Criticism of work in effective altruism

TagLast edit: 28 Nov 2023 21:25 UTC 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.

Open Phil Should Allocate Most Neartermist Funding to Animal Welfare

Ariel Simnegar 🔸19 Nov 2023 17:00 UTC

521 points

126 comments14 min readEA link

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

Lizka15 Jun 2023 15:57 UTC

38 points

7 comments7 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo🔸16 Oct 2024 16:08 UTC

57 points

6 comments12 min readEA link

(www.theintrinsicperspective.com)

Quick Update on Leaving the Board of EV

Rebecca Kagan3 Apr 2024 0:13 UTC

357 points

117 comments1 min readEA link

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

Eevee🔹3 Jul 2023 6:34 UTC

84 points

7 comments6 min readEA link

(ineffectivealtruismblog.com)

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

Vasco Grilo🔸31 Mar 2024 9:04 UTC

55 points

40 comments1 min readEA link

Productive criticism: what could help?

Lizka13 Jun 2023 14:56 UTC

38 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

An Introduction to Critiques of prominent AI safety organizations

Omega19 Jul 2023 6:53 UTC

87 points

2 comments5 min readEA link

[Book Review] asterisk #1

Tristan Williams18 Oct 2023 19:40 UTC

37 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Critiques of prominent AI safety labs: Conjecture

Omega12 Jun 2023 5:52 UTC

150 points

83 comments32 min readEA link

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

carboniferous_umbraculum26 Apr 2023 15:45 UTC

122 points

16 comments18 min readEA link

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

AnonymousEAForumAccount24 Jul 2024 3:24 UTC

141 points

52 comments12 min readEA link

Nuclear war tail risk has been exaggerated?

Vasco Grilo🔸25 Feb 2024 9:14 UTC

41 points

22 comments28 min readEA link

Concepts of existential catastrophe

Vasco Grilo🔸15 Apr 2024 17:16 UTC

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🔸20 Apr 2024 8:37 UTC

11 points

25 comments9 min readEA link

Are our Top Charities saving the same lives each year?

GiveWell18 Jun 2024 15:47 UTC

165 points

7 comments33 min readEA link

(www.givewell.org)

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

jamesw3 Mar 2024 14:12 UTC

32 points

6 comments3 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo🔸21 Aug 2024 17:25 UTC

42 points

26 comments3 min readEA link

A case against focusing on tail-end nuclear war risks

Sarah Weiler16 Nov 2022 6:08 UTC

31 points

15 comments10 min readEA link

Notes on how I want to handle criticism

Lizka8 Jun 2023 11:47 UTC

63 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

Focusing on bad criticism is dangerous to your epistemics

Lizka15 Mar 2024 23:57 UTC

70 points

4 comments5 min readEA link

Public Fundraising has Positive Externalities

Larks26 Dec 2023 14:39 UTC

82 points

9 comments4 min readEA link

Multiplier Arguments are often flawed

AGB 🔸13 Oct 2024 21:25 UTC

180 points

64 comments4 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo🔸20 Dec 2023 8:14 UTC

89 points

17 comments3 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo🔸31 Jul 2022 13:41 UTC

45 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

Famine deaths due to the climatic effects of nuclear war

Vasco Grilo🔸14 Oct 2023 12:05 UTC

40 points

21 comments66 min readEA link

Milan Griffes on EA blindspots

Gavin18 Mar 2022 16:17 UTC

79 points

52 comments2 min readEA link

Are Far-UVC Interventions Overhyped? [Founders Pledge]

christian.r9 Jan 2024 17:38 UTC

142 points

8 comments61 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo🔸15 Dec 2023 9:08 UTC

33 points

14 comments3 min readEA link

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

Elizabeth5 Nov 2023 4:07 UTC

107 points

6 comments4 min readEA link

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

Raemon3 Jul 2024 20:34 UTC

258 points

79 comments3 min readEA link

Evidence of effectiveness and transparency of a few effective giving organisations

Vasco Grilo🔸1 Jul 2023 8:10 UTC

60 points

15 comments7 min readEA link

Probably tell your friends when they make big mistakes

Chi1 Jun 2023 14:30 UTC

98 points

6 comments7 min readEA link

Cancelling GPT subscription

adekcz20 May 2024 16:19 UTC

26 points

14 comments3 min readEA link

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

defun 🔸16 Jul 2024 9:16 UTC

61 points

24 comments1 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo🔸25 Jan 2024 7:56 UTC

