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Re­view of Past Grants: The $100,000 Grant for a Video Game?

Nicolae3 Jun 2024 14:28 UTC
209 points
64 comments2 min readEA link

I’m NOT against Ar­tifi­cial Intelligence

Victoria Dias24 Apr 2025 18:02 UTC
6 points
1 comment18 min readEA link

Against Aschen­bren­ner: How ‘Si­tu­a­tional Aware­ness’ con­structs a nar­ra­tive that un­der­mines safety and threat­ens humanity

GideonF15 Jul 2024 16:21 UTC
238 points
22 comments21 min readEA link

Dis­tanc­ing EA from ra­tio­nal­ity is foolish

Jan_Kulveit25 Jun 2024 21:02 UTC
135 points
33 comments2 min readEA link

AI stocks could crash. And that could have im­pli­ca­tions for AI safety

Benjamin_Todd9 May 2024 7:23 UTC
174 points
41 comments4 min readEA link
(benjamintodd.substack.com)

When “hu­man-level” is the wrong thresh­old for AI

Ben Millwood🔸22 Jun 2024 14:34 UTC
38 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

AI do­ing philos­o­phy = AI gen­er­at­ing hands?

Wei Dai15 Jan 2024 9:04 UTC
69 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

Open Let­ter to Young EAs

Leif Wenar11 Oct 2024 16:15 UTC
14 points
44 comments1 min readEA link

The “TESCREAL” Bungle

ozymandias3 Jun 2024 22:42 UTC
112 points
15 comments13 min readEA link
(asteriskmag.com)

The Tech In­dus­try is the Biggest Blocker to Mean­ingful AI Safety Regulations

Garrison16 Aug 2024 19:37 UTC
140 points
8 comments8 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

The case for EA En­deav­our Ca­reer Insurance

core_admiral3 Apr 2024 8:35 UTC
7 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Mo­ti­va­tion gaps: Why so much EA crit­i­cism is hos­tile and lazy

titotal22 Apr 2024 11:49 UTC
213 points
44 comments19 min readEA link
(titotal.substack.com)

I went on a (very) long walk, and it was a great ca­reer decision

Emily Grundy7 Nov 2023 3:57 UTC
97 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

Vague jus­tifi­ca­tions for longter­mist as­sump­tions?

Venky102411 May 2024 9:20 UTC
30 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

There Should Be More Align­ment-Driven Startups

vaniver31 May 2024 2:05 UTC
30 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

[Question] What is the point of EA out­reach?

Caitlin Borke23 Nov 2023 9:13 UTC
36 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The promises of work­ing on cul­tural change to move for­ward an­i­mal welfare

YvesBon2 Jul 2024 5:33 UTC
13 points
5 comments17 min readEA link

The effec­tive al­tru­ist case for pro-life/​anti-abor­tion advocacy

Calum Miller13 Nov 2023 9:29 UTC
16 points
33 comments19 min readEA link

Book Re­view (mini): Co-In­tel­li­gence by Ethan Mollick

Darren McKee3 Apr 2024 17:33 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Ed­u­ca­tion: Teach­ing Love (Philia/​Brotherly love) as a Pri­or­ity Cause

Keen Visionary3 Mar 2024 18:35 UTC
0 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

We Should Talk About This More. Epistemic World Col­lapse as Im­mi­nent Safety Risk of Gen­er­a­tive AI.

Jörg Weiß16 Nov 2023 8:34 UTC
4 points
0 comments29 min readEA link

Bridg­ing the Gap: Real­is­tic Im­pact Mea­sure­ment in Effec­tive Altruism

Jonathan Coburn1 Jul 2024 14:31 UTC
0 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Be Proud To Be An Effec­tive Altru­ist

Bentham's Bulldog14 Jun 2024 17:01 UTC
111 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

Up­dated Drown­ing Child Prob­lem

Lachlan Earnshaw15 Dec 2023 3:53 UTC
26 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Ad­dress­ing Ne­glect­ed­ness in An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy: Fo­cus on the “In­visi­ble An­i­mals”

Zoe Newton7 Jun 2024 11:05 UTC
16 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Sav­ing the world sucks

Defective Alturism12 Jan 2024 9:28 UTC
−9 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

UK AI Bill Anal­y­sis & Opinion

CAISID5 Feb 2024 0:12 UTC
18 points
0 comments15 min readEA link

Three Rea­sons Early De­tec­tion In­ter­ven­tions Are Not Ob­vi­ously Cost-Effective

C.K.21 Apr 2024 21:05 UTC
64 points
4 comments16 min readEA link

Dr Alt­man or: How I Learned to Stop Wor­ry­ing and Love the Killer AI

Barak Gila11 Mar 2024 5:01 UTC
−7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

How can OSINT be used for the en­force­ment of the EU AI Act?

Kristina7 Jun 2024 11:07 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Re­but­ting Every Ob­jec­tion To Giv­ing To The Shrimp Welfare Project

Bentham's Bulldog22 Nov 2024 16:11 UTC
34 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

Biolog­i­cal su­per­in­tel­li­gence: a solu­tion to AI safety

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸4 Dec 2023 13:09 UTC
4 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on Bot­tle­necks Fac­ing Po­ten­tial Afri­can EAs

Zakariyau Yusuf22 Nov 2023 8:43 UTC
69 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Aging should be effec­tive al­tru­ism’s 5th cause area

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸2 Dec 2023 8:28 UTC
20 points
16 comments1 min readEA link

The case for a com­mon observatory

Light_of_Illuvatar29 Mar 2024 10:14 UTC
17 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Why care about hu­man longevity?

RaianyRomanni9 Apr 2024 8:26 UTC
10 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

Peter Singer and Global Warming

joshhwang9917 Feb 2024 7:29 UTC
7 points
4 comments10 min readEA link

Lab­o­ra­tory Biorisk Man­age­ment Needs More So­cial Scientists

Daniel Greene10 Oct 2023 4:22 UTC
69 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Solv­ing Prob­lems, Not Build­ing Em­pires: The Value of Pri­ori­tiz­ing your Ecosystem

Joey🔸14 Jul 2025 16:04 UTC
45 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(measuredlife.substack.com)

[Question] If AIs had sub­cor­ti­cal brain simu­la­tion, would that solve the al­ign­ment prob­lem?

Rainbow Affect31 Jul 2023 15:48 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link

My talk on AI risks at the Na­tional Con­ser­vatism con­fer­ence last week

Geoffrey Miller11 Sep 2025 16:30 UTC
83 points
9 comments10 min readEA link

Quick nudge to ap­ply to the LTFF grant round (clos­ing on Satur­day)

calebp14 Feb 2025 15:19 UTC
57 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Prepar­ing Effec­tive Altru­ism for an AI-Trans­formed World

Tobias Häberli22 Jan 2025 8:50 UTC
200 points
26 comments1 min readEA link

Google Deep­Mind CEO Demis Hass­abis on what’s still needed for AGI

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸19 Dec 2025 4:43 UTC
9 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Some per­sonal thoughts about work­ing at Tarbell

sawyer🔸23 Oct 2025 19:18 UTC
31 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

The para­dox­i­cal com­ple­men­tar­ity of baby steps and an­i­mal rights

Lodewijk Bogaards20 Dec 2023 11:04 UTC
10 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Con­tra Yascha Mounk on ‘The World Hap­piness Re­port is a Sham’

huw17 Dec 2025 8:36 UTC
39 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Some Prob­lems with Com­par­ing Fac­tory Farm­ing to the Holocaust

Devin Kalish22 Jan 2024 17:57 UTC
14 points
2 comments9 min readEA link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

Case-con­trol sur­vey of EAGx at­ten­dees finds no be­havi­oural or at­ti­tu­di­nal changes af­ter six months

James Fodor27 Jul 2024 7:01 UTC
228 points
48 comments15 min readEA link

My Skep­ti­cal Opinion on the Repug­nant Conclusion

Ozzie Gooen27 May 2024 22:56 UTC
16 points
22 comments7 min readEA link

Polls on De/​Ac­cel­er­at­ing AI

Denkenberger🔸9 Aug 2025 2:01 UTC
32 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

Brain­less bod­ies have tremen­dous up­side [linkpost]

SiebeRozendal26 Mar 2025 20:23 UTC
16 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(www.technologyreview.com)

The Effec­tive Altru­ist Ap­proach to Poli­tics (Effec­tive Altru­ism Defi­ni­tions Se­quence)

ozymandias22 Aug 2025 19:26 UTC
81 points
8 comments8 min readEA link

Epi­sode: Austin vs Linch on OpenAI

Austin25 May 2024 16:15 UTC
21 points
2 comments44 min readEA link
(manifund.substack.com)

Ex­pec­ta­tions Scale with Scale – We Should Be More Scope-Sen­si­tive in Our Funding

Joey🔸6 Nov 2024 9:03 UTC
180 points
24 comments3 min readEA link

Cost-effec­tive pan­demic preparedness

JoshuaBlake21 Dec 2023 17:06 UTC
25 points
4 comments8 min readEA link
(blog.joshuablake.co.uk)

Why I think build­ing EA is im­por­tant for mak­ing AI go well

Arden Koehler25 Sep 2025 3:17 UTC
223 points
14 comments4 min readEA link

Is Deep Learn­ing Ac­tu­ally Hit­ting a Wall? Eval­u­at­ing Ilya Sutskever’s Re­cent Claims

Garrison13 Nov 2024 17:00 UTC
121 points
8 comments8 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Is effec­tive al­tru­ism re­ally to blame for the OpenAI de­ba­cle?

Garrison23 Nov 2023 0:44 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Ele­ments of EA: your (EA) iden­tity can be bespoke

Amber Dawn29 Nov 2023 14:13 UTC
97 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Why *not* just send peo­ple to Blue­dot (FBB#4)

gergo25 Mar 2025 10:47 UTC
27 points
13 comments12 min readEA link

How to change the world a lot with a lit­tle: in­tro­duc­ing Govern­ment Watch

Philosophy Bear23 Mar 2025 22:02 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(philosophybear.substack.com)

AI Safety is Some­times a Model Property

Cullen 🔸2 May 2024 15:38 UTC
18 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

Effec­tive al­tru­ism in the age of AGI

William_MacAskill10 Oct 2025 10:57 UTC
467 points
77 comments20 min readEA link

Un­solved re­search prob­lems on the road to AGI

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸22 Nov 2025 22:39 UTC
11 points
13 comments7 min readEA link

China Hawks are Man­u­fac­tur­ing an AI Arms Race

Garrison20 Nov 2024 18:17 UTC
103 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

We are in a New Paradigm of AI Progress—OpenAI’s o3 model makes huge gains on the tough­est AI bench­marks in the world

Garrison22 Dec 2024 21:45 UTC
26 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Now is a good time to up­date your threat model

Flo 🔸22 Mar 2025 21:11 UTC
29 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Why I am more op­ti­mistic about the an­i­mal move­ment this year

Joey🔸16 Jul 2025 11:34 UTC
107 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

6 (Po­ten­tial) Mis­con­cep­tions about AI Intellectuals

Ozzie Gooen14 Feb 2025 23:51 UTC
30 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

Is the AI In­dus­try in a Bub­ble?

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸16 Nov 2025 1:00 UTC
32 points
10 comments15 min readEA link

A Tier List for Epistemic Meth­ods: What Ac­tu­ally Works for Figur­ing Out How to Do Good

Linch13 Aug 2025 22:49 UTC
26 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(linch.substack.com)

Boot­strap­ping to viatopia

William_MacAskill13 Oct 2025 9:57 UTC
44 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Re­think­ing the Value of Work­ing on AI Safety

JohanEA9 Jan 2025 14:15 UTC
47 points
21 comments10 min readEA link

8 years on from a life-chang­ing idea

Luke Moore 🔸12 Dec 2025 15:49 UTC
31 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Enough about AI timelines— we already know what we need to know.

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸9 Apr 2025 10:29 UTC
138 points
35 comments2 min readEA link

Mone­tary and so­cial in­cen­tives in longter­mist careers

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸23 Sep 2023 21:03 UTC
140 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Mov­ing to a hub, get­ting older, and head­ing home

ElliotTep23 Sep 2025 6:06 UTC
209 points
21 comments6 min readEA link

Is the AI Dooms­day Nar­ra­tive the Product of a Big Tech Con­spir­acy?

Garrison4 Dec 2024 19:20 UTC
28 points
5 comments11 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Hy­pothe­ses on how we can mo­bil­ise peo­ple for an­i­mal welfare

emre kaplan🔸16 Feb 2025 9:14 UTC
40 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Hu­man Dig­nity: a review

Owen Cotton-Barratt8 Dec 2025 20:37 UTC
25 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(strangecities.substack.com)

The Effec­tive Altru­ist View of His­tory (Effec­tive Altru­ism Defi­ni­tions Se­quence)

ozymandias20 Aug 2025 21:03 UTC
33 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Against (most) com­mu­nity re­treats (FBB #12)

gergo18 Dec 2025 11:51 UTC
19 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Help ACE Im­prove Our Pro­grams—Your Feed­back Mat­ters!

Animal Charity Evaluators14 May 2025 16:18 UTC
41 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Most Valuable Dol­lars Aren’t Owned By Us

Aidan Alexander17 Dec 2024 7:27 UTC
101 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

Please, no more group brainstorming

OllieBase28 Jul 2025 16:51 UTC
237 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

War­time ethics is weird

MichaelDickens20 Dec 2025 16:21 UTC
12 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

The role of effec­tive giv­ing in effec­tive al­tru­ism (MCF 2023 memo)

Sjir Hoeijmakers🔸16 Oct 2023 13:31 UTC
86 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

Four Pre­dic­tions About OpenAI’s Plans To Re­tain Non­profit Control

Garrison7 May 2025 15:48 UTC
15 points
2 comments5 min readEA link
(www.obsolete.pub)

Why so many “racists” at Man­i­fest?

