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Crit­i­cism of effec­tive al­tru­ist organizations

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Con­cerns with ACE’s Re­cent Behavior

HypatiaApr 17, 2021, 5:00 PM
274 points
149 comments11 min readEA link

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

Simon_MDec 27, 2022, 11:53 PM
337 points
129 comments6 min readEA link
(simonm.substack.com)

The EA com­mu­nity does not own its donors’ money

Nick WhitakerJan 18, 2023, 6:59 PM
640 points
116 comments4 min readEA link

Open Phil Should Allo­cate Most Neart­er­mist Fund­ing to An­i­mal Welfare

Ariel Simnegar 🔸Nov 19, 2023, 5:00 PM
524 points
126 comments14 min readEA link

Why I’m con­cerned about Giv­ing Green

alex lawsenJan 20, 2021, 10:59 PM
231 points
49 comments13 min readEA link

The EA Com­mu­nity and Long-Term Fu­ture Funds Lack Trans­parency and Accountability

Evan_GaensbauerJul 23, 2018, 12:39 AM
73 points
56 comments12 min readEA link

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

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

Two things that I think could make the com­mu­nity better

KaleemApr 26, 2023, 2:59 PM
92 points
24 comments12 min readEA link

Con­cerns with In­ten­tional Insights

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Oct 24, 2016, 12:04 PM
64 points
182 comments15 min readEA link

[Question] Why aren’t you freak­ing out about OpenAI? At what point would you start?

AppliedDivinityStudiesOct 10, 2021, 1:06 PM
80 points
22 comments2 min readEA link

The ca­reer and the community

richard_ngoMar 21, 2019, 12:35 PM
93 points
35 comments14 min readEA link

A liber­tar­ian so­cial­ist’s view on how EA can improve

freedomandutilityDec 30, 2022, 1:07 PM
143 points
32 comments7 min readEA link

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

LarksOct 14, 2020, 5:08 PM
186 points
80 comments40 min readEA link

Me­diocre AI safety as ex­is­ten­tial risk

technicalitiesMar 16, 2022, 11:50 AM
52 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

Why is it so hard to know if you’re helping?

Vasco Grilo🔸Oct 16, 2024, 4:08 PM
59 points
6 comments12 min readEA link
(www.theintrinsicperspective.com)

EA jobs provide scarce non-mon­e­tary goods

Milan GriffesMar 20, 2019, 8:56 PM
55 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Which Com­mu­nity Build­ing Pro­jects Get Funded?

AnonymousEAForumAccountNov 13, 2019, 8:31 PM
99 points
56 comments9 min readEA link

Two po­ten­tial cases of Effec­tive Ven­tures break­ing the law

Whistleblower3Feb 3, 2023, 10:37 AM
−48 points
38 comments2 min readEA link

Drown­ing chil­dren are rare

BenHoffmanMay 28, 2019, 5:33 PM
−9 points
36 comments5 min readEA link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Why we have over-rated Cool Earth

SanjayNov 26, 2018, 2:29 AM
78 points
32 comments16 min readEA link

After one year of ap­ply­ing for EA jobs: It is re­ally, re­ally hard to get hired by an EA organisation

EA applicantFeb 26, 2019, 5:53 AM
402 points
184 comments4 min readEA link

Con­cerns with ACE research

John G. HalsteadSep 7, 2018, 2:56 PM
40 points
10 comments11 min readEA link

Hiring: How to do it Better

JosephMay 23, 2022, 7:45 AM
77 points
26 comments16 min readEA link

Shar­ing In­for­ma­tion About Nonlinear

Ben PaceSep 7, 2023, 6:51 AM
432 points
497 comments34 min readEA link

Re­vis­it­ing EA’s me­dia policy

ArepoDec 3, 2022, 4:55 PM
239 points
65 comments6 min readEA link

Cri­tique of OpenPhil’s macroe­co­nomic policy advocacy

Hauke HillebrandtMar 24, 2022, 10:03 PM
144 points
39 comments24 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

EA is vet­ting-constrained

toonalfrinkMar 9, 2019, 1:25 AM
129 points
29 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Should 80,000 Hours be more trans­par­ent about how they rank prob­lems and ca­reers?

