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Crit­i­cism and Red Team­ing Contest

TagLast edit: Jul 16, 2022, 11:37 AM by Leo

The Criticism and Red Teaming Contest is a contest on the Effective Altruism Forum for writing that critically engages with theory or work from the effective altruism community.

Further reading

Vaintrob, Lizka, Fin Moorhouse & Joshua Teperowski Monrad (2022) Announcing a contest: EA Criticism and Red Teaming, Effective Altruism Forum, June 1.

Related entries

criticism of effective altruism | criticism of effective altruist causes | criticism of effective altruist organizations | criticism of the effective altruism community | red teaming

An­nounc­ing a con­test: EA Crit­i­cism and Red Teaming

LizkaJun 1, 2022, 6:58 PM
276 points
64 comments13 min readEA link

Win­ners of the EA Crit­i­cism and Red Team­ing Contest

LizkaOct 1, 2022, 1:50 AM
226 points
41 comments19 min readEA link

Re­source for crit­i­cisms and red teaming

LizkaJun 1, 2022, 6:58 PM
61 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

Cri­tiques of EA that I want to read

abrahamroweJun 19, 2022, 10:22 PM
463 points
85 comments11 min readEA link

De­worm­ing and de­cay: repli­cat­ing GiveWell’s cost-effec­tive­ness anal­y­sis

JoelMcGuireJul 25, 2022, 8:26 PM
307 points
38 comments11 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

A Crit­i­cal Re­view of Open Philan­thropy’s Bet On Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Reform

NunoSempereJun 16, 2022, 4:40 PM
302 points
97 comments26 min readEA link

My take on What We Owe the Future

eliflandSep 1, 2022, 6:07 PM
354 points
51 comments26 min readEA link

Pre-an­nounc­ing a con­test for cri­tiques and red teaming

LizkaMar 25, 2022, 11:52 AM
173 points
27 comments2 min readEA link

What I learned from the crit­i­cism contest

technicalitiesOct 1, 2022, 1:39 PM
171 points
32 comments6 min readEA link

Red Team­ing CEA’s Com­mu­nity Build­ing Work

AnonymousEAForumAccountSep 1, 2022, 2:42 PM
296 points
68 comments66 min readEA link

Lean­ing into EA Disillusionment

HelenJul 21, 2022, 5:06 PM
429 points
61 comments13 min readEA link

En­light­en­ment Values in a Vuln­er­a­ble World

Maxwell TabarrokJul 18, 2022, 11:54 AM
66 points
18 comments31 min readEA link

A philo­soph­i­cal re­view of Open Philan­thropy’s Cause Pri­ori­ti­sa­tion Framework

MichaelPlantJul 15, 2022, 8:21 AM
160 points
11 comments29 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Effec­tive Altru­ism as Co­or­di­na­tion & Field Incubation

DavidNashJun 14, 2022, 4:17 PM
100 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

The Fu­ture Might Not Be So Great

JacyJun 30, 2022, 1:01 PM
145 points
118 comments34 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Po­ta­toes: A Crit­i­cal Review

Pablo VillalobosMay 10, 2022, 3:27 PM
120 points
27 comments9 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

21 crit­i­cisms of EA I’m think­ing about

Peter WildefordSep 1, 2022, 7:28 PM
209 points
26 comments9 min readEA link

Longter­mism and Com­pu­ta­tional Complexity

David KinneyAug 31, 2022, 9:51 PM
41 points
46 comments25 min readEA link

The Com­mu­nity Manifesto

ATWAug 31, 2022, 11:44 PM
26 points
10 comments61 min readEA link

Red-team­ing con­test: de­mo­graph­ics and power struc­tures in EA

TheOtherHannahAug 31, 2022, 4:36 AM
110 points
14 comments33 min readEA link

Ex­is­ten­tial risk pes­simism and the time of perils

David ThorstadAug 12, 2022, 2:42 PM
177 points
67 comments20 min readEA link

How EA is per­ceived is cru­cial to its fu­ture trajectory

Gidi KadoshJul 23, 2022, 3:24 AM
164 points
22 comments14 min readEA link

A con­cern about the “evolu­tion­ary an­chor” of Ajeya Co­tra’s re­port on AI timelines.