67 points

29 comments18 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo🔸9 Jun 2024 8:02 UTC

20 points

37 comments8 min readEA link

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

GiveWell2 Jan 2024 21:09 UTC

92 points

26 comments23 min readEA link

(www.givewell.org)

EA organizations should have a transparent scope

Joey 🔸14 Jun 2023 11:30 UTC

190 points

21 comments3 min readEA link

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

Vasco Grilo🔸18 Jun 2023 8:32 UTC

26 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

Nonlinear’s Evidence: Debunking False and Misleading Claims

Kat Woods12 Dec 2023 13:15 UTC

151 points

512 comments51 min readEA link

ai-plans.com December Critique-a-Thon

Kabir_Kumar4 Dec 2023 9:27 UTC

1 point

0 comments2 min readEA link

Are GiveWell Top Charities Too Speculative?

MichaelDickens21 Dec 2015 4:05 UTC

24 points

58 comments3 min readEA link

FarmKind’s Illusory Offer

Jeff Kaufman 🔸9 Aug 2024 11:32 UTC

98 points

51 comments1 min readEA link

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

MikhailSamin13 Feb 2024 23:11 UTC

24 points

39 comments5 min readEA link

Malaria bednet and medicine overlap

MichaelStJules5 Sep 2023 23:55 UTC

24 points

4 comments9 min readEA link

Growth and the case against randomista development

Hauke Hillebrandt16 Jan 2020 10:11 UTC

432 points

197 comments31 min readEA link

ACE’s Response to John Halstead

ToniA7 Sep 2018 18:10 UTC

23 points

14 comments12 min readEA link

The EA Forum is a News Feed

DavidNash28 Jul 2019 22:27 UTC

79 points

21 comments3 min readEA link

Towards Better EA Career Advice

lexande21 Nov 2018 2:52 UTC

64 points

40 comments3 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

[Question] Why did CEA buy Wytham Abbey?

Jeroen Willems🔸6 Dec 2022 14:46 UTC

142 points

340 comments2 min readEA link

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

Davidmanheim28 Jul 2022 10:08 UTC

115 points

52 comments5 min readEA link

Contra the Giving What We Can pledge

AlyssaVance4 Dec 2016 20:46 UTC

22 points

80 comments4 min readEA link

Chesterton Fences and EA’s X-risks

jehan2 Sep 2022 11:56 UTC

78 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

Why I think the Foundational Research Institute should rethink its approach

MikeJohnson20 Jul 2017 20:46 UTC

45 points

76 comments20 min readEA link

I find this forum increasingly difficult to navigate

Arepo5 Jul 2019 10:27 UTC

66 points

50 comments1 min readEA link

Concerns about AMF from GiveWell reading—Part 1

JPHoughton17 Oct 2021 11:56 UTC

71 points

17 comments3 min readEA link

How to improve EA Funds

HenryStanley4 Apr 2018 9:27 UTC

43 points

33 comments3 min readEA link

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

Arden Koehler16 Apr 2019 18:51 UTC

99 points

57 comments10 min readEA link

The career and the community

richard_ngo21 Mar 2019 12:35 UTC

93 points

35 comments14 min readEA link

Why we think the Founders Pledge report overrates CfRN

Sanjay4 Nov 2019 17:54 UTC

50 points

10 comments16 min readEA link

Concerns about AMF from GiveWell reading—Part 2

JPHoughton21 Nov 2021 13:52 UTC

31 points

10 comments2 min readEA link

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

EarlyVelcro2 Nov 2019 20:14 UTC

57 points

18 comments2 min readEA link

Common misconceptions about OpenAI

Jacob_Hilton25 Aug 2022 14:08 UTC

51 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Issues with Giving Multiplier

Jeff Kaufman 🔸29 Sep 2021 21:40 UTC

26 points

10 comments6 min readEA link

(www.jefftk.com)

Suffering relief vs life extension

drbrake19 Nov 2018 16:55 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Concerns with ACE research