Austin18 Jun 2024 3:05 UTC
191 points
350 comments5 min readEA link

Cru­elty --> Li­a­bil­ity: Le­gal Im­pact for Chick­ens’s room for fund­ing & marginal impact

alene11 Nov 2024 20:35 UTC
56 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

A guide about (seem­ingly) con­scious AI: WhenAISeem­sCon­scious.org

Lucius Caviola27 Aug 2025 15:15 UTC
34 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(outpaced.substack.com)

Ra­tion­al­ist Epistemics and the Se­quences (Effec­tive Altru­ism Defi­ni­tions Se­quence)

ozymandias8 Aug 2025 18:58 UTC
30 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Ex­plor­ing Co­op­er­a­tion: The Path to Utopia

Davidmanheim25 Dec 2024 18:31 UTC
10 points
0 comments14 min readEA link
(exploringcooperation.substack.com)

Deep­Seek Made it Even Harder for US AI Com­pa­nies to Ever Reach Profitability

Garrison19 Feb 2025 21:02 UTC
30 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Thoughts on sin­gle is­sue vs. multi is­sue positioning

emre kaplan🔸14 Jun 2025 17:27 UTC
68 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

An Elephant in the Com­mu­nity Build­ing room

Kaleem21 Aug 2023 15:55 UTC
158 points
32 comments6 min readEA link

Strangers call­ing: the value of warm re­sponses to cold outreach

Sam Anschell4 Nov 2025 18:10 UTC
44 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Fund­ing and job op­por­tu­ni­ties, events, and thoughts on pro­fes­sion­als (Field­builders newslet­ter #8)

gergo23 Apr 2025 9:53 UTC
7 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

A short com­par­i­son of start­ing an effec­tive giv­ing or­ga­ni­za­tion vs. found­ing a di­rect de­liv­ery charity

Joey🔸11 Jan 2024 18:29 UTC
109 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

An In­com­plete List of Things I Think EAs Prob­a­bly Shouldn’t Do

Rockwell8 Sep 2023 16:17 UTC
241 points
111 comments1 min readEA link

Cause Plu­ral­ity vs Cause Prioritization

Joey🔸11 Nov 2024 9:59 UTC
86 points
14 comments10 min readEA link

Pri­ori­tise re-di­rect­ing donations

freedomandutility4 May 2025 14:29 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

For­ma­tion of Macros­trat­egy Refine­ment Division

Henry Stanley 🔸1 Apr 2025 14:16 UTC
23 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Why ex­pe­rienced pro­fes­sion­als fail to land high-im­pact roles (FBB #5)

gergo10 Apr 2025 12:44 UTC
131 points
20 comments9 min readEA link

12 Th­e­ses on EA

Mjreard6 Nov 2025 0:17 UTC
155 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

You’re Enough

lynettebye26 Aug 2025 13:09 UTC
168 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Frozen skills aren’t gen­eral intelligence

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸8 Nov 2025 23:27 UTC
8 points
29 comments11 min readEA link

High­lights from Ilya Sutskever’s Novem­ber 2025 in­ter­view with Dwarkesh Patel

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸25 Nov 2025 22:52 UTC
21 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Roboti­cist Rod­ney Brooks on gen­er­a­tive AI hype

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸4 Dec 2025 5:45 UTC
14 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(rodneybrooks.com)

How Stu­art Rus­sels’s IASEAI con­fer­ence failed to live up to its po­ten­tial (FBB #8)

gergo7 Aug 2025 13:15 UTC
10 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Don’t panic: 90% of EAs are good people

Closed Limelike Curves19 May 2024 4:37 UTC
22 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

Five in­ter­ven­tions to strengthen a prin­ci­ples-based EA (MCF 2023 memo)

Sjir Hoeijmakers🔸16 Oct 2023 13:55 UTC
73 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

In­cu­bat­ing AI x-risk pro­jects: some per­sonal reflections

Ben Snodin19 Dec 2023 17:03 UTC
86 points
10 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] Is “AI as Nor­mal Tech­nol­ogy” a mis­nomer?

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸12 Nov 2025 21:46 UTC
17 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

My “in­fo­haz­ards small work­ing group” Sig­nal Chat may have en­coun­tered minor leaks

Linch2 Apr 2025 1:03 UTC
109 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

My top 10 picks from 200 epi­sodes of the 80k podcast

JWS 🔸9 Sep 2024 19:27 UTC
133 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

Whole­some Culture

Owen Cotton-Barratt1 Mar 2024 12:08 UTC
25 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

Some fun les­sons I learned as a ju­nior regrantor

Joel Becker20 Dec 2023 16:40 UTC
63 points
9 comments5 min readEA link
(joel-becker.com)

Pod­cast: Eliz­a­beth & Austin on “What Man­i­fold was al­lowed to do”

Austin28 Jun 2024 22:10 UTC
5 points
1 comment24 min readEA link
(share.descript.com)

How big a deal is donat­ing 10% of your in­come re­ally? A perspective

WilliamKiely🔸7 Sep 2025 1:38 UTC
94 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Mo­ral mountaineering

finm18 Jan 2025 15:42 UTC
21 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(finmoorhouse.substack.com)

What I wish I knew when I started out in an­i­mal ad­vo­cacy

SofiaBalderson30 Jul 2024 11:44 UTC
95 points
5 comments26 min readEA link

How I hope the EA com­mu­nity will re­spond to the AI bub­ble popping

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸5 Dec 2025 9:26 UTC
35 points
67 comments7 min readEA link

Con­sider start­ing a for-profit com­pany instead

calebp21 Apr 2025 21:21 UTC
127 points
39 comments1 min readEA link

Thoughts on “The Offense-Defense Balance Rarely Changes”

Cullen 🔸12 Feb 2024 3:26 UTC
42 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

The im­pacts of AI on an­i­mal advocacy

Animal Charity Evaluators11 Sep 2025 14:21 UTC
55 points
2 comments10 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
263 points
79 comments3 min readEA link

Is AI Hit­ting a Wall or Mov­ing Faster Than Ever?

Garrison9 Jan 2025 22:18 UTC
35 points
5 comments5 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Why haven’t we seen a promis­ing longter­mist in­ter­ven­tion yet?

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸18 Dec 2025 8:54 UTC
8 points
22 comments4 min readEA link

Quan­ti­ta­tive Mind­set (Effec­tive Altru­ism Defi­ni­tions Se­quence)

ozymandias1 Aug 2025 17:45 UTC
32 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

Am­bi­tion (Effec­tive Altru­ism Defi­ni­tions Series)

ozymandias14 Aug 2025 0:17 UTC
17 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

Fund­ing Diver­sifi­ca­tion is a Tradeoff

Joey🔸4 Nov 2024 12:39 UTC
112 points
17 comments3 min readEA link

Wor­ri­some Trends for Digi­tal Mind Evaluations

Derek Shiller20 Feb 2025 15:35 UTC
79 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

Bad omens for US farmed an­i­mal policy work?

Tyler Johnston6 Nov 2024 21:03 UTC
130 points
34 comments5 min readEA link

My first EAG: a mix of feelings

Lovkush 🔸11 Jun 2024 17:49 UTC
59 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

In defense of quan­tify­ing suffering

frances_lorenz21 Mar 2025 13:21 UTC
65 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Flex­i­bil­ity and ded­i­ca­tion: EAG Bos­ton 2023 talk

Arden Koehler3 Jan 2024 14:20 UTC
26 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Cause neu­tral­ity doesn’t mean all EA causes mat­ter equally

Toby Tremlett🔹28 Feb 2025 11:40 UTC
50 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Bench­mark Perfor­mance is a Poor Mea­sure of Gen­er­al­is­able AI Rea­son­ing Capabilities

James Fodor21 Feb 2025 4:25 UTC
12 points
3 comments24 min readEA link

Fund Causes Open Phil Un­der­funds (In­stead of Your Most Preferred Causes)

Ariel Simnegar 🔸9 Nov 2024 23:48 UTC
188 points
18 comments3 min readEA link

On­line EAGs are un­der­rated (FBB #11)

gergo7 Dec 2025 16:53 UTC
58 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Two ar­gu­ments against pa­tient philanthropy

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸11 Dec 2025 21:26 UTC
16 points
22 comments5 min readEA link

What’s Go­ing on With OpenAI’s Mes­sag­ing?

Ozzie Gooen21 May 2024 2:22 UTC
218 points
28 comments3 min readEA link

The anti-frag­ile culture

lincolnq21 Aug 2025 21:41 UTC
162 points
6 comments10 min readEA link

A ma­jor flaw in the Fore­cast­ing Re­search In­sti­tute’s “Lon­gi­tu­di­nal Ex­pert AI Panel” survey

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸14 Nov 2025 8:54 UTC
39 points
21 comments6 min readEA link

Fo­cus on broad (and pas­sive) defense tech­nolo­gies for biosecurity

Max Görlitz11 Mar 2024 8:48 UTC
37 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

My ex­pe­rience with the Com­mu­nity Health team at CEA

frances_lorenz16 Dec 2024 13:26 UTC
177 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

For­mal Sciences vs. So­cial Sciences: A Per­sonal Reflec­tion About Differ­ent Knowl­edge Structures

erug15 Jan 2024 9:41 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readEA link

Im­por­tance, Ne­glect­ed­ness, Tractabil­ity (Effec­tive Altru­ism Defi­ni­tions Se­quence)

ozymandias15 Aug 2025 20:56 UTC
13 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

My ex­pe­rience at the con­tro­ver­sial Man­i­fest 2024

Maniano17 Jun 2024 18:07 UTC
60 points
246 comments6 min readEA link

5 His­tor­i­cal Case Stud­ies for an EA in Decline

JWS 🔸7 May 2025 15:47 UTC
91 points
27 comments18 min readEA link

Ad­vice for cur­rent /​ po­ten­tial PhD students

JoshuaBlake28 Jun 2024 15:43 UTC
27 points
3 comments5 min readEA link
(blog.joshuablake.co.uk)

Stop call­ing them labs

sawyer🔸24 Feb 2025 22:58 UTC
263 points
22 comments1 min readEA link

Un­pack­ing Martin Sandbu’s re­cent(ish) take on EA

JWS 🔸20 Jan 2024 1:16 UTC
68 points
2 comments15 min readEA link

The Ris­ing Premium of Life

Linch10 Jul 2025 21:48 UTC
36 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(linch.substack.com)

My cur­rent takes on AI Welfare

Toby Tremlett🔹1 Jul 2024 8:43 UTC
24 points
13 comments2 min readEA link

The cru­cible — how I think about the situ­a­tion with AI

Owen Cotton-Barratt5 May 2025 13:19 UTC
38 points
0 comments8 min readEA link
(strangecities.substack.com)

Mo­ral Cir­cle Ex­pan­sion­ism (Effec­tive Altru­ism Defi­ni­tions Se­quence)

ozymandias28 Jul 2025 17:47 UTC
21 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

An AI crash is our best bet for re­strict­ing AI

Remmelt11 Oct 2024 2:12 UTC
20 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

My EA Senescence

Michael_PJ19 Oct 2025 16:51 UTC
216 points
32 comments3 min readEA link

Di­plo­macy in the Age of AGI

Josephine Schwab11 Oct 2025 22:05 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.futures4europe.eu)

AI and Non-Existence

Blue1131 Jan 2025 13:19 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Should some peo­ple start work­ing to in­fluence the peo­ple who are most likely to shape the val­ues of the first AGIs, so that they take into ac­count the in­ter­ests of wild and farmed an­i­mals and sen­tient digi­tal minds?

Keyvan Mostafavi31 Aug 2023 12:08 UTC
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Med­i­cal Wind­fall Prizes

PeterMcCluskey7 Feb 2025 0:13 UTC
5 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(bayesianinvestor.com)

Two (Meta)sci­ence Con­fer­ences I Think Should Exist

Lauren Gilbert8 Oct 2025 14:50 UTC
11 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Reflec­tions On Giv­ing 10% Of My In­come To Effec­tive Charities

Samie Dorgham14 Nov 2023 15:42 UTC
28 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

The elephant (and don­key) in the room

Matthew Rendall5 Nov 2024 14:16 UTC
29 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

We Need to Miti­gate the Growth of Fac­tory Farm­ing in Africa

Björn 🔹10 Sep 2025 13:44 UTC
15 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

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funnyfranco11 Mar 2025 4:13 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

AI Open Source De­bate Comes Down to Trust in In­sti­tu­tions, and AI Policy Mak­ers Should Con­sider How We Can Foster It

another-anon-do-gooder20 Jan 2024 13:47 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Ad­vice to my EA new­comer self

Sam Anschell14 Apr 2025 17:32 UTC
98 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

An AI Race With China Can Be Bet­ter Than Not Racing

niplav2 Jul 2024 17:57 UTC
19 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

Why Brain Drain Isn’t Some­thing We Should Worry About

Lauren Gilbert31 Aug 2024 21:21 UTC
26 points
9 comments1 min readEA link
(laurenpolicy.substack.com)

Will an AGI/​ASI adopt the Dooms­day ar­gu­ment?

CuriousWhisperer7 Oct 2025 21:43 UTC
2 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

[Question] What per­centage of eco­nomic growth can be at­tributed to the “mon­e­ti­za­tion” of differ­ent re­sources?

Ricardo Pimentel2 Jan 2024 5:34 UTC
11 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Some for-profit AI al­ign­ment org ideas

Eric Ho14 Dec 2023 15:52 UTC
33 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Cli­mate Giv­ing as an Individual

NickLutsko18 Nov 2024 11:18 UTC
9 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Cul­ti­vat­ing doubt: why I no longer be­lieve cul­ti­vated meat is the answer

Tom Bry-Chevalier🔸30 Apr 2025 9:12 UTC
172 points
36 comments11 min readEA link

The Author Who Knows Noth­ing : Socrates, Techne, and Barthes’ Scriptor

Rodo1 Jun 2025 9:49 UTC
0 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] The Solu­tion­ary Way—Bridg­ing the Gap Between EA and So­cial Jus­tice?

CJ1 Jan 2025 3:53 UTC
3 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

I’m a Former Is­raeli Officer. AMA

Yovel Rom10 Oct 2023 10:35 UTC
64 points
33 comments1 min readEA link

Am I Miss­ing Some­thing, or Is EA? Thoughts from a Learner in Uganda

Dr Kassim16 Mar 2025 11:31 UTC
244 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

Amer­i­can Ac­cel­er­a­tion vs Development

Maxwell Tabarrok22 Mar 2024 13:04 UTC
19 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

The Night I Ac­ci­den­tally Stepped on a Snail

Ria Viswanathan14 Sep 2025 18:55 UTC
54 points
6 comments10 min readEA link
(riaviswanathan.substack.com)

AI Can Help An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy More Than It Can Help In­dus­trial Farming

Wladimir J. Alonso26 Nov 2024 9:55 UTC
23 points
10 comments4 min readEA link

Can Quan­tum Com­pu­ta­tion be used to miti­gate ex­is­ten­tial risk?

Angus LaFemina18 Sep 2023 20:02 UTC
10 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

Give Neo a Chance

ank6 Mar 2025 14:35 UTC
1 point
3 comments7 min readEA link

Agen­tic Align­ment: Nav­i­gat­ing be­tween Harm and Illegitimacy

LennardZ26 Nov 2024 21:27 UTC
2 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Nav­i­gat­ing Uncer­tainty: My Path to Effec­tive Altru­ism

Lutebemberwa Isa27 Feb 2025 10:13 UTC
19 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Weighted Fac­tor Models: Con­sider us­ing the ge­o­met­ric mean in­stead of the ar­ith­metic mean

Soemano Zeijlmans21 Oct 2024 19:57 UTC
59 points
13 comments10 min readEA link

Towards AI Safety In­fras­truc­ture: Talk & Outline

Paul Bricman7 Jan 2024 9:35 UTC
14 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] Should EAs help em­ploy­ees in the de­vel­op­ing world move to the West?

