Criticism and Red Teaming Contest

TagLast edit: 16 Jul 2022 11:37 UTC 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.

Announcing a contest: EA Criticism and Red Teaming

Lizka1 Jun 2022 18:58 UTC

276 points

64 comments13 min readEA link

Winners of the EA Criticism and Red Teaming Contest

Lizka1 Oct 2022 1:50 UTC

226 points

41 comments19 min readEA link

Resource for criticisms and red teaming

Lizka1 Jun 2022 18:58 UTC

60 points

3 comments8 min readEA link

Critiques of EA that I want to read

abrahamrowe19 Jun 2022 22:22 UTC

463 points

85 comments11 min readEA link

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

JoelMcGuire25 Jul 2022 20:26 UTC

307 points

38 comments11 min readEA link

(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

My take on What We Owe the Future

elifland1 Sep 2022 18:07 UTC

353 points

51 comments26 min readEA link

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

NunoSempere16 Jun 2022 16:40 UTC

302 points

97 comments26 min readEA link

Pre-announcing a contest for critiques and red teaming

Lizka25 Mar 2022 11:52 UTC

173 points

27 comments2 min readEA link

Red Teaming CEA’s Community Building Work

AnonymousEAForumAccount1 Sep 2022 14:42 UTC

296 points

68 comments66 min readEA link

Enlightenment Values in a Vulnerable World

Maxwell Tabarrok18 Jul 2022 11:54 UTC

66 points

18 comments31 min readEA link

What I learned from the criticism contest

Gavin1 Oct 2022 13:39 UTC

170 points

32 comments6 min readEA link

Leaning into EA Disillusionment

Helen21 Jul 2022 17:06 UTC

426 points

61 comments13 min readEA link

A philosophical review of Open Philanthropy’s Cause Prioritisation Framework

MichaelPlant15 Jul 2022 8:21 UTC

160 points

11 comments29 min readEA link

(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

The Future Might Not Be So Great

Jacy30 Jun 2022 13:01 UTC

142 points

118 comments34 min readEA link

(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Effective Altruism as Coordination & Field Incubation

DavidNash14 Jun 2022 16:17 UTC

100 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

Potatoes: A Critical Review

Pablo Villalobos10 May 2022 15:27 UTC

120 points

27 comments9 min readEA link

(docs.google.com)

Longtermism and Computational Complexity

David Kinney31 Aug 2022 21:51 UTC

41 points

46 comments25 min readEA link

21 criticisms of EA I’m thinking about

Peter Wildeford1 Sep 2022 19:28 UTC

209 points

26 comments9 min readEA link

The Community Manifesto

ATW31 Aug 2022 23:44 UTC

26 points

10 comments61 min readEA link

Existential risk pessimism and the time of perils

David Thorstad12 Aug 2022 14:42 UTC

177 points

67 comments20 min readEA link

Red-teaming contest: demographics and power structures in EA

TheOtherHannah31 Aug 2022 4:36 UTC

110 points

14 comments33 min readEA link

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

NunoSempere16 Aug 2022 14:44 UTC

75 points

40 comments5 min readEA link

(nunosempere.com)

EA is becoming increasingly inaccessible, at the worst possible time

Ann Garth 🔸22 Jul 2022 15:40 UTC

77 points

13 comments15 min readEA link

Before There Was Effective Altruism, There Was Effective Philanthropy

ColdButtonIssues26 Jun 2022 18:09 UTC

133 points

7 comments12 min readEA link

How EA is perceived is crucial to its future trajectory

Gidi Kadosh23 Jul 2022 3:24 UTC

162 points

22 comments14 min readEA link

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

Froolow25 Aug 2022 15:35 UTC

227 points

20 comments38 min readEA link

Questioning the Value of Extinction Risk Reduction

Red Team 87 Jul 2022 4:44 UTC

61 points

9 comments27 min readEA link

The Nietzschean Challenge to Effective Altruism

Richard Y Chappell🔸29 Aug 2022 14:39 UTC

102 points

15 comments7 min readEA link

(rychappell.substack.com)