Vasco Grilo🔸Dec 20, 2023, 8:14 AM
90 points
17 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Should the main text of the write-ups of Open Philan­thropy’s large grants be longer than 1 para­graph?

Vasco Grilo🔸Mar 31, 2024, 9:04 AM
55 points
40 comments1 min readEA link

The EA Fo­rum is a News Feed

DavidNashJul 28, 2019, 10:27 PM
79 points
21 comments3 min readEA link

Towards Bet­ter EA Ca­reer Advice

lexandeNov 21, 2018, 2:52 AM
67 points
40 comments3 min readEA link

My cur­rent thoughts on MIRI’s “highly re­li­able agent de­sign” work

Daniel_DeweyJul 7, 2017, 1:17 AM
60 points
59 comments19 min readEA link

Givewell, and its hiring pro­cess, needs se­ri­ous reform

BobDec 29, 2022, 8:29 PM
43 points
44 comments3 min readEA link

Case Study of EA Global Re­jec­tion + Crit­i­cisms/​Solutions

Constance LiSep 23, 2022, 11:38 AM
238 points
158 comments24 min readEA link

Are GiveWell Top Char­i­ties Too Spec­u­la­tive?

MichaelDickensDec 21, 2015, 4:05 AM
24 points
58 comments3 min readEA link

Make Con­flict of In­ter­est Poli­cies Public

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Feb 9, 2023, 7:33 PM
175 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

Quick Up­date on Leav­ing the Board of EV

rebeccaApr 3, 2024, 12:13 AM
357 points
117 comments1 min readEA link

Is­sues with Giv­ing Multiplier

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Sep 29, 2021, 9:40 PM
27 points
10 comments6 min readEA link
(www.jefftk.com)

Jobs at EA-or­ga­ni­za­tions are over­paid, here is why

CynwitJun 8, 2022, 5:20 PM
16 points
37 comments3 min readEA link

The case for trans­par­ent spending

Jeroen Willems🔸Dec 15, 2022, 5:42 PM
19 points
13 comments7 min readEA link

Does EA un­der­stand how to apol­o­gize for things?

titotalJan 15, 2023, 7:14 PM
159 points
48 comments3 min readEA link

Cri­tiques of promi­nent AI safety labs: Conjecture

OmegaJun 12, 2023, 5:52 AM
150 points
83 comments32 min readEA link

EA Funds hands out money very in­fre­quently—should we be wor­ried?

Henry Stanley 🔸Jan 31, 2018, 8:10 AM
41 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

An In­tro­duc­tion to Cri­tiques of promi­nent AI safety organizations

OmegaJul 19, 2023, 6:53 AM
87 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

A Cri­tique of An­i­mal Char­ity Eval­u­a­tors (ACE)

VettedCausesNov 8, 2024, 5:08 PM
59 points
52 comments1 min readEA link
(vettedcauses.com)

Up­date on CEA’s EA Grants Program

Nicole_RossNov 8, 2019, 11:00 PM
125 points
31 comments6 min readEA link

How to im­prove EA Funds

Henry Stanley 🔸Apr 4, 2018, 9:27 AM
43 points
33 comments3 min readEA link

Cri­tiques of promi­nent AI safety labs: Red­wood Research

OmegaMar 31, 2023, 8:58 AM
339 points
91 comments20 min readEA link

[Question] Why did CEA buy Wytham Abbey?

Jeroen Willems🔸Dec 6, 2022, 2:46 PM
142 points
340 comments2 min readEA link

Dear An­thropic peo­ple, please don’t re­lease Claude

Joseph MillerFeb 8, 2023, 2:44 AM
27 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Con­cerns about AMF from GiveWell read­ing—Part 4

JPHoughtonFeb 13, 2022, 1:36 PM
21 points
18 comments4 min readEA link

Should EA Global Lon­don 2021 have been ex­panded?