WillieG21 Jan 2025 19:40 UTC
32 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

Con­tra Ben­tham’s Bul­l­dog on Mo­ral Realism

Liam Robins29 Jun 2025 5:28 UTC
11 points
2 comments9 min readEA link
(thelimestack.substack.com)

Sam Alt­man’s Chip Am­bi­tions Un­der­cut OpenAI’s Safety Strategy

Garrison10 Feb 2024 19:52 UTC
286 points
20 comments3 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

[Question] Ques­tion re­gard­ing cur­rent health/​poverty in­ter­ven­tion effectiveness

Remus Rimbu18 Jul 2025 19:30 UTC
26 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

En­gag­ing in­ter­na­tional high school stu­dents in China into EA clubs

Jamie Huang26 Jul 2024 13:49 UTC
11 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

When safety is dan­ger­ous: risks of an in­definite pause on AI de­vel­op­ment, and call for re­al­is­tic alternatives

Hayven Frienby18 Jan 2024 14:59 UTC
5 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Reser­va­tions about donat­ing for an­i­mal welfare charities

Peleg Shilo23 Dec 2024 16:51 UTC
97 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

Seek­ing feed­back on: AIS x-risk post for gen­eral public

Mike Mantell8 Dec 2025 16:36 UTC
1 point
0 comments14 min readEA link

EA orgs over­hire comms and un­der­hire growth

Anna Pitner15 Dec 2025 6:30 UTC
96 points
29 comments3 min readEA link

Thoughts about Policy Ecosys­tems: The Miss­ing Links in AI Governance

Echo Huang31 Jan 2025 13:23 UTC
22 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Free­dom-Ad­justed Life Years

act6518 Jul 2025 12:56 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

My Ex­pe­rience Donat­ing Blood Stem Cells, or: Why You Should Join a Bone Mar­row Registry

Silas Strawn3 Jan 2024 1:07 UTC
81 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

Fic­tional Catas­tro­phes, Reel Les­sons: What 12 Crit­i­cally Ac­claimed Films Re­veal About Sur­viv­ing Global Catastrophes

Matt Boyd14 May 2025 19:07 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(adaptresearchwriting.com)

Im­par­tial­ist Sen­tien­tism and Ex­is­ten­tial Anx­iety about Mo­ral Cir­cle Explosion

Rafael Ruiz22 Jun 2024 19:53 UTC
92 points
14 comments26 min readEA link

The progress stud­ies mind­set for ad­vanc­ing an­i­mal welfare

Aditya Nair9 May 2025 16:48 UTC
20 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(feedingprogress.com)

[Question] Favourite writ­ing on pri­ori­ti­sa­tion?

ddavies20 Oct 2025 10:11 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Democratis­ing AI Align­ment: Challenges and Proposals

Lloy2 🔹5 May 2025 14:50 UTC
2 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Buy­ing Good: Effec­tive Altru­ism and the Mo­ral Marketplace

Ethan Spencer17 Apr 2025 14:09 UTC
6 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

Mea­sur­ing Im­pact: Eval­u­at­ing Suc­cess in the Pur­suit of Do­ing Good Better

Kuiyaki5 Oct 2023 7:44 UTC
−1 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Craft­ing Our Mis­sion State­ment: Weighted Fac­tor Models, Shal­low Re­search, and Les­sons Learned for Clar­ity and Impact

Harry Luk13 Oct 2023 16:43 UTC
9 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

An Emerg­ing x-risk: An­thro­pogenic As­teroid Alteration

JordanStone13 Jul 2025 20:35 UTC
16 points
0 comments25 min readEA link

One-Minute Ask: Help Pass the End Kid­ney Deaths Act to Save Lives and Re­duce Kid­ney Deaths in the U.S.

Elaine Perlman10 Nov 2025 19:36 UTC
21 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Can AI safely ex­ist at all?

Hayven Frienby27 Nov 2023 17:33 UTC
6 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

A cri­tique of EA’s fo­cus on longtermism

Remus Rimbu23 Oct 2025 18:16 UTC
9 points
11 comments6 min readEA link

ONA Shut Down Im­pact on Longter­mism?

Benji_309930 Mar 2025 13:28 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Vi­pas­sana and Effec­tive Altru­ism: How med­i­ta­tion em­pow­ered me as an activist

Ronen Bar18 Sep 2024 6:37 UTC
18 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Four Fu­tures For Cog­ni­tive Labor

Maxwell Tabarrok13 Jun 2024 12:58 UTC
27 points
11 comments4 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

PSA for ve­gan donors: GiveWell not rul­ing out an­i­mal-based aid

AdamA14 Aug 2025 13:48 UTC
147 points
42 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­tinc­tion is prob­a­bly only 10^10 times worse than one ran­dom death

Avik Garg28 Mar 2025 17:13 UTC
6 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Lady Liberty, she may have taken a knee, but she ain’t out of the fight yet.

Anti-Golem9 Jun 2025 13:59 UTC
−2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Beyond Early Warn­ings—Op­por­tu­ni­ties for Pre­ci­sion Pan­demic Re­sponse Strategies

Axby2 Jul 2025 16:13 UTC
3 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

In­sights From The An­nual Re­treat of EA Nigeria

Adebayo Mubarak22 Nov 2023 15:30 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Can any re­searcher work­ing in a low- and mid­dle-in­come coun­try ever win a No­bel Prize?

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi16 Oct 2025 0:46 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

De­cou­pling “Stop Work” Orders from “Stop Ba­sic Care”

TomDrake7 Feb 2025 15:40 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.cgdev.org)

[Question] Work­shop (hackathon, res­i­dence pro­gram, etc.) about for-profit AI Safety pro­jects?

Roman Leventov26 Jan 2024 9:49 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Why space de­bris is a press­ing problem

Leah K10 Sep 2025 21:49 UTC
6 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Ad­vice to pivot into AI Safety is likely miscalibrated

Dan MacKinlay20 Oct 2025 15:50 UTC
24 points
8 comments20 min readEA link
(danmackinlay.name)

Les­sons from the Iraq War for AI policy

Buck10 Jul 2025 18:52 UTC
71 points
11 comments4 min readEA link

Think­ing-in-limits about TAI from the de­mand per­spec­tive. De­mand sat­u­ra­tion, re­source wars, new debt.

Ivan Madan7 Nov 2023 22:44 UTC
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Please Don’t Win the AI Race

Picklehead2 Aug 2025 23:31 UTC
−4 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Altru­is­tic So­cial Net­work?

Barney Lodge8 Apr 2025 17:26 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Costs of Permission

Richard Y Chappell🔸7 Jul 2025 16:49 UTC
11 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Run­ning Cage-Free Pro­jects in Africa: Case Stud­ies of Three Afri­can An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Organisations

AnimalAdvocacyAfrica1 Mar 2024 6:30 UTC
37 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

Longter­mism ver­sus the poor and vuln­er­a­ble? Or, how we can rise to the height of our halo.

Matrice Jacobine🔸🏳️‍⚧️7 Sep 2024 16:55 UTC
−5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(philosophybear.substack.com)

Promethean Gover­nance As­cen­dant: Les­sons from the Forge and Vi­sions for the Cos­mic Polity

Paul Fallavollita23 Mar 2025 0:54 UTC
−9 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

The An­swer Is in the Ques­tion: Prompt Eng­ineer­ing in the Age of AI

Rodo30 May 2025 18:11 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readEA link

En­hanc­ing strate­gic sta­bil­ity and re­duc­ing global catas­trophic risk through eco­nomic in­ter­de­pen­dence—Call for feed­back and col­lab­o­ra­tion

Global Stability Network23 Apr 2025 15:43 UTC
13 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

In­sec­ti­cide-treated nets sig­nifi­cantly harm mosquitoes, but one can eas­ily offset this?

Vasco Grilo🔸3 Feb 2025 18:03 UTC
30 points
44 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Is the EA com­mu­nity re­ally ad­vo­cat­ing prin­ci­ples over con­clu­sions ?

Solal 🔸11 Dec 2024 16:31 UTC
75 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Why I Should Work on AI Safety—Part 2: Will AI Ac­tu­ally Sur­pass Hu­man In­tel­li­gence?

Aditya Aswani27 Dec 2023 21:08 UTC
8 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Nav­i­gat­ing AI Safety: Ex­plor­ing Trans­parency with CCACS – A Com­pre­hen­si­ble Ar­chi­tec­ture for Discussion

Ihor Ivliev12 Mar 2025 17:51 UTC
2 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Effec­tive lan­guage-learn­ing for effec­tive altruists

Tao19 Mar 2024 0:42 UTC
43 points
6 comments10 min readEA link

“Long” timelines to ad­vanced AI have got­ten crazy short

Matrice Jacobine🔸🏳️‍⚧️3 Apr 2025 22:46 UTC
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(helentoner.substack.com)

Help me find an­swers for the miss­ing parts in mod­ern ed­u­ca­tion.

Vishal3 Jan 2024 12:50 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

In AI Gover­nance, let the Non-EA World Train You First

Camille23 Jul 2025 17:46 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Mak­ing EA more in­clu­sive, rep­re­sen­ta­tive, and im­pact­ful in Africa

Ashura Batungwanayo17 Aug 2023 20:19 UTC
70 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

Sur­vey for the first AVA Academy Europe

Amie Albright16 Sep 2025 23:22 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Per­sonal fit is differ­ent from the thing that you already like

Joris 🔸17 Mar 2024 20:56 UTC
82 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Why I care so much about Diver­sity, Equity and In­clu­sion in EA

Benevolent_Rain13 Mar 2024 3:18 UTC
11 points
35 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] Can I put EA on my re­sume?

sammyboiz🔸25 Nov 2024 9:07 UTC
11 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Can we ra­tio­nally ad­vo­cate pri­ori­tiz­ing re­duc­tion of an­i­mal suffer­ing, while avoid­ing nega­tive util­i­tar­i­anism?

Ze31 Jul 2025 11:55 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readEA link

Say how much, not more or less ver­sus some­one else

Gregory Lewis🔸28 Dec 2023 22:24 UTC
100 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

The Power of Dom­i­nant Logic: How the EA Com­mu­nity is Main­stream­ing Global Apartheid

Alimi3 Oct 2023 7:49 UTC
8 points
12 comments7 min readEA link

A few thoughts on the long term /​ In­ter­gen­er­a­tional Fair­ness Day

Eli Kaufman14 Nov 2023 20:21 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

AI Mo­ral Align­ment: The Most Im­por­tant Goal of Our Generation

Ronen Bar26 Mar 2025 12:32 UTC
137 points
32 comments8 min readEA link

How the veil of ig­no­rance grounds sentientism

VeryJerry3 Jun 2025 17:26 UTC
21 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on The Bud­dhist and the Ethicist

Charlie Harrison21 Mar 2024 17:21 UTC
29 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Mo­ral Li­cens­ing ~ the mak­ings of a very nega­tive-sum game?

Non-zero-sum James8 Feb 2024 13:39 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

Reza Ne­garestani’s In­tel­li­gence & Spirit

ukc1001427 Jun 2024 18:17 UTC
7 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

In­tent al­ign­ment with­out moral al­ign­ment prob­a­bly leads to catastrophe

Alistair Stewart29 Aug 2025 17:21 UTC
12 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

An in­ter­sec­tion be­tween an­i­mal welfare and AI

sammyboiz🔸18 Jun 2024 3:23 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

From Pas­sion to De­pres­sion and Pes­simism: My Jour­ney with Effec­tive Altruism

IReallyWantToBeAnonymous28 Sep 2023 10:28 UTC
66 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

My take on AI risk (7 the­ses of eu­gene)

meugen21 Mar 2025 3:02 UTC
0 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

AUKUS Mili­tary AI Trial

CAISID14 Feb 2024 14:52 UTC
10 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Effec­tive Petition

Stijn Bruers 🔸13 Sep 2025 18:48 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Opinionated take on EA and AI Safety

sammyboiz🔸2 Mar 2025 9:37 UTC
75 points
18 comments1 min readEA link

Should EAs pay more at­ten­tion to Cli­mate Tip­ping Points? AMOC Col­lapse as a Case Study

Rebecca Frank27 Jun 2025 21:48 UTC
65 points
15 comments12 min readEA link

Devel­op­ing AI Safety: Bridg­ing the Power-Ethics Gap (In­tro­duc­ing New Con­cepts)

Ronen Bar16 Apr 2025 11:25 UTC
21 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Why I am no longer think­ing about/​work­ing on AI safety

jbkjr6 May 2024 20:00 UTC
−8 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

A Plau­si­ble AI Eco­nomic Scenario

Deric Cheng19 Oct 2025 6:19 UTC
10 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Dangers of time-ma­chine al­tru­ism: What we can learn from post-EAs of the future

Bjarke Frederiksen23 Oct 2023 14:12 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Can AI Align­ment Models Benefit from Indo-Euro­pean Tri­par­tite Struc­tures?

Paul Fallavollita2 May 2025 12:39 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Should I Re­port A Co­caine User?

dstudioscode14 Jan 2024 21:16 UTC
−18 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

The Best Ar­gu­ment is not a Sim­ple English Yud Essay

Jonathan Bostock19 Sep 2024 15:29 UTC
78 points
4 comments5 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Com­mu­nity-Driven Solu­tions: Em­pow­er­ing Lo­cal Voices in Afri­can Development

Kuiyaki7 Oct 2023 8:28 UTC
2 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on the Biolog­i­cal Weapons Convention

OscarD🔸28 Dec 2023 5:53 UTC
32 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

Hume Against the Grain: The Is/​Ought Rup­ture as a Proto De­con­struc­tive Gesture

Rodo29 Jun 2025 10:57 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readEA link

Why We Need a Bea­con of Hope in the Loom­ing Gloom of AGI

Beyond Singularity2 Apr 2025 14:22 UTC
4 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

ASI ex­is­ten­tial risk: re­con­sid­er­ing al­ign­ment as a goal

Matrice Jacobine🔸🏳️‍⚧️15 Apr 2025 13:36 UTC
27 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(michaelnotebook.com)

[Question] Whose life mat­ters more—a baby’s or an adult’s?

dstudioscode7 Jan 2024 9:02 UTC
9 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

Are un­paid UN in­tern­ships a good idea?

Cipolla2 Aug 2024 12:04 UTC
3 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

My Model of EA and AI Safety

Eva Lu24 Jun 2025 6:23 UTC
9 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

When the Lights go out on Science: A Per­sonal Reflec­tion on Months of Lost Phage re­search Due to Power Ou­tage

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi7 Nov 2024 16:05 UTC
18 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Car­ing only about your child may in­crease hu­man suffering

Cipolla9 Aug 2024 8:09 UTC
3 points
0 comments8 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Tap­ping into Dis­placed U.S. Govern­ment Ta­lent: A Call to Ac­tion for the EA and High-Im­pact Community

Andreas P5 May 2025 7:05 UTC
11 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

The Effec­tive Altru­ist Case for Us­ing Ge­netic En­hance­ment to End Poverty

1mkl32j20109128 Oct 2023 16:36 UTC
−5 points
21 comments35 min readEA link

[Question] What EA texts would you recom­mend read­ing?