John G. Halstead7 Sep 2018 14:56 UTC

40 points

10 comments11 min readEA link

Hiring: How to do it Better

Joseph Lemien23 May 2022 7:45 UTC

76 points

26 comments16 min readEA link

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

drbrake20 Nov 2018 5:45 UTC

10 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

Effective altruism is self-recommending

BenHoffman23 Apr 2017 6:11 UTC

57 points

48 comments28 min readEA link

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

GiveWell6 Sep 2022 18:10 UTC

142 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

(blog.givewell.org)

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

Cassidy23 Oct 2022 21:14 UTC

20 points

8 comments2 min readEA link

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

HenryStanley31 Jan 2018 8:10 UTC

41 points

16 comments1 min readEA link

Mediocre AI safety as existential risk

Gavin16 Mar 2022 11:50 UTC

52 points

12 comments3 min readEA link

What is Operations Management?

Joseph Lemien10 Jul 2022 1:27 UTC

82 points

12 comments19 min readEA link

There’s Lots More To Do

Jeff Kaufman 🔸29 May 2019 19:58 UTC

134 points

30 comments2 min readEA link

Should EA Global London 2021 have been expanded?

Will Bradshaw9 Nov 2021 8:28 UTC

20 points

23 comments8 min readEA link

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

Larks14 Oct 2020 17:08 UTC

186 points

80 comments40 min readEA link

Criticism of the 80k job board listing strategy

Yonatan Cale21 Sep 2022 9:36 UTC

114 points

50 comments3 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

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

To be stuck inside of Mobile1 Dec 2022 22:09 UTC

208 points

39 comments3 min readEA link

Leverage Research: reviewing the basic facts

throwaway3 Aug 2018 5:19 UTC

103 points

103 comments1 min readEA link

EA is vetting-constrained

toonalfrink9 Mar 2019 1:25 UTC

129 points

29 comments4 min readEA link

The motivated reasoning critique of effective altruism

Linch14 Sep 2021 20:43 UTC

285 points

59 comments23 min readEA link

Be careful with (outsourcing) hiring

Richard Möhn17 Oct 2022 20:30 UTC

40 points

38 comments13 min readEA link

Avoiding Groupthink in Intro Fellowships (and Diversifying Longtermism)

seanrson14 Sep 2021 21:00 UTC

67 points

10 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Why altruism at all?

Singleton12 Jul 2020 22:04 UTC

−2 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Crowdsourced Criticisms: What does EA think about EA?

Hmash8 Aug 2022 22:59 UTC

32 points

19 comments13 min readEA link

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

William_MacAskill26 Oct 2016 22:44 UTC

38 points

59 comments4 min readEA link

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

MichaelDickens17 May 2016 1:51 UTC

30 points

52 comments8 min readEA link

Is GiveWell underestimating the health value of lead eradication?

Jakob21 Aug 2022 15:13 UTC

33 points

7 comments4 min readEA link

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

Aaron Gertler 🔸12 Nov 2019 1:14 UTC

126 points

50 comments16 min readEA link

Should GiveWell still recommend GiveDirectly?

Shakeel Hashim29 Aug 2022 6:34 UTC

106 points

11 comments2 min readEA link

(www.givedirectly.org)

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

JanB22 Oct 2019 20:52 UTC

65 points

24 comments1 min readEA link

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

Fods1214 Nov 2022 12:43 UTC

452 points

55 comments4 min readEA link

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

Benjamin_Todd17 Apr 2020 18:36 UTC

156 points

30 comments6 min readEA link

Critiquing GiveWell’s Model of Economic Effects from Health Interventions

Joseph Richardson28 Oct 2022 17:42 UTC

25 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

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

EA applicant26 Feb 2019 5:53 UTC

399 points

184 comments4 min readEA link

EA jobs provide scarce non-monetary goods

Milan_Griffes20 Mar 2019 20:56 UTC

55 points

15 comments2 min readEA link

Givewell, and its hiring process, needs serious reform

Bob29 Dec 2022 20:29 UTC

43 points

44 comments3 min readEA link

A libertarian socialist’s view on how EA can improve

freedomandutility30 Dec 2022 13:07 UTC

143 points

32 comments7 min readEA link

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

Simon_M27 Dec 2022 23:53 UTC

334 points

129 comments6 min readEA link

(simonm.substack.com)

