UTC
75 points
5 comments67 min readEA link

Mind Ease: a promis­ing new men­tal health intervention

PeterBrietbart23 Oct 2018 17:34 UTC
24 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

Mind En­hance­ment Cause Exploration

timfarkas12 Aug 2022 5:49 UTC
33 points
3 comments52 min readEA link

Global cochineal pro­duc­tion: scale, welfare con­cerns, and po­ten­tial interventions

abrahamrowe11 Feb 2020 21:33 UTC
45 points
3 comments13 min readEA link

Space gov­er­nance—prob­lem profile

finm8 May 2022 17:16 UTC
65 points
11 comments12 min readEA link

Paper sum­mary: Longter­mist in­sti­tu­tional re­form (Tyler M. John and William MacAskill)

Global Priorities Institute13 Mar 2023 18:07 UTC
38 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Wild an­i­mal suffer­ing caused by fires and ways to pre­vent it: a non­con­tro­ver­sial in­ter­ven­tion

Animal_Ethics29 Aug 2020 14:09 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are some soft­ware de­vel­op­ment needs in EA causes?

BrownHairedEevee6 Mar 2020 5:25 UTC
10 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Tak­ing ad­van­tage of cli­mate change con­cerns to chan­nel dona­tions to EA-recom­mended or­ga­ni­za­tions at low marginal cost (pro­posal and call for more re­search)

ianps19 Dec 2019 14:06 UTC
26 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Mea­sur­ing Change in Diet for An­i­mal Advocacy

Jacob_Peacock9 Nov 2018 20:21 UTC
9 points
2 comments15 min readEA link

Why and how to start a for-profit com­pany serv­ing emerg­ing markets

Ben Kuhn6 Nov 2019 1:00 UTC
134 points
15 comments6 min readEA link
(www.benkuhn.net)

How to eval­u­ate ne­glect­ed­ness and tractabil­ity of ag­ing research

Emanuele_Ascani2 Aug 2019 10:29 UTC
11 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

An In­for­mal Re­view of Space Exploration

kbog31 Jan 2020 13:16 UTC
53 points
5 comments36 min readEA link

Open Philan­thropy Shal­low In­ves­ti­ga­tion: Civil Con­flict Reduction

Lauren Gilbert12 Apr 2022 18:18 UTC
111 points
12 comments22 min readEA link

Ineffec­tive en­trepreneur­ship: post-mortem of Hippo, the hap­piness app that never quite was

MichaelPlant23 May 2018 10:30 UTC
91 points
37 comments13 min readEA link

New EA Cause Area: Run Black­well’s Bookstore

Ben Pace5 Feb 2022 5:57 UTC
73 points
33 comments8 min readEA link

Ad­vo­cat­ing for cost-effec­tive life-sav­ing care (fund us!)

AlexandraWS13 Jan 2023 14:07 UTC
19 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

De­modex mites: Large and ne­glected group of wild animals

Mai T27 Jan 2023 9:30 UTC
77 points
8 comments10 min readEA link

Men­tal Health in the United Arab Emirates

ea nyuad30 May 2022 15:53 UTC
27 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

[Question] Recom­men­da­tion for a char­ity fo­cus­ing efforts on Ger­many?

juliush3 May 2022 7:38 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Prize: ‘What do you think the gov­ern­ment should do to im­prove life in the UK?’

Ben Yeoh24 Sep 2022 11:50 UTC
14 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

EA Philip­pines 2020 An­nual Report

BrianTan27 Jan 2021 7:52 UTC
29 points
0 comments41 min readEA link

Are you work­ing on a re­search agenda? A guide to in­creas­ing the im­pact of your re­search by in­volv­ing de­ci­sion-makers

KarolinaSarek24 Sep 2019 11:00 UTC
64 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Policy pri­ori­ti­za­tion in a de­vel­oped country

janklenha8 Mar 2018 9:57 UTC
15 points
6 comments7 min readEA link

What is meta Effec­tive Altru­ism?

Vaidehi Agarwalla2 Jun 2021 6:47 UTC
45 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

Why scale is over­rated: The case for in­creas­ing EA policy efforts in smaller countries

Philip Hall Andersen15 Aug 2021 17:48 UTC
73 points
11 comments30 min readEA link

A Frame­work for Assess­ing the Po­ten­tial of EA Devel­op­ment in Emerg­ing Locations

jahying24 Aug 2019 14:31 UTC
84 points
2 comments18 min readEA link

Are China and In­dia the most promis­ing coun­tries for an­i­mal ad­vo­cacy? A sys­tem­atic coun­try comparison

KarolinaSarek9 Aug 2019 10:22 UTC
71 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

Say “nay!” to the Bay (as the de­fault)!