NunoSempereAug 16, 2022, 2:44 PM
75 points
40 comments5 min readEA link
(nunosempere.com)

A crit­i­cal re­view of GiveWell’s 2022 cost-effec­tive­ness model

FroolowAug 25, 2022, 3:35 PM
234 points
20 comments38 min readEA link

EA is be­com­ing in­creas­ingly in­ac­cessible, at the worst pos­si­ble time

Ann Garth 🔸Jul 22, 2022, 3:40 PM
78 points
13 comments15 min readEA link

Be­fore There Was Effec­tive Altru­ism, There Was Effec­tive Philanthropy

ColdButtonIssuesJun 26, 2022, 6:09 PM
134 points
7 comments12 min readEA link

Ques­tion­ing the Value of Ex­tinc­tion Risk Reduction

Red Team 8Jul 7, 2022, 4:44 AM
61 points
9 comments27 min readEA link

Chain­ing the evil ge­nie: why “outer” AI safety is prob­a­bly easy

titotalAug 30, 2022, 1:55 PM
40 points
12 comments10 min readEA link

Red team­ing in­tro­duc­tory EA courses

Philip Hall AndersenAug 30, 2022, 3:47 PM
52 points
6 comments21 min readEA link

The Niet­zschean Challenge to Effec­tive Altruism

Richard Y Chappell🔸Aug 29, 2022, 2:39 PM
102 points
15 comments7 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

Deon­tol­ogy, the Paral­y­sis Ar­gu­ment and al­tru­is­tic longtermism

William D'AlessandroSep 2, 2022, 3:23 AM
33 points
4 comments14 min readEA link

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

CB🔸Aug 31, 2022, 9:50 PM
61 points
94 comments10 min readEA link

Pop­u­la­tion Ethics Without Ax­iol­ogy: A Framework

Lukas_GloorAug 2, 2022, 3:59 PM
82 points
18 comments26 min readEA link

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

Richard RSep 2, 2022, 7:53 AM
56 points
10 comments16 min readEA link

com­mu­nity build­ing solely as a tool for im­pact cre­ates toxic communities

ruthgraceSep 1, 2022, 3:45 AM
45 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

The Case for Fund­ing New Long-Term Ran­dom­ized Con­trol­led Tri­als of Deworming

MHR🔸Aug 4, 2022, 4:12 PM
95 points
9 comments15 min readEA link

Mo­ral In­jury, Men­tal Health, and Ob­ses­sion in EA

ECJSep 1, 2022, 5:51 PM
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Chang­ing the world through slack & hobbies

Steven ByrnesJul 21, 2022, 6:01 PM
130 points
10 comments10 min readEA link

Pre­dict which posts will win the Crit­i­cism and Red Team­ing Con­test!

AustinSep 27, 2022, 10:46 PM
21 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(manifold.markets)

“Ex­is­ten­tial Risk” is badly named and leads to nar­row fo­cus on as­tro­nom­i­cal waste

freedomandutilityAug 22, 2022, 8:25 PM
38 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Earn­ing to give should have fo­cused more on “en­trepreneur­ship to give”

freedomandutilityAug 9, 2022, 8:13 PM
26 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Hiring: The Ig­nored Re­source of Re­jected EA Job Candidates

RedTeamPseudonymAug 30, 2022, 4:29 AM
9 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

[TikTok] Com­pa­ra­bil­ity be­tween suffer­ing and happiness

Ben_West🔸Sep 1, 2022, 4:31 PM
23 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

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

Joshua ClingoSep 1, 2022, 7:34 AM
19 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

A Need for Fi­nal Chap­ter Re­vi­sion in In­tro EA Fel­low­ship Cur­ricula & Other Ways to Fix Holes in The Funnel

RedTeamPseudonymSep 1, 2022, 7:12 AM
6 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

How to dis­solve moral clue­less­ness about donat­ing mosquito nets

ben.smithJun 8, 2022, 7:12 AM
25 points
8 comments12 min readEA link

Things usu­ally end slowly

OllieBaseJun 7, 2022, 5:00 PM
76 points
14 comments7 min readEA link

You Don’t Need To Jus­tify Everything

TW123Jun 12, 2022, 6:36 PM
144 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

EAs un­der­es­ti­mate un­cer­tainty in cause prioritisation

freedomandutilityAug 23, 2022, 2:04 PM
120 points
20 comments2 min readEA link

Ques­tion­ing the Foun­da­tions of EA

Wei DaiAug 27, 2022, 8:44 PM
101 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

The great en­ergy de­scent—Part 1: Can re­new­ables re­place fos­sil fuels?