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

MHR🔸4 Aug 2022 16:12 UTC

95 points

9 comments15 min readEA link

Deontology, the Paralysis Argument and altruistic longtermism

William D'Alessandro2 Sep 2022 3:23 UTC

33 points

4 comments14 min readEA link

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

CB🔸31 Aug 2022 21:50 UTC

61 points

90 comments10 min readEA link

Red teaming introductory EA courses

Philip Hall Andersen30 Aug 2022 15:47 UTC

52 points

6 comments21 min readEA link

community building solely as a tool for impact creates toxic communities

ruthgrace1 Sep 2022 3:45 UTC

45 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

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

Richard R2 Sep 2022 7:53 UTC

56 points

10 comments16 min readEA link

Population Ethics Without Axiology: A Framework

Lukas_Gloor2 Aug 2022 15:59 UTC

81 points

18 comments26 min readEA link

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

titotal30 Aug 2022 13:55 UTC

40 points

12 comments10 min readEA link

Moral Injury, Mental Health, and Obsession in EA

ECJ1 Sep 2022 17:51 UTC

3 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Changing the world through slack & hobbies

Steven Byrnes21 Jul 2022 18:01 UTC

130 points

10 comments10 min readEA link

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

Austin27 Sep 2022 22:46 UTC

21 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(manifold.markets)

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

freedomandutility22 Aug 2022 20:25 UTC

38 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

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

freedomandutility9 Aug 2022 20:13 UTC

25 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Hiring: The Ignored Resource of Rejected EA Job Candidates

RedTeamPseudonym30 Aug 2022 4:29 UTC

9 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

[TikTok] Comparability between suffering and happiness

Ben_West🔸1 Sep 2022 16:31 UTC

23 points

11 comments1 min readEA link

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

Joshua Clingo1 Sep 2022 7:34 UTC

18 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

RedTeamPseudonym1 Sep 2022 7:12 UTC

6 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

How to dissolve moral cluelessness about donating mosquito nets

ben.smith8 Jun 2022 7:12 UTC

25 points

8 comments12 min readEA link

Things usually end slowly

OllieBase7 Jun 2022 17:00 UTC

76 points

14 comments7 min readEA link

You Don’t Need To Justify Everything

TW12312 Jun 2022 18:36 UTC

139 points

11 comments3 min readEA link

EAs underestimate uncertainty in cause prioritisation

freedomandutility23 Aug 2022 14:04 UTC

119 points

20 comments2 min readEA link

Questioning the Foundations of EA

Wei Dai27 Aug 2022 20:44 UTC

101 points

21 comments1 min readEA link

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

CB🔸31 Aug 2022 21:51 UTC

44 points

2 comments22 min readEA link

Popular EA Authors Should Give Libraries More Copies of Their EBooks

RedTeamPseudonym30 Aug 2022 5:16 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Nathan Young1 Sep 2022 22:42 UTC

34 points

15 comments13 min readEA link

Leveraging labor shortages as a pathway to career impact?

IanDavidMoss14 Jul 2022 13:32 UTC

17 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

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

Akash2 Sep 2022 12:15 UTC

30 points

5 comments3 min readEA link

Effective Altruism Should Seek Less Criticism

The Chaostician1 Sep 2022 7:33 UTC

19 points

0 comments12 min readEA link

Suggestions for 80,000K

RedTeamPseudonym1 Sep 2022 8:26 UTC

8 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

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

Peter Wildeford30 Aug 2022 18:57 UTC

89 points

20 comments2 min readEA link

EA has a lying problem [Link Post]

Nathan Young16 Aug 2022 21:57 UTC

−3 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Summaries are underrated

Nathan Young1 Sep 2022 22:34 UTC

53 points

24 comments8 min readEA link

Longtermism, risk, and extinction

Richard Pettigrew4 Aug 2022 15:25 UTC

73 points

12 comments41 min readEA link

Think again: Should EA be a social movement?