Will BradshawNov 9, 2021, 8:28 AM
20 points
23 comments8 min readEA link

Does 80,000 Hours fo­cus too much on AI risk?

EarlyVelcroNov 2, 2019, 8:14 PM
57 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

Red Team­ing CEA’s Com­mu­nity Build­ing Work

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

GiveWell’s recom­men­da­tion of GiveDirectly

William_MacAskillNov 30, 2012, 5:00 AM
2 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

GiveWell Dona­tion Matching

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Sep 21, 2021, 10:50 PM
35 points
7 comments2 min readEA link
(www.jefftk.com)

Samo Burja: What the col­lapse of FTX means for effec­tive altruism

peterhartreeNov 17, 2022, 12:16 PM
46 points
9 comments7 min readEA link
(brief.bismarckanalysis.com)

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

[UNENDORSED] Re­ward Long Content

niplavApr 25, 2022, 10:00 AM
42 points
9 comments11 min readEA link

[Question] What’s the best struc­ture for op­ti­mal al­lo­ca­tion of EA cap­i­tal?

Milan GriffesJun 4, 2019, 5:00 PM
10 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

In­cen­tive Prob­lems With Cur­rent Fore­cast­ing Com­pe­ti­tions.

alex lawsenNov 10, 2020, 9:40 PM
56 points
11 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] What are ex­am­ples of EA work be­ing re­viewed by non-EA re­searchers?

Aaron Gertler 🔸Mar 24, 2020, 6:04 AM
63 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

In­sec­ti­cide-treated nets sig­nifi­cantly harm mosquitoes, but one can eas­ily offset this?

Vasco Grilo🔸Feb 3, 2025, 6:03 PM
28 points
41 comments7 min readEA link

[Link] What opinions do you hold that you would be re­luc­tant to ex­press in front of a group of effec­tive al­tru­ists? Anony­mous form.

arikrSep 10, 2019, 7:38 PM
64 points
62 comments1 min readEA link

Open EA Global

Scott AlexanderSep 1, 2022, 4:26 AM
439 points
154 comments5 min readEA link

Why the Open Philan­thropy Pro­ject Should Pri­ori­tize Wild An­i­mal Suffering

MichaelDickensAug 26, 2016, 2:08 AM
22 points
16 comments2 min readEA link

Prob­lems with EA rep­re­sen­ta­tive­ness and how to solve it

Joey🔸Aug 3, 2018, 7:25 PM
60 points
60 comments6 min readEA link

Some gen­eral con­cerns about GiveWell

William_MacAskillDec 23, 2012, 5:00 AM
2 points
0 comments4 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)

ACE’s Re­sponse to John Halstead

ToniASep 7, 2018, 6:10 PM
23 points
14 comments12 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

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

DavidmanheimJul 28, 2022, 10:08 AM
117 points
52 comments5 min readEA link

I find this fo­rum in­creas­ingly difficult to navigate

ArepoJul 5, 2019, 10:27 AM
66 points
50 comments1 min readEA link

Con­cerns about AMF from GiveWell read­ing—Part 1

JPHoughtonOct 17, 2021, 11:56 AM
71 points
17 comments3 min readEA link

Thoughts on 80,000 Hours’ re­search that might help with job-search frustrations

Arden KoehlerApr 16, 2019, 6:51 PM
99 points
57 comments10 min readEA link

Why we think the Founders Pledge re­port over­rates CfRN

SanjayNov 4, 2019, 5:54 PM
50 points
10 comments16 min readEA link

Con­cerns about AMF from GiveWell read­ing—Part 2

JPHoughtonNov 21, 2021, 1:52 PM
31 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Crit­i­cism of the 80k job board list­ing strategy

Yonatan CaleSep 21, 2022, 9:36 AM
114 points
50 comments3 min readEA link

Lev­er­age Re­search: re­view­ing the ba­sic facts

throwawayAug 3, 2018, 5:19 AM
103 points
103 comments1 min readEA link

Avoid­ing Group­think in In­tro Fel­low­ships (and Diver­sify­ing Longter­mism)

seanrsonSep 14, 2021, 9:00 PM
67 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Crowd­sourced Crit­i­cisms: What does EA think about EA?

