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Crit­i­cism of work in effec­tive altruism

TagLast edit: Nov 28, 2023, 9:25 PM by Sarah Cheng

The Criticism of work in effective altruism tag applies to posts critically examining the work, projects, or methodologies of specific individuals, organizations, or initiatives affiliated with the effective altruism (EA) movement or community.

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Open Phil Should Allo­cate Most Neart­er­mist Fund­ing to An­i­mal Welfare

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

Pro­duc­tive crit­i­cism: run­ning a draft past the peo­ple you’re criticizing

LizkaJun 15, 2023, 3:57 PM
38 points
7 comments7 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)

Mis­takes in the moral math­e­mat­ics of ex­is­ten­tial risk (Part 2: Ig­nor­ing back­ground risk) - Reflec­tive altruism

Eevee🔹Jul 3, 2023, 6:34 AM
84 points
7 comments6 min readEA link
(ineffectivealtruismblog.com)

Pro­duc­tive crit­i­cism: what could help?

LizkaJun 13, 2023, 2:56 PM
38 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Quick Up­date on Leav­ing the Board of EV

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

Cri­tiques of promi­nent AI safety labs: Conjecture

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

[Book Re­view] as­ter­isk #1

Tristan WilliamsOct 18, 2023, 7:40 PM
37 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Mul­ti­plier Ar­gu­ments are of­ten flawed

AGB 🔸Oct 13, 2024, 9:25 PM
189 points
64 comments4 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)

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

Famine deaths due to the cli­matic effects of nu­clear war

Vasco Grilo🔸Oct 14, 2023, 12:05 PM
40 points
21 comments66 min readEA link

Milan Griffes on EA blindspots

technicalitiesMar 18, 2022, 4:17 PM
79 points
53 comments2 min readEA link

Are Far-UVC In­ter­ven­tions Over­hyped? [Founders Pledge]

christian.rJan 9, 2024, 5:38 PM
142 points
8 comments61 min readEA link

Far­mKind’s Illu­sory Offer

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

The ‘Wild’ and ‘Wacky’ Claims of Karnofsky’s ‘Most Im­por­tant Cen­tury’

carboniferous_umbraculumApr 26, 2023, 3:45 PM
122 points
16 comments18 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

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

Malaria bed­net and medicine overlap

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

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

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

Can a war cause hu­man ex­tinc­tion? Once again, not on priors

Vasco Grilo🔸Jan 25, 2024, 7:56 AM
67 points
29 comments18 min readEA link

Prob­a­bly tell your friends when they make big mistakes

ChiJun 1, 2023, 2:30 PM
98 points
6 comments7 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
96 points
108 comments9 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

Re­duc­ing the neart­erm risk of hu­man ex­tinc­tion is not as­tro­nom­i­cally cost-effec­tive?

Vasco Grilo🔸Jun 9, 2024, 8:02 AM
20 points
37 comments8 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

[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

ai-plans.com De­cem­ber Cri­tique-a-Thon

Kabir_KumarDec 4, 2023, 9:27 AM
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link

Are GiveWell Top Char­i­ties Too Spec­u­la­tive?

MichaelDickensDec 21, 2015, 4:05 AM
24 points
58 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

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

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

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
5 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

Nu­clear war tail risk has been ex­ag­ger­ated?

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

Con­cepts of ex­is­ten­tial catastrophe

Vasco Grilo🔸Apr 15, 2024, 5:16 PM
11 points
1 comment8 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Sav­ing lives in nor­mal times is bet­ter to im­prove the longterm fu­ture than do­ing so in catas­tro­phes?

Vasco Grilo🔸Apr 20, 2024, 8:37 AM
13 points
25 comments9 min readEA link

Are our Top Char­i­ties sav­ing the same lives each year?