An A2 Sep 2022 11:45 UTC

13 points

1 comment6 min readEA link

Rethinking longtermism and global development

Eevee🔹2 Sep 2022 5:28 UTC

10 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

(sunyshore.substack.com)

This post is a Work-In-Progress

Nathan Young3 Oct 2022 15:44 UTC

3 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

We’re funding task-adjusted survival (DALYs)

brb24313 Jul 2022 17:26 UTC

6 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

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

weeatquince12 Aug 2022 13:54 UTC

124 points

49 comments6 min readEA link

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

HaydnBelfield19 May 2022 8:42 UTC

485 points

44 comments18 min readEA link

Remuneration In Effective Altruism

Stefan_Schubert25 Jul 2022 12:35 UTC

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.

SofiaBalderson3 Aug 2022 15:44 UTC

79 points

24 comments16 min readEA link

The discount rate is not zero

Thomaaas3 Sep 2022 14:30 UTC

102 points

28 comments12 min readEA link

Are we already past the precipice?

Dem0sthenes10 Aug 2022 4:01 UTC

1 point

5 comments2 min readEA link

“Doing Good Best” isn’t the EA ideal

Davidmanheim16 Sep 2022 12:06 UTC

128 points

17 comments6 min readEA link

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

Nathan Young8 Apr 2022 9:32 UTC

31 points

15 comments4 min readEA link

Quantifying Uncertainty in GiveWell’s GiveDirectly Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

SamNolan27 May 2022 3:10 UTC

130 points

19 comments6 min readEA link

Animal Zoo

bericlair2 Sep 2022 4:34 UTC

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 F16 Jul 2022 19:05 UTC

21 points

0 comments30 min readEA link

The Long Reflection as the Great Stagnation

Larks1 Sep 2022 20:55 UTC

43 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

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

Stuart Buck25 Jun 2022 19:17 UTC

118 points

15 comments11 min readEA link

EA Culture and Causes: Less is More

Allen Bell16 Aug 2022 14:04 UTC

81 points

10 comments14 min readEA link

this one weird trick creates infinite utility

Hmash1 Sep 2022 9:10 UTC

12 points

0 comments9 min readEA link

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

freedomandutility13 Aug 2022 14:53 UTC

36 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Aesthetics as Epistemic Humility

Étienne Fortier-Dubois22 Aug 2022 17:00 UTC

46 points

6 comments13 min readEA link

(etiennefd.substack.com)

Making EA More Effective

Peter Kelly31 Aug 2022 5:02 UTC

7 points

0 comments13 min readEA link

Capitalism, power and epistemology: a critique of EA

Matthew_Doran22 Aug 2022 14:20 UTC

13 points

19 comments23 min readEA link

“Of Human Bondage” and Morality

Casaubon31 Aug 2022 17:58 UTC

1 point

2 comments27 min readEA link

Methods for improving uncertainty analysis in EA cost-effectiveness models

Froolow29 Aug 2022 18:07 UTC

127 points

8 comments37 min readEA link

What is the overhead of grantmaking?

