Criticism and Red Teaming Contest

TagLast edit: 16 Jul 2022 11:37 UTC by Leo

The Criticism and Red Teaming Contest is a contest on the Effective Altruism Forum for writing that critically engages with theory or work from the effective altruism community.

Winners of the EA Criticism and Red Teaming Contest

Lizka1 Oct 2022 1:50 UTC

226 points

41 comments19 min readEA link

Announcing a contest: EA Criticism and Red Teaming

Lizka1 Jun 2022 18:58 UTC

276 points

64 comments13 min readEA link

Resource for criticisms and red teaming

Lizka1 Jun 2022 18:58 UTC

60 points

3 comments8 min readEA link

Critiques of EA that I want to read

abrahamrowe19 Jun 2022 22:22 UTC

458 points

85 comments9 min readEA link

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

JoelMcGuire25 Jul 2022 20:26 UTC

307 points

38 comments11 min readEA link

(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

My take on What We Owe the Future

elifland1 Sep 2022 18:07 UTC

353 points

51 comments26 min readEA link

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

NunoSempere16 Jun 2022 16:40 UTC

302 points

97 comments26 min readEA link

Pre-announcing a contest for critiques and red teaming

Lizka25 Mar 2022 11:52 UTC

173 points

27 comments2 min readEA link

Enlightenment Values in a Vulnerable World

Maxwell Tabarrok18 Jul 2022 11:54 UTC

64 points

18 comments31 min readEA link

What I learned from the criticism contest

Gavin1 Oct 2022 13:39 UTC

170 points

32 comments5 min readEA link

Red Teaming CEA’s Community Building Work

AnonymousEAForumAccount1 Sep 2022 14:42 UTC

296 points

68 comments66 min readEA link

Leaning into EA Disillusionment

Helen21 Jul 2022 17:06 UTC

415 points

61 comments13 min readEA link

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

MichaelPlant15 Jul 2022 8:21 UTC

155 points

11 comments25 min readEA link

(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Effective Altruism as Coordination & Field Incubation

DavidNash14 Jun 2022 16:17 UTC

100 points

3 comments4 min readEA link

The Future Might Not Be So Great

Jacy30 Jun 2022 13:01 UTC

140 points

118 comments32 min readEA link

(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Potatoes: A Critical Review

Pablo Villalobos10 May 2022 15:27 UTC

118 points

27 comments6 min readEA link

(docs.google.com)

Longtermism and Computational Complexity

David Kinney31 Aug 2022 21:51 UTC

41 points

46 comments27 min readEA link

The Community Manifesto

ATW31 Aug 2022 23:44 UTC

26 points

10 comments61 min readEA link

21 criticisms of EA I’m thinking about

Peter Wildeford1 Sep 2022 19:28 UTC

209 points

26 comments9 min readEA link

Red-teaming contest: demographics and power structures in EA

TheOtherHannah31 Aug 2022 4:36 UTC

110 points

14 comments33 min readEA link

Existential risk pessimism and the time of perils

David Thorstad12 Aug 2022 14:42 UTC

173 points

67 comments21 min readEA link

Before There Was Effective Altruism, There Was Effective Philanthropy

ColdButtonIssues26 Jun 2022 18:09 UTC

133 points

7 comments12 min readEA link

How EA is perceived is crucial to its future trajectory

GidiKadosh23 Jul 2022 3:24 UTC

162 points

22 comments14 min readEA link

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

Froolow25 Aug 2022 15:35 UTC

227 points

20 comments35 min readEA link

EA is becoming increasingly inaccessible, at the worst possible time

Ann Garth22 Jul 2022 15:40 UTC

72 points

13 comments14 min readEA link

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

NunoSempere16 Aug 2022 14:44 UTC

75 points

40 comments5 min readEA link

(nunosempere.com)

community building solely as a tool for impact creates toxic communities

ruthgrace1 Sep 2022 3:45 UTC

45 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

Red teaming introductory EA courses

Philip Hall Andersen30 Aug 2022 15:47 UTC

52 points

6 comments19 min readEA link

Deontology, the Paralysis Argument and altruistic longtermism

William D'Alessandro2 Sep 2022 3:23 UTC

33 points

4 comments14 min readEA link

The Nietzschean Challenge to Effective Altruism

Richard Y Chappell29 Aug 2022 14:39 UTC

97 points

15 comments7 min readEA link

(rychappell.substack.com)