GiveWellJun 18, 2024, 3:47 PM
166 points
7 comments33 min readEA link
(www.givewell.org)

A lot of EA-ori­en­tated re­search doesn’t seem suffi­ciently fo­cused on impact

jcwMar 3, 2024, 2:12 PM
32 points
6 comments3 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

A case against fo­cus­ing on tail-end nu­clear war risks

Sarah WeilerNov 16, 2022, 6:08 AM
31 points
15 comments10 min readEA link

Notes on how I want to han­dle criticism

LizkaJun 8, 2023, 11:47 AM
63 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Fo­cus­ing on bad crit­i­cism is dan­ger­ous to your epistemics

LizkaMar 15, 2024, 11:57 PM
70 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

Public Fundrais­ing has Pos­i­tive Externalities

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

Why I think the Foun­da­tional Re­search In­sti­tute should re­think its approach

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

I find this fo­rum in­creas­ingly difficult to navigate

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

How to im­prove EA Funds

Henry Stanley 🔸Apr 4, 2018, 9:27 AM
43 points
33 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

The ca­reer and the community

richard_ngoMar 21, 2019, 12:35 PM
93 points
35 comments14 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

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

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

Com­mon mis­con­cep­tions about OpenAI

Jacob_HiltonAug 25, 2022, 2:08 PM
51 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Suffer­ing re­lief vs life extension

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

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

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

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

GiveWellSep 6, 2022, 6:10 PM
142 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

Make the cre­ate post but­ton eas­ier to find. (EA Fo­rum UI De­sign Feed­back)

CassidyOct 23, 2022, 9:14 PM
20 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Me­diocre AI safety as ex­is­ten­tial risk

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

What is Oper­a­tions Man­age­ment?

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

There’s Lots More To Do

Jeff Kaufman 🔸May 29, 2019, 7:58 PM
134 points
30 comments2 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

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

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

Pre-an­nounc­ing a con­test for cri­tiques and red teaming

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

Lev­er­age Re­search: re­view­ing the ba­sic facts

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

EA is vet­ting-constrained

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

The mo­ti­vated rea­son­ing cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

LinchSep 14, 2021, 8:43 PM
286 points
59 comments23 min readEA link

Be care­ful with (out­sourc­ing) hiring

Richard MöhnOct 17, 2022, 8:30 PM
40 points
38 comments13 min readEA link

Avoid­ing Group­think in In­tro Fel­low­ships (and Diver­sify­ing Longter­mism)

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

[Question] Why al­tru­ism at all?

SingletonJul 12, 2020, 10:04 PM
−2 points
1 comment1 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

Is GiveWell un­der­es­ti­mat­ing the health value of lead erad­i­ca­tion?

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

Cri­tiquing GiveWell’s Model of Eco­nomic Effects from Health Interventions

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

EA jobs provide scarce non-mon­e­tary goods

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

Givewell, and its hiring pro­cess, needs se­ri­ous reform

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

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

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

Con­cerns with ACE’s Re­cent Behavior

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

Why I’m con­cerned about Giv­ing Green

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

Drown­ing chil­dren are rare

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

If EA Com­mu­nity-Build­ing Could Be Net-Nega­tive, What Fol­lows?

joshcmorrisonJan 2, 2023, 7:21 PM
153 points
78 comments5 min readEA link

GWWC Should Re­quire Public Char­ity Evaluations

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

Reflec­tions on Wytham Abbey

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

Does EA un­der­stand how to apol­o­gize for things?

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

The EA com­mu­nity does not own its donors’ money

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

De­moc­ra­tiz­ing the work­place as a cause area

Bob Jacobs 🔸Nov 26, 2022, 6:31 PM
38 points
19 comments8 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

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

EAG Or­ga­niz­ing Team Really Drop­ping the Ball

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

Pro­tect Our Fu­ture’s Crypto Politics

Radical Empath IsmamJan 29, 2023, 9:07 PM
67 points
19 comments5 min readEA link

Pro­posed im­prove­ments to EAG(x) ad­mis­sions process

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

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

[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

Make Con­flict of In­ter­est Poli­cies Public

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

Case Study of EA Global Re­jec­tion + Crit­i­cisms/​Solutions

Constance LiSep 23, 2022, 11:38 AM
232 points
157 comments24 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

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

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

Run Posts By Orgs

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Mar 29, 2023, 2:40 AM
281 points
13 comments1 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] [At­las Fel­low­ship] Why do 100 high-school­ers need $50k each from Open Philan­thropy?