MathiasKB🔸15 Jun 2022 17:07 UTC

59 points

5 comments3 min readEA link

Effective altruism is no longer the right name for the movement

ParthThaya31 Aug 2022 6:07 UTC

182 points

36 comments10 min readEA link

Follow-up: Crowdsourced Criticisms

Hmash1 Sep 2022 21:56 UTC

6 points

0 comments9 min readEA link

A critique of strong longtermism

Pablo Rosado28 Aug 2022 19:33 UTC

15 points

11 comments14 min readEA link

EA vs. FIRE – reconciling these two movements

Stewed_Walrus1 Sep 2022 7:33 UTC

17 points

9 comments11 min readEA link

Editing wild animals is underexplored in What We Owe the Future

Michael Huang31 Aug 2022 14:26 UTC

32 points

5 comments3 min readEA link

Eliminate or Adjust Strong Upvotes to Improve the Forum

Afternoon Coffee2 Sep 2022 8:37 UTC

23 points

15 comments3 min readEA link

EA culture is special; we should proceed with intentionality

James Lin21 May 2022 21:55 UTC

85 points

7 comments10 min readEA link

Some core assumptions of effective altruism, according to me

peterhartree29 Jul 2022 9:05 UTC

90 points

9 comments6 min readEA link

The Happiness Maximizer: Why EA is an x-risk

Obasi Shaw30 Aug 2022 4:29 UTC

8 points

5 comments32 min readEA link

An epistemic critique of longtermism

Nathan_Barnard10 Jul 2022 10:59 UTC

12 points

4 comments9 min readEA link

Should large EA nonprofits consider splitting?

Arepo6 Jun 2022 20:20 UTC

12 points

4 comments7 min readEA link

Proposed tweak to the longtermism pitch

TheOtherHannah8 Aug 2022 6:29 UTC

17 points

6 comments4 min readEA link

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

TW1239 May 2022 17:02 UTC

68 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

Towards a more ecumenical EA movement

Locke1 Sep 2022 15:58 UTC

10 points

1 comment6 min readEA link

Reasons for my negative feelings towards the AI risk discussion

fergusq1 Sep 2022 7:33 UTC

43 points

9 comments4 min readEA link

The Windfall Clause has a remedies problem

John Bridge 🔸23 May 2022 10:31 UTC

40 points

0 comments17 min readEA link

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

Joseph Lemien21 Aug 2022 9:46 UTC

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]

turchin19 Jun 2022 9:01 UTC

16 points

30 comments9 min readEA link

Let’s not glorify people for how they look.

Florence11 Aug 2022 14:33 UTC

56 points

19 comments3 min readEA link

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

AnonymousThrowAway9 Jul 2022 10:47 UTC

301 points

32 comments11 min readEA link

Effective Altruists and Religion: A Proposal for Experimentation

Kbrown7 Aug 2022 13:27 UTC

4 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

The ordinal utility argument against effective altruism

Barracuda12 Jun 2022 13:20 UTC

8 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Why bother doing the most good?

Dov1 Sep 2022 16:48 UTC

3 points

0 comments17 min readEA link

EA criticism contest: Why I am not an effective altruist

ErikHoel16 Aug 2022 17:16 UTC

13 points

23 comments2 min readEA link

(erikhoel.substack.com)

Should young EAs really focus on career capital?

Michael B.27 Jun 2022 1:02 UTC

16 points

1 comment12 min readEA link

Bernard Williams: Ethics and the limits of impartiality

peterhartree7 Sep 2022 11:26 UTC

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

JoePater22 Aug 2022 9:13 UTC

18 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

On Deference and Yudkowsky’s AI Risk Estimates

bgarfinkel19 Jun 2022 14:35 UTC

285 points

194 comments17 min readEA link

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

spencerg1 Sep 2022 16:13 UTC

14 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

(clearerthinkingpodcast.com)

EA Worries and Criticism

Connor Tabarrok1 Sep 2022 18:23 UTC

13 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

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

Ember16 Aug 2022 19:48 UTC

25 points

35 comments17 min readEA link

A dilemma for Maximize Expected Choiceworthiness (MEC)

Calvin_Baker1 Sep 2022 14:46 UTC

33 points

7 comments10 min readEA link

Criticism of EA Criticism Contest

Zvi 14 Jul 2022 14:20 UTC

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🔸31 Aug 2022 21:51 UTC

19 points

0 comments25 min readEA link

Ideological tensions between Effective Altruism and The UK Civil Service

KZ X9 Aug 2022 22:32 UTC

22 points

1 comment17 min readEA link

Why the EA aversion to local altruistic action?