Concerns with ACE’s Recent Behavior

Hypatia17 Apr 2021 17:00 UTC

274 points

149 comments11 min readEA link

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

Evan_Gaensbauer23 Jul 2018 0:39 UTC

73 points

56 comments12 min readEA link

Why I’m concerned about Giving Green

alex lawsen20 Jan 2021 22:59 UTC

231 points

49 comments13 min readEA link

Drowning children are rare

BenHoffman28 May 2019 17:33 UTC

−9 points

36 comments5 min readEA link

(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

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

joshcmorrison2 Jan 2023 19:21 UTC

153 points

78 comments5 min readEA link

GWWC Should Require Public Charity Evaluations

Jeff Kaufman 🔸9 Jan 2023 20:11 UTC

93 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Reflections on Wytham Abbey

nikos10 Jan 2023 18:30 UTC

82 points

51 comments4 min readEA link

Does EA understand how to apologize for things?

titotal15 Jan 2023 19:14 UTC

159 points

48 comments3 min readEA link

Doing EA Better

ConcernedEAs17 Jan 2023 20:09 UTC

261 points

382 comments70 min readEA link

The EA community does not own its donors’ money

Nick Whitaker18 Jan 2023 18:59 UTC

635 points

116 comments4 min readEA link

Democratizing the workplace as a cause area

Bob Jacobs 🔸26 Nov 2022 18:31 UTC

38 points

19 comments8 min readEA link

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

sapphire19 Jan 2023 1:32 UTC

−19 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

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

Michael Huang22 Jan 2023 2:13 UTC

173 points

8 comments1 min readEA link

(www.nytimes.com)

[Question] How Should EA Govern Itself?

John Coleman23 Jan 2023 3:19 UTC

4 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

Moving Toward More Concrete Proposals for Reform

Jason27 Jan 2023 0:36 UTC

88 points

8 comments9 min readEA link

EAG Organizing Team Really Dropping the Ball

Vilfredo's Ghost27 Jan 2023 21:36 UTC

−18 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Protect Our Future’s Crypto Politics

Radical Empath Ismam29 Jan 2023 21:07 UTC

67 points

19 comments5 min readEA link

Proposed improvements to EAG(x) admissions process

ES30 Jan 2023 6:10 UTC

62 points

29 comments3 min readEA link

Two potential cases of Effective Ventures breaking the law

Whistleblower33 Feb 2023 10:37 UTC

−48 points

38 comments2 min readEA link

Questions about OP grant to Helena

DizzyMarmot2 Feb 2023 6:21 UTC

122 points

73 comments3 min readEA link

Criticism Thread: What things should OpenPhil improve on?

anonymousEA204 Feb 2023 8:16 UTC

85 points

8 comments2 min readEA link

Should EVF consider appointing new board members?

BurnerAcct5 Feb 2023 6:01 UTC

188 points

88 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Help with finding institutions that focus on sustainability

Linck8 Feb 2023 21:55 UTC

6 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

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

BurnerExplainer9 Feb 2023 5:17 UTC

33 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

Make Conflict of Interest Policies Public

Jeff Kaufman 🔸9 Feb 2023 19:33 UTC

175 points

21 comments1 min readEA link

Case Study of EA Global Rejection + Criticisms/Solutions

Constance Li23 Sep 2022 11:38 UTC

231 points

157 comments24 min readEA link

Dear Anthropic people, please don’t release Claude

Joseph Miller8 Feb 2023 2:44 UTC

27 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

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

Akash11 Mar 2023 22:24 UTC

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 Young15 Mar 2023 12:40 UTC

241 points

175 comments4 min readEA link

(time.com)

Run Posts By Orgs

Jeff Kaufman 🔸29 Mar 2023 2:40 UTC

281 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

Critiques of prominent AI safety labs: Redwood Research

Omega31 Mar 2023 8:58 UTC

338 points

91 comments20 min readEA link

[Question] [Atlas Fellowship] Why do 100 high-schoolers need $50k each from Open Philanthropy?