Sparcalum2Feb 4, 2023, 4:57 PM
71 points
88 comments4 min readEA link

Dis­cus­sion about AI Safety fund­ing (FB tran­script)

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

Re­view of The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does

Richard Y Chappell🔸May 2, 2023, 3:45 PM
215 points
55 comments10 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

EA-Aligned Poli­ti­cal Ac­tivity in a US Con­gres­sional Pri­mary: Con­cerns and Pro­posed Changes

Carolina_EAOct 28, 2022, 7:36 AM
88 points
17 comments8 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
307 points
38 comments11 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

A dozen doubts about GiveWell’s numbers

JoelMcGuireNov 1, 2022, 2:25 AM
134 points
18 comments19 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

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

GiveWell’s ap­proach to sup­ple­men­tary ad­just­ments uses ques­tion­able priors

SoGiveNov 1, 2022, 12:53 PM
11 points
1 comment19 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

Millions in cash trans­fers, with­out spend­ing a penny

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

GiveWell Mi­suses Dis­count Rates

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

Dona­tions to SCI Foun­da­tion may funge with other work

SoGiveNov 1, 2022, 12:52 PM
10 points
1 comment8 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 should use shorter TAI timelines

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

Hard Prob­lems in GiveWell’s Mo­ral Weights Approach

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

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

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

Re­spond­ing to re­cent cri­tiques of iron for­tifi­ca­tion in India

e19brendanOct 12, 2022, 6:01 PM
45 points
6 comments12 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

GiveWell’s Uncer­tainty Problem

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

Is there more to life than sur­vival and in­come?

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

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

Effec­tive Altru­ism Should Seek Less Criticism

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

Sim­ple Tips for Sound Cost-Effec­tive­ness Analysis

James BroughelNov 1, 2022, 12:53 AM
3 points
1 comment4 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)

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

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

EA Shouldn’t Try to Ex­er­cise Direct Poli­ti­cal Power

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

What spe­cific changes should we as a com­mu­nity make to the effec­tive al­tru­ism com­mu­nity? [Prob­a­bly gonna de­lay this a bit]

Nathan YoungDec 6, 2022, 12:24 PM
15 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

My take on What We Owe the Future

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

EA on nu­clear war and expertise

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

A Wind­fall Clause for CEO could worsen AI race dynamics

LarksMar 9, 2023, 6:02 PM
69 points
12 comments7 min readEA link

Do­ing EA Bet­ter: grant-mak­ers should con­sider grant app peer re­view along the pub­lic-sec­tor model

ben.smithJan 24, 2023, 3:01 PM
50 points
7 comments9 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

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

On Defer­ence and Yud­kowsky’s AI Risk Estimates

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

Eval­u­at­ing StrongMinds: how strong is the ev­i­dence?

JoelMcGuireJan 19, 2023, 12:12 AM
118 points
53 comments5 min readEA link

“Do­ing Good Best” isn’t the EA ideal

DavidmanheimSep 16, 2022, 12:06 PM
128 points
17 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

The Mis­takes of Fo­cus­ing on Stu­dent Outreach in EA

DavidNashSep 20, 2022, 5:48 PM
115 points
16 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)

Eliezer Yud­kowsky Is Fre­quently, Con­fi­dently, Egre­giously Wrong

OmnizoidAug 27, 2023, 1:07 AM
47 points
204 comments36 min readEA link

You *should* have ca­pac­ity for more trans­parency and accountability

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

Against Anony­mous Hit Pieces

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

ESPR should re­turn the FTX-funded chateau

Bob Jacobs 🔸Dec 10, 2022, 3:54 PM
−1 points
6 comments1 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

David­son’s Model of Take­off Speeds: A Crit­i­cal Take

Violet HourJan 31, 2025, 6:46 PM
36 points
2 comments19 min readEA link

Works in Progress: The Long Jour­ney to Do­ing Good Bet­ter by Dustin Moskovitz [Linkpost]

Nathan YoungFeb 14, 2024, 7:43 PM
119 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(medium.com)

Effec­tive Asper­sions: How the Non­lin­ear In­ves­ti­ga­tion Went Wrong

TracingWoodgrainsDec 19, 2023, 12:00 PM
346 points
213 comments31 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