CB🔸Aug 31, 2022, 9:51 PM
44 points
2 comments22 min readEA link

Pop­u­lar EA Authors Should Give Libraries More Copies of Their EBooks

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

Im­prov­ing Karma: $8mn of pos­si­ble value (my es­ti­mate)

Nathan YoungSep 1, 2022, 10:42 PM
34 points
15 comments13 min readEA link

Lev­er­ag­ing la­bor short­ages as a path­way to ca­reer im­pact?

IanDavidMossJul 14, 2022, 1:32 PM
18 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Crit­i­cism of EA Crit­i­cisms: Is the real dis­agree­ment about cause prio?

AkashSep 2, 2022, 12:15 PM
30 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Should Seek Less Criticism

The ChaosticianSep 1, 2022, 7:33 AM
19 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Sugges­tions for 80,000K

RedTeamPseudonymSep 1, 2022, 8:26 AM
8 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Notes on how prizes may fail and how to re­duce the risk of them failing

Peter WildefordAug 30, 2022, 6:57 PM
89 points
20 comments2 min readEA link

EA has a ly­ing prob­lem [Link Post]

Nathan YoungAug 16, 2022, 9:57 PM
−3 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Sum­maries are underrated

Nathan YoungSep 1, 2022, 10:34 PM
53 points
24 comments8 min readEA link

Longter­mism, risk, and extinction

Richard PettigrewAug 4, 2022, 3:25 PM
78 points
12 comments41 min readEA link

Think again: Should EA be a so­cial move­ment?

An ASep 2, 2022, 11:45 AM
13 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Re­think­ing longter­mism and global development

Eevee🔹Sep 2, 2022, 5:28 AM
10 points
2 comments8 min readEA link
(sunyshore.substack.com)

This post is a Work-In-Progress

Nathan YoungOct 3, 2022, 3:44 PM
3 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

We’re fund­ing task-ad­justed sur­vival (DALYs)

brb243Jul 13, 2022, 5:26 PM
6 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Some con­cerns about policy work fund­ing and the Long Term Fu­ture Fund

weeatquinceAug 12, 2022, 1:54 PM
124 points
49 comments6 min readEA link

Are you re­ally in a race? The Cau­tion­ary Tales of Szilárd and Ellsberg

HaydnBelfieldMay 19, 2022, 8:42 AM
487 points
44 comments18 min readEA link

Re­mu­ner­a­tion In Effec­tive Altruism

Stefan_SchubertJul 25, 2022, 12:35 PM
112 points
11 comments2 min readEA link
(stefanschubert.substack.com)

Do­ing good is a priv­ilege. This needs to change if we want to do good long-term.

SofiaBaldersonAug 3, 2022, 3:44 PM
79 points
24 comments16 min readEA link

The dis­count rate is not zero

ThomaaasSep 3, 2022, 2:30 PM
102 points
28 comments12 min readEA link

Are we already past the precipice?

Dem0sthenesAug 10, 2022, 4:01 AM
1 point
5 comments2 min readEA link

“Do­ing Good Best” isn’t the EA ideal

DavidmanheimSep 16, 2022, 12:06 PM
128 points
17 comments6 min readEA link

Com­mu­nity posts: The Fo­rum needs a way to work in public

Nathan YoungApr 8, 2022, 9:32 AM
31 points
15 comments4 min readEA link

Quan­tify­ing Uncer­tainty in GiveWell’s GiveDirectly Cost-Effec­tive­ness Analysis

SamNolanMay 27, 2022, 3:10 AM
130 points
19 comments6 min readEA link

An­i­mal Zoo

bericlairSep 2, 2022, 4:34 AM
56 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

Red team­ing a model for es­ti­mat­ing the value of longter­mist in­ter­ven­tions—A cri­tique of Tarsney’s “The Epistemic Challenge to Longter­mism”

Anjay FJul 16, 2022, 7:05 PM
21 points
0 comments30 min readEA link

The Long Reflec­tion as the Great Stag­na­tion

LarksSep 1, 2022, 8:55 PM
43 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Why Effec­tive Altru­ists Should Put a Higher Pri­or­ity on Fund­ing Aca­demic Research