Sparcalum24 Feb 2023 16:57 UTC

71 points

88 comments4 min readEA link

Two things that I think could make the community better

Kaleem26 Apr 2023 14:59 UTC

92 points

24 comments12 min readEA link

Discussion about AI Safety funding (FB transcript)

Akash30 Apr 2023 19:05 UTC

104 points

10 comments6 min readEA link

Review of The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does

Richard Y Chappell🔸2 May 2023 15:45 UTC

213 points

54 comments10 min readEA link

(rychappell.substack.com)

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

Carolina_EA28 Oct 2022 7:36 UTC

88 points

17 comments8 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)

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)

Quantifying Uncertainty in GiveWell’s GiveDirectly Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

SamNolan27 May 2022 3:10 UTC

130 points

19 comments6 min readEA link

A dozen doubts about GiveWell’s numbers

JoelMcGuire1 Nov 2022 2:25 UTC

134 points

18 comments19 min readEA link

(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

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

Froolow25 Aug 2022 15:35 UTC

227 points

20 comments38 min readEA link

SoGive review of GiveWell’s discount rates

SoGive1 Nov 2022 12:52 UTC

17 points

1 comment16 min readEA link

AMF net use may be overestimated by about 10 percentage points

brb24310 Oct 2022 23:05 UTC

23 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

GiveWell’s approach to supplementary adjustments uses questionable priors

SoGive1 Nov 2022 12:53 UTC

11 points

1 comment19 min readEA link

GiveWell should fund an SMC replication

Seth Ariel Green28 Oct 2022 12:31 UTC

93 points

17 comments5 min readEA link

Millions in cash transfers, without spending a penny

Karthik Tadepalli26 Oct 2022 20:03 UTC

18 points

1 comment6 min readEA link

GiveWell Misuses Discount Rates

OscarD🔸27 Oct 2022 6:57 UTC

73 points

12 comments4 min readEA link

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

Trevor Woolley13 Dec 2022 7:23 UTC

83 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

Donations to SCI Foundation may funge with other work

SoGive1 Nov 2022 12:52 UTC

10 points

1 comment8 min readEA link

Sign of quality of life in GiveWell’s analyses

brb24316 Oct 2022 14:54 UTC

57 points

19 comments3 min readEA link

GiveWell should use shorter TAI timelines

OscarD🔸27 Oct 2022 6:59 UTC

52 points

6 comments3 min readEA link

Hard Problems in GiveWell’s Moral Weights Approach

Tanae1 Nov 2022 4:51 UTC

37 points

3 comments9 min readEA link

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

Finngoeslong25 Sep 2022 13:59 UTC

20 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

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

MHR1 Nov 2022 1:00 UTC

56 points

4 comments18 min readEA link

Responding to recent critiques of iron fortification in India

e19brendan12 Oct 2022 18:01 UTC

45 points

6 comments12 min readEA link

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

Akash Kulgod30 Sep 2022 12:50 UTC

28 points

2 comments10 min readEA link

GiveWell’s Uncertainty Problem

noahhaber28 Oct 2022 7:36 UTC

15 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

(docs.google.com)

GiveDirectly’s cost-effectiveness could be 6.7x higher

Carolina Toth3 Nov 2022 4:39 UTC

21 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

(docs.google.com)

Is there more to life than survival and income?

brb24313 Oct 2022 21:56 UTC

15 points

7 comments5 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

My thoughts on OpenAI’s alignment plan

Akash30 Dec 2022 19:34 UTC

16 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

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

LiaH14 Oct 2022 16:15 UTC

4 points

3 comments6 min readEA link

Effective Altruism Should Seek Less Criticism

The Chaostician1 Sep 2022 7:33 UTC

19 points

0 comments12 min readEA link

Simple Tips for Sound Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

James Broughel1 Nov 2022 0:53 UTC

3 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

 The biggest red flag about SBF

trevor124 Nov 2022 19:08 UTC

18 points

11 comments4 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

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

Selective truth-telling: concerns about EA leadership communication.

tcelferact15 Nov 2022 19:45 UTC

90 points

45 comments5 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)

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

James Snowden🔸24 Feb 2023 18:18 UTC

319 points

9 comments5 min readEA link

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

MHR4 Aug 2022 16:12 UTC

95 points

9 comments15 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 specific changes should we as a community make to the effective altruism community? [Probably gonna delay this a bit]