OpenAI’s Pre­pared­ness Frame­work: Praise & Recommendations

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

Against AI As An Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Noah BirnbaumJul 30, 2024, 7:24 PM
6 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(irrationalitycommunity.substack.com)

A Gen­tle In­tro­duc­tion to Risk Frame­works Beyond Forecasting

pending_survivalApr 11, 2024, 9:15 AM
81 points
4 comments27 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

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Reflec­tive Equilibrium

Noah BirnbaumJun 6, 2024, 2:49 PM
13 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(irrationalitycommunity.substack.com)

OpenAI defected, but we can take hon­est actions

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

Point-by-point re­ply to Yud­kowsky on UFOs

Magnus VindingDec 19, 2024, 9:24 PM
4 points
0 comments9 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

Effec­tive al­tru­ism is self-recommending

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

Do­ing EA Better

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

GiveWell Dona­tion Matching

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

Two things that I think could make the com­mu­nity better

KaleemApr 26, 2023, 2:59 PM
92 points
24 comments12 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)

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

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

Con­cerns about AMF from GiveWell read­ing—Part 1

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

Mov­ing Toward More Con­crete Pro­pos­als for Reform

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

ACE’s Re­sponse to John Halstead

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

Re­vis­it­ing EA’s me­dia policy

ArepoDec 3, 2022, 4:55 PM
239 points
65 comments6 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
401 points
184 comments4 min readEA link

A Cri­tique of An­i­mal Char­ity Eval­u­a­tors (ACE)

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

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)

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)

Red-team­ing con­test: de­mo­graph­ics and power struc­tures in EA

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

Dark side of EA entrepreneurship

Martin (Huge) VlachOct 19, 2023, 1:52 PM
−3 points
9 comments1 min readEA link
(www.frontiersin.org)

Why we have over-rated Cool Earth

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

Shar­ing In­for­ma­tion About Nonlinear

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

A quick up­date from Nonlinear

Kat WoodsSep 7, 2023, 9:26 PM
85 points
34 comments3 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)

Anti-‘FOOM’ (stop try­ing to make your cute pet name the thing)

david_reinsteinApr 14, 2023, 4:05 PM
41 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

Con­cerns with In­ten­tional Insights

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

Nick Bostrom should step down as Direc­tor of FHI

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

Red Team­ing CEA’s Com­mu­nity Build­ing Work

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

Cri­tique of OpenPhil’s macroe­co­nomic policy advocacy

Hauke HillebrandtMar 24, 2022, 10:03 PM
143 points
39 comments24 min readEA link

GiveWell’s recom­men­da­tion of GiveDirectly

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

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)

Why EAs should nor­mal­ize us­ing Glassdoor

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

Con­cerns over EA’s pos­si­ble ne­glect of experts

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

In­cen­tive Prob­lems With Cur­rent Fore­cast­ing Com­pe­ti­tions.

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

Jobs at EA-or­ga­ni­za­tions are over­paid, here is why

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

What 80000 Hours gets wrong about so­lar geoengineering

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

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

[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

Bad Omens in cur­rent EA Governance

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

Open EA Global

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

Up­date on CEA’s EA Grants Program

Nicole_RossNov 8, 2019, 11:00 PM
125 points
31 comments6 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 case for trans­par­ent spending

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

Which Com­mu­nity Build­ing Pro­jects Get Funded?

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

An Eval­u­a­tion of An­i­mal Char­ity Eval­u­a­tors

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

Some gen­eral con­cerns about GiveWell

William_MacAskillDec 23, 2012, 5:00 AM
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Con­cerns about AMF from GiveWell read­ing—Part 4

JPHoughtonFeb 13, 2022, 1:36 PM
21 points
18 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)

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

Global Health & Devel­op­ment—Beyond the Streetlight

Richard SedlmayrJul 2, 2022, 6:56 PM
36 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Growth and the case against ran­domista development

Hauke HillebrandtJan 16, 2020, 10:11 AM
434 points
197 comments31 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

Win­ners of the EA Crit­i­cism and Red Team­ing Contest

LizkaOct 1, 2022, 1:50 AM
226 points
41 comments19 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

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

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

Con­tra the Giv­ing What We Can pledge

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

Ch­ester­ton Fences and EA’s X-risks

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