Stuart BuckJun 25, 2022, 7:17 PM
118 points
15 comments11 min readEA link

EA Cul­ture and Causes: Less is More

Allen BellAug 16, 2022, 2:04 PM
82 points
10 comments14 min readEA link

this one weird trick cre­ates in­finite utility

HmashSep 1, 2022, 9:10 AM
12 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Pri­ori­ti­sa­tion should con­sider po­ten­tial for on­go­ing eval­u­a­tion alongside ex­pected value and ev­i­dence quality

freedomandutilityAug 13, 2022, 2:53 PM
36 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Aes­thet­ics as Epistemic Humility

Étienne Fortier-DuboisAug 22, 2022, 5:00 PM
46 points
6 comments13 min readEA link
(etiennefd.substack.com)

Mak­ing EA More Effective

Peter KellyAug 31, 2022, 5:02 AM
7 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

Cap­i­tal­ism, power and episte­mol­ogy: a cri­tique of EA

Matthew_DoranAug 22, 2022, 2:20 PM
14 points
19 comments23 min readEA link

“Of Hu­man Bondage” and Morality

CasaubonAug 31, 2022, 5:58 PM
1 point
2 comments27 min readEA link

Meth­ods for im­prov­ing un­cer­tainty anal­y­sis in EA cost-effec­tive­ness models

FroolowAug 29, 2022, 6:07 PM
127 points
8 comments37 min readEA link

What is the over­head of grant­mak­ing?

MathiasKB🔸Jun 15, 2022, 5:07 PM
59 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism is no longer the right name for the movement

ParthThayaAug 31, 2022, 6:07 AM
182 points
36 comments10 min readEA link

Fol­low-up: Crowd­sourced Criticisms

HmashSep 1, 2022, 9:56 PM
6 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

A cri­tique of strong longtermism

Pablo RosadoAug 28, 2022, 7:33 PM
15 points
11 comments14 min readEA link

EA vs. FIRE – rec­on­cil­ing these two movements

Stewed_WalrusSep 1, 2022, 7:33 AM
17 points
9 comments11 min readEA link

Edit­ing wild an­i­mals is un­der­ex­plored in What We Owe the Future

Michael HuangAug 31, 2022, 2:26 PM
32 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Elimi­nate or Ad­just Strong Upvotes to Im­prove the Forum

Afternoon CoffeeSep 2, 2022, 8:37 AM
23 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

EA cul­ture is spe­cial; we should pro­ceed with intentionality

James LinMay 21, 2022, 9:55 PM
85 points
7 comments10 min readEA link

Some core as­sump­tions of effec­tive al­tru­ism, ac­cord­ing to me

peterhartreeJul 29, 2022, 9:05 AM
90 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

The Hap­piness Max­i­mizer: Why EA is an x-risk

Obasi ShawAug 30, 2022, 4:29 AM
8 points
5 comments32 min readEA link

An epistemic cri­tique of longtermism

Nathan_BarnardJul 10, 2022, 10:59 AM
12 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

Should large EA non­prof­its con­sider split­ting?

ArepoJun 6, 2022, 8:20 PM
12 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Pro­posed tweak to the longter­mism pitch

TheOtherHannahAug 8, 2022, 6:29 AM
17 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­tion to Prag­matic AI Safety [Prag­matic AI Safety #1]

TW123May 9, 2022, 5:02 PM
68 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Towards a more ec­u­meni­cal EA move­ment

LockeSep 1, 2022, 3:58 PM
10 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Rea­sons for my nega­tive feel­ings to­wards the AI risk discussion

fergusqSep 1, 2022, 7:33 AM
43 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

The Wind­fall Clause has a reme­dies problem

John Bridge 🔸May 23, 2022, 10:31 AM
40 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

Should EA shift away (a bit) from elite uni­ver­si­ties?

JosephAug 21, 2022, 9:46 AM
23 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism is similar to the AI al­ign­ment prob­lem and suffers from the same difficul­ties [Crit­i­cism and Red Team­ing Con­test en­try]

turchinJun 19, 2022, 9:01 AM
16 points
30 comments9 min readEA link

Let’s not glo­rify peo­ple for how they look.

FlorenceAug 11, 2022, 2:33 PM
56 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

Se­nior EA ‘ops’ roles: if you want to undo the bot­tle­neck, hire differently

AnonymousThrowAwayJul 9, 2022, 10:47 AM
302 points
32 comments11 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ists and Reli­gion: A Pro­posal for Experimentation

KbrownAug 7, 2022, 1:27 PM
4 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

The or­di­nal util­ity ar­gu­ment against effec­tive al­tru­ism

BarracudaJun 12, 2022, 1:20 PM
8 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Why bother do­ing the most good?