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

Set­ting Com­mu­nity Norms and Values: A re­sponse to the InIn Open Letter

William_MacAskillOct 26, 2016, 10:44 PM
38 points
59 comments4 min readEA link

GiveWell’s Char­ity Recom­men­da­tions Re­quire Tak­ing a Con­tro­ver­sial Stance on Pop­u­la­tion Ethics

MichaelDickensMay 17, 2016, 1:51 AM
30 points
52 comments8 min readEA link

EA Lead­ers Fo­rum: Sur­vey on EA pri­ori­ties (data and anal­y­sis)

Aaron Gertler 🔸Nov 12, 2019, 1:14 AM
126 points
50 comments16 min readEA link

Should GiveWell still recom­mend GiveDirectly?

Shakeel HashimAug 29, 2022, 6:34 AM
106 points
11 comments2 min readEA link
(www.givedirectly.org)

Only a few peo­ple de­cide about fund­ing for com­mu­nity builders world-wide

JanBOct 22, 2019, 8:52 PM
65 points
24 comments1 min readEA link

The FTX crisis high­lights a deeper cul­tural prob­lem within EA—we don’t suffi­ciently value good governance

James FodorNov 14, 2022, 12:43 PM
452 points
55 comments4 min readEA link

What will 80,000 Hours provide (and not provide) within the effec­tive al­tru­ism com­mu­nity?

Benjamin_ToddApr 17, 2020, 6:36 PM
157 points
30 comments6 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on Wytham Abbey

nikosJan 10, 2023, 6:30 PM
82 points
51 comments4 min readEA link

Mov­ing Toward More Con­crete Pro­pos­als for Reform

JasonJan 27, 2023, 12:36 AM
88 points
8 comments9 min readEA link

Pro­posed im­prove­ments to EAG(x) ad­mis­sions process

ESJan 30, 2023, 6:10 AM
62 points
29 comments3 min readEA link

Ques­tions about OP grant to Helena

DizzyMarmotFeb 2, 2023, 6:21 AM
122 points
73 comments3 min readEA link

Crit­i­cism Thread: What things should OpenPhil im­prove on?

anonymousEA20Feb 4, 2023, 8:16 AM
85 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Should EVF con­sider ap­point­ing new board mem­bers?

BurnerAcctFeb 5, 2023, 6:01 AM
188 points
88 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Help with find­ing in­sti­tu­tions that fo­cus on sustainability

LinckFeb 8, 2023, 9:55 PM
6 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Scott Alexan­der re­acts to OpenAI’s lat­est post

AkashMar 11, 2023, 10:24 PM
105 points
4 comments1 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

Ev­i­dence of effec­tive­ness and trans­parency of a few effec­tive giv­ing organisations

Vasco Grilo🔸Jul 1, 2023, 8:10 AM
60 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

Time Ar­ti­cle Dis­cus­sion—“Effec­tive Altru­ist Lead­ers Were Re­peat­edly Warned About Sam Bankman-Fried Years Be­fore FTX Col­lapsed”

Nathan YoungMar 15, 2023, 12:40 PM
241 points
175 comments4 min readEA link
(time.com)

Far­mKind’s Illu­sory Offer

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Aug 9, 2024, 11:32 AM
96 points
51 comments1 min readEA link

Malaria bed­net and medicine overlap

MichaelStJulesSep 5, 2023, 11:55 PM
24 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

The Life You Can Save sug­gests peo­ple earn­ing 40 to 80 k$/​year donate just 1 %

Vasco Grilo🔸Aug 21, 2024, 5:25 PM
42 points
28 comments3 min readEA link

My quick thoughts on donat­ing to EA Funds’ Global Health and Devel­op­ment Fund and what it should do

Vasco Grilo🔸Dec 15, 2023, 9:08 AM
33 points
14 comments3 min readEA link

EA orgs’ le­gal struc­ture in­hibits risk tak­ing and in­for­ma­tion shar­ing on the margin

ElizabethNov 5, 2023, 4:07 AM
107 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Dialogue: What is the op­ti­mal fron­tier for due dili­gence?