Locke10 Jun 2022 23:01 UTC

9 points

12 comments4 min readEA link

Effective Altruism Goes Political: Normative Conflicts and Practical Judgment

Michael Haiden1 Sep 2022 10:39 UTC

0 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

Effective Altruism Criticisms

Gavin Palmer (heroLFG.com)11 Aug 2022 16:07 UTC

1 point

1 comment5 min readEA link

A Case Against Strong Longtermism

A. Wolff2 Sep 2022 16:40 UTC

10 points

4 comments39 min readEA link

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

Magnus Vinding23 Aug 2022 9:21 UTC

222 points

115 comments8 min readEA link

Crowdsourced Criticisms: What does EA think about EA?

Hmash8 Aug 2022 22:59 UTC

32 points

19 comments13 min readEA link

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

Oscar Galvin28 Jun 2022 15:56 UTC

35 points

4 comments11 min readEA link

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

Anonymous_EA16 Jun 2022 20:48 UTC

115 points

8 comments4 min readEA link

Prediction Markets are Somewhat Overrated Within EA

Francis1 Sep 2022 2:17 UTC

16 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

Fixing bad incentives in EA

IncentivesAccount22 Jul 2022 16:48 UTC

16 points

11 comments4 min readEA link

Low-key Longtermism

Jonathan Rystrom25 Jul 2022 13:39 UTC

26 points

6 comments8 min readEA link

On the Philosophical Foundations of EA

mm61 Sep 2022 7:34 UTC

35 points

10 comments23 min readEA link

Slowing down AI progress is an underexplored alignment strategy

Michael Huang13 Jul 2022 3:22 UTC

92 points

11 comments3 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

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

MattBall2 Jul 2022 2:05 UTC

5 points

6 comments6 min readEA link

Should we call ourselves effective altruists?

Sam_Coggins20 Aug 2022 5:55 UTC

10 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

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

Sarah Weiler26 Jun 2022 10:59 UTC

57 points

2 comments21 min readEA link

Go Republican, Young EA!

ColdButtonIssues13 Apr 2022 4:43 UTC

124 points

41 comments4 min readEA link

Be More Succinct

RedTeamPseudonym30 Aug 2022 22:58 UTC

23 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

EA Shouldn’t Try to Exercise Direct Political Power

iamasockpuppet21 Jul 2022 10:29 UTC

156 points

31 comments10 min readEA link

What a Large and Welcoming EA Could Accomplish

Peter Elam22 Aug 2022 12:17 UTC

12 points

2 comments5 min readEA link

Compounding assumptions and what it mean to be altruistic

Badger1 Sep 2022 7:34 UTC

9 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

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

zzz140731 Aug 2022 17:55 UTC

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

RedTeamPseudonym1 Sep 2022 7:58 UTC

32 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

Critique: Cost-Benefit of Weirdness

Mike Elias29 Aug 2022 15:59 UTC

2 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

A part of the system’s apology

Niv Cohen31 Aug 2022 17:57 UTC

7 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

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

ErikHoel23 Aug 2022 15:04 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readEA link

(erikhoel.substack.com)

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

Jin Jo10 Aug 2022 6:40 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

The future of humanity

Dem0sthenes1 Sep 2022 22:34 UTC

1 point

0 comments8 min readEA link

The Wages of North-Atlantic Bias

Sach Wry19 Aug 2022 12:34 UTC

8 points

2 comments17 min readEA link

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

Philip Apps29 Aug 2022 7:19 UTC

2 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Effective Altruism, the Principle of Explosion and Epistemic Fragility