DovSep 1, 2022, 4:48 PM
3 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

EA crit­i­cism con­test: Why I am not an effec­tive altruist

ErikHoelAug 16, 2022, 5:16 PM
13 points
23 comments2 min readEA link
(erikhoel.substack.com)

Should young EAs re­ally fo­cus on ca­reer cap­i­tal?

Michael B.Jun 27, 2022, 1:02 AM
16 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

Bernard Willi­ams: Ethics and the limits of impartiality

peterhartreeSep 7, 2022, 11:26 AM
4 points
8 comments6 min readEA link
(notes.pjh.is)

The Malthu­sian Gra­di­ent: Why some third-world in­ter­ven­tions may be do­ing more harm than good

JoePaterAug 22, 2022, 9:13 AM
18 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

On Defer­ence and Yud­kowsky’s AI Risk Estimates

bgarfinkelJun 19, 2022, 2:35 PM
285 points
194 comments17 min readEA link

A pod­cast epi­sode ex­plor­ing cri­tiques of effec­tive al­tru­ism (with Michael Niel­sen and Ajeya Co­tra)

spencergSep 1, 2022, 4:13 PM
14 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(clearerthinkingpodcast.com)

EA Wor­ries and Crit­i­cism

Connor TabarrokSep 1, 2022, 6:23 PM
13 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

The Cred­i­bil­ity of Apoca­lyp­tic Claims: A Cri­tique of Techno-Fu­tur­ism within Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

EmberAug 16, 2022, 7:48 PM
25 points
35 comments17 min readEA link

A dilemma for Max­i­mize Ex­pected Choice­wor­thi­ness (MEC)

Calvin_BakerSep 1, 2022, 2:46 PM
33 points
7 comments10 min readEA link

Crit­i­cism of EA Crit­i­cism Contest

Zvi Jul 14, 2022, 2:20 PM
101 points
34 comments31 min readEA link

The great en­ergy de­scent—Part 2: Limits to growth and why we prob­a­bly won’t reach the stars

CB🔸Aug 31, 2022, 9:51 PM
19 points
0 comments25 min readEA link

Ide­olog­i­cal ten­sions be­tween Effec­tive Altru­ism and The UK Civil Service

KZ XAug 9, 2022, 10:32 PM
22 points
1 comment17 min readEA link

Why the EA aver­sion to lo­cal al­tru­is­tic ac­tion?

LockeJun 10, 2022, 11:01 PM
9 points
12 comments4 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Goes Poli­ti­cal: Nor­ma­tive Con­flicts and Prac­ti­cal Judgment

Michael HaidenSep 1, 2022, 10:39 AM
0 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Criticisms

Gavin Palmer (heroLFG.com)Aug 11, 2022, 4:07 PM
1 point
1 comment5 min readEA link

A Case Against Strong Longtermism

A. WolffSep 2, 2022, 4:40 PM
10 points
4 comments39 min readEA link

Cri­tique of MacAskill’s “Is It Good to Make Happy Peo­ple?”

Magnus VindingAug 23, 2022, 9:21 AM
223 points
115 comments8 min readEA link

Crowd­sourced Crit­i­cisms: What does EA think about EA?

HmashAug 8, 2022, 10:59 PM
32 points
19 comments13 min readEA link

We need more dis­cus­sion and clar­ity on how uni­ver­sity groups cre­ate value

Oscar GalvinJun 28, 2022, 3:56 PM
35 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

[Question] Are too many young, highly-en­gaged longter­mist EAs do­ing move­ment-build­ing?

Anonymous_EAJun 16, 2022, 8:48 PM
115 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets are Some­what Over­rated Within EA

FrancisSep 1, 2022, 2:17 AM
16 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Fix­ing bad in­cen­tives in EA

IncentivesAccountJul 22, 2022, 4:48 PM
16 points
11 comments4 min readEA link

Low-key Longtermism

Jonathan RystromJul 25, 2022, 1:39 PM
26 points
6 comments8 min readEA link

On the Philo­soph­i­cal Foun­da­tions of EA

mm6Sep 1, 2022, 7:34 AM
35 points
10 comments23 min readEA link

Slow­ing down AI progress is an un­der­ex­plored al­ign­ment strategy

Michael HuangJul 13, 2022, 3:22 AM
92 points
11 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

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

MattBallJul 2, 2022, 2:05 AM
5 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

Should we call our­selves effec­tive al­tru­ists?