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

Corentin Biteau31 Aug 2022 21:50 UTC

56 points

90 comments10 min readEA link

Questioning the Value of Extinction Risk Reduction

Red Team 87 Jul 2022 4:44 UTC

61 points

9 comments27 min readEA link

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

Richard Ren2 Sep 2022 7:53 UTC

56 points

10 comments16 min readEA link

Population Ethics Without Axiology: A Framework

Lukas_Gloor2 Aug 2022 15:59 UTC

79 points

16 comments26 min readEA link

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

MHR4 Aug 2022 16:12 UTC

95 points

9 comments14 min readEA link

this one weird trick creates infinite utility

Hmash1 Sep 2022 9:10 UTC

12 points

0 comments10 min readEA link

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

freedomandutility13 Aug 2022 14:53 UTC

36 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Moral Injury, Mental Health, and Obsession in EA

ECJ1 Sep 2022 17:51 UTC

3 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Changing the world through slack & hobbies

Steven Byrnes21 Jul 2022 18:01 UTC

129 points

10 comments10 min readEA link

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

Austin27 Sep 2022 22:46 UTC

21 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(manifold.markets)

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

freedomandutility9 Aug 2022 20:13 UTC

25 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

Hiring: The Ignored Resource of Rejected EA Job Candidates

RedTeamPseudonym30 Aug 2022 4:29 UTC

9 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

[TikTok] Comparability between suffering and happiness

Ben_West1 Sep 2022 16:31 UTC

23 points

11 comments1 min readEA link

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

Joshua Clingo1 Sep 2022 7:34 UTC

18 points

2 comments12 min readEA link

How to dissolve moral cluelessness about donating mosquito nets

ben.smith8 Jun 2022 7:12 UTC

25 points

8 comments12 min readEA link

Things usually end slowly

OllieBase7 Jun 2022 17:00 UTC

76 points

14 comments7 min readEA link

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

You Don’t Need To Justify Everything

ThomasW12 Jun 2022 18:36 UTC

139 points

11 comments3 min readEA link

EAs underestimate uncertainty in cause prioritisation

freedomandutility23 Aug 2022 14:04 UTC

119 points

20 comments2 min readEA link

Questioning the Foundations of EA

Wei Dai27 Aug 2022 20:44 UTC

101 points

21 comments1 min readEA link

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

Corentin Biteau31 Aug 2022 21:51 UTC

34 points

2 comments22 min readEA link

Popular EA Authors Should Give Libraries More Copies of Their EBooks

RedTeamPseudonym30 Aug 2022 5:16 UTC

11 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Leveraging labor shortages as a pathway to career impact?

IanDavidMoss14 Jul 2022 13:32 UTC

17 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

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

Nathan Young1 Sep 2022 22:42 UTC

34 points

15 comments12 min readEA link

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

Akash2 Sep 2022 12:15 UTC

30 points

5 comments3 min readEA link

Effective Altruism Should Seek Less Criticism

The Chaostician1 Sep 2022 7:33 UTC

19 points

0 comments11 min readEA link

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

Peter Wildeford30 Aug 2022 18:57 UTC

89 points

20 comments2 min readEA link

Suggestions for 80,000K

RedTeamPseudonym1 Sep 2022 8:26 UTC

8 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

EA has a lying problem [Link Post]

Nathan Young16 Aug 2022 21:57 UTC

−10 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

Longtermism, risk, and extinction

Richard Pettigrew4 Aug 2022 15:25 UTC

65 points

12 comments41 min readEA link

Summaries are underrated

Nathan Young1 Sep 2022 22:34 UTC

53 points

23 comments7 min readEA link

Think again: Should EA be a social movement?

An A2 Sep 2022 11:45 UTC

12 points

1 comment5 min readEA link

Rethinking longtermism and global development

BrownHairedEevee2 Sep 2022 5:28 UTC

10 points

2 comments7 min readEA link

(sunyshore.substack.com)

This post is a Work-In-Progress

Nathan Young3 Oct 2022 15:44 UTC

3 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

We’re funding task-adjusted survival (DALYs)

brb24313 Jul 2022 17:26 UTC

6 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

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

HaydnBelfield19 May 2022 8:42 UTC

465 points

44 comments18 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

Remuneration In Effective Altruism

Stefan_Schubert25 Jul 2022 12:35 UTC

111 points

11 comments2 min readEA link

(stefanschubert.substack.com)

Doing good is a privilege. This needs to change if we want to do good long-term.