Eigengender15 Aug 2022 1:45 UTC

19 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

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

HTC30 Aug 2022 4:27 UTC

30 points

1 comment18 min readEA link

Enantiodromia

ChristianKleineidam31 Aug 2022 21:14 UTC

9 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Prizes for EA Red Teaming

Daniel Birnbaum22 Jul 2024 21:13 UTC

12 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Prioritizing x-risks may require caring about future people

elifland14 Aug 2022 0:55 UTC

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

trurl2 Sep 2022 3:22 UTC

7 points

0 comments14 min readEA link

When 2/3rds of the world goes against you

Jeffrey Kursonis2 Jul 2022 20:34 UTC

2 points

2 comments9 min readEA link

Against Impartial Altruism

Sam K1 Sep 2022 7:16 UTC

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

Mike207312 Sep 2022 8:37 UTC

4 points

0 comments11 min readEA link

Transcript of Twitter Discussion on EA from June 2022

Zvi 6 Jun 2022 13:47 UTC

83 points

28 comments1 min readEA link

The reasonableness of special concerns

jwt29 Aug 2022 0:10 UTC

3 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Hits- or misses-based giving

brb2431 Sep 2022 22:30 UTC

3 points

0 comments8 min readEA link

Against Anthropic Shadow

tobycrisford 🔸3 Jun 2022 17:49 UTC

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

Dov12 Aug 2022 5:52 UTC

3 points

6 comments22 min readEA link

EA is too reliant on personal connections

sawyer🔸1 Sep 2022 14:26 UTC

231 points

27 comments8 min readEA link

Should EA influence governments to enact more effective interventions?

Markus Amalthea Magnuson1 Sep 2022 17:48 UTC

20 points

4 comments6 min readEA link

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

Jeffrey Kursonis21 Jun 2022 7:09 UTC

2 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

Ways money can make things worse

Jan_Kulveit21 Jun 2022 15:26 UTC

167 points

3 comments9 min readEA link

Keeping it Real

calumdavey23 Aug 2022 17:42 UTC

6 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Forecasting Through Fiction

Yitz6 Jul 2022 5:23 UTC

8 points

3 comments8 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Wheeling and dealing: An internal bargaining approach to moral uncertainty

MichaelPlant10 Jul 2022 12:04 UTC

56 points

18 comments23 min readEA link

Effective Altruism is Unkind

Oliver Scott Curry1 Sep 2022 15:51 UTC

11 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

Chesterton Fences and EA’s X-risks

jehan2 Sep 2022 11:56 UTC

78 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

Effective altruism in a non-ideal world

Eric Kramer1 Sep 2022 17:50 UTC

6 points

0 comments16 min readEA link

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

frib14 Jul 2022 4:02 UTC

32 points

12 comments9 min readEA link

Mind your step

Talsome1 Sep 2022 7:33 UTC

2 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

Prefer beliefs to credence probabilities

Noah Scales1 Sep 2022 2:04 UTC

3 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

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

Jared_Riggs8 Aug 2022 0:57 UTC

30 points

5 comments13 min readEA link

Effective means to combat autocracies

Junius Brutus28 Aug 2022 17:35 UTC

32 points

2 comments5 min readEA link

The dangers of high salaries within EA organisations

JamesÖz10 Jun 2022 7:54 UTC

38 points

35 comments8 min readEA link

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

Markus Amalthea Magnuson4 Jul 2022 14:11 UTC

128 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

The Hidden Impossibilities Of Being An Effective Altruist.

Refined Insights 28 Aug 2022 12:51 UTC

10 points

4 comments30 min readEA link

The totalitarian implications of Effective Altruism

Ed_Talks14 Jun 2022 16:52 UTC

11 points

14 comments1 min readEA link

(edtalks.substack.com)

EA Undervalues Unseen Data

tcelferact24 Jul 2022 15:52 UTC

8 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

Future Paths for Effective Altruism

James Broughel4 Aug 2022 10:34 UTC

44 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

Michael Nielsen’s “Notes on effective altruism”