Nathan Young6 Dec 2022 12:24 UTC

15 points

15 comments2 min readEA link

My take on What We Owe the Future

elifland1 Sep 2022 18:07 UTC

353 points

51 comments26 min readEA link

EA on nuclear war and expertise

bean28 Aug 2022 4:59 UTC

153 points

17 comments4 min readEA link

GWWC’s Handling of Conflicting Funding Bars

Jeff Kaufman 🔸11 Jan 2023 20:31 UTC

83 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

A Windfall Clause for CEO could worsen AI race dynamics

Larks9 Mar 2023 18:02 UTC

69 points

12 comments7 min readEA link

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

ben.smith24 Jan 2023 15:01 UTC

50 points

7 comments9 min readEA link

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

BurnerExplainer8 Feb 2023 7:00 UTC

48 points

98 comments6 min readEA link

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

Jeffrey Ladish11 Jul 2022 19:38 UTC

49 points

9 comments6 min readEA link

On Deference and Yudkowsky’s AI Risk Estimates

bgarfinkel19 Jun 2022 14:35 UTC

285 points

194 comments17 min readEA link

Evaluating StrongMinds: how strong is the evidence?

JoelMcGuire19 Jan 2023 0:12 UTC

118 points

53 comments5 min readEA link

“Doing Good Best” isn’t the EA ideal

Davidmanheim16 Sep 2022 12:06 UTC

128 points

17 comments6 min readEA link

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

alamo 29149 Sep 2022 20:37 UTC

26 points

7 comments3 min readEA link

The Mistakes of Focusing on Student Outreach in EA

DavidNash20 Sep 2022 17:48 UTC

114 points

16 comments3 min readEA link

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

SoGive8 Aug 2022 8:01 UTC

62 points

10 comments15 min readEA link

Why GiveWell should use complete uncertainty quantification

Tanae27 Dec 2022 20:11 UTC

32 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(suboptimal.substack.com)

Eliezer Yudkowsky Is Frequently, Confidently, Egregiously Wrong

Omnizoid27 Aug 2023 1:07 UTC

45 points

204 comments36 min readEA link

You should have capacity for more transparency and accountability

freedomandutility13 Nov 2022 11:52 UTC

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_Hours5 Jun 2023 13:51 UTC

52 points

2 comments15 min readEA link

Against Anonymous Hit Pieces

Anti-Omega18 Jun 2023 19:36 UTC

−25 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

ESPR should return the FTX-funded chateau

Bob Jacobs 🔸10 Dec 2022 15:54 UTC

4 points

6 comments1 min readEA link

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

Mikolaj Kniejski12 Jun 2024 8:49 UTC

98 points

17 comments8 min readEA link

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

Nathan Young14 Feb 2024 19:43 UTC

119 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(medium.com)

Effective Aspersions: How the Nonlinear Investigation Went Wrong

TracingWoodgrains19 Dec 2023 12:00 UTC

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 kyriacos18 Mar 2024 3:44 UTC

−7 points

13 comments1 min readEA link

OpenAI’s Preparedness Framework: Praise & Recommendations

Akash2 Jan 2024 16:20 UTC

16 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Against AI As An Existential Risk

Daniel Birnbaum30 Jul 2024 19:24 UTC

6 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(irrationalitycommunity.substack.com)

A Gentle Introduction to Risk Frameworks Beyond Forecasting

pending_survival11 Apr 2024 9:15 UTC

81 points

4 comments27 min readEA link

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

Ávila Carmesí22 Apr 2024 21:19 UTC

125 points

55 comments5 min readEA link

Effective Altruism and Reflective Equilibrium

Daniel Birnbaum6 Jun 2024 14:49 UTC

13 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(irrationalitycommunity.substack.com)

OpenAI defected, but we can take honest actions

Remmelt21 Oct 2024 8:41 UTC

19 points

1 comment2 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

Dark side of EA entrepreneurship

Martin (Huge) Vlach19 Oct 2023 13:52 UTC

−3 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

(www.frontiersin.org)

Why we have over-rated Cool Earth

Sanjay26 Nov 2018 2:29 UTC

78 points

32 comments16 min readEA link

Sharing Information About Nonlinear

Ben Pace7 Sep 2023 6:51 UTC

432 points

497 comments34 min readEA link

A quick update from Nonlinear

Kat Woods7 Sep 2023 21:26 UTC

85 points

34 comments3 min readEA link

Responsible Scaling Policies Are Risk Management Done Wrong

simeon_c25 Oct 2023 23:46 UTC

42 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.navigatingrisks.ai)