Kaleem6 Sep 2022 12:58 UTC
82 points
24 comments8 min readEA link

Sugges­tions for effec­tive home­less­ness dona­tions in San Fran­cisco?

sjsjsj1 Jan 2023 3:13 UTC
5 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

How to iden­tify your lo­cal high im­pact ca­reer op­por­tu­ni­ties—pro­cess and tips from EA Sweden

Gab4 May 2021 18:54 UTC
69 points
6 comments8 min readEA link

A crit­i­cal re­view of GiveWell’s 2022 cost-effec­tive­ness model

Froolow25 Aug 2022 15:35 UTC
227 points
18 comments35 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of mak­ing a video game with EA concepts

mmKALLL15 Sep 2022 13:48 UTC
8 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

[Squig­gle Ex­per­i­men­ta­tion Challenge] CEA LEEP Malawi

drwahl1 Sep 2022 5:13 UTC
23 points
8 comments2 min readEA link
(danwahl.net)

A dozen doubts about GiveWell’s numbers

JoelMcGuire1 Nov 2022 2:25 UTC
133 points
18 comments19 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

An­nounc­ing Squig­gle: Early Access

Ozzie Gooen3 Aug 2022 0:23 UTC
147 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

How Many Lives Does X-Risk Work Save From Nonex­is­tence On Aver­age?

Jordan Arel8 Dec 2022 21:44 UTC
25 points
10 comments14 min readEA link

An up­date on GiveWell’s fund­ing projections

GiveWell5 Jul 2022 21:56 UTC
140 points
15 comments4 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

Cost-Effec­tive­ness of RC Forward

Neil_Dullaghan20 May 2019 17:06 UTC
68 points
2 comments13 min readEA link

Carl Shul­man on the com­mon-sense case for ex­is­ten­tial risk work and its prac­ti­cal implications

80000_Hours8 Oct 2021 13:43 UTC
41 points
2 comments150 min readEA link

Helping SoGive fur­ther our re­search, and helping you be an EA researcher

SoGive1 Dec 2022 11:33 UTC
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

How you can save ex­pected lives for $0.20-$400 each and re­duce X risk

Denkenberger27 Nov 2017 2:23 UTC
24 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

Ad­ding Quan­tified Uncer­tainty to GiveWell’s Cost Effec­tive­ness Anal­y­sis of the Against Malaria Foundation

Tanae31 Aug 2022 12:53 UTC
30 points
10 comments3 min readEA link
(observablehq.com)

Pedant, a type checker for Cost Effec­tive­ness Analysis

SamNolan2 Jan 2022 6:47 UTC
99 points
19 comments11 min readEA link

Sim­ple Tips for Sound Cost-Effec­tive­ness Analysis

James Broughel1 Nov 2022 0:53 UTC
3 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Donat­ing money, buy­ing hap­piness: new meta-analy­ses com­par­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of cash trans­fers and psy­chother­apy in terms of sub­jec­tive well-being

MichaelPlant25 Oct 2021 15:38 UTC
152 points
46 comments18 min readEA link

Against cash bench­mark­ing for global de­vel­op­ment RCTs

Rory Fenton21 Mar 2022 0:29 UTC
113 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

Hard Prob­lems in GiveWell’s Mo­ral Weights Approach

Tanae1 Nov 2022 4:51 UTC
31 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Re­port on So­cial Re­turns to Pro­duc­tivity Growth

Tom_Davidson15 Jul 2022 22:31 UTC
55 points
5 comments2 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Launch­ing 60,000,000,000 Chick­ens: A Give Well-Style CEA Spread­sheet for An­i­mal Welfare

AppliedDivinityStudies4 Jun 2021 21:08 UTC
27 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

De­worm­ing and de­cay: repli­cat­ing GiveWell’s cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis

JoelMcGuire25 Jul 2022 20:26 UTC
305 points
37 comments11 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Liberty in North Korea, quick cost-effec­tive­ness estimate

MichaelStJules3 Nov 2021 2:29 UTC
92 points
33 comments2 min readEA link

The num­ber of seabirds and sea mam­mals kil­led by marine plas­tic pol­lu­tion is quite small rel­a­tive to the catch of fish

Vasco Grilo19 Apr 2022 11:22 UTC
77 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Is there more to life than sur­vival and in­come?

brb24313 Oct 2022 21:56 UTC
14 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

Cor­po­rate cam­paigns af­fect 9 to 120 years of chicken life per dol­lar spent

saulius8 Jul 2019 8:01 UTC
135 points
16 comments48 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of send­ing per­sonal messages

Vasco Grilo29 Mar 2022 14:38 UTC