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Less-dis­cussed causes

TagLast edit: 26 Feb 2022 21:25 UTC by Leo

Less-discussed causes are causes that receive comparatively less attention within the effective altruism community.

Further reading

Sempere, Nuño (2020) Big list of cause candidates, Effective Altruism Forum, December 25.

Related entries

Cause X | impact assessment

Why I pri­ori­tize moral cir­cle ex­pan­sion over re­duc­ing ex­tinc­tion risk through ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence alignment

Jacy20 Feb 2018 18:29 UTC
105 points
72 comments36 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Align­ing Recom­mender Sys­tems as Cause Area

IvanVendrov8 May 2019 8:56 UTC
150 points
45 comments13 min readEA link

A New X-Risk Fac­tor: Brain-Com­puter Interfaces

Jack10 Aug 2020 10:24 UTC
74 points
12 comments42 min readEA link

Re­duc­ing long-term risks from malev­olent actors

David_Althaus29 Apr 2020 8:55 UTC
312 points
86 comments37 min readEA link

Space gov­er­nance is im­por­tant, tractable and neglected

Tobias_Baumann7 Jan 2020 11:24 UTC
103 points
18 comments7 min readEA link

Prob­lem ar­eas be­yond 80,000 Hours’ cur­rent pri­ori­ties

Ardenlk22 Jun 2020 12:49 UTC
274 points
62 comments16 min readEA link

Ge­netic En­hance­ment as a Cause Area

Galton25 Dec 2019 11:30 UTC
103 points
20 comments12 min readEA link

Big List of Cause Candidates

NunoSempere25 Dec 2020 16:34 UTC
248 points
69 comments47 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Jhana meditation

Milan_Griffes12 Aug 2022 5:26 UTC
69 points
5 comments10 min readEA link

Cor­po­rate Global Catas­trophic Risks (C-GCRs)

Hauke Hillebrandt30 Jun 2019 16:53 UTC
63 points
17 comments12 min readEA link

In­ter­ven­tion Re­port: Char­ter Cities

David Rhys Bernard12 Jun 2021 13:54 UTC
126 points
19 comments51 min readEA link

Cause X Guide

Joey1 Sep 2019 16:58 UTC
92 points
35 comments2 min readEA link

Tax Havens and the case for Tax Justice

Alex Barnes 15 Sep 2020 18:06 UTC
55 points
10 comments10 min readEA link

My list of effec­tive al­tru­ism ideas that seem to be un­der­ex­plored

turchin31 May 2022 12:33 UTC
57 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] San­ity check—effec­tive­ness/​good­ness of Trans Res­cue?

David D20 Feb 2023 15:53 UTC
43 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Democ­racy Pro­mo­tion as an EA Cause Area

bryanschonfeld1 Jul 2020 1:56 UTC
74 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

Big List of Cause Can­di­dates: Jan­uary 2021–March 2022 update

Leo30 Apr 2022 17:21 UTC
122 points
16 comments19 min readEA link

Cause Area: Hu­man Rights in North Korea

Dawn Drescher20 Nov 2017 20:52 UTC
61 points
12 comments20 min readEA link

A Case for Vol­un­tary Abor­tion Reduction

Ariel Simnegar20 Dec 2022 13:23 UTC
22 points
148 comments13 min readEA link

Cost-Effec­tive­ness of Air Puri­fiers against Pollution

Lukas Trötzmüller30 Jul 2020 8:37 UTC
67 points
11 comments14 min readEA link

Bio­di­ver­sity Loss: In the Shadow of Cli­mate Change

Madhav Malhotra9 May 2022 22:10 UTC
32 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

My pre­limi­nary re­search on the Adtech marketplace

Venkatesh30 Mar 2021 4:42 UTC
2 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Ne­glected bio­di­ver­sity pro­tec­tion by EA.

Danny Forest4 Sep 2021 8:19 UTC
10 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

Cause area: Short-sleeper genes

JohnBoyle10 Aug 2022 12:51 UTC
92 points
31 comments7 min readEA link

Juan Gar­cía Martínez: In­dus­trial al­ter­na­tive foods for global catas­trophic risks

EA Global21 Nov 2020 8:12 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

New Cause Area: De­mo­graphic Collapse

Malcolm Collins30 Jun 2022 19:38 UTC
−25 points
25 comments32 min readEA link

Mind En­hance­ment: A High Im­pact, High Ne­glect Cause Area?

timfarkas24 Mar 2022 20:33 UTC
28 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

Sci-Hub sued in India

cflexman30 Dec 2021 2:48 UTC
113 points
7 comments8 min readEA link

Op­por­tu­ni­ties that sur­prised us dur­ing our Clearer Think­ing Re­grants program

spencerg7 Nov 2022 13:09 UTC
114 points
5 comments9 min readEA link

What Are Dreams Worth?