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

david_reinstein14 Apr 2023 16:05 UTC

41 points

17 comments2 min readEA link

Concerns with Intentional Insights

Jeff Kaufman 🔸24 Oct 2016 12:04 UTC

64 points

182 comments15 min readEA link

Nick Bostrom should step down as Director of FHI

BostromAnonAccount4 Mar 2023 14:39 UTC

77 points

94 comments4 min readEA link

Revisiting EA’s media policy

Arepo3 Dec 2022 16:55 UTC

239 points

65 comments6 min readEA link

Red Teaming CEA’s Community Building Work

AnonymousEAForumAccount1 Sep 2022 14:42 UTC

296 points

68 comments66 min readEA link

Critique of OpenPhil’s macroeconomic policy advocacy

Hauke Hillebrandt24 Mar 2022 22:03 UTC

142 points

39 comments24 min readEA link

GiveWell’s recommendation of GiveDirectly

William_MacAskill30 Nov 2012 5:00 UTC

2 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

GiveWell Donation Matching

Jeff Kaufman 🔸21 Sep 2021 22:50 UTC

35 points

7 comments2 min readEA link

(www.jefftk.com)

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

peterhartree17 Nov 2022 12:16 UTC

46 points

9 comments7 min readEA link

(brief.bismarckanalysis.com)

Why EAs should normalize using Glassdoor

Joey 🔸23 Jun 2022 10:56 UTC

90 points

10 comments2 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

[UNENDORSED] Reward Long Content

niplav25 Apr 2022 10:00 UTC

42 points

9 comments11 min readEA link

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

Milan_Griffes4 Jun 2019 17:00 UTC

10 points

27 comments1 min readEA link

Concerns over EA’s possible neglect of experts

JackM16 Dec 2022 22:10 UTC

34 points

16 comments2 min readEA link

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

Daniel_Dewey7 Jul 2017 1:17 UTC

60 points

59 comments19 min readEA link

Incentive Problems With Current Forecasting Competitions.

alex lawsen10 Nov 2020 21:40 UTC

56 points

11 comments5 min readEA link

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

kbog26 Jan 2019 8:09 UTC

36 points

25 comments5 min readEA link

Jobs at EA-organizations are overpaid, here is why

Cynwit8 Jun 2022 17:20 UTC

16 points

37 comments3 min readEA link

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

Aaron Gertler 🔸24 Mar 2020 6:04 UTC

63 points

17 comments1 min readEA link

What 80000 Hours gets wrong about solar geoengineering

Gideon Futerman29 Aug 2022 13:24 UTC

26 points

4 comments22 min readEA link

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

Cassidy28 Sep 2022 22:42 UTC

49 points

18 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

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

arikr10 Sep 2019 19:38 UTC

64 points

62 comments1 min readEA link

Bad Omens in current EA Governance

ludwigbald20 Dec 2022 22:59 UTC

11 points

75 comments2 min readEA link

Open EA Global

Scott Alexander1 Sep 2022 4:26 UTC

434 points

154 comments5 min readEA link

Update on CEA’s EA Grants Program

Nicole_Ross8 Nov 2019 23:00 UTC

125 points

31 comments6 min readEA link

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

AppliedDivinityStudies10 Oct 2021 13:06 UTC

80 points

22 comments2 min readEA link

The case for transparent spending

Jeroen Willems🔸15 Dec 2022 17:42 UTC

19 points

13 comments7 min readEA link

Why the Open Philanthropy Project Should Prioritize Wild Animal Suffering

MichaelDickens26 Aug 2016 2:08 UTC

22 points

16 comments2 min readEA link

Which Community Building Projects Get Funded?

AnonymousEAForumAccount13 Nov 2019 20:31 UTC

99 points

56 comments9 min readEA link

Problems with EA representativeness and how to solve it

Joey 🔸3 Aug 2018 19:25 UTC

60 points

60 comments6 min readEA link

An Evaluation of Animal Charity Evaluators

eaanonymous12342 Sep 2022 4:33 UTC

90 points

4 comments43 min readEA link

Some general concerns about GiveWell

William_MacAskill23 Dec 2012 5:00 UTC

2 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Concerns about AMF from GiveWell reading—Part 4

JPHoughton13 Feb 2022 13:36 UTC

21 points

18 comments4 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)

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

Global Health & Development—Beyond the Streetlight

Richard Sedlmayr2 Jul 2022 18:56 UTC

36 points

4 comments6 min readEA link

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