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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.

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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
58 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)

Pro­duc­tive crit­i­cism: what could help?

Lizka13 Jun 2023 14:56 UTC
38 points
2 comments4 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🔸31 Mar 2024 9:04 UTC
55 points
40 comments1 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

An In­tro­duc­tion to Cri­tiques of promi­nent AI safety organizations

Omega19 Jul 2023 6:53 UTC
87 points
2 comments5 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
182 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

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)

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

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

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

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

Henry Stanley 🔸4 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?

Henry Stanley 🔸31 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

A Cri­tique of An­i­mal Char­ity Eval­u­a­tors (ACE)

VettedCauses8 Nov 2024 17:08 UTC
34 points
48 comments1 min readEA link
(vettedcauses.com)

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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