Hans Gundlach14 May 2023 7:06 UTC
18 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

[Question] How could VR ad­vance­ments be lev­er­aged to im­prove the world?

michel2 Jun 2023 10:28 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Ex­tin­guish­ing or pre­vent­ing coal seam fires is a po­ten­tial cause area

kbog7 Jul 2019 18:42 UTC
64 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

Preprint is out! 100,000 lu­mens to treat sea­sonal af­fec­tive disorder

Fabienne13 Nov 2021 18:37 UTC
61 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

How to get a new cause into EA

Joey10 Jan 2018 6:41 UTC
46 points
26 comments5 min readEA link

Miss­ing Mar­ket: Sus­tain­able Afri­can ETF

James Bailey3 Mar 2021 14:57 UTC
48 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes: Could New Tech­nol­ogy Help Solve the Glasses Prob­lem?

Open Philanthropy12 Jul 2022 7:35 UTC
43 points
1 comment15 min readEA link

[Question] What ac­tions most effec­tive if you care about re­pro­duc­tive rights in Amer­ica?

Gordon Seidoh Worley26 Jun 2022 15:35 UTC
11 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Leah Utya­sheva: Prevent­ing deaths from pes­ti­cide self-poisoning

EA Global3 Nov 2017 7:43 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] How to help the Ama­zon Rain­for­est (fires)

Iris Amazon27 Sep 2021 11:00 UTC
11 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

List of cause ar­eas that EA should po­ten­tially pri­ori­tise more

freedomandutility17 Dec 2022 14:07 UTC
30 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

Wikipe­dia edit­ing is im­por­tant, tractable, and neglected

Darius128 Nov 2021 15:47 UTC
184 points
44 comments17 min readEA link

Ad­vanc­ing an­tivenom by Mathias Kirk Bonde for Works in Progress

Nick Whitaker8 Dec 2022 15:55 UTC
31 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.worksinprogress.co)

New cause area: bi­valve aquaculture

Brian Lui12 Jun 2022 11:14 UTC
98 points
38 comments4 min readEA link

Friend­ship For­ever (new EA cause area?)

rogersbacon115 Nov 2022 16:51 UTC
88 points
13 comments13 min readEA link
(www.secretorum.life)

Should GMOs (e.g. golden rice) be a cause area?

mariushobbhahn31 Jan 2022 13:42 UTC
105 points
18 comments12 min readEA link

Re­duc­ing night­mares as a cause area

Drew Housman18 Jul 2022 20:29 UTC
162 points
45 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Effec­tive­ness of Malala fund ver­sus Global Health and Devel­op­ment Fund

Joseph Gardi1 Oct 2022 2:35 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Are so­cial me­dia al­gorithms an ex­is­ten­tial risk?

Barry Grimes15 Sep 2020 8:52 UTC
24 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Does bio­di­ver­sity loss war­rant be­ing it’s own cause area?

emwalz10 Jul 2022 20:25 UTC
42 points
40 comments1 min readEA link

Should we buy coal mines?

John G. Halstead4 May 2022 7:28 UTC
216 points
31 comments7 min readEA link

An­tifun­gal Re­sis­tance—The Ne­glected Cousin of An­tibiotic Resistance

Madhav Malhotra4 Feb 2022 15:47 UTC
49 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Kid­ney stone pain as a po­ten­tial cause area

Dan Elton3 May 2022 1:30 UTC
61 points
6 comments12 min readEA link

[Question] Look­ing for col­lab­o­ra­tors af­ter last 80k pod­cast with Tris­tan Harris

Jan-Willem7 Dec 2020 22:23 UTC
19 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

The Pos­si­bil­ity of an On­go­ing Mo­ral Catas­tro­phe (Sum­mary)

Linch2 Aug 2019 21:55 UTC
105 points
13 comments4 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

In­creas­ing Ac­cess to Pain Relief in Devel­op­ing Coun­tries—An EA Perspective

Lee_Sharkey31 Jan 2017 16:13 UTC
85 points
19 comments10 min readEA link

Cal New­port on an in­dus­trial rev­olu­tion for office work

80000_Hours27 Aug 2021 18:37 UTC
5 points
0 comments100 min readEA link

Or­ga­nized Cause Evaluation

Elliot Temple28 Nov 2022 20:31 UTC
5 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(curi.us)