RubySep 8, 2023, 6:28 PM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Nick Bostrom should step down as Direc­tor of FHI

BostromAnonAccountMar 4, 2023, 2:39 PM
77 points
94 comments4 min readEA link

Dis­cus­sion about AI Safety fund­ing (FB tran­script)

AkashApr 30, 2023, 7:05 PM
104 points
10 comments6 min readEA link

Non­lin­ear’s Ev­i­dence: De­bunk­ing False and Mislead­ing Claims

Kat WoodsDec 12, 2023, 1:15 PM
151 points
512 comments51 min readEA link

Cri­tiquing GiveWell’s Model of Eco­nomic Effects from Health Interventions

Joseph RichardsonOct 28, 2022, 5:42 PM
25 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism or­ga­ni­za­tions should avoid us­ing “po­lariz­ing tech­niques”

Joey🔸Jun 12, 2023, 1:41 PM
172 points
23 comments4 min readEA link

EA or­ga­ni­za­tions should have a trans­par­ent scope

Joey🔸Jun 14, 2023, 11:30 AM
193 points
21 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Should Our World in Data dis­cuss wild an­i­mal welfare in the con­text of na­ture con­ser­va­tion?

Vasco Grilo🔸Jun 18, 2023, 8:32 AM
26 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

We need an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion into how EA lead­er­ship has han­dled SBF and FTX

AnonymousEAForumAccountJul 24, 2024, 3:24 AM
141 points
53 comments12 min readEA link

Nu­clear war tail risk has been ex­ag­ger­ated?

Vasco Grilo🔸Feb 25, 2024, 9:14 AM
48 points
22 comments28 min readEA link

Public Fundrais­ing has Pos­i­tive Externalities

LarksDec 26, 2023, 2:39 PM
82 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

Why does GiveWell not provide lower and up­per es­ti­mates for the cost-effec­tive­ness of its top char­i­ties?

Vasco Grilo🔸Jul 31, 2022, 1:41 PM
45 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

80,000 hours should re­move OpenAI from the Job Board (and similar EA orgs should do similarly)

RaemonJul 3, 2024, 8:34 PM
263 points
79 comments3 min readEA link

How We Plan to Ap­proach Uncer­tainty in Our Cost-Effec­tive­ness Models

GiveWellJan 2, 2024, 9:09 PM
92 points
26 comments23 min readEA link
(www.givewell.org)

Can­cel­ling GPT subscription

adekczMay 20, 2024, 4:19 PM
26 points
14 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Thoughts on this $16.7M “AI safety” grant?

defun 🔸Jul 16, 2024, 9:16 AM
61 points
24 comments1 min readEA link

GiveWell may have made 1 billion dol­lars of harm­ful grants, and Am­bi­tious Im­pact in­cu­bated 8 harm­ful or­gani­sa­tions via in­creas­ing fac­tory-farm­ing?

Vasco Grilo🔸Dec 22, 2024, 10:19 AM
98 points
108 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] Effec­tive giv­ing ini­ti­a­tives should not as­sume the best an­i­mal and hu­man welfare in­ter­ven­tions are equally cost-effec­tive?

Vasco Grilo🔸Feb 18, 2025, 5:47 PM
8 points
27 comments3 min readEA link

Run Posts By Orgs

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Mar 29, 2023, 2:40 AM
281 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of the fish welfare in­ter­ven­tions recom­mended by Am­bi­tious Im­pact, and Fish Welfare Ini­ti­a­tive’s farm program

Vasco Grilo🔸Jan 24, 2025, 5:35 PM
41 points
7 comments13 min readEA link

[Question] In­ves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ist in the AI safety space?