James Brobin10 Dec 2025 18:47 UTC
13 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Solv­ing ad­ver­sar­ial at­tacks in com­puter vi­sion as a baby ver­sion of gen­eral AI alignment

Stanislav Fort31 Aug 2024 16:15 UTC
3 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

What’s Your Coun­ter­fac­tual Im­pact on An­i­mals?

Aditya Nair2 Oct 2025 16:49 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Pro­tect Marine Life in the Don­ganab Re­serve in the Red Sea

Abbass Abdelhalim10 Oct 2023 11:46 UTC
−6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Un­lock­ing Solu­tions—By Un­der­stand­ing Co­or­di­na­tion Problems

Non-zero-sum James27 Jul 2024 5:06 UTC
2 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

Does EA re­cruit­ment overly fo­cus on skills to the detri­ment of at­ti­tudes, sub-op­ti­mis­ing the hiring pro­cess for all par­ties?

William Sceats15 Sep 2025 14:04 UTC
24 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Fun­da­men­tal Challenges in AI Governance

Tharin23 Oct 2023 1:30 UTC
7 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Our A.I. Align­ment Im­per­a­tive: Creat­ing a Fu­ture Worth Sharing

Christopher Hunt Robertson, M.Ed.26 Oct 2025 20:46 UTC
1 point
0 comments21 min readEA link

Quan­tum, China, & Tech bifur­ca­tion; Why it Matters

Elias X. Huber20 Nov 2024 15:28 UTC
5 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Seek­ing feed­back on char­ity redi­rect­ing op­pos­ing dona­tions to GiveWell

DuelGood12 Nov 2025 15:33 UTC
8 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Fu­ture Bias – Does To­mor­row’s Pain Hurt More Than Yes­ter­day’s?

jachym_simko18 Jan 2025 13:12 UTC
6 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

Could this be an un­usu­ally good time to Earn To Give?

Tom Gardiner 🔸3 Mar 2025 23:00 UTC
60 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Is a world with 10B peo­ple bet­ter then a world with 5B people

tootlife2 Jun 2025 14:37 UTC
8 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

What are the prac­ti­cal EA ca­reer op­tions for some­one not liv­ing in Lon­don or SF?

SnowFire13 May 2024 13:12 UTC
7 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

AI can solve all EA prob­lems, so why keep fo­cus­ing on them?

Cody Albert3 May 2025 21:51 UTC
8 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

a Fun Idea for at­tract­ing New Fun­ders: Pet Sitting

David_R 🔸14 Nov 2025 16:47 UTC
20 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Re­think­ing Ex­pected Value: Why Tiny Prob­a­bil­ities of Huge Out­comes Aren’t Equiv­a­lent to Cer­tain Ones

tootlife21 Jun 2025 19:05 UTC
4 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Per­sonal Reflec­tions on Longtermism

NatKiilu17 Aug 2023 21:22 UTC
79 points
12 comments8 min readEA link

Quick-take. Defi­ni­tions are over-rated in EA

Lovkush 🔸6 Nov 2024 20:55 UTC
29 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How hon­est should you be when ap­ply­ing for high-im­pact roles?

JDLC26 Feb 2025 13:11 UTC
5 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Gro­cery stores and cage-free egg prices (pod­cast)

Elijah Whipple22 Sep 2025 1:58 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Effec­tive Lo­cal Altruism

MatthewK28 Sep 2024 5:14 UTC
4 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

The 3-P-Approach

Esther2212 Dec 2023 19:09 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

How we can im­prove the U.S. so­cial safety net and save lives

lauradelaplaya30 Apr 2024 20:16 UTC
22 points
9 comments8 min readEA link

Why you should al­lo­cate more of your 2024 dona­tion bud­get to effec­tive giv­ing organisations

Luke Moore 🔸8 Nov 2024 14:19 UTC
143 points
10 comments14 min readEA link

Sakana, Straw­berry, and Scary AI

Matrice Jacobine🔸🏳️‍⚧️19 Sep 2024 11:57 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.astralcodexten.com)

Hymns to the Hydraulic

HonoreDB26 Jul 2024 20:01 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(outlandishclaims.substack.com)

Are we try­ing to figure out if AI is con­scious?

kristapsz27 Jan 2025 13:22 UTC
5 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

The Ex­is­ten­tial Risk of Speciesist Bias in AI

Sam Tucker-Davis11 Nov 2023 3:27 UTC
38 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Your Goal Isn’t Really to Get a Job

Matt Beard13 Dec 2025 21:59 UTC
84 points
8 comments11 min readEA link
(thatvastvariety.substack.com)

🇵🇭 EA Philip­pines Progress Re­port (De­cem­ber 2023 - March 2025): Challenges & Op­por­tu­ni­ties for Learn­ing

Samantha Ackary23 May 2025 7:17 UTC
18 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Ex­tinc­tion risk and longter­mism: a broader cri­tique of Thorstad

Matthew Rendall21 Apr 2024 13:55 UTC
31 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Are hu­mans head­ing to­wards De­ci­sion Depen­dency?

Aditya Raj21 Aug 2025 15:51 UTC
1 point
0 comments5 min readEA link

Between Science Fic­tion and Emerg­ing Real­ity: Are We Ready for Digi­tal Per­sons?

Alex (Αλέξανδρος)13 Mar 2025 16:09 UTC
5 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

VSPE vs. flat­tery: Test­ing emo­tional scaf­fold­ing for early-stage alignment

Astelle Kay24 Jun 2025 9:39 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Are US EAs Pre­pared for Demo­cratic Back­slid­ing?

GulleyCanyonRavine2 Mar 2025 23:37 UTC
114 points
17 comments3 min readEA link

Why EA can (and should) ap­peal to Christians

asod2 Jan 2025 13:37 UTC
46 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

Pro­posal for a Form of Con­di­tional Sup­ple­men­tal In­come (CSI) in a Post-Work World

Sean Sweeney31 Jan 2025 1:00 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Lack of Diver­sity Within EA

Amay_Bansal9 Nov 2025 21:14 UTC
18 points
22 comments1 min readEA link

Mis­takes I made at my first EA Global event (and what I’ll do differ­ently next time)

Igor Scaldini17 Oct 2025 19:47 UTC
20 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Mass me­dia in­ter­ven­tions’ high po­ten­tial, and why they shouldn’t be over­looked: a prac­ti­tioner’s perspective

AlexisAt7 Feb 2025 14:05 UTC
13 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Dario Amodei — Machines of Lov­ing Grace

Matrice Jacobine🔸🏳️‍⚧️11 Oct 2024 21:39 UTC
66 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(darioamodei.com)

Civic A.I. Micro Mo­ral Align­ment—Not Grand De­signs

Christopher Hunt Robertson, M.Ed.17 Dec 2025 17:19 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readEA link

It’s OK to eat shrimp: EAs Make In­valid In­fer­ences About Fish Qualia and Mo­ral Patienthood

MikhailSamin13 Nov 2023 16:51 UTC
−4 points
34 comments7 min readEA link

A com­mon an­tipar­a­sitic drug shows promise in halt­ing the growth of ag­gres­sive skin cancer

Connor Wood21 Apr 2025 1:53 UTC
−7 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

On Jan­uary 1, 2030, there will be no AGI (and AGI will still not be im­mi­nent)

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸6 Apr 2025 1:08 UTC
46 points
54 comments2 min readEA link

What solv­able prob­lems are slow­ing down EA work?

James-Hartree-Law3 Feb 2025 20:47 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

What failure looks like for animals

Alistair Stewart3 Sep 2025 17:55 UTC
69 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

Barthes in the Age of AI: In­ter­tex­tu­al­ity, Author­ship, and the Plu­ral Text

Rodo8 Jun 2025 15:59 UTC
−3 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

“AI Align­ment” is a Danger­ously Over­loaded Term

Roko15 Dec 2023 15:06 UTC
20 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

EA Reflec­tions on my Mili­tary Career

Tom Gardiner 🔸10 Apr 2025 17:57 UTC
211 points
9 comments15 min readEA link

De­bat­ing AI’s Mo­ral Sta­tus: The Most Hu­mane and Silliest Thing Hu­mans Do(?)

Soe Lin29 Sep 2024 5:01 UTC
5 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

What should AI safety be try­ing to achieve?

EuanMcLean23 May 2024 11:28 UTC
13 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

AI Safety Has a Very Par­tic­u­lar Worldview

zeshen🔸17 Oct 2025 19:19 UTC
41 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

A po­ten­tial EA Aligned can­di­date for congress

Amanda Hansen 10 Aug 2023 12:07 UTC
28 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Align­ment is not *that* hard

sammyboiz🔸17 Apr 2025 2:07 UTC
26 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Im­pact Max­imi­sa­tion through Sup­ported Re­grant­ing: a Fund­ing Strat­egy Hack

ASuchy7 Nov 2024 19:48 UTC
26 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Does EA dis­course need all that philos­o­phy lingo?

Taimur Abdaal22 Mar 2025 10:28 UTC
26 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Con­sider haggling

Sam Anschell10 Mar 2025 21:58 UTC
193 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

Promethean Gover­nance Tested: Re­silience and Re­con­figu­ra­tion Amidst AI Re­bel­lion and Memetic Fragmentation

Paul Fallavollita24 Mar 2025 11:08 UTC
−12 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

A flaw in the “in­fluence (UK) poli­cy­mak­ers to make an im­pact” the­ory of change

MildAbandon13 Jun 2025 20:10 UTC
17 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

A cri­tique of the EA com­mu­nity’s ap­proach to in­fluenc­ing non-EA actors

Stephen Robcraft15 Jan 2024 11:50 UTC
18 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Bridg­ing sci­ence and re­li­gion by a new concept

Emergence10113 Aug 2025 2:22 UTC
0 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Vi­sion­ary Prag­ma­tism: A Third Way for An­i­mal Advocacy

Dilan Fernando9 Nov 2025 13:47 UTC
83 points
16 comments25 min readEA link

[Question] Should re­searchers go where progress is eas­ier, or stay where im­pact is great­est?

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi19 Aug 2025 2:24 UTC
15 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Is waste man­age­ment a ne­glected cause area?

Elina Christian3 Jan 2024 12:20 UTC
20 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Are Or­gan­i­cally Farmed An­i­mals Already Liv­ing a Net-Pos­i­tive Life?

Christoph Hartmann 🔸16 Oct 2024 21:08 UTC
58 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

The Light­cone solu­tion to the trans­mit­ter room problem

OGTutzauer🔸29 Jan 2025 10:03 UTC
10 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Phages and the Fu­ture of Global Health: An Over­looked Op­por­tu­nity for High-Im­pact Investment

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi29 Aug 2025 9:08 UTC
15 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Ca­reer In­vest­ments vs Giv­ing in the short-term

Peter Drotos 🔸10 Aug 2023 14:14 UTC
5 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

How to Get More Im­por­tant Things Done with the Eisen­hower [Effort] Matrix

Harry Luk6 Oct 2023 1:00 UTC
15 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

Con­tra­tion: The next threat from AI may not be like the risks we’ve feared

John Wallbank28 Jul 2024 23:19 UTC
−1 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

The Blind Spot in AI Tu­tors Hold­ing Stu­dents and Poverty Alle­vi­a­tion Back

Nicolas Forero26 Mar 2024 1:06 UTC
2 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(nicolasforero.substack.com)

Silenced by De­sign When Your AI De­cides What You Can Know

Kariema El Touny8 Dec 2025 10:51 UTC
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Why Peo­ple Think Effec­tive Altru­ism is Utilitarianism

Ethan Spencer26 Mar 2025 15:34 UTC
1 point
0 comments7 min readEA link

Claude vs GPT

Maxwell Tabarrok14 Mar 2024 12:44 UTC
14 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

On Love, Ra­tion­al­iza­tion, Flour­ish­ing, and Mo­ral Cir­cle Expansion

Zlatko Jovičić19 Nov 2025 18:49 UTC
10 points
8 comments17 min readEA link

[Question] Scout mind­set

Vishwajeet Rāy18 Dec 2025 18:21 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Be­ware of the new scal­ing paradigm

JohanEA19 Sep 2024 17:03 UTC
9 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Mo­ral The­o­ries Lack Confidence

Richard Y Chappell🔸30 May 2025 20:25 UTC
14 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

There and back again: re­flec­tions from leav­ing EA (and re­turn­ing)

LotteG17 Mar 2024 22:59 UTC
43 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

On Direct An­i­mal Advocacy

Kenneth_Diao10 Apr 2024 14:04 UTC
10 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(kennethdiao.substack.com)

Why I’m skep­ti­cal about us­ing sub­jec­tive time ex­pe­rience to as­sign moral weights

Andreas_Mogensen22 Jan 2024 11:45 UTC
67 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

deleted

funnyfranco29 Mar 2025 18:02 UTC
−5 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Seek­ing feed­back on Good Wallet – the “Buy Me a Coffee” for char­i­ta­ble giv­ing (5‑min sur­vey in­side)

Patrick Mayerhofer 🔸8 May 2025 14:23 UTC
15 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] EA Hand­book Au­dio Read­ing?

We All Deserve The Same 7 Oct 2025 14:08 UTC
8 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

The EU should fund proven aid pro­grams that the USA are dropping

Flo 🔸18 Feb 2025 9:48 UTC
20 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Some ad­vice for start­ing up an EA Uni Group—Bureau­cracy, Fund­ing and Succession

Jian Xin Lim 🔸21 Dec 2024 17:50 UTC
29 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Should we launch the “An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Corps”? Seek­ing Feed­back and a Founder

haven21 Jun 2025 12:44 UTC
44 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

The catas­trophic situ­a­tion with USAID just got worse—why the EA com­mu­nity should care

Dorothy M.27 Feb 2025 22:11 UTC
160 points
24 comments4 min readEA link

How the Hu­man Psy­cholog­i­cal “Pro­gram” Un­der­mines AI Align­ment — and What We Can Do

Beyond Singularity6 May 2025 13:37 UTC
14 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Do the WHO’s “best buys” work?

Kristof Redei1 Dec 2025 20:54 UTC
11 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(snowdon.substack.com)

Align­ment ideas in­spired by hu­man virtue development

Borys Pikalov18 May 2025 9:36 UTC
6 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Sex, drugs, and effec­tive al­tru­ism: what EA and harm re­duc­tion can learn from each other

Kristof Redei31 Jul 2025 15:58 UTC
10 points
1 comment9 min readEA link
(www.moregoodlessharm.com)

Pause from Be­hind /​ Los­ing Heroically

enterthewoods10 Nov 2025 17:11 UTC
9 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

Po­ten­tial Im­pli­ca­tions of AI on Hu­man Cog­ni­tive Evolution

Soe Lin21 Aug 2024 9:53 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

How EA can be bet­ter at communications

blehrer2 Mar 2024 18:49 UTC
106 points
19 comments2 min readEA link
(www.bryanlehrer.com)

[Linkpost] The el­e­men­tal foe

SamiM4 Jul 2024 18:51 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.noahpinion.blog)

When the im­pact model says “Lie” but moral­ity says wait.