Sam_CogginsAug 20, 2022, 5:55 AM
10 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

A Cri­tique of The Precipice: Chap­ter 6 - The Risk Land­scape [Red Team Challenge]

Sarah WeilerJun 26, 2022, 10:59 AM
57 points
2 comments21 min readEA link

Go Repub­li­can, Young EA!

ColdButtonIssuesApr 13, 2022, 4:43 AM
123 points
42 comments4 min readEA link

Be More Succinct

RedTeamPseudonymAug 30, 2022, 10:58 PM
23 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

EA Shouldn’t Try to Ex­er­cise Direct Poli­ti­cal Power

iamasockpuppetJul 21, 2022, 10:29 AM
156 points
31 comments10 min readEA link

What a Large and Wel­com­ing EA Could Accomplish

Peter ElamAug 22, 2022, 12:17 PM
12 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Com­pound­ing as­sump­tions and what it mean to be altruistic

BadgerSep 1, 2022, 7:34 AM
9 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

On the in­sti­tu­tional cri­tique of effec­tive al­tru­ism: a re­sponse (mainly) to Brian Berkey

zzz1407Aug 31, 2022, 5:55 PM
6 points
0 comments32 min readEA link

A slightly (I think?) differ­ent slant on why EA elitism bias/​top-uni­ver­sity fo­cus/​lack of di­ver­sity is a problem

RedTeamPseudonymSep 1, 2022, 7:58 AM
32 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Cri­tique: Cost-Benefit of Weirdness

Mike EliasAug 29, 2022, 3:59 PM
2 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

A part of the sys­tem’s apology

Niv CohenAug 31, 2022, 5:57 PM
7 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Book Re­view: What We Owe The Fu­ture (Erik Hoel)

ErikHoelAug 23, 2022, 3:04 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(erikhoel.substack.com)

My views on EA --> at­tempt to a con­struc­tive criticism

Jin JoAug 10, 2022, 6:40 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The fu­ture of humanity

Dem0sthenesSep 1, 2022, 10:34 PM
1 point
0 comments8 min readEA link

The Wages of North-At­lantic Bias

Sach WryAug 19, 2022, 12:34 PM
8 points
2 comments17 min readEA link

Port­fo­lios, Lo­cal­ity, and Ca­reer—Three Cri­tiques of Effec­tive Altruism

Philip AppsAug 29, 2022, 7:19 AM
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism, the Prin­ci­ple of Ex­plo­sion and Epistemic Fragility

EigengenderAug 15, 2022, 1:45 AM
19 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

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

HTCAug 30, 2022, 4:27 AM
30 points
1 comment18 min readEA link

Enantiodromia

ChristianKleineidamAug 31, 2022, 9:14 PM
9 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Prizes for EA Red Teaming

Noah BirnbaumJul 22, 2024, 9:13 PM
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Pri­ori­tiz­ing x-risks may re­quire car­ing about fu­ture people

eliflandAug 14, 2022, 12:55 AM
182 points
38 comments6 min readEA link
(www.foxy-scout.com)

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

trurlSep 2, 2022, 3:22 AM
7 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

When 2/​3rds of the world goes against you

Jeffrey KursonisJul 2, 2022, 8:34 PM
2 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

Against Im­par­tial Altruism

Sam KSep 1, 2022, 7:16 AM
2 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

We Can’t Do Long Term Utili­tar­ian Calcu­la­tions Un­til We Know if AIs Can Be Con­scious or Not

Mike20731Sep 2, 2022, 8:37 AM
4 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Tran­script of Twit­ter Dis­cus­sion on EA from June 2022

Zvi Jun 6, 2022, 1:47 PM
83 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

The rea­son­able­ness of spe­cial concerns

jwtAug 29, 2022, 12:10 AM
3 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Hits- or misses-based giving

brb243Sep 1, 2022, 10:30 PM
3 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

Against An­thropic Shadow

tobycrisford 🔸Jun 3, 2022, 5:49 PM
49 points
13 comments13 min readEA link

In­ves­ti­gat­ing Ide­ol­ogy: want to earn money, help EA and/​or me? Then check this out; it may be a mighty ne­glected cause

DovAug 12, 2022, 5:52 AM
3 points
6 comments22 min readEA link

EA is too re­li­ant on per­sonal connections

sawyer🔸Sep 1, 2022, 2:26 PM
232 points
27 comments8 min readEA link

Should EA in­fluence gov­ern­ments to en­act more effec­tive in­ter­ven­tions?