Prob­lem area re­port: Pain

Sid Sharma13 Nov 2020 19:26 UTC
113 points
8 comments51 min readEA link

A frame­work for self-determination

kbog21 Jul 2021 11:33 UTC
18 points
0 comments45 min readEA link

[Link] The Case for Char­ter Cities Within the EA Frame­work (CCI)

Milan_Griffes23 Sep 2019 20:08 UTC
34 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

The EA move­ment is ne­glect­ing phys­i­cal goods

ruthgrace18 Jun 2020 14:39 UTC
27 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

The ro­dent birth con­trol landscape

Holly_Elmore29 Apr 2022 20:00 UTC
110 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(doi.org)

Cause pri­ori­ti­sa­tion: Prevent­ing lake Kivu in Africa erup­tion which could kill two mil­lion.

turchin28 Dec 2022 12:32 UTC
66 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Is pre­vent­ing child abuse a plau­si­ble Cause X?

Milan_Griffes4 May 2019 0:58 UTC
59 points
34 comments1 min readEA link

Against im­mor­tal­ity?

Owen Cotton-Barratt28 Apr 2022 11:51 UTC
107 points
40 comments3 min readEA link

Three Heuris­tics for Find­ing Cause X

Kerry_Vaughan4 Nov 2016 14:36 UTC
5 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Pre­serv­ing nat­u­ral ecosys­tems?

carlbaatz21 Mar 2021 11:28 UTC
11 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Con­sider rais­ing IQ to do good

Lila_Rieber13 May 2014 5:53 UTC
15 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

Risks from Asteroids

finm11 Feb 2022 21:01 UTC
44 points
9 comments5 min readEA link
(www.finmoorhouse.com)

The Case for Education

SamuelKnoche14 Aug 2020 17:26 UTC
23 points
10 comments10 min readEA link

Dig­nity as al­ter­na­tive EA pri­or­ity—re­quest for feedback

tomwein25 Jun 2020 13:50 UTC
29 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

Steer­ing AI to care for an­i­mals, and soon

Andrew Critch14 Jun 2022 1:13 UTC
207 points
38 comments1 min readEA link

The case for study­ing sty­lo­met­ric deanonymi­sa­tion as surveillance tech

acylhalide8 Dec 2021 12:57 UTC
15 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Prevent­ing atheroscle­ro­sis, the eas­iest way to im­prove your life ex­pec­tancy?

Eli_30 Nov 2022 6:31 UTC
17 points
7 comments15 min readEA link

[Question] How should I judge the im­pact of giv­ing $5k to a fam­ily of three kids and two men­tally ill par­ents?

Blake5 Dec 2022 13:52 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Need for safe­guards to miti­gate tech­nol­ogy risk

tech_vulnerability_society31 Jul 2020 10:53 UTC
−13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Un­der­stand­ing Open Philan­thropy’s evolu­tion on mi­gra­tion policy

vipulnaik18 Dec 2021 19:45 UTC
21 points
3 comments13 min readEA link

Me­ta­verse democrati­sa­tion as a po­ten­tial EA cause area

Paul_Lang22 Feb 2022 0:42 UTC
26 points
12 comments3 min readEA link

OPIS policy pa­per: Le­gal­is­ing ac­cess to psilo­cy­bin for the treat­ment of cluster headaches

jonleighton12 Nov 2020 11:10 UTC
43 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

The scale of di­rect hu­man im­pact on invertebrates

abrahamrowe2 Sep 2020 13:22 UTC
77 points
6 comments13 min readEA link

Hu­man­i­ties Re­search Ideas for Longtermists

Lizka9 Jun 2021 4:39 UTC
146 points
13 comments13 min readEA link

North Korea faces Covid and Drought [Linkpost]

aogara11 Jul 2022 2:07 UTC
15 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(www.economist.com)

Love seems like a high priority

kbog19 Jan 2020 0:41 UTC
55 points
31 comments12 min readEA link

Cause Area Pro­posal: Paper­work Reduction

Ja3k8 Aug 2022 20:23 UTC
20 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

On the as­sess­ment of vol­canic erup­tions as global catas­trophic or ex­is­ten­tial risks

Mike Cassidy13 Oct 2021 14:32 UTC
108 points
17 comments19 min readEA link

The Im­por­tance of Ar­tifi­cial Sentience

Jamie_Harris3 Mar 2021 17:17 UTC
64 points
10 comments12 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

A love let­ter to civilian OSINT, and pos­si­bil­ities as a tool in EA

eukaryote10 Jul 2020 20:55 UTC
72 points
4 comments9 min readEA link
(eukaryotewritesblog.com)

Why EA meta, and the top 3 char­ity ideas in the space

Joey6 Jan 2021 15:47 UTC
87 points
20 comments10 min readEA link

En­light­en­ment How?

thisisntrob25 Jun 2020 12:46 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] I want to go to De­sign and Ar­chi­tec­ture School to im­prove the world as I think it has a dis­pro­por­tionately large im­pact po­ten­tial—and I need ap­prox $25k for a stipend.