Pablo3 Jun 2022 8:20 UTC

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

titotal22 Sep 2022 15:00 UTC

49 points

11 comments15 min readEA link

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

nat goldthwaite31 Aug 2022 6:58 UTC

7 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

EA Should Rename Itself

Name Rectifier2 Sep 2022 4:28 UTC

1 point

0 comments16 min readEA link

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

Nathan Young1 Sep 2022 22:44 UTC

0 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

We’re really bad at guessing the future

Benj Azose13 Aug 2022 9:11 UTC

20 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

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

ruthgrace2 Sep 2022 7:24 UTC

40 points

3 comments26 min readEA link

Run For President

Brian Moore2 Jul 2022 0:52 UTC

−1 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

EA on nuclear war and expertise

bean28 Aug 2022 4:59 UTC

153 points

17 comments4 min readEA link

Four Concerns Regarding Longtermism

Pat Andriola6 Jun 2022 5:42 UTC

82 points

15 comments7 min readEA link

EA is a fight against Knightian uncertainty

Rohit is a Strange Loop2 Sep 2022 4:26 UTC

15 points

2 comments14 min readEA link

(www.strangeloopcanon.com)

Accepting the Inevitability of Ambitious Egoism (”AE”)

Dem0sthenes17 Aug 2022 14:38 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readEA link

Criticism of EA and longtermism

St. Ignorant2 Sep 2022 7:23 UTC

2 points

0 comments14 min readEA link

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

Ember17 Aug 2022 13:13 UTC

18 points

28 comments23 min readEA link

An Evaluation of Animal Charity Evaluators

eaanonymous12342 Sep 2022 4:33 UTC

91 points

4 comments43 min readEA link

Effective altruism in the garden of ends

tyleralterman31 Aug 2022 20:47 UTC

289 points

45 comments23 min readEA link

End-To-End Encryption For EA

Talking Tree30 Aug 2022 10:10 UTC

10 points

7 comments11 min readEA link

On longtermism, Bayesianism, and the doomsday argument

iporphyry1 Sep 2022 0:27 UTC

30 points

5 comments13 min readEA link

Red Team: Write More.

Weaver31 Aug 2022 17:57 UTC

11 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

Criticism of the main framework in AI alignment

Michele Campolo31 Aug 2022 21:44 UTC

42 points

4 comments7 min readEA link

The most important climate change uncertainty

cwa26 Jul 2022 15:15 UTC

144 points

28 comments13 min readEA link

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

CB🔸31 Aug 2022 21:51 UTC

17 points

3 comments22 min readEA link

Hobbit Manifesto

Clay Cube30 Aug 2022 20:24 UTC

8 points

9 comments7 min readEA link

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

Thomas Aitken1 Sep 2022 7:33 UTC

28 points

3 comments10 min readEA link

(drive.google.com)

The Effective Altruism culture

PabloAMC 🔸17 Apr 2022 1:23 UTC

35 points

5 comments4 min readEA link

Empirical critique of EA from another direction

tonz22 Aug 2022 9:13 UTC

2 points

0 comments6 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

EA needs to understand its “failures” better

mariushobbhahn24 May 2022 14:24 UTC

67 points

4 comments5 min readEA link

The Importance of Intercausal Impacts

Sebastian Joy 樂百善24 Aug 2022 10:41 UTC

61 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

Friendship is Optimal: EAGs should be online

Emrik2 Sep 2022 0:00 UTC

31 points

4 comments8 min readEA link

A Critique of AI Takeover Scenarios

Fods1231 Aug 2022 13:49 UTC

53 points

4 comments12 min readEA link

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

Nicholas / Heather Kross21 Jun 2022 17:09 UTC

16 points

10 comments6 min readEA link

(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

The danger of good stories

DuncanS22 Aug 2022 9:13 UTC

16 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Effective Altruism Risks Perpetuating a Harmful Worldview

Theo Cox20 Aug 2022 1:10 UTC

−4 points

9 comments20 min readEA link

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

Ben Yeoh27 Jul 2022 19:51 UTC

35 points

1 comment12 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

35 comments11 min readEA link

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

Barracuda13 Jun 2022 0:35 UTC

−3 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

EA’s Culture and Thinking are Severely Limiting its Impact

Peter Elam26 Jul 2022 11:10 UTC

97 points

48 comments22 min readEA link

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