Markus Amalthea MagnusonSep 1, 2022, 5:48 PM
20 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Love and AI: Re­la­tional Brain/​Mind Dy­nam­ics in AI Development

Jeffrey KursonisJun 21, 2022, 7:09 AM
2 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Ways money can make things worse

Jan_KulveitJun 21, 2022, 3:26 PM
167 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Keep­ing it Real

calumdaveyAug 23, 2022, 5:42 PM
6 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing Through Fiction

YitzJul 6, 2022, 5:23 AM
8 points
3 comments8 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Wheel­ing and deal­ing: An in­ter­nal bar­gain­ing ap­proach to moral uncertainty

MichaelPlantJul 10, 2022, 12:04 PM
56 points
18 comments23 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism is Unkind

Oliver Scott CurrySep 1, 2022, 3:51 PM
11 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Ch­ester­ton Fences and EA’s X-risks

jehanSep 2, 2022, 11:56 AM
79 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism in a non-ideal world

Eric KramerSep 1, 2022, 5:50 PM
6 points
0 comments16 min readEA link

Should you still use the ITN frame­work? [Red Team­ing Con­test]

fribJul 14, 2022, 4:02 AM
32 points
12 comments9 min readEA link

Mind your step

TalsomeSep 1, 2022, 7:33 AM
2 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Pre­fer be­liefs to cre­dence probabilities

Noah ScalesSep 1, 2022, 2:04 AM
3 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Why I Hope (Cer­tain) He­donic Utili­tar­i­ans Don’t Con­trol the Long-term Future

Jared_RiggsAug 8, 2022, 12:57 AM
30 points
5 comments13 min readEA link

Effec­tive means to com­bat autocracies

Junius BrutusAug 28, 2022, 5:35 PM
32 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

The dan­gers of high salaries within EA organisations

JamesÖzJun 10, 2022, 7:54 AM
38 points
35 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Did OpenPhil ever pub­lish their in-depth re­view of their three-year OpenAI grant?

Markus Amalthea MagnusonJul 4, 2022, 2:11 PM
128 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The Hid­den Im­pos­si­bil­ities Of Be­ing An Effec­tive Altru­ist.

Refined Insights Aug 28, 2022, 12:51 PM
10 points
4 comments30 min readEA link

The to­tal­i­tar­ian im­pli­ca­tions of Effec­tive Altruism

Ed_TalksJun 14, 2022, 4:52 PM
11 points
14 comments1 min readEA link
(edtalks.substack.com)

EA Un­der­val­ues Unseen Data

tcelferactJul 24, 2022, 3:52 PM
8 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Fu­ture Paths for Effec­tive Altruism

James BroughelAug 4, 2022, 10:34 AM
44 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Michael Niel­sen’s “Notes on effec­tive al­tru­ism”

PabloJun 3, 2022, 8:20 AM
219 points
49 comments5 min readEA link
(michaelnotebook.com)

AGI Bat­tle Royale: Why “slow takeover” sce­nar­ios de­volve into a chaotic multi-AGI fight to the death

titotalSep 22, 2022, 3:00 PM
49 points
11 comments15 min readEA link

How avoid­ing dras­tic ca­reer changes could sup­port EA’s epistemic health and long-term effi­cacy.

nat goldthwaiteAug 31, 2022, 6:58 AM
7 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

EA Should Re­name Itself

Name RectifierSep 2, 2022, 4:28 AM
1 point
0 comments16 min readEA link

What we are for? Com­mu­nity, Cor­rec­tion and Scale [wip]

Nathan YoungSep 1, 2022, 10:44 PM
0 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

We’re re­ally bad at guess­ing the future

Benj AzoseAug 13, 2022, 9:11 AM
20 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Eval­u­at­ing large-scale move­ment build­ing: A bet­ter way to cri­tique Open Philan­thropy’s crim­i­nal jus­tice reform

ruthgraceSep 2, 2022, 7:24 AM
40 points
3 comments26 min readEA link

Run For President

Brian MooreJul 2, 2022, 12:52 AM
−1 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