Benevolent_RainNov 15, 2024, 8:48 AM
4 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are some crit­i­cisms of PauseAI?

Eevee🔹Nov 23, 2024, 5:49 PM
53 points
69 comments1 min readEA link

An EA used de­cep­tive mes­sag­ing to ad­vance her pro­ject; we need mechanisms to avoid de­on­tolog­i­cally du­bi­ous plans

MikhailSaminFeb 13, 2024, 11:11 PM
22 points
39 comments5 min readEA link

On failing to get EA jobs: My ex­pe­rience and recom­men­da­tions to EA orgs

Ávila CarmesíApr 22, 2024, 9:19 PM
126 points
55 comments5 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)

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

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

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

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

A dozen doubts about GiveWell’s numbers

JoelMcGuireNov 1, 2022, 2:25 AM
134 points
18 comments19 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Quan­tify­ing Uncer­tainty in GiveWell’s GiveDirectly Cost-Effec­tive­ness Analysis

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

SoGive re­view of GiveWell’s dis­count rates

SoGiveNov 1, 2022, 12:52 PM
17 points
1 comment16 min readEA link

AMF net use may be over­es­ti­mated by about 10 per­centage points

brb243Oct 10, 2022, 11:05 PM
23 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Millions in cash trans­fers, with­out spend­ing a penny

Karthik TadepalliOct 26, 2022, 8:03 PM
18 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

GiveWell should fund an SMC replication

Seth Ariel Green 🔸Oct 28, 2022, 12:31 PM
90 points
17 comments5 min readEA link

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

Trevor WoolleyDec 13, 2022, 7:23 AM
83 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

GiveWell Mi­suses Dis­count Rates

OscarD🔸Oct 27, 2022, 6:57 AM
73 points
12 comments4 min readEA link

Sign of qual­ity of life in GiveWell’s analyses

brb243Oct 16, 2022, 2:54 PM
57 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

GiveWell’s ap­proach to sup­ple­men­tary ad­just­ments uses ques­tion­able priors

SoGiveNov 1, 2022, 12:53 PM
11 points
1 comment19 min readEA link

Dona­tions to SCI Foun­da­tion may funge with other work

SoGiveNov 1, 2022, 12:52 PM
10 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

GiveWell should use shorter TAI timelines

OscarD🔸Oct 27, 2022, 6:59 AM
52 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

An Ex­am­i­na­tion of GiveWell’s Water Qual­ity In­ter­ven­tion Cost-Effec­tive­ness Analysis

MHR🔸Nov 1, 2022, 1:00 AM
56 points
4 comments18 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive­ness of iron for­tifi­ca­tion in In­dia is lower than GiveWell’s estimates

Akash KulgodSep 30, 2022, 12:50 PM
28 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

GiveDirectly’s cost-effec­tive­ness could be 6.7x higher

Carolina TothNov 3, 2022, 4:39 AM
21 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Re­view of Givewell’s Cost-effec­tive­ness for Sea­sonal Malaria Chemoprevention

FinngoeslongSep 25, 2022, 1:59 PM
20 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

GiveWell’s Uncer­tainty Problem

noahhaberOct 28, 2022, 7:36 AM
15 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Hard Prob­lems in GiveWell’s Mo­ral Weights Approach

TanaeNov 1, 2022, 4:51 AM
37 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Is there more to life than sur­vival and in­come?

brb243Oct 13, 2022, 9:56 PM
15 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

My thoughts on OpenAI’s al­ign­ment plan

AkashDec 30, 2022, 7:34 PM
16 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

LiaHOct 14, 2022, 4:15 PM
4 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

The biggest red flag about SBF

trevor1Nov 24, 2022, 7:08 PM
18 points
11 comments4 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Sim­ple Tips for Sound Cost-Effec­tive­ness Analysis

James BroughelNov 1, 2022, 12:53 AM
3 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Selec­tive truth-tel­ling: con­cerns about EA lead­er­ship com­mu­ni­ca­tion.