Darren_Tindall7 Apr 2022 17:21 UTC
2 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

A brief look at re­duc­ing the effi­ciency of genocides

NLHeath11 Nov 2020 18:07 UTC
35 points
5 comments9 min readEA link

Benefits of EA en­gag­ing with main­stream (ad­dressed) cause areas

blehrer8 May 2019 20:38 UTC
31 points
14 comments7 min readEA link

Sex work as part of men­tal health and wellbe­ing ser­vices

Mary 3 Mar 2022 5:59 UTC
47 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What new EA pro­ject or org would you like to see cre­ated in the next 3 years?

Ozzie Gooen11 Jun 2019 20:56 UTC
75 points
83 comments1 min readEA link

Mon­key­pox: Is it worth wor­ry­ing about?

MarcusAbramovitch17 Aug 2022 5:59 UTC
27 points
11 comments4 min readEA link

Fur­ther thoughts on char­ter cities and effec­tive altruism

marklutter20 Jul 2021 19:56 UTC
76 points
13 comments7 min readEA link

Psychedelics Normalization

andzuck26 Apr 2019 2:50 UTC
52 points
26 comments1 min readEA link

Jus­tice and Global Pri­ori­ties Re­search Read­ing List

LuisMota30 Aug 2022 19:46 UTC
34 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Why You Should Donate a Kid­ney—The Ne­oliberal Podcast

BrownHairedEevee27 Jun 2021 4:01 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(podcasts.apple.com)

Effec­tive Slack­tivism: why some­body should do pri­ori­ti­za­tion re­search on slacktivism

Kat Woods3 Dec 2021 20:32 UTC
35 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

What you can do to help stop vi­o­lence against women and girls

Akhil12 Jan 2023 11:51 UTC
318 points
24 comments16 min readEA link

[Question] Which coun­tries are most re­cep­tive to more im­mi­gra­tion?

BrownHairedEevee6 Jul 2020 21:46 UTC
19 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

What I thought about child mar­riage as a cause area, and how I’ve changed my mind

Catherine Fist31 Jan 2023 19:50 UTC
217 points
44 comments7 min readEA link

Char­ity Thrift Shop launched for hu­man­i­tar­ian aid in Turkey.

Abigail.G10 Feb 2023 10:57 UTC
27 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.instagram.com)

Im­mi­gra­tion re­form: a shal­low cause exploration

JoelMcGuire20 Feb 2023 15:57 UTC
102 points
5 comments36 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Choles­terol and Blood Pres­sure as Ne­glected Die­tary In­ter­ven­tions?

RomeoStevens26 Feb 2023 18:06 UTC
6 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Shal­low Prob­lem Re­view of Land­mines and Un­ex­ploded Ordnance

Jakob P.3 Mar 2023 16:03 UTC
38 points
1 comment36 min readEA link

Le­gal As­sis­tance for Vic­tims of AI

bob17 Mar 2023 11:42 UTC
52 points
19 comments1 min readEA link

Trans Res­cue’s op­er­a­tions in Uganda: high im­pact giv­ing opportunity

David D11 Apr 2023 16:21 UTC
61 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

RIP Med­i­cal Debt

Layla S10 May 2023 20:59 UTC
−4 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(ripmedicaldebt.org)

The Effec­tive­ness of Vol­un­teer­ing for Cri­sis Sup­port Hotlines

William Spaul9 May 2023 12:33 UTC
25 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

Im­mi­gra­tion Policy That Could Slow AI

ColdButtonIssues29 May 2023 17:44 UTC
2 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

State of the land: Mis­in­for­ma­tion and its effects on global catas­trophic risks

ruthgrace21 Mar 2022 20:04 UTC
29 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

Re­place­abil­ity Con­cerns and Pos­si­ble Responses

sapphire2 Aug 2020 18:19 UTC
34 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