EA on nu­clear war and expertise

beanAug 28, 2022, 4:59 AM
153 points
17 comments4 min readEA link

Four Con­cerns Re­gard­ing Longtermism

Pat AndriolaJun 6, 2022, 5:42 AM
82 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

EA is a fight against Knigh­tian uncertainty

Rohit is a Strange LoopSep 2, 2022, 4:26 AM
15 points
2 comments14 min readEA link
(www.strangeloopcanon.com)

Ac­cept­ing the Inevita­bil­ity of Am­bi­tious Ego­ism (”AE”)

Dem0sthenesAug 17, 2022, 2:38 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Crit­i­cism of EA and longtermism

St. IgnorantSep 2, 2022, 7:23 AM
2 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

Nu­clear Fine-Tun­ing: How Many Wor­lds Have Been De­stroyed?

EmberAug 17, 2022, 1:13 PM
18 points
28 comments23 min readEA link

An Eval­u­a­tion of An­i­mal Char­ity Eval­u­a­tors

eaanonymous1234Sep 2, 2022, 4:33 AM
103 points
6 comments43 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism in the gar­den of ends

tyleraltermanAug 31, 2022, 8:47 PM
289 points
45 comments23 min readEA link

End-To-End En­cryp­tion For EA

Talking TreeAug 30, 2022, 10:10 AM
10 points
7 comments11 min readEA link

On longter­mism, Bayesi­anism, and the dooms­day argument

iporphyrySep 1, 2022, 12:27 AM
30 points
5 comments13 min readEA link

Red Team: Write More.

WeaverAug 31, 2022, 5:57 PM
11 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Crit­i­cism of the main frame­work in AI alignment

Michele CampoloAug 31, 2022, 9:44 PM
42 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

The most im­por­tant cli­mate change uncertainty

cwaJul 26, 2022, 3:15 PM
144 points
28 comments13 min readEA link

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

CB🔸Aug 31, 2022, 9:51 PM
17 points
3 comments22 min readEA link

Hob­bit Manifesto

Clay CubeAug 30, 2022, 8:24 PM
8 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

The Role of “Economism” in the Belief-For­ma­tion Sys­tems of Effec­tive Altruism

Thomas AitkenSep 1, 2022, 7:33 AM
28 points
3 comments10 min readEA link
(drive.google.com)

The Effec­tive Altru­ism culture

PabloAMC 🔸Apr 17, 2022, 1:23 AM
35 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Em­piri­cal cri­tique of EA from an­other direction

tonzAug 22, 2022, 9:13 AM
2 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

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

Amber DawnSep 1, 2022, 5:45 PM
37 points
18 comments10 min readEA link

EA needs to un­der­stand its “failures” better

mariushobbhahnMay 24, 2022, 2:24 PM
67 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

The Im­por­tance of In­ter­causal Impacts

Sebastian Joy 樂百善Aug 24, 2022, 10:41 AM
61 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Friend­ship is Op­ti­mal: EAGs should be online

EmrikSep 2, 2022, 12:00 AM
31 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

A Cri­tique of AI Takeover Scenarios

James FodorAug 31, 2022, 1:49 PM
53 points
4 comments12 min readEA link

A Quick List of Some Prob­lems in AI Align­ment As A Field

Nicholas / Heather KrossJun 21, 2022, 5:09 PM
16 points
10 comments6 min readEA link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

The dan­ger of good stories

DuncanSAug 22, 2022, 9:13 AM
16 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Risks Per­pet­u­at­ing a Harm­ful Worldview

Theo CoxAug 20, 2022, 1:10 AM
−4 points
9 comments20 min readEA link

Con­cerns/​Thoughts over in­ter­na­tional aid, longter­mism and philo­soph­i­cal notes on speak­ing with Larry Temkin.

Ben YeohJul 27, 2022, 7:51 PM
35 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

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

Gabriel WeilJun 10, 2022, 6:18 AM
40 points
35 comments11 min readEA link

“One should love one’s neigh­bor more than one­self.”

BarracudaJun 13, 2022, 12:35 AM
−3 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

EA’s Cul­ture and Think­ing are Severely Limit­ing its Impact

Peter ElamJul 26, 2022, 11:10 AM
97 points
48 comments22 min readEA link
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