tcelferactNov 15, 2022, 7:45 PM
93 points
45 comments5 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)

Why I don’t agree with HLI’s es­ti­mate of house­hold spillovers from therapy

James Snowden🔸Feb 24, 2023, 6:18 PM
319 points
9 comments5 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

GWWC’s Han­dling of Con­flict­ing Fund­ing Bars

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Jan 11, 2023, 8:31 PM
83 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Mar­riage, the Giv­ing What We Can Pledge, and the dam­age caused by vague pub­lic commitments

Jeffrey LadishJul 11, 2022, 7:38 PM
49 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

Why Peo­ple Use Burner Ac­counts: A Com­men­tary on Black­lists, the EA “In­ner Cir­cle”, and Funding

BurnerExplainerFeb 8, 2023, 7:00 AM
48 points
98 comments6 min readEA link

GiveWell and Similar Orgs Should *Really* Re­search Fam­ily Plan­ning as a Po­ten­tial Intervention

alamo 2914Sep 9, 2022, 8:37 PM
26 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Eco­nomic losers: SoGive’s re­view of de­worm­ing, and why we’re less pos­i­tive than GiveWell

SoGiveAug 8, 2022, 8:01 AM
62 points
10 comments15 min readEA link

Why GiveWell should use com­plete un­cer­tainty quantification

TanaeDec 27, 2022, 8:11 PM
32 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(suboptimal.substack.com)

You *should* have ca­pac­ity for more trans­parency and accountability

freedomandutilityNov 13, 2022, 11:52 AM
22 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Con­tra the Giv­ing What We Can pledge

AlyssaVanceDec 4, 2016, 8:46 PM
22 points
80 comments4 min readEA link

Two Big-Pic­ture Cri­tiques of GiveWell’s Ap­proach, and Six Les­sons from Their Re­cent Work (Elie Hassen­feld on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursJun 5, 2023, 1:51 PM
52 points
2 comments15 min readEA link

A few ques­tions about re­cent de­vel­op­ments in EA

Peter BerggrenNov 23, 2024, 2:46 AM
8 points
12 comments2 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Against Anony­mous Hit Pieces

Anti-OmegaJun 18, 2023, 7:36 PM
−25 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Opinionated take on EA and AI Safety

sammyboizMar 2, 2025, 9:37 AM
70 points
18 comments1 min readEA link

NYT: Google will ‘re­cal­ibrate’ the risk of re­leas­ing AI due to com­pe­ti­tion with OpenAI

Michael HuangJan 22, 2023, 2:13 AM
173 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(www.nytimes.com)

[Question] How Should EA Govern It­self?

John ColemanJan 23, 2023, 3:19 AM
4 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Sin­er­gia (ACE Top Char­ity) Makes False Claims About Helping Millions of Animals

VettedCausesFeb 20, 2025, 7:29 AM
24 points
26 comments1 min readEA link
(vettedcauses.com)

EAG Or­ga­niz­ing Team Really Drop­ping the Ball

Vilfredo's GhostJan 27, 2023, 9:36 PM
−18 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Growth and the case against ran­domista development

Hauke HillebrandtJan 16, 2020, 10:11 AM
435 points
197 comments31 min readEA link

CEA didn’t want Zvi Moshow­itz, Zeynep Tufekci, or He­len Chu in the Covid doc­u­men­tary they com­mis­sioned?

sapphireJan 19, 2023, 1:32 AM
−19 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

ESPR should re­turn the FTX-funded chateau

Bob JacobsDec 10, 2022, 3:54 PM
−1 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

An Eval­u­a­tion of An­i­mal Char­ity Eval­u­a­tors

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

Bad Omens in cur­rent EA Governance

ludwigbaldDec 20, 2022, 10:59 PM
11 points
75 comments2 min readEA link

Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship Is Over­es­ti­mat­ing the Value of Sav­ing Lives by 10%

Mikolaj KniejskiJun 12, 2024, 8:49 AM
98 points
17 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Does Open Philan­thropy have a pub­lic doc­u­ment re­gard­ing their con­flict of in­ter­est policy?