The Case for Pro­mot­ing /​ Creat­ing Public Goods Mar­kets as a Cause Area

MikkW24 Oct 2020 5:23 UTC
33 points
2 comments14 min readEA link

An­i­mal Test­ing Is Ex­ploita­tive and Largely Ineffective

Erich_Grunewald13 Jun 2021 10:46 UTC
27 points
3 comments11 min readEA link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Quadratic Pay­ments: A Primer (Vi­talik Bu­terin, 2019)

BrownHairedEevee5 Apr 2021 18:05 UTC
30 points
6 comments2 min readEA link
(vitalik.ca)

In­no­va­tion Sys­tem needs fixing

Danila Medvedev3 May 2022 19:56 UTC
10 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Paper is pub­lished! 100,000 lu­mens to treat sea­sonal af­fec­tive di­s­or­der

Fabienne20 Aug 2022 19:44 UTC
48 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

The Case for Space: A Longter­mist Alter­na­tive to Ex­is­ten­tial Threat Reduction

Giga18 Nov 2020 13:09 UTC
8 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Flood­ing is not a promis­ing cause area—shal­low investigation

Oscar Delaney21 Dec 2022 10:57 UTC
65 points
13 comments12 min readEA link

New Cause Area: Baby Longter­mism – Child Rights and Fu­ture Children

LiaH14 Sep 2022 20:22 UTC
26 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

Assess­ing the im­pact of quan­tum cryptanalysis

Jaime Sevilla22 Jul 2020 11:26 UTC
35 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Fa­nat­i­cal EAs should sup­port very weird projects

Derek Shiller30 Jun 2022 12:07 UTC
47 points
42 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] How good an idea would a sys­tem to crowd­fund or part­ner with re­tail gi­ants for bet­ter con­sumer product safety test­ing and re­port­ing be?

Pseudonym1016 Nov 2022 6:15 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Pos­si­bil­ity of Microor­ganism Suffering

Elias Au-Yeung7 Aug 2022 6:02 UTC
46 points
5 comments25 min readEA link

The effec­tive al­tru­ist case for parliamentarism

Tiago Santos28 Oct 2021 16:10 UTC
22 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Should we her­bivorize preda­tors?

Stijn28 Feb 2022 18:34 UTC
4 points
1 comment7 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

Food se­cu­rity and catas­trophic famine risks—Manag­ing com­plex­ity and climate

Michael Hinge5 Apr 2023 20:33 UTC
20 points
0 comments23 min readEA link

Why start a fam­ily plan­ning char­ity? (Founders needed)

Ula Zarosa2 Apr 2021 10:29 UTC
28 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Should we con­sider the sleep loss epi­demic an ur­gent global is­sue?

orenmn6 May 2019 6:42 UTC
21 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

Cog­ni­tive Risks of Ado­les­cent Binge Drinking

Elizabeth26 Jul 2022 17:09 UTC
25 points
2 comments10 min readEA link
(acesounderglass.com)

[Question] Is nan­otech­nol­ogy (such as APM) im­por­tant for EAs’ to work on?

pixel_brownie_software12 Mar 2020 15:36 UTC
6 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Surveillance and free ex­pres­sion | Sunyshore

BrownHairedEevee23 Feb 2021 2:14 UTC
10 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(sunyshore.substack.com)

The Do­mes­ti­ca­tion of Zebras

Further or Alternatively9 Sep 2022 10:58 UTC
15 points
20 comments2 min readEA link

Quan­tum Com­put­ing : A pre­limi­nary re­search anal­y­sis report

Jaime Sevilla5 Nov 2019 14:25 UTC
44 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing in­cen­tives in re­search—could we top­ple the h-in­dex?

PCO Moore8 Aug 2022 10:11 UTC
8 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Direct Shar­ing, con­sent and men­tal health on­line: an open pro­posal for so­cial me­dia with­out “an al­gorithm”, CC A

sergia14 Dec 2022 23:35 UTC
−1 points
1 comment10 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Is The YouTube Al­gorithm Rad­i­cal­iz­ing You? It’s Com­pli­cated.