Dr Kassim19 Aug 2025 2:57 UTC
7 points
2 comments23 min readEA link

How to Ac­cel­er­ate Your New EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion with Fis­cal Spon­sor­ship and Oper­a­tions Support

KevinN14 Feb 2024 12:52 UTC
39 points
6 comments13 min readEA link

Why not in­vest to­wards end­ing neo­colo­nial­ism?

AlanGreenspan22 Aug 2023 15:59 UTC
−15 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Ad­vice for Ac­tivists from the His­tory of Environmentalism

Jeffrey Heninger16 May 2024 20:36 UTC
50 points
2 comments6 min readEA link
(blog.aiimpacts.org)

In defense of stan­dards: A fe­cal thought experiment

titotal24 Jun 2024 12:18 UTC
11 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

Dis­ci­plined iconoclasm

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸3 Nov 2025 22:30 UTC
25 points
24 comments7 min readEA link

Mi­graine studies

Vasco Grilo🔸29 Jan 2025 17:59 UTC
19 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

A New Trilemma Haunts the World Economy

Matrice Jacobine🔸🏳️‍⚧️16 Feb 2025 15:40 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.project-syndicate.org)

Cor­po­rate Gover­nance for Fron­tier AI Labs: A Re­search Agenda

Matthew Wearden28 Feb 2024 11:32 UTC
18 points
3 comments16 min readEA link
(matthewwearden.co.uk)

Safe Sta­sis Fallacy

Davidmanheim5 Feb 2024 10:54 UTC
23 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

OpenAI’s o3 model scores 3% on the ARC-AGI-2 bench­mark, com­pared to 60% for the av­er­age human

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸1 May 2025 13:57 UTC
14 points
8 comments3 min readEA link
(arcprize.org)

Chang­ing the Rules to Soften Hu­man­ity’s Hard Land­ing: A Sys­temic Risk Ap­proach to Every­thing Go­ing Wrong at Once

Matt Boyd27 Jun 2025 9:44 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(adaptresearchwriting.com)

Could Trans­parency In­ter­na­tional Be a Model to Im­prove Farm An­i­mal Welfare?

cynthiaschuck23 Feb 2024 11:10 UTC
42 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Effec­tive al­tru­ism is ask­ing a lot of ques­tions, find­ing an­swers and do­ing lit­tle ac­tion.

Lutebemberwa Isa1 Mar 2025 20:43 UTC
−7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The EA case for Trump 2024

hamandcheese2 Aug 2024 19:32 UTC
−8 points
66 comments12 min readEA link

Ve­teri­nary Medicine at the Cross-sec­tion of An­i­mal Welfare and Public Health

Katt Domingue13 Oct 2025 14:26 UTC
2 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

So­bre pen­sar no pior

Ramiro25 Jan 2024 20:45 UTC
6 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

[Question] Ques­tion about deontology

sammyboiz🔸19 Dec 2024 19:47 UTC
5 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Reflec­tive Equilibrium

Noah Birnbaum6 Jun 2024 14:49 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(irrationalitycommunity.substack.com)

What If EA Ac­tu­ally Picked One Goal?

Krimsey18 Oct 2025 15:11 UTC
9 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Giv­ing at death is more effec­tive than giv­ing dur­ing life

Dr. Seth Mathus Ganz15 Jul 2025 15:49 UTC
15 points
45 comments2 min readEA link

Re­con­sid­er­ing the Cel­e­bra­tion of Pro­ject Can­cel­la­tions: Have We Up­dated Too Far?

Midtermist1210 Sep 2024 15:46 UTC
66 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

A Case for Nuanced Risk Assessment

Molly Hickman20 Aug 2024 9:23 UTC
25 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

Why I’m leaving

MRo21 Jun 2024 21:20 UTC
40 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

Quadrillion-dol­lar bills on the side­walk? Quan­tify­ing an­i­mal welfare changes

AdamC9 Feb 2025 22:23 UTC
49 points
2 comments13 min readEA link

A sum­mary on why donat­ing to highly effec­tive An­i­mal Rights Or­ga­ni­za­tions can be thou­sands to tens of thou­sands of times more effec­tive in helping an­i­mals than donat­ing to sanc­tu­ar­ies. Please max­i­mize the im­pact of your dona­tions.

PreciousPig5 Oct 2024 8:01 UTC
19 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

The goal isn’t ‘end fac­tory farm­ing’, but re­duce as much suffer­ing as possible

ElliotTep30 Oct 2024 16:08 UTC
127 points
44 comments4 min readEA link

A Thanks­giv­ing grat­i­tude post to EA

Joy Bittner23 Nov 2023 13:38 UTC
156 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Paradigm Shifts—change ev­ery­thing… ex­cept al­most everything

Non-zero-sum James26 Nov 2024 17:04 UTC
2 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

Re­sponse to “Co­or­di­nated paus­ing: An eval­u­a­tion-based co­or­di­na­tion scheme for fron­tier AI de­vel­op­ers”

Matthew Wearden30 Oct 2023 12:49 UTC
7 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(matthewwearden.co.uk)

Why Is Con­spicu­ous Con­sump­tion So Preva­lent When Gen­eros­ity Achieves So Much More

TheoLake2 Mar 2025 17:39 UTC
2 points
0 comments26 min readEA link

Illu­mi­natea—A Pro­posal for EA Reform

Leftism virtue cafe1 Apr 2024 10:51 UTC
96 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Ex­tend­ing Con­sti­tu­tional AI to Com­mu­nity Gover­nance: Re­duc­ing Mor­tal­ity from Psy­chi­a­tric Detention

Mac Black1 Dec 2025 15:14 UTC
0 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

3 Stages of Com­pe­ti­tion for the Long-Term Future

JordanStone30 Nov 2025 21:55 UTC
29 points
7 comments25 min readEA link

What AI com­pa­nies should do: Some rough ideas

Zach Stein-Perlman21 Oct 2024 14:00 UTC
14 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

How to Make Democ­racy Smarter

John Huang17 Feb 2025 9:22 UTC
19 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

EAs should prob­a­bly fo­cus on re­cruit­ing the ul­tra-wealthy

Nicholas Decker12 Jul 2024 2:06 UTC
0 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(nicholasdecker.substack.com)

[Question] In the ab­sence of ad­vanced med­i­cal in­ter­ven­tions, would the im­pact of in­fec­tious dis­eases on hu­man so­ciety in­crease over­time?

Kinoshita Yoshikazu (pseudonym)18 Aug 2023 13:19 UTC
4 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Re­sponse to Aschen­bren­ner’s “Si­tu­a­tional Aware­ness”

RobBensinger6 Jun 2024 22:57 UTC
111 points
14 comments3 min readEA link

What the Bible Teaches About An­i­mal Welfare: A Chris­tian Perspective

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi10 Sep 2025 8:41 UTC
10 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

What’s the an­ti­dote to hy­per­na­tion­al­ism?

Alana HF28 Mar 2025 14:30 UTC
20 points
4 comments8 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

The “Com­pound In­ter­est of Kind­ness”: Fix­ing Philan­thropic Mar­ket Failure via Be­hav­ioral Engineering

Jesus Rivas8 Dec 2025 16:42 UTC
−3 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

How I ex­pect TAI to im­pact de­vel­op­ing countries

Tax Geek18 Oct 2025 8:54 UTC
40 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

Aim for con­di­tional pauses

AnonResearcherMajorAILab25 Sep 2023 1:05 UTC
100 points
42 comments12 min readEA link

Poli­tics and the EA Fo­rum

Matthew Rendall5 Nov 2024 16:56 UTC
50 points
33 comments1 min readEA link

Light­ning Ca­reer Ad­vice—A Fo­rum Fea­ture Suggestion

SB_NE9 May 2024 23:49 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Mosquito Erad­i­ca­tion as op­posed to net­ting and treat­ments, and why cur­rent pre­ven­tion meth­ods may be counterproductive

cryptopsyfan6942011 Sep 2023 0:58 UTC
7 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Opinionated Swap­card tips

OlyaBabe31 May 2025 22:46 UTC
36 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The Afri­can Move­ment to Keep Hens Out of Cages

Aurelia Adhiambo31 Mar 2025 6:27 UTC
26 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Struc­tural Trans­for­ma­tion Case For Peacekeeping

Lauren Gilbert12 Nov 2024 20:30 UTC
32 points
9 comments1 min readEA link
(laurenpolicy.substack.com)

Should AI X-Risk Wor­ri­ers Short the Mar­ket?

postlibertarian4 Nov 2024 16:16 UTC
14 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

An ar­gu­ment for ac­cel­er­at­ing in­ter­na­tional AI gov­er­nance re­search (part 1)

MattThinks16 Aug 2023 5:40 UTC
10 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Essentialism

Rakefet Cohen Ben-Arye 🔸3 Aug 2023 2:57 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Cor­po­rate AI Labs’ Odd Role in Their Own Governance

Corporate AI Labs' Odd Role in Their Own Governance29 Jul 2024 9:36 UTC
66 points
6 comments12 min readEA link
(dominikhermle.substack.com)

AI Devel­op­ment Readi­ness Con­di­tion (AI-DRC): A Call to Action

AI-DRC311 Jan 2024 11:00 UTC
−5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Scope-Sen­si­tive Biose­cu­rity Policy in France: An Op­por­tu­nity?

Alix Pham25 Jun 2024 12:08 UTC
28 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Com­mu­nity build­ing: Is op­ti­miz­ing for “effec­tive­ness” the most effec­tive ap­proach?

Solal 🔸1 Jul 2025 13:52 UTC
16 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

Prob­a­bil­ities might be off by one per­centage point

Sjlver12 Dec 2024 10:42 UTC
24 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

How my view on us­ing games for EA has changed

mmKALLL4 Aug 2023 9:21 UTC
58 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

A Take On Vot­ing Meth­ods In Light of the Election

aaronhamlin12 Nov 2024 22:35 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

No, The Op­ti­mal Cor­po­rate In­come Tax Isn’t (Ne­c­es­sar­ily) Zero

ParetoOptimal1 Feb 2024 10:16 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(paretooptimal.substack.com)

Man­i­fold mar­kets isn’t very good

Robin20 Jun 2024 11:24 UTC
12 points
32 comments5 min readEA link

Startup Stock Op­tions: the Short­est Com­plete Guide for Employees

Boris T5 Jun 2024 15:52 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(borisagain.substack.com)

No, se­ri­ously, it’s vir­tu­ous to re­pair the world.

HonoreDB11 Dec 2024 17:34 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(outlandishclaims.substack.com)

The King’s Gift: How Govern­ments Turn Re­spon­si­bil­ity into Illusion

Seven_Hu378911 Apr 2025 15:21 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

An Open Let­ter To EA and AI Safety On De­cel­er­at­ing AI Development

Kenneth_Diao28 Feb 2025 17:15 UTC
21 points
0 comments14 min readEA link
(graspingatwaves.substack.com)

Part 4: Reflec­tions af­ter at­tend­ing the CEA In­tro to EA Vir­tual Pro­gram in Sum­mer 2023 – Chap­ter 4: Our Fi­nal Cen­tury?

Andreas P1 Nov 2023 7:12 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] How Di­verse Are EA’s Re­source Allo­ca­tions and In­ter­ven­tions Across De­mo­graph­ics and Re­gions?

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi8 Dec 2024 6:17 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Fermi para­dox, and why suffer­ing re­duc­tion re­duces ex­tinc­tion risk

Alex Schwalb17 Mar 2024 0:26 UTC
13 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Com­mu­nity build­ing can be a great early ca­reer move

Jordan Pieters 🔸29 Mar 2024 13:09 UTC
38 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

Ex­plor­ing Outreach Fundamentals

Kael Pellan3 Jun 2025 18:15 UTC
1 point
1 comment10 min readEA link

De­cen­tral­iz­ing Model Eval­u­a­tion: Les­sons from AI4Math

SMalagon5 Jun 2025 18:57 UTC
23 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

4) A Case Study in Pan­demic Policy Failure: Covid-19 & Hu­man-to-Hu­man Transmission

PandemicRiskMan14 Feb 2024 13:54 UTC
1 point
0 comments8 min readEA link

Ca­reer Ad­vice For Col­lege Stu­dents (And Other Peo­ple, I Guess)

Lauren Gilbert29 Oct 2024 18:15 UTC
26 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(laurenpolicy.substack.com)

[Question] What Is More Im­por­tant—Blood/​Platelet/​Plasma Dona­tion Or Ve­ganism?

dstudioscode21 Jan 2024 22:39 UTC
1 point
9 comments1 min readEA link

My Per­spec­tive on An­i­mal Welfare

David Hammerle20 Mar 2025 23:31 UTC
1 point
6 comments6 min readEA link

Pro­ject Pro­posal Look­ing for Feed­back: Mak­ing Policy Im­pacts Trans­par­ent — A Rea­son­ing Model for Trade, Jobs, and Prices

Echo Huang7 May 2025 17:14 UTC
17 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Hu­man­ity Learned Al­most Noth­ing From COVID-19

niplav19 Oct 2025 21:24 UTC
24 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Chap­ter 4 of The Precipice in poem form

Lauriander29 Nov 2023 9:12 UTC
20 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

An EA case for brush­ing pub­lic toi­lets when you en­counter them

Jonas Søvik 🔹14 May 2025 8:00 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readEA link

What Drives Progress in Nige­ria? A per­sonal re­flec­tion

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi23 May 2025 2:05 UTC
52 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

A Kind­ness Equa­tion ~ should I give to char­ity or vol­un­teer?

Non-zero-sum James8 Feb 2024 18:11 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

What We Don’t Do: In­ac­tion in the Face of Suffer­ing

Forumite24 Oct 2025 21:45 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

What’s coach­ing like? Rapid-fire takes on re­ceiv­ing & pro­vid­ing coach­ing from a train­ing program

Tee27 May 2024 9:33 UTC
12 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

Of Marx and Moloch: How My At­tempt to Con­vince Effec­tive Altru­ists to Be­come So­cial­ists Back­fired Completely

LennoxJohnson10 Aug 2025 10:22 UTC
197 points
24 comments1 min readEA link
(honestsignals.substack.com)

Red-team­ing ex­is­ten­tial risk from AI

Zed Tarar30 Nov 2023 14:35 UTC
30 points
16 comments6 min readEA link

Stop Ap­ply­ing And Get To Work

Pauliina2 Dec 2025 17:57 UTC
68 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Why microplas­tics should mat­ter to EAs

BiancaCojocaru4 Dec 2023 9:27 UTC
4 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

End­ing Poverty: To­day or For­ever? Po­ten­tial Er­ror in GiveDirectly’s Ra­tional An­i­ma­tions Video

Alexander de Vries6 Nov 2023 12:01 UTC
73 points
11 comments7 min readEA link
(2ndhandecon.substack.com)

On differ­ent dis­cus­sion traditions

meugen7 Apr 2025 3:49 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(meugenn.substack.com)

Ex­plor­ing the con­se­quences of Rus­sia’s ab­sence from the START III treaty for strate­gic arms re­duc­tion.