BurnerExplainerFeb 9, 2023, 5:17 AM
33 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

De­moc­ra­tiz­ing the work­place as a cause area

Bob JacobsNov 26, 2022, 6:31 PM
38 points
19 comments8 min readEA link

GWWC Should Re­quire Public Char­ity Evaluations

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Jan 9, 2023, 8:11 PM
93 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Is GiveWell un­der­es­ti­mat­ing the health value of lead erad­i­ca­tion?

JakobAug 21, 2022, 3:13 PM
33 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Why EAs should nor­mal­ize us­ing Glassdoor

Joey🔸Jun 23, 2022, 10:56 AM
90 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Con­cerns over EA’s pos­si­ble ne­glect of experts

JackMDec 16, 2022, 10:10 PM
34 points
16 comments2 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

Why don’t all EA-sug­gested or­ga­ni­za­tions dis­close salary in job de­scrip­tions?

CassidySep 28, 2022, 10:42 PM
49 points
18 comments3 min readEA link

“In­sider EA con­tent” in Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s re­cent New Yorker article

To be stuck inside of MobileDec 1, 2022, 10:09 PM
208 points
39 comments3 min readEA link

Grant ap­pli­ca­tions and grand narratives

ElizabethJul 2, 2023, 2:29 AM
124 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

What is Oper­a­tions Man­age­ment?

JosephJul 10, 2022, 1:27 AM
82 points
12 comments19 min readEA link

Effec­tive Asper­sions: How the Non­lin­ear In­ves­ti­ga­tion Went Wrong

TracingWoodgrainsDec 19, 2023, 12:00 PM
350 points
213 comments31 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism is self-recommending

BenHoffmanApr 23, 2017, 6:11 AM
66 points
48 comments28 min readEA link

Am­bi­tious Im­pact launches a for-profit ac­cel­er­a­tor in­stead of build­ing the AI Safety space. Let’s talk about this.

yanni kyriacosMar 18, 2024, 3:44 AM
−7 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

What 80000 Hours gets wrong about so­lar geoengineering

Gideon FutermanAug 29, 2022, 1:24 PM
26 points
4 comments22 min readEA link

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

drbrakeNov 20, 2018, 5:45 AM
10 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

A quick up­date from Nonlinear

Kat WoodsSep 7, 2023, 9:26 PM
85 points
34 comments3 min readEA link

Author of Much-Dis­cussed Fo­rum Piece Defend­ing Eu­gen­ics Works for a Magaz­ine with Far-Right Links

David Mathers🔸Oct 22, 2024, 12:52 PM
−3 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(investigations.hopenothate.org.uk)

OpenAI’s Pre­pared­ness Frame­work: Praise & Recommendations

AkashJan 2, 2024, 4:20 PM
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Suffer­ing re­lief vs life extension

drbrakeNov 19, 2018, 4:55 PM
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

OpenAI defected, but we can take hon­est actions

RemmeltOct 21, 2024, 8:41 AM
19 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Re­spon­si­ble Scal­ing Poli­cies Are Risk Man­age­ment Done Wrong

simeon_cOct 25, 2023, 11:46 PM
42 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.navigatingrisks.ai)

Why I think the Foun­da­tional Re­search In­sti­tute should re­think its approach

MikeJohnsonJul 20, 2017, 8:46 PM
45 points
76 comments20 min readEA link

Ch­ester­ton Fences and EA’s X-risks

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

Vox’s “Fu­ture Perfect” column fre­quently has flawed journalism

kbogJan 26, 2019, 8:09 AM
36 points
25 comments5 min readEA link

Re­quest for Guidance: Reach­ing Out to Char­i­ties Be­fore Pub­lish­ing Re­views and Our Concerns

VettedCausesFeb 21, 2025, 1:59 PM
55 points
54 comments4 min readEA link

Do­ing EA Better

ConcernedEAsJan 17, 2023, 8:09 PM
261 points
383 comments70 min readEA link
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