BrownHairedEevee1 Mar 2021 21:50 UTC
44 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

I Re­viewed the 4000-page Disease Con­trol Pri­ori­ties Col­lec­tion: Fund 4 Pro­grams; Divest from Cost-in­effec­tive Bed­nets and Deworming

brb2439 Jul 2022 22:36 UTC
20 points
9 comments17 min readEA link

Be­ing a donor for Fe­cal Micro­biota Trans­plants (FMT): Do good & earn easy money (up to 180k/​y)

Anton Rodenhauser6 Jul 2022 14:58 UTC
50 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

The (Cal­ifor­nia) case for State Ca­pac­ity as an EA cause area

Locke4 Aug 2022 3:22 UTC
58 points
11 comments9 min readEA link

How a ven­tila­tion rev­olu­tion could help miti­gate the im­pacts of air pol­lu­tion and air­borne pathogens

Mike Cassidy16 Nov 2021 11:19 UTC
67 points
5 comments15 min readEA link

Ok Doomer! SRM and Catas­trophic Risk Podcast

Gideon Futerman20 Aug 2022 12:22 UTC
10 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(open.spotify.com)

The case for be­com­ing a black-box in­ves­ti­ga­tor of lan­guage models

Buck6 May 2022 14:37 UTC
89 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Blind Spots: Compartmentalizing

Dale31 Dec 2014 22:25 UTC
20 points
55 comments14 min readEA link

An Ar­gu­ment To Pri­ori­tize “Pos­i­tively Shap­ing the Devel­op­ment of Crypto-as­sets”

rhys_lindmark3 Apr 2018 21:59 UTC
16 points
14 comments14 min readEA link

[Question] Any EA fo­cus/​fund­ing on lym­phatic filari­a­sis?

Yitz28 Aug 2022 19:44 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Should we do more to miti­gate oc­cu­pa­tional noise ex­po­sure?

Drew Housman30 Jul 2022 19:11 UTC
21 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Is there any­one look­ing at the im­por­tance of sim­plify­ing com­plex so­cio-tech­ni­cal sys­tems?

mikbp12 Sep 2022 7:49 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Cause pro­file: Cog­ni­tive En­hance­ment Re­search

George Altman27 Mar 2022 13:43 UTC
61 points
5 comments22 min readEA link

Some gov­er­nance re­search ideas to pre­vent malev­olent con­trol over AGI and why this might mat­ter a hell of a lot

Jim Buhler23 May 2023 13:07 UTC
50 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

Au­to­mated on­line suicide pre­ven­tion: po­ten­tially high im­pact?

generic_username26 Jul 2022 9:46 UTC
14 points
11 comments6 min readEA link

Rus­sian Re­sis­tance: a web­site about protesters and how one could sup­port them

Svetoslav Palović18 Jul 2022 7:00 UTC
13 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Help me recom­mend effec­tive char­i­ties to peo­ple who want to donate to spe­cific causes and populations

Max Pietsch9 Feb 2023 1:07 UTC
10 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

In­tac­tivism as a po­ten­tial Effec­tive Altru­ist cause area?

Question Mark26 Jun 2021 7:21 UTC
1 point
8 comments3 min readEA link

My thoughts on nan­otech­nol­ogy strat­egy re­search as an EA cause area

Ben Snodin2 May 2022 9:41 UTC
135 points
17 comments33 min readEA link

Mak­ing EA More Effective

Peter Kelly31 Aug 2022 5:02 UTC
7 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

[Question] What are the most un­der­funded EA or­ga­ni­za­tions?

Question Mark17 Dec 2021 23:28 UTC
3 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] How should EAs man­age their copy­rights?

BrownHairedEevee9 Mar 2021 18:42 UTC
15 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Re­silience & Biodiversity

emwalz11 Aug 2022 0:37 UTC
52 points
9 comments14 min readEA link

La pos­si­bil­ità di una Catas­trofe Mo­rale in atto (Ri­as­sunto)

EA Italy31 Dec 2022 4:17 UTC
1 point
0 comments5 min readEA link

Bounty: Guide To Switch­ing From Farmed Fish To Wild-Caught Fish

ozymandias22 Feb 2019 16:10 UTC
37 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(thingofthings.wordpress.com)

Are we already past the precipice?

Dem0sthenes10 Aug 2022 4:01 UTC
1 point
5 comments2 min readEA link

The Case for a Strate­gic U.S. Coal Re­serve for Cli­mate and Catastrophes

ColdButtonIssues5 May 2022 1:24 UTC
30 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

The Eco­nomic Benefits of Pro­mot­ing and Pro­tect­ing the Rights of LGBTQ+ Com­mu­ni­ties in Devel­op­ing Coun­tries (cause ex­plo­ra­tion)

Susannah Hares10 Aug 2022 15:14 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Cause Sugges­tion: Econ Literacy

Yonatan Cale18 Dec 2022 18:16 UTC
21 points
21 comments3 min readEA link
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