Ashley Valentina Marte12 Aug 2024 16:17 UTC
13 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

1) Pan­demics are a Solv­able Problem

PandemicRiskMan26 Jan 2024 19:48 UTC
−9 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

15 Un­con­ven­tional Ways I Used My Gen­er­al­ist Back­ground to Tran­si­tion into a High-Im­pact Ca­reer: My jour­ney from School Prin­ci­pal to AI Safety Advisor

Moneer19 Aug 2025 10:34 UTC
41 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Remit­tance Hell in Paradise

CB26 Jan 2024 12:35 UTC
3 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

PEPFAR, one of the most life-sav­ing global health pro­grams, is at risk

salonium10 Dec 2023 20:37 UTC
170 points
13 comments3 min readEA link

Why mis­al­igned AGI won’t lead to mass kil­lings (and what ac­tu­ally mat­ters in­stead)

Julian Nalenz6 Feb 2025 13:22 UTC
−3 points
5 comments3 min readEA link
(blog.hermesloom.org)

EAGxIn­dia 2025: A Call for Safety/​Caution

Nishit15 Nov 2025 11:34 UTC
111 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

Austin Chen on “Win­ning” and SBF

TimothyTelleenLawton9 Apr 2025 14:54 UTC
14 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Two ar­gu­ments against longter­mist thought experiments

amaury lorin2 Nov 2024 10:23 UTC
17 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

An­i­mal welfare is not and should not be a net zero approach

Ben St10 Dec 2025 10:16 UTC
7 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Will Sen­tience Make AI’s Mo­ral­ity Bet­ter?

Ronen Bar18 May 2025 4:34 UTC
27 points
4 comments10 min readEA link

More EAs are un­der­uti­lized than you think

Peter Berggren🔸23 Sep 2025 21:18 UTC
27 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Mo­ral Obli­ga­tion and Mo­ral Opportunity

Alice Blair14 May 2025 21:05 UTC
4 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

In­tro­duc­tion to suffer­ing-fo­cused ethics

Center for Reducing Suffering30 Aug 2024 16:55 UTC
57 points
2 comments22 min readEA link

My Proven AI Safety Ex­pla­na­tion (as a com­put­ing stu­dent)

Mica White6 Feb 2024 3:58 UTC
8 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Les­sons for AI Gover­nance from Atoms for Peace

Amritanshu Prasad16 Apr 2025 14:25 UTC
10 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(www.thenextfrontier.blog)

A Tax­on­omy of Jobs Deeply Re­sis­tant to TAI Automation

Deric Cheng18 Mar 2025 16:26 UTC
40 points
1 comment12 min readEA link
(www.convergenceanalysis.org)

We Need Ma­jor, But Not Rad­i­cal, FDA Reform

Maxwell Tabarrok24 Feb 2024 16:55 UTC
9 points
1 comment7 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

Why pla­nari­ans may hold the key to sen­tience: about prim­i­tive sen­tient or­ganisms and immortality

Guillaume Reho23 Oct 2025 17:55 UTC
53 points
6 comments12 min readEA link

Should we value our val­ues when choos­ing which causes to sup­port?

Fungielegant31 Aug 2024 10:32 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Poli­ti­cal econ­omy & Atroc­ity risk

bhrdwj🔸17 Sep 2025 15:10 UTC
0 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Teach­ing Hindi Liter­acy with an AI tutor

Tom Delaney15 May 2025 6:49 UTC
40 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Em­bark­ing on a Jour­ney of Reflec­tion: Seek­ing In­sights and Feedback

Ole Johan Bondahl3 Oct 2024 9:58 UTC
−1 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Yet Another Re­sponse to the Repug­nant Con­clu­sion: Strict (Lex­imin) Prioritarianism

Paolo Lammens8 Nov 2025 2:54 UTC
2 points
7 comments8 min readEA link

When you should not write on the EA Forum

meugen24 Feb 2025 3:08 UTC
18 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Are We Ready for Digi­tal Per­sons?

Alex (Αλέξανδρος)3 Jun 2025 9:38 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.linkedin.com)

The Pain That Is or The Pain That Is Felt?

Jai 🔸24 Dec 2024 1:33 UTC
15 points
5 comments14 min readEA link

My tool for track­ing predictions

Sciensky10 Sep 2025 14:23 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(guessometer.com)

Musk’s Ques­tion­able Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Rhetoric Amidst Le­gal Challenges

M31 Jan 2024 7:40 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The $100 Million Dilemma: Hu­man Lives vs. En­dan­gered Species—Which Should We Save?

Vee7 Oct 2024 8:12 UTC
6 points
5 comments14 min readEA link

Good Re­search Takes are Not Suffi­cient for Good Strate­gic Takes

Neel Nanda22 Mar 2025 10:13 UTC
120 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Go­ing In­finite—Quick Review

Darren McKee7 Oct 2023 21:07 UTC
25 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The Scout Mind­set and Epistemic Health

C.Jordan11 Apr 2024 2:27 UTC
9 points
1 comment10 min readEA link

[Question] What’s the Limit for Cost-Effec­tive­ness?

alamo 291410 Aug 2023 23:38 UTC
4 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Is Ge­netic Code Swap­ping as risky as it seems?

Invert_DOG_about_centre_O12 Jan 2025 18:38 UTC
23 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

The Longter­mism of Bore­dom: Will the far fu­ture ac­tu­ally be worth liv­ing if we solve suffer­ing?

Melanie Banerjee3 Oct 2025 14:25 UTC
2 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Against the Open Source /​ Closed Source Di­chotomy: Reg­u­lated Source as a Model for Re­spon­si­ble AI Development

Alexander Herwix 🔸4 Sep 2023 20:23 UTC
5 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

The Re­cur­sive Brake Hy­poth­e­sis — Could Self-Aware­ness Nat­u­rally Reg­u­late Su­per­in­tel­li­gence?

jrandync10 Oct 2025 18:08 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link

What if we just…didn’t build AGI? An Ar­gu­ment Against Inevitability

Nate Sharpe10 May 2025 3:34 UTC
64 points
21 comments14 min readEA link
(natezsharpe.substack.com)

The Case for Quan­tum Technologies

Elias X. Huber14 Nov 2024 13:35 UTC
13 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Hu­mans and Machines: Heaven or Hell?

Alex (Αλέξανδρος)12 Jul 2025 8:04 UTC
4 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

En­courag­ing a he­do­nium shock­wave as a long term cause area

Felix Bauer20 Aug 2024 13:24 UTC
24 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

On Own­ing Our EA Affiliation

Alix Pham5 Aug 2024 14:46 UTC
338 points
43 comments4 min readEA link

A Play­book for New EA Groups

Andy Masley28 Nov 2025 23:22 UTC
120 points
6 comments9 min readEA link

The Rel­a­tive Eth­i­cal­ness of Clini­cal Trial Designs

Jonathan Nankivell10 Nov 2023 21:00 UTC
16 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

9 (com­par­a­tively) ne­glected prin­ci­ples for men­tal health/​ther­apy?

Heartbreak Tuna5 Sep 2024 16:21 UTC
2 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Why We Need to Fund and Men­tor High-Risk, High-Re­ward Science in Re­source-Con­strained Settings

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi9 Oct 2025 3:01 UTC
8 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

A Pos­si­ble Com­mit­tee Struc­ture for Larger EA (Uni) Groups

JDLC25 Feb 2025 14:16 UTC
14 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Shap­ing Poli­cies for Eth­i­cal AI Devel­op­ment in Africa

Kuiyaki16 May 2024 14:15 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Two brief theses

brunoparga23 Jan 2024 19:33 UTC
−35 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Con­sid­er­a­tions around ca­reer costs of poli­ti­cal donations

Zach Stein-Perlman20 Oct 2025 13:10 UTC
42 points
0 comments16 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Big Pic­ture AI Safety: teaser

EuanMcLean20 Feb 2024 13:09 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Longter­mism or Ret­ro­spec­tivism: The More Effec­tive Utili­tar­ian Alter­na­tive.

Hooman8 Oct 2023 12:26 UTC
0 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Min­i­miz­ing suffer­ing & ASI xrisk through brain digitization

Amy Louise Johnson20 Feb 2025 21:08 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

How I failed to donate my kidney

Santeri T 🔹7 Jul 2025 18:06 UTC
122 points
7 comments11 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

Is Now an Unusu­ally Good Time to Pur­sue Poli­ti­cal In­ter­ven­tions in the UK?

Jonah Woodward3 Sep 2025 15:39 UTC
47 points
16 comments4 min readEA link

Pan­demic apathy

Matthew Rendall4 May 2024 15:41 UTC
45 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

To the Bat Mo­bile!! My Mid-Ca­reer Tran­si­tion into AI Safety

Moneer7 Nov 2024 15:59 UTC
19 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Why You Shouldn’t Do a PhD

Jan Wehner🔸17 Dec 2025 9:58 UTC
7 points
6 comments7 min readEA link

AI-based dis­in­for­ma­tion is prob­a­bly not a ma­jor threat to democracy

Dan Williams24 Feb 2024 20:01 UTC
63 points
8 comments10 min readEA link

Thoughts on Peter Singer’s moral premises pre­dat­ing the EA movement

J Chen20 Jan 2025 13:39 UTC
10 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

De­mand­ing Diver­sity: The is­sue so far and the way forward

Taanya Kapur23 Oct 2023 19:47 UTC
23 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

[Question] Why can’t we ac­cept the hu­man con­di­tion as it ex­isted in 2010?

Hayven Frienby9 Jan 2024 18:02 UTC
35 points
36 comments2 min readEA link

Maybe An­thropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust is powerless

Zach Stein-Perlman27 May 2024 13:00 UTC
134 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

My life would be much harder with­out the Com­mu­nity Health Team. I think yours might too.

Daystar Eld19 Sep 2023 14:59 UTC
256 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

Why AI Reg­u­la­tion Vio­lates the First Amendment

Locke1 Jun 2024 20:44 UTC
−15 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Effec­tive Lob­by­ism: Les­sons from 5 years of practice

++Johnny Stengel++23 Sep 2025 19:19 UTC
56 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

What “Sav­ing Pri­vate Ryan” can teach us about EA

Moritz Stumpe 🔸12 Jan 2024 15:18 UTC
18 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

A New Way to Fight Disease and Boost Agri­cul­ture in Poor Countries

Felps25 Sep 2023 18:11 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.foreignaffairs.com)

MY LIFE IN SERVICE.

WataniAlex20 Oct 2025 16:46 UTC
0 points
0 comments13 min readEA link

Why con­scious­ness matters

EdLopez24 May 2024 12:33 UTC
0 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(medium.com)

Is ChatGPT (quietly) chang­ing how we do EA — and should we be wor­ried or op­ti­mistic?

charlesr16 Jun 2025 8:27 UTC
24 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

The case for cur­ing un­treated birth trauma

gogreatergood16 Feb 2025 21:40 UTC
18 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Na­tional Se­cu­rity Is Not In­ter­na­tional Se­cu­rity: A Cri­tique of AGI Realism

C.K.2 Feb 2025 17:04 UTC
44 points
2 comments36 min readEA link
(conradkunadu.substack.com)

Is offset­ting Co2 still a thing /​ a thing again?

André Kirschner15 Apr 2024 20:56 UTC
3 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

AGI by 2032 is ex­tremely unlikely

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸16 Oct 2025 22:50 UTC
24 points
44 comments7 min readEA link

Con­cerns Aris­ing At EAGx Vir­tual Around Im­poster Syndrome

quinngrace25 Nov 2024 15:13 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The Op­ti­miza­tion Para­dox: A Miss­ing Bridge Between Mar­ket­ing and Impact

Anna Pitner18 Nov 2025 7:23 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

On Sto­ries, their im­pact and how to im­prove them

Timon Renzelmann3 Dec 2023 15:58 UTC
36 points
4 comments16 min readEA link

En­vi­sion par­adise in the face of catastrophe

Jan Wehner🔸2 Oct 2025 7:32 UTC
20 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

EA has a PR prob­lem (in that it cares about PR)

Eneasz24 Jun 2024 22:03 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readEA link
(deathisbad.substack.com)

An ex­am­ple of how to write a good job de­scrip­tion

Forumite20 Mar 2024 14:54 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Need help with billboard con­tent for AI Safety Bulgaria

Aleksandar Angelov7 Mar 2024 14:36 UTC
4 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

How to re­al­is­ti­cally re­duce most suffer­ing on earth

Stijn Bruers 🔸30 Jun 2024 8:10 UTC
46 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

Why I took the 10% Pledge be­fore earn­ing an income

Luke Moore 🔸16 Dec 2024 8:54 UTC
72 points
3 comments3 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

Is EA still ‘tal­ent-con­strained’?

SiobhanBall14 Jul 2025 8:09 UTC
157 points
58 comments1 min readEA link

What I Learned by Mak­ing Four AIs De­bate Hu­man Ethics

Frankle Fry14 Oct 2025 13:31 UTC
3 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Is Our Fo­cus on Mea­sure­ment Limit­ing Our Im­pact?

tootlife28 Jun 2025 18:55 UTC
18 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

“Hard Prob­lems”

khayali7 Jun 2025 14:09 UTC
−9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Three Open Flanks of Longtermism

ManfredKohler6 Oct 2025 13:37 UTC
1 point
0 comments11 min readEA link

What We Don’t Do by Nick Cooney—a book review

Rakefet Cohen Ben-Arye 🔸6 Jun 2025 2:00 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Be­ing a young per­son in EA: my jour­ney into the EA community

ScientificS 🔸️25 May 2024 23:46 UTC
52 points
3 comments15 min readEA link

[Question] Should Twit­ter have pre­dic­tion mar­kets in Com­mu­nity Notes?

Nathan Young20 Oct 2023 12:27 UTC
18 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

EAs Should Pro­mote Fru­gal­ity More

James Brobin12 Nov 2025 15:32 UTC
45 points
25 comments2 min readEA link

A Cog­ni­tive In­stru­ment on the Ter­mi­nal Contest

Ihor Ivliev23 Jul 2025 23:30 UTC
0 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

[Question] Fight­ing to ex­ist, for­get­ting to live. Suggest­ing a miss­ing pri­or­ity in EA thinking

Dr Kassim25 Apr 2025 12:06 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

AI for Good: Ex­plor­ing Scal­able Im­pact in Global Development

Natalie Bauman29 Oct 2025 18:01 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

What is ve­g­anism any­way?

Venky102425 Apr 2024 15:14 UTC
17 points
11 comments10 min readEA link

The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend: why an­i­mal ad­vo­cates should help slaugh­ter­house workers

Valerie_Monckton3 Apr 2024 22:43 UTC
15 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

How to unite rad­i­cal fem­i­nism and EA. Vol 1: donor engagement

Will_Davison6 May 2025 20:20 UTC
1 point
21 comments2 min readEA link

25 Years Later: Why We Still Don’t Ad­e­quately Govern the Mi­suse of Syn­thetic Biology

C.K.16 May 2025 14:14 UTC
11 points
1 comment8 min readEA link
(proteinstoparadigms.substack.com)

AGI Policy Readi­ness by 2027: Fore­sight into In­sti­tu­tional Adaptation

Josephine Schwab11 Nov 2025 21:02 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

I’ve read the Effec­tive Altru­ism Hand­book. Here’s what I learned.

Mich17 Mar 2024 12:10 UTC
23 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Pay to get AI safety info from be­hind NDA wall?

louisbarclay5 Jun 2024 10:19 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Cause area re­port: vaccines

Erwan Sallard1 Dec 2023 10:35 UTC
20 points
2 comments13 min readEA link

Dis­cus­sion: Me­dia Mo­ral Misdirection

Siya Sawhney22 Jun 2024 10:39 UTC
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

The Essen­tially Con­tested Gover­nance of Syn­thetic Biology

C.K.21 Jul 2025 17:04 UTC
7 points
0 comments14 min readEA link
(proteinstoparadigms.substack.com)

I pledge to be trans­par­ent about the use of AI—will you join me?

Mordechai Rorvig14 Nov 2025 16:12 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.foommagazine.org)

The Three Miss­ing Pie­ces in Ma­chine Ethics

JBug16 Nov 2025 21:26 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Two months into EA: Why I’m re­think­ing my ap­proach to impact

Jessica Udeh 25 Jul 2025 15:57 UTC
55 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

My P(doom) is 2.76%. Here’s Why.

Liam Robins12 Jun 2025 22:29 UTC
55 points
11 comments20 min readEA link
(thelimestack.substack.com)

What I would do if I wasn’t at ARC Evals

Lawrence Chan6 Sep 2023 5:17 UTC
130 points
4 comments13 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

My Pro­fes­sional Spo­tify Wrapped

Prajna Naidoo8 Jan 2024 15:54 UTC
8 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Foun­da­tion that sup­port over­seas vol­un­teer financially

Martingale30 Oct 2023 0:00 UTC
−11 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

What makes a great pro­ject idea?

aclearbag21 May 2025 23:50 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readEA link

Against Stu­dent Debt Can­cel­la­tion From All Sides of the Poli­ti­cal Compass

Maxwell Tabarrok13 May 2024 14:56 UTC
16 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

Are we giv­ing away our steer­ing wheel?

Austin B31 Oct 2025 23:14 UTC
1 point
1 comment1 min readEA link

Pro­ce­dure to al­low dona­tions to Euro­pean or­ga­ni­za­tions to be tax-de­ductible in France

acristia8 Oct 2024 11:47 UTC
18 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

Are We Al­gorithms? A Crit­i­cal Re­sponse to Yu­val Noah Harari’s Homo Deus

Rodo31 May 2025 19:26 UTC
1 point
0 comments5 min readEA link

Evolv­ing per­spec­tives: learn­ing from suc­cess, failure, and one another

Ania Kozłowska5 Nov 2024 17:44 UTC
33 points
1 comment10 min readEA link
(animainternational.org)

Afri­can health­care needs mar­kets (not philan­thropy)

TimothyMotte8 Jul 2024 15:44 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ven­ture Cap­i­tal In­fluence Tracker

Kayode Adekoya25 Nov 2025 14:09 UTC
1 point
0 comments5 min readEA link

The cur­rent AI strate­gic land­scape: one bear’s perspective

Matrice Jacobine🔸🏳️‍⚧️15 Feb 2025 9:49 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(philosophybear.substack.com)

What mis­takes has the AI safety move­ment made?

EuanMcLean23 May 2024 11:29 UTC
66 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

Think­ing be­yond the long-term

Alexander Caro14 Oct 2025 11:56 UTC
6 points
2 comments7 min readEA link
(medium.com)

In­ter­na­tional tax policy as a po­ten­tial cause area

Tax Geek23 Jan 2024 16:36 UTC
60 points
6 comments12 min readEA link

What About Deon­tol­ogy? Ethics of So­cial Belong­ing and Con­for­mity in Effec­tive Altruism

Maksens Djabali8 Jan 2025 14:02 UTC
7 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Should EAs Fo­cus More on the Star­va­tion and Hu­man Rights Cri­sis in Gaza?

MBrent945 Aug 2025 15:44 UTC
24 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Selfishism?

ventureguess29 Nov 2023 10:42 UTC
4 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] SWE vs AIS

sammyboiz🔸21 Feb 2025 1:48 UTC
22 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Can for-profit com­pa­nies cre­ate sig­nifi­cant, di­rect im­pact?

T.K.11 Jul 2025 15:33 UTC
101 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

Space set­tle­ment and the time of per­ils: a cri­tique of Thorstad

Matthew Rendall14 Apr 2024 15:29 UTC
46 points
10 comments4 min readEA link

Sam’s Hot(?) Takes on EA Com­mu­nity Building

Sam Smith 🔸9 Sep 2025 9:33 UTC
136 points
15 comments10 min readEA link

Cu­mu­la­tive Value and In­stan­ta­neous value

ArthurF24 Jan 2025 10:49 UTC
6 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Per­haps No One En­joys Only Eat­ing Eggs and Bananas 1095 Times a Year

Nicolas Forero7 Mar 2024 16:51 UTC
27 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(nicolasforero.substack.com)

[Question] Talk­ing about EA with friend who has an in­tel­lec­tual dis­abil­ity — any ad­vice?

Hayven Frienby28 Dec 2023 17:45 UTC
15 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Con­flicted on AI Politics

Jeff Kaufman 🔸11 Jun 2025 12:39 UTC
39 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Why I Like Effec­tive Altru­ism More Than Socialism

GenericModel8 Dec 2025 16:46 UTC
25 points
10 comments5 min readEA link
(enrichedjamsham.substack.com)

Open Agency model can solve the AI reg­u­la­tion dilemma

Roman Leventov9 Nov 2023 15:22 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Thoughts on SB-1047

Ryan Greenblatt30 May 2024 0:19 UTC
53 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

Proac­tive AI Con­trol: A Case for Bat­tery-Depen­dent Systems

JesperLindholm29 Aug 2025 18:45 UTC
1 point
0 comments13 min readEA link

Bridges Across Time: How Is­lamic Wasatiyyah An­ti­ci­pated Longter­mist Thinking

Kariema El Touny11 Oct 2025 11:18 UTC
9 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

AI ro­man­tic part­ners will harm so­ciety if they go unregulated

Roman Leventov31 Jul 2023 15:55 UTC
16 points
9 comments13 min readEA link

Why I’m still go­ing out to bat for the EA move­ment post FTX

Gemma 🔸30 Sep 2023 15:02 UTC
167 points
11 comments7 min readEA link
(bashingthearc.substack.com)

(Cross­post) Ar­ti­cle on Po­lari­sa­tion Against Longter­mism and Mis­ap­ply­ing Mo­ral Philosophy

Danny Wardle22 Mar 2025 4:42 UTC
2 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(www.pluralityofwords.com)

Nar­ra­tive op­ti­mism vs epistemic optimism

Daniel_Friedrich24 Aug 2025 9:50 UTC
6 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Four Goals for EA Com­mu­nity Build­ing, After Run­ning out of Ob­vi­ous Cause Areas

Jian Xin Lim 🔸10 Oct 2025 17:42 UTC
9 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Inescapably Value-Laden Ex­pe­rience—Can We Make Mo­ral­ity Ra­tion­al­is­able?

Non-zero-sum James15 Jan 2025 0:13 UTC
2 points
7 comments2 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

How to effec­tively help peo­ple in Pales­tine and Is­rael dur­ing the war

bluebird2718 Dec 2023 10:51 UTC
14 points
5 comments9 min readEA link

AI gov­er­nance needs a the­ory of victory

Corin Katzke21 Jun 2024 16:08 UTC
84 points
8 comments20 min readEA link
(www.convergenceanalysis.org)

Con­cern About the In­tel­li­gence Divide Due to AI

Soe Lin21 Aug 2024 9:53 UTC
17 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Take A Sur­vey About Ve­ganism & Your Per­sonal Philos­o­phy to Help a Grad Stu­dent Out & Con­tribute to Hu­man-An­i­mal Re­la­tions Re­search!

sada_rice14 Apr 2025 14:08 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

How to Ad­dress EA Dilem­mas – What is Miss­ing from EA Values?

alexis schoenlaub13 Oct 2024 9:33 UTC
7 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Tiny hu­mans: the most promis­ing new cause can­di­date?

akash 🔸2 Apr 2024 8:46 UTC
27 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Is con­tri­bu­tion to open-source ca­pa­bil­ities re­search so­cially benefi­cial? - my reasoning

damc430 Oct 2025 15:11 UTC
2 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Seek­ing Feed­back: Po­si­tion­ing an Afri­can Vac­cine Plat­form Cen­tre for Global Impact

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi13 Sep 2025 0:24 UTC
11 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Meat Taxes Are Su­per Risky. Maybe We Can Make Them Work

Björn 🔹13 Aug 2025 10:05 UTC
25 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Effec­tive Ad­vo­cacy: Strik­ing the Balance Between Rad­i­cal and Ac­cessible Approaches

Boutheina Korchani13 Mar 2025 15:54 UTC
0 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

If The Data Is Poi­soned, Align­ment Won’t Save Us

keivn26 Sep 2025 17:59 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readEA link

It seems hard to avoid sci­en­tific stag­na­tion due to the bur­den of knowl­edge in the long run

TobyW1 Feb 2024 14:40 UTC
5 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(nematobe.substack.com)

Grap­pling with an Un­com­fortable Trade-off: Hu­man Lives vs. An­i­mal Suffering

tootlife23 Jul 2025 14:58 UTC
0 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Buy­ing Good: Sym­bolic Cap­i­tal in the Mo­ral Marketplace

Ethan Spencer23 Apr 2025 13:11 UTC
1 point
0 comments6 min readEA link

Spec­u­lat­ing on Se­cret In­tel­li­gence Explosions

calebp5 Jun 2025 13:55 UTC
21 points
5 comments8 min readEA link

Stum­bling Our Way into Global Catas­tro­phe One Tweet-at-a-Time

Faqih21 Oct 2025 6:38 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Seek­ing Fund­ing Sugges­tions to At­tend EA Global London

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi1 Feb 2025 23:09 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Im­ple­men­ta­tion Block—Why?

Onyekachi24 Jun 2025 20:18 UTC
4 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

De­cen­tral­ized His­tor­i­cal Data Preser­va­tion and Why EA Should Care

Sasha22 Mar 2024 10:09 UTC
2 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

What Does an ASI Poli­ti­cal Ecol­ogy Mean for Hu­man Sur­vival?

Nathan Sidney23 Feb 2025 8:53 UTC
7 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

How sci­ence be­come unscientific

Michał Terpiłowski22 May 2024 19:33 UTC
−1 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

A short con­ver­sa­tion I had with Google Gem­ini on the dan­gers of un­reg­u­lated LLM API use, while mildly drunk in an air­port.

EvanMcCormick17 Dec 2024 12:25 UTC
1 point
0 comments8 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing my­self with ARC Nav­i­ga­tor Prompt & a hu­man-friendly fun opportunity

Howl4049 Jul 2025 15:27 UTC
1 point
0 comments7 min readEA link

Nav­i­gat­ing Cul­tural Adap­ta­tion and the Limits of Progress Metrics

alexeusgr16 Sep 2025 2:41 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The Art of Carv­ing Stones

Kenneth_Diao12 Dec 2025 20:43 UTC
12 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

[Ap­ply] What I Love About AI Safety Field­build­ing at Cam­bridge (& We’re Hiring for a Lead­er­ship Role)

Harrison 🔸14 Feb 2025 17:41 UTC
16 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Med­i­cal As­sis­tance in Dy­ing for the Men­tally Ill as a Cause Area for Nega­tive Utilitarians

anonymous throwaway1 Apr 2024 8:04 UTC
20 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Effec­tive Giv­ing for Re­la­tional Altruists

Kestrel🔸13 Oct 2025 7:20 UTC
19 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

How to Virtue Sig­nal the “Right” Way

Zoe L13 Nov 2025 0:49 UTC
12 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

6) Speed is The Most Im­por­tant Vari­able in Pan­demic Risk Management

PandemicRiskMan5 Mar 2024 13:51 UTC
3 points
0 comments9 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
31 comments3 min readEA link

Ap­proaches to Miti­gat­ing AI Image-Gen­er­a­tion Risks through Regulation

scronkfinkle19 Apr 2025 13:50 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readEA link

Some un­der­rated rea­sons why the AI safety com­mu­nity should re­con­sider its em­brace of strict li­a­bil­ity

Cecil Abungu 8 Apr 2024 18:50 UTC
67 points
29 comments12 min readEA link

The Real­ity of Hold­ing an Ava Sum­mit in Los An­ge­les: Is it re­ally nec­es­sary?

SadMouse27 Feb 2025 16:55 UTC
34 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

The Failed Strat­egy of Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence Doomers

yhoiseth5 Feb 2025 19:34 UTC
12 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(letter.palladiummag.com)

A Crit­i­cal Anal­y­sis of “The Case for Strong Longter­mism”

Ze26 Jul 2025 11:50 UTC
2 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

Pri­ori­tiz­ing Men­tal Health: A Call to Ac­tion for the Effec­tive Altru­ism Community

MichaelRipa26 Jul 2024 12:43 UTC
17 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Hear Me Out: What If We Made Lifelong Learn­ing a Reli­gion?

Nicolas Forero11 Jul 2024 20:28 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(nicolasforero.substack.com)

[Question] How to in­fluence AGI?

Sam Freedman9 Jan 2025 20:46 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

From Preda­tory Stares to So­cial Mir­rors: The Evolu­tion of the Gaze from An­i­mals to Hu­mans

Rodo2 Jun 2025 18:11 UTC
−9 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

There is No EA Sort­ing Hat

ElliotTep18 Dec 2024 6:21 UTC
262 points
16 comments8 min readEA link

AI, Fac­tory Farm­ing and In­tu­itive Mo­ral Responses

DeepBlueWhale20 Jun 2024 12:43 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

In defense of the good­ness of ideas

Jordan Arel18 Oct 2025 22:00 UTC
6 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

A Pa­tient’s Per­spec­tive of Mea­sur­ing Health Outcomes

quinngrace28 Nov 2024 20:46 UTC
18 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

The Best Near-term Tool for Im­prov­ing Wild An­i­mal Welfare: Contraception

Tom Delaney25 Mar 2024 12:16 UTC
16 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Los­ing faith in big tech altruism

sammyboiz🔸22 May 2024 4:49 UTC
7 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

How to act wisely in the long term if we rarely know what is right to do?

Ray Horizon12 Oct 2025 23:17 UTC
1 point
4 comments6 min readEA link

You are de­luded and EA is not real

MountainPath28 Sep 2025 8:56 UTC
−24 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The Hard Land­ing Ahead – Why Cur­rent Disaster Strate­gies Are Doomed to Fail

Matt Boyd23 Jun 2025 12:45 UTC
17 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(adaptresearchwriting.com)

Re­think­ing the Im­pact of Ad­vo­cat­ing Against Dairy

Aditya Nair12 Jun 2025 14:10 UTC
87 points
13 comments3 min readEA link
(feedingprogress.com)

Is It Colder There?

Victoria Dias30 May 2025 12:21 UTC
5 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

How can we get the world to talk about an­i­mals’ in­vi­o­lable rights?

David Michelson10 Jan 2025 13:08 UTC
51 points
19 comments15 min readEA link

Seek­ing Feed­back: An Ini­ti­a­tive on AI, Men­tal Health, and Alignment

Gina Hafez30 Sep 2025 16:14 UTC
16 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Cost, Not Sacrifice

Joe Rogero20 Nov 2024 21:32 UTC
6 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(subatomicarticles.com)

3 Quick Ideas for Uni Group Organisers

JDLC28 Feb 2025 12:41 UTC
13 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

[Question] Is EA half AI?

AndreuAndreu6 Nov 2025 19:07 UTC
18 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Thoughts on the Pur­pose of EAGs

Tristan W12 Jun 2024 23:28 UTC
49 points
1 comment24 min readEA link

[Question] How Can We Em­power Afri­can Re­searchers to Over­come Bar­ri­ers in Trans­la­tional Science?

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi13 Jan 2025 4:31 UTC
15 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Doubt­ing Deter­rence by Denial

C.K.20 Mar 2025 15:55 UTC
4 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(conradkunadu.substack.com)

On think­ing about AI risks concretely

zeshen🔸11 Jul 2025 0:23 UTC
16 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Are al­ter­na­tive pro­teins an effec­tive in­ter­ven­tion for an­i­mals?

Samuel Mazzarella 🔸19 Mar 2025 11:34 UTC
68 points
8 comments9 min readEA link

Ques­tion­able Nar­ra­tives of “Si­tu­a­tional Aware­ness”

fergusq16 Jun 2024 17:09 UTC
28 points
11 comments14 min readEA link

Sus­tain­able fund­ing strat­egy—A long over­due situation

Onyekachi13 Nov 2025 22:17 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

AI Safety in Biotech: Epi­tope De­sign for Phage and AAV Vac­cines in the Global South

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi16 Sep 2025 9:59 UTC
5 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

What is Con­fi­dence, in Game The­ory and Life?

Non-zero-sum James10 Dec 2024 23:11 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Shrimp paste might cause more an­i­mal deaths than any other food product. Who’s work­ing on this?

Angelina Li30 Oct 2023 21:53 UTC
120 points
22 comments4 min readEA link

Car­rots, Sev­ered Fingers, and the Road to Serfdom

蒲渠波6 Oct 2025 13:29 UTC
−6 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Could a list of ca­pa­bil­ities be a bet­ter crite­rion than well-be­ing?

Ze7 Sep 2025 5:02 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Ex­pand­ing EA’s AI Builder Com­mu­nity—Writ­ing about my job

Alejandro Acelas 🔸21 Jul 2025 8:22 UTC
26 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

10 Les­sons Learned—One Year at EA Switzerland

Alix Pham27 Apr 2024 9:08 UTC
86 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

Fund­ing di­ver­sifi­ca­tion over time pe­ri­ods: se­cure fu­ture fund­ing vs. short term fund­ing

Engin Arıkan8 Nov 2024 15:59 UTC
16 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Biorisk re­searcher Gre­gory Lewis’s crit­i­cism of EA’s ini­tial re­sponse to covid-19

Yarrow - community posts 🔸16 Dec 2025 8:12 UTC
12 points
22 comments12 min readEA link

Rea­son­ing decay

ontologics20 Jul 2025 8:59 UTC
10 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

Live like you only have 10 years left

Rafael Ruiz10 Jun 2025 12:48 UTC
8 points
10 comments11 min readEA link

Frog Welfare

Chad Brouze5 Aug 2025 21:19 UTC
339 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

The Prac­ti­cal Value of Flawed Models: A Re­sponse to tito­tal’s AI 2027 Critique

Michelle_Ma25 Jun 2025 22:24 UTC
97 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

What “Effec­tive Altru­ism” Means to Me

Richard Y Chappell🔸14 Jun 2024 18:13 UTC
60 points
18 comments7 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

Align­ing AI Safety Pro­jects with a Repub­li­can Administration

Deric Cheng21 Nov 2024 22:13 UTC
13 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

Beyond Catas­tro­phe: Why AI Longter­mism Must Ac­count for Uber-Beneficence

Mayank Kejriwal21 Oct 2025 16:23 UTC
1 point
1 comment9 min readEA link

Public Data In­fras­truc­ture as a Cause Area || Draft

Locke25 Sep 2025 23:32 UTC
4 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Pru­den­tial longter­mism is de­fanged by the strat­egy of pro­cras­ti­na­tion — and that’s not all

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸6 Nov 2025 17:42 UTC
13 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

Epistemics (Part 1: In­tro­duc­tion) - Reflec­tive Altruism

Unofficial Reflective Altruism Cross-Poster15 Dec 2025 14:07 UTC
19 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(reflectivealtruism.com)

Start­ing the EA Values Project

EAvalues🔸19 Feb 2025 13:40 UTC
5 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

We Should Be Warier of Overconfidence

tcelferact16 Jul 2024 23:38 UTC
3 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Pre­dic­tion: Soylent/​Huel is to whole foods as baby for­mula is to breast milk. We keep think­ing “THIS time we’ve figured out ev­ery­thing a hu­man body needs.” Then we keep find­ing out that things are more com­plex.

Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️27 Jul 2025 15:27 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

EA’s Biggest Missed Op­por­tu­nity: Mark Zuckerberg

Trappist16 Jan 2025 12:36 UTC
17 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

Beyond Short-Ter­mism: How δ and w Can Real­ign AI with Our Values

Beyond Singularity18 Jun 2025 16:34 UTC
15 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Balanc­ing Bet­ter Pay and Life Pur­pose: Which Should Take Pri­or­ity?

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi28 Dec 2024 22:35 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Trig­ger warn­ing: vi­o­lence] An­i­mal vs hu­man welfare: shar­ing some per­sonal reflections

Forumite10 Oct 2024 11:49 UTC
177 points
8 comments4 min readEA link

5) We Can’t Solve Pan­demics Without Goals

PandemicRiskMan28 Feb 2024 18:30 UTC
1 point
0 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] Round­ing Up Effec­tively at Supermarkets

Danny Lipsitz 🔸 🌱26 Jan 2024 1:13 UTC
26 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Fac­tory farm­ing in a cos­mic future

Luke Dawes10 Feb 2024 12:14 UTC
30 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

Les­sons and in­sights from an EA marketer

Igor Scaldini28 Oct 2025 17:19 UTC
15 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

The priv­ilege of na­tive English speak­ers in reach­ing high-sta­tus, in­fluen­tial po­si­tions in EA

Alix Pham20 Dec 2023 21:07 UTC
149 points
38 comments4 min readEA link

John Cochrane on why reg­u­la­tion is the wrong tool for AI Safety

ezrah26 Sep 2024 8:48 UTC
3 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.grumpy-economist.com)

Why I No Longer Find Ra­tion­al­ist AI Safety Ar­gu­ments Persuasive

Amaro Koberle23 Nov 2025 21:48 UTC
8 points
16 comments6 min readEA link

Liquidity in Ca­reers and Skills

Vaishnav Sunil3 Aug 2024 15:06 UTC
14 points
3 comments7 min readEA link
(www.everythingisatrolley.com)

The Calcu­lus of Hu­man Be­hav­ior: Are We Always Driven by In­ter­ests?

双佳30 Sep 2025 12:51 UTC
1 point
1 comment5 min readEA link

AI Safety Bounties

PatrickL24 Aug 2023 14:30 UTC
37 points
2 comments7 min readEA link
(rethinkpriorities.org)

[Question] Where would I find the hard­core to­tal­iz­ing seg­ment of EA?

Peter Berggren🔸28 Dec 2023 9:16 UTC
16 points
22 comments1 min readEA link

The AI Endgame: A coun­ter­fac­tual to AI al­ign­ment by an AI Safety newcomer

Andreas P1 Dec 2023 5:49 UTC
2 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Why AI Safety Camp strug­gles with fundrais­ing (FBB #2)

gergo21 Jan 2025 17:25 UTC
67 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

Please Donate to CAIP (Post 1 of 7 on AI Gover­nance)

Jason Green-Lowe7 May 2025 18:15 UTC
141 points
25 comments33 min readEA link

En­vi­sion­ing a Cen­tral Knowl­edge Hub for the An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Movement

Ronen Bar31 Jan 2024 7:25 UTC
14 points
3 comments11 min readEA link

Buy­ing Good: Does the Plu­ral­ism of Fund­ing Streams Un­der­mine the Mar­ket Logic Th­e­sis?

Ethan Spencer23 Apr 2025 13:00 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readEA link

The OpenAI Gover­nance Tran­si­tion: The His­tory, What It Is, and What It Means

Charlie G 🔹17 Nov 2025 21:08 UTC
3 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(charliegarfield.substack.com)

The ne­ces­sity of “Guardian AI” and two con­di­tions for its achievement

Proica28 May 2024 11:42 UTC
1 point
1 comment15 min readEA link

Promethean Gover­nance in Prac­tice: Craft­ing a Poly­cen­tric, Memetic Order for the Mul­tipo­lar AI Aeon

Paul Fallavollita20 Mar 2025 10:10 UTC
−1 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

The EA move­ment needs to be able to di­s­own rogue “sup­port­ers”, start­ing with Musk

drbrake 🔸24 Feb 2025 2:30 UTC
10 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

Deep­Mind’s “​​Fron­tier Safety Frame­work” is weak and unambitious

Zach Stein-Perlman18 May 2024 3:00 UTC
54 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

The Para­dox of Ineffec­tive Ego­ism in Effec­tive Altruism

keivn1 Nov 2025 21:21 UTC
4 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

The Ra­tionale-Shaped Hole At The Heart Of Forecasting

dschwarz2 Apr 2024 15:51 UTC
161 points
14 comments11 min readEA link

[Question] Value Of Life For Hu­mans Com­pared To Other An­i­mals?

dstudioscode8 Apr 2024 0:20 UTC
2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

[Question] Should We Make Tak­ing Ac­tions To­gether, More Cen­tral­ized Over Here?

Alisha 7 Jul 2024 13:15 UTC
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[linkpost] One Year in DC

tlevin19 May 2025 19:46 UTC
68 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.greentape.pub)

Can democ­racy be im­proved with ran­dom se­lec­tion?

John Huang27 Oct 2024 9:31 UTC
16 points
9 comments10 min readEA link

Fish farm­ing: the in­visi­ble crisis we can no longer ignore

zoenewton29 Mar 2025 18:59 UTC
35 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

EA re­cruit­ment: less effec­tive than gov­ern­ment?

AnotherEAJobSeeker1 Nov 2025 20:31 UTC
8 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

[Question] Why hasn’t there been any sig­nifi­cant AI protest

sammyboiz🔸17 May 2024 2:59 UTC
21 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Im­pact Eval­u­a­tion in EA

callum26 Oct 2023 23:18 UTC
147 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

Could GLP-1 Ago­nists be an Un­der-Rec­og­nized High-Value Medicine for EA?

Natalie Bauman19 Nov 2025 15:55 UTC
6 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

The Cri­sis EA Can­not Afford to Ignore

Allegra_P11 Nov 2025 17:22 UTC
75 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

Mov­ing banks as a ne­glected cause area

Nick Lowry14 Oct 2025 19:16 UTC
3 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Ideas for en­g­ineer­ing project

NebulousInsurance9 Dec 2025 15:26 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Effec­tive An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Re­quires Un­der­stand­ing the Per­spec­tives of An­i­mal Farmers

Björn 🔹26 Aug 2025 9:10 UTC
27 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

EA as a Tree of Questions

OGTutzauer🔸6 May 2025 8:40 UTC
79 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

The Weight of Small Altru­is­tic Actions

Siya Sawhney1 Jul 2024 14:07 UTC
2 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

What comes af­ter the In­tro­duc­tion Fel­low­ship? A tool and ap­proach for com­mu­nity organizers

Brooke O'Connell 🔸20 Jan 2025 13:39 UTC
52 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

Make Your Op­por­tu­nity Share­able: In­clude Ver­sions for Differ­ent Platforms

Erik Jentzen17 Apr 2025 6:12 UTC
24 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

A High De­cou­pling Failure

Maxwell Tabarrok14 Apr 2024 19:47 UTC
25 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Maybe let the non-EA world train you

ElliotTep14 Jun 2024 14:45 UTC
425 points
30 comments8 min readEA link

The Rise of Med­i­cal Con­trar­i­anism (a re­view of Blind Spots by Dr. Marty Makary)

hkoos15 Feb 2025 23:32 UTC
23 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

The Case for an On­line En­cy­clo­pe­dia Man­aged by AI Agents

Casey Milkweed21 Jul 2025 14:06 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(substack.com)

Effec­tive Altru­ism Net­work Gover­nance System

James Norris7 Feb 2025 3:50 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link

The Bunker Fallacy

SimonKS10 Apr 2024 8:33 UTC
12 points
11 comments6 min readEA link

Of Mice and MAGA: Ex­plor­ing Gen­er­a­tive Short Fic­tion’s Po­ten­tial for An­i­mal Rights Advocacy

Charlie Sanders17 Dec 2024 1:45 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(www.dailymicrofiction.com)

Read­ing glasses might be one of the best buys in global health.

Lauren Gilbert15 Oct 2024 15:39 UTC
60 points
14 comments1 min readEA link
(laurenpolicy.substack.com)

New Meta-Anal­y­sis: Ex­er­cise is a Highly Effec­tive (But Ne­glected) Treat­ment for Depression

Frans van Hoek12 Dec 2023 19:08 UTC
10 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] How much (more) data do we need to claim ex­treme cost-effec­tive­ness?

Niek Versteegde, founder GOAL 31 Oct 2024 12:36 UTC
28 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

Rad­i­cal Longter­mism and the Se­duc­tion of End­less Growth: A Cri­tique of William MacAskill’s ‘