SofiaBalderson3 Aug 2022 15:44 UTC

76 points

22 comments16 min readEA link

The discount rate is not zero

Thomaaas3 Sep 2022 14:30 UTC

98 points

28 comments10 min readEA link

Are we already past the precipice?

Dem0sthenes10 Aug 2022 4:01 UTC

1 point

5 comments2 min readEA link

“Doing Good Best” isn’t the EA ideal

Davidmanheim16 Sep 2022 12:06 UTC

127 points

17 comments6 min readEA link

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

Nathan Young8 Apr 2022 9:32 UTC

31 points

15 comments3 min readEA link

Quantifying Uncertainty in GiveWell’s GiveDirectly Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

SamNolan27 May 2022 3:10 UTC

130 points

19 comments7 min readEA link

Animal Zoo

bericlair2 Sep 2022 4:34 UTC

56 points

2 comments12 min readEA link

Red teaming a model for estimating the value of longtermist interventions—A critique of Tarsney’s “The Epistemic Challenge to Longtermism”

Anjay F16 Jul 2022 19:05 UTC

21 points

0 comments25 min readEA link

A Need for Final Chapter Revision in Intro EA Fellowship Curricula & Other Ways to Fix Holes in The Funnel

RedTeamPseudonym1 Sep 2022 7:12 UTC

6 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

The Long Reflection as the Great Stagnation

Larks1 Sep 2022 20:55 UTC

43 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

EA Culture and Causes: Less is More

Allen Bell16 Aug 2022 14:04 UTC

81 points

10 comments14 min readEA link

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

freedomandutility22 Aug 2022 20:25 UTC

38 points

2 comments2 min readEA link

EA’s Culture and Thinking are Severely Limiting its Impact

Peter Elam26 Jul 2022 11:10 UTC

95 points

48 comments21 min readEA link

Aesthetics as Epistemic Humility

Étienne Fortier-Dubois22 Aug 2022 17:00 UTC

45 points

6 comments13 min readEA link

(etiennefd.substack.com)

Making EA More Effective

Peter Kelly31 Aug 2022 5:02 UTC

7 points

0 comments13 min readEA link

Capitalism, power and epistemology: a critique of EA

Matthew_Doran22 Aug 2022 14:20 UTC

6 points

19 comments23 min readEA link

“Of Human Bondage” and Morality

Casaubon31 Aug 2022 17:58 UTC

1 point

2 comments21 min readEA link

Methods for improving uncertainty analysis in EA cost-effectiveness models

Froolow29 Aug 2022 18:07 UTC

127 points

8 comments36 min readEA link

What is the overhead of grantmaking?

MathiasKB15 Jun 2022 17:07 UTC

59 points

5 comments3 min readEA link

Effective altruism is no longer the right name for the movement

ParthThaya31 Aug 2022 6:07 UTC

182 points

35 comments10 min readEA link

Prioritizing x-risks may require caring about future people

elifland14 Aug 2022 0:55 UTC

182 points

38 comments6 min readEA link

(www.foxy-scout.com)

A critique of strong longtermism

Pablo Rosado28 Aug 2022 19:33 UTC

11 points

11 comments14 min readEA link

EA vs. FIRE – reconciling these two movements

Stewed_Walrus1 Sep 2022 7:33 UTC

17 points

9 comments11 min readEA link

Editing wild animals is underexplored in What We Owe the Future

Michael Huang31 Aug 2022 14:26 UTC

32 points

5 comments3 min readEA link

Eliminate or Adjust Strong Upvotes to Improve the Forum

Afternoon Coffee2 Sep 2022 8:37 UTC

22 points

15 comments3 min readEA link

EA culture is special; we should proceed with intentionality

James Lin21 May 2022 21:55 UTC

85 points

7 comments10 min readEA link

Some core assumptions of effective altruism, according to me

peterhartree29 Jul 2022 9:05 UTC

89 points

9 comments6 min readEA link

The Happiness Maximizer: Why EA is an x-risk

Obasi Shaw30 Aug 2022 4:29 UTC

8 points

5 comments29 min readEA link

An epistemic critique of longtermism

Nathan_Barnard10 Jul 2022 10:59 UTC

12 points

4 comments9 min readEA link

Should large EA nonprofits consider splitting?

Arepo6 Jun 2022 20:20 UTC

12 points

4 comments7 min readEA link

Proposed tweak to the longtermism pitch

TheOtherHannah8 Aug 2022 6:29 UTC

17 points

6 comments4 min readEA link

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

ThomasW9 May 2022 17:02 UTC

68 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

Towards a more ecumenical EA movement

Locke1 Sep 2022 15:58 UTC

10 points

1 comment6 min readEA link

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

titotal30 Aug 2022 13:55 UTC

20 points

11 comments10 min readEA link

Reasons for my negative feelings towards the AI risk discussion

fergusq1 Sep 2022 7:33 UTC

41 points

9 comments4 min readEA link

The Windfall Clause has a remedies problem

John Bridge23 May 2022 10:31 UTC

40 points

0 comments20 min readEA link

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

Joseph Lemien21 Aug 2022 9:46 UTC

23 points

13 comments2 min readEA link

Effective altruism is similar to the AI alignment problem and suffers from the same difficulties [Criticism and Red Teaming Contest entry]

turchin19 Jun 2022 9:01 UTC

14 points

30 comments9 min readEA link

Let’s not glorify people for how they look.

Florence11 Aug 2022 14:33 UTC

56 points

19 comments3 min readEA link

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

AnonymousThrowAway9 Jul 2022 10:47 UTC

298 points

32 comments11 min readEA link

Effective Altruists and Religion: A Proposal for Experimentation

Kbrown7 Aug 2022 13:27 UTC

4 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

The ordinal utility argument against effective altruism

Barracuda12 Jun 2022 13:20 UTC

8 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Why bother doing the most good?

Dov1 Sep 2022 16:48 UTC

3 points

0 comments10 min readEA link

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

ErikHoel16 Aug 2022 17:16 UTC

13 points

23 comments2 min readEA link

(erikhoel.substack.com)

Should young EAs really focus on career capital?

Michael B.27 Jun 2022 1:02 UTC

16 points

1 comment10 min readEA link

Bernard Williams: Ethics and the limits of impartiality

peterhartree7 Sep 2022 11:26 UTC

4 points

8 comments6 min readEA link

(notes.pjh.is)

The Malthusian Gradient: Why some third-world interventions may be doing more harm than good

JoePater22 Aug 2022 9:13 UTC

7 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

On Deference and Yudkowsky’s AI Risk Estimates

bgarfinkel19 Jun 2022 14:35 UTC

285 points

194 comments17 min readEA link

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

spencerg1 Sep 2022 16:13 UTC

14 points

4 comments1 min readEA link

(clearerthinkingpodcast.com)

EA Worries and Criticism

Connor Tabarrok1 Sep 2022 18:23 UTC

13 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

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

Ember16 Aug 2022 19:48 UTC

24 points

35 comments17 min readEA link

A dilemma for Maximize Expected Choiceworthiness (MEC)

Calvin_Baker1 Sep 2022 14:46 UTC

33 points

7 comments9 min readEA link

Criticism of EA Criticism Contest

Zvi 14 Jul 2022 14:20 UTC

101 points

34 comments32 min readEA link

The great energy descent—Part 2: Limits to growth and why we probably won’t reach the stars

Corentin Biteau31 Aug 2022 21:51 UTC

17 points

0 comments25 min readEA link

Ideological tensions between Effective Altruism and The UK Civil Service

KZ X9 Aug 2022 22:32 UTC

22 points

1 comment17 min readEA link

Why the EA aversion to local altruistic action?

Locke10 Jun 2022 23:01 UTC

9 points

12 comments4 min readEA link

Effective Altruism Goes Political: Normative Conflicts and Practical Judgment

Michael Haiden1 Sep 2022 10:39 UTC

0 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

Effective Altruism Criticisms

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

1 point

1 comment5 min readEA link

A Case Against Strong Longtermism

A. Wolff2 Sep 2022 16:40 UTC

9 points

4 comments39 min readEA link

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

Magnus Vinding23 Aug 2022 9:21 UTC

219 points

115 comments8 min readEA link

Crowdsourced Criticisms: What does EA think about EA?

Hmash8 Aug 2022 22:59 UTC

32 points

19 comments14 min readEA link

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

Oscar Galvin28 Jun 2022 15:56 UTC

35 points

4 comments11 min readEA link

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

Anonymous_EA16 Jun 2022 20:48 UTC

115 points

8 comments4 min readEA link

Prediction Markets are Somewhat Overrated Within EA

Francis1 Sep 2022 2:17 UTC

16 points

4 comments3 min readEA link

Fixing bad incentives in EA

IncentivesAccount22 Jul 2022 16:48 UTC

16 points

11 comments4 min readEA link

Low-key Longtermism

Jonathan Rystrom25 Jul 2022 13:39 UTC

26 points

6 comments8 min readEA link

On the Philosophical Foundations of EA

mm61 Sep 2022 7:34 UTC

35 points

10 comments22 min readEA link

Slowing down AI progress is an underexplored alignment strategy

Michael Huang13 Jul 2022 3:22 UTC

92 points

11 comments3 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

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

MattBall2 Jul 2022 2:05 UTC

5 points

6 comments6 min readEA link

Should we call ourselves effective altruists?

Sam_Coggins20 Aug 2022 5:55 UTC

10 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

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

Sarah Weiler26 Jun 2022 10:59 UTC

57 points

2 comments16 min readEA link

Go Republican, Young EA!

ColdButtonIssues13 Apr 2022 4:43 UTC

124 points

41 comments4 min readEA link

Be More Succinct

RedTeamPseudonym30 Aug 2022 22:58 UTC

23 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Values lock-in is already happening (without AGI)

LB1 Sep 2022 22:21 UTC

1 point

1 comment12 min readEA link

EA Shouldn’t Try to Exercise Direct Political Power

iamasockpuppet21 Jul 2022 10:29 UTC

156 points

31 comments7 min readEA link

What a Large and Welcoming EA Could Accomplish

Peter Elam22 Aug 2022 12:17 UTC

12 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

Compounding assumptions and what it mean to be altruistic

Badger1 Sep 2022 7:34 UTC

9 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

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

zzz140731 Aug 2022 17:55 UTC

6 points

0 comments33 min readEA link

Follow-up: Crowdsourced Criticisms

Hmash1 Sep 2022 21:56 UTC

6 points

0 comments9 min readEA link

A slightly (I think?) different slant on why EA elitism bias/top-university focus/lack of diversity is a problem

RedTeamPseudonym1 Sep 2022 7:58 UTC

30 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

Critique: Cost-Benefit of Weirdness

Mike Elias29 Aug 2022 15:59 UTC

2 points

3 comments3 min readEA link

A part of the system’s apology

Niv Cohen31 Aug 2022 17:57 UTC

7 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

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

ErikHoel23 Aug 2022 15:04 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readEA link

(erikhoel.substack.com)

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

Jin Jo10 Aug 2022 6:40 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

The future of humanity

Dem0sthenes1 Sep 2022 22:34 UTC

1 point

0 comments8 min readEA link

The Wages of North-Atlantic Bias

Sach Wry19 Aug 2022 12:34 UTC

8 points

2 comments17 min readEA link

Altruism is systems change, so why isn’t EA? Constructive criticism.

LB15 Aug 2022 19:18 UTC

3 points

4 comments22 min readEA link

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

Philip Apps29 Aug 2022 7:19 UTC

2 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Effective Altruism, the Principle of Explosion and Epistemic Fragility

Eigengender15 Aug 2022 1:45 UTC

19 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

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

HTC30 Aug 2022 4:27 UTC

30 points

1 comment17 min readEA link

Reciprocity & the causes of diminishing returns: cause exploration submission

LB12 Aug 2022 9:04 UTC

3 points

0 comments13 min readEA link

Enantiodromia

ChristianKleineidam31 Aug 2022 21:14 UTC

9 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Present-day good intentions aren’t sufficient to make the longterm future good in expectation

trurl2 Sep 2022 3:22 UTC

7 points

0 comments14 min readEA link

When 2/3rds of the world goes against you

Jeffrey Kursonis2 Jul 2022 20:34 UTC

2 points

2 comments9 min readEA link

Against Impartial Altruism

Sam K1 Sep 2022 7:16 UTC

2 points

1 comment14 min readEA link

We Can’t Do Long Term Utilitarian Calculations Until We Know if AIs Can Be Conscious or Not

Mike207312 Sep 2022 8:37 UTC

4 points

0 comments12 min readEA link

Transcript of Twitter Discussion on EA from June 2022

Zvi 6 Jun 2022 13:47 UTC

83 points

28 comments2 min readEA link

The reasonableness of special concerns

jwt29 Aug 2022 0:10 UTC

3 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

Hits- or misses-based giving

brb2431 Sep 2022 22:30 UTC

3 points

0 comments8 min readEA link

Against Anthropic Shadow

tobycrisford3 Jun 2022 17:49 UTC

26 points

13 comments13 min readEA link

Investigating Ideology: want to earn money, help EA and/or me? Then check this out; it may be a mighty neglected cause

Dov12 Aug 2022 5:52 UTC

3 points

6 comments22 min readEA link

EA is too reliant on personal connections

sawyer1 Sep 2022 14:26 UTC

230 points

27 comments8 min readEA link

Should EA influence governments to enact more effective interventions?

Markus Amalthea Magnuson1 Sep 2022 17:48 UTC

20 points

4 comments6 min readEA link

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

Jeffrey Kursonis21 Jun 2022 7:09 UTC

2 points

2 comments3 min readEA link

Ways money can make things worse

Jan_Kulveit21 Jun 2022 15:26 UTC

167 points

3 comments9 min readEA link

Keeping it Real

calumdavey23 Aug 2022 17:42 UTC

6 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Forecasting Through Fiction

Yitz6 Jul 2022 5:23 UTC

8 points

3 comments6 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Wheeling and dealing: An internal bargaining approach to moral uncertainty

MichaelPlant10 Jul 2022 12:04 UTC

56 points

18 comments22 min readEA link

Effective Altruism is Unkind

Oliver Scott Curry1 Sep 2022 15:51 UTC

11 points

3 comments2 min readEA link

Chesterton Fences and EA’s X-risks

jehan2 Sep 2022 11:56 UTC

78 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

Effective altruism in a non-ideal world

Eric Kramer1 Sep 2022 17:50 UTC

6 points

0 comments17 min readEA link

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

frib14 Jul 2022 4:02 UTC

25 points

12 comments9 min readEA link

Mind your step

Talsome1 Sep 2022 7:33 UTC

2 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

Prefer beliefs to credence probabilities

Noah Scales1 Sep 2022 2:04 UTC

3 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

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

Jared_Riggs8 Aug 2022 0:57 UTC

30 points

5 comments14 min readEA link

Effective means to combat autocracies

Junius Brutus28 Aug 2022 17:35 UTC

31 points

2 comments5 min readEA link

The dangers of high salaries within EA organisations

James Özden10 Jun 2022 7:54 UTC

33 points

35 comments7 min readEA link

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

Markus Amalthea Magnuson4 Jul 2022 14:11 UTC

128 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

The Hidden Impossibilities Of Being An Effective Altruist.

Refined Insights 28 Aug 2022 12:51 UTC

10 points

4 comments29 min readEA link

The totalitarian implications of Effective Altruism

Ed_Talks14 Jun 2022 16:52 UTC

11 points

14 comments1 min readEA link

(edtalks.substack.com)

EA Undervalues Unseen Data

tcelferact24 Jul 2022 15:52 UTC

8 points

4 comments2 min readEA link

Future Paths for Effective Altruism

James Broughel4 Aug 2022 10:34 UTC

44 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

Michael Nielsen’s “Notes on effective altruism”

Pablo3 Jun 2022 8:20 UTC

219 points

49 comments5 min readEA link

(michaelnotebook.com)

AGI Battle Royale: Why “slow takeover” scenarios devolve into a chaotic multi-AGI fight to the death

titotal22 Sep 2022 15:00 UTC

42 points

9 comments15 min readEA link

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

nat goldthwaite31 Aug 2022 6:58 UTC

7 points

0 comments7 min readEA link

EA Should Rename Itself

Name Rectifier2 Sep 2022 4:28 UTC

1 point

0 comments16 min readEA link

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

Nathan Young1 Sep 2022 22:44 UTC

0 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

We’re really bad at guessing the future

Benj Azose13 Aug 2022 9:11 UTC

20 points

2 comments6 min readEA link

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

ruthgrace2 Sep 2022 7:24 UTC

40 points

3 comments26 min readEA link

Run For President

Brian Moore2 Jul 2022 0:52 UTC

−1 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

EA on nuclear war and expertise

bean28 Aug 2022 4:59 UTC

152 points

17 comments4 min readEA link

Four Concerns Regarding Longtermism

Pat Andriola6 Jun 2022 5:42 UTC

82 points

15 comments5 min readEA link

EA is a fight against Knightian uncertainty

Rohit is a Strange Loop2 Sep 2022 4:26 UTC

15 points

2 comments14 min readEA link

(www.strangeloopcanon.com)

Accepting the Inevitability of Ambitious Egoism (”AE”)

Dem0sthenes17 Aug 2022 14:38 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readEA link

Criticism of EA and longtermism

St. Ignorant2 Sep 2022 7:23 UTC

2 points

0 comments14 min readEA link

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

Ember17 Aug 2022 13:13 UTC

16 points

28 comments23 min readEA link

An Evaluation of Animal Charity Evaluators

eaanonymous12342 Sep 2022 4:33 UTC

90 points

4 comments44 min readEA link

Effective altruism in the garden of ends

tyleralterman31 Aug 2022 20:47 UTC

276 points

43 comments23 min readEA link

End-To-End Encryption For EA

Talking Tree30 Aug 2022 10:10 UTC

10 points

7 comments11 min readEA link

On longtermism, Bayesianism, and the doomsday argument

iporphyry1 Sep 2022 0:27 UTC

30 points

5 comments12 min readEA link

Red Team: Write More.

Weaver31 Aug 2022 17:57 UTC

11 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

Criticism of the main framework in AI alignment

Michele Campolo31 Aug 2022 21:44 UTC

42 points

4 comments7 min readEA link

The most important climate change uncertainty

cwa26 Jul 2022 15:15 UTC

144 points

28 comments11 min readEA link

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

Corentin Biteau31 Aug 2022 21:51 UTC

17 points

3 comments22 min readEA link

Hobbit Manifesto

Clay Cube30 Aug 2022 20:24 UTC

8 points

9 comments7 min readEA link

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

Thomas Aitken1 Sep 2022 7:33 UTC

27 points

3 comments10 min readEA link

(drive.google.com)

The Effective Altruism culture

PabloAMC17 Apr 2022 1:23 UTC

35 points

5 comments4 min readEA link

Empirical critique of EA from another direction

tonz22 Aug 2022 9:13 UTC

2 points

0 comments6 min readEA link

EAs should recommend cost-effective interventions in more cause areas (not just the most pressing ones)

Amber Dawn1 Sep 2022 17:45 UTC

37 points

18 comments10 min readEA link

EA needs to understand its “failures” better

mariushobbhahn24 May 2022 14:24 UTC

67 points

4 comments5 min readEA link

The Importance of Intercausal Impacts

Sebastian Joy 樂百善24 Aug 2022 10:41 UTC

59 points

2 comments8 min readEA link

Friendship is Optimal: EAGs should be online

Emrik2 Sep 2022 0:00 UTC

31 points

4 comments8 min readEA link

A Critique of AI Takeover Scenarios

Fods1231 Aug 2022 13:49 UTC

53 points

4 comments12 min readEA link

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

NicholasKross21 Jun 2022 17:09 UTC

16 points

10 comments6 min readEA link

(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

The danger of good stories

DuncanS22 Aug 2022 9:13 UTC

16 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

Effective Altruism Risks Perpetuating a Harmful Worldview

Theo Cox20 Aug 2022 1:10 UTC

−5 points

9 comments20 min readEA link

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

Ben Yeoh27 Jul 2022 19:51 UTC

35 points

1 comment9 min readEA link

The Role of Individual Consumption Decisions in Animal Welfare and Climate are Analogous

Gabriel Weil10 Jun 2022 6:18 UTC

40 points

35 comments11 min readEA link

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

Barracuda13 Jun 2022 0:35 UTC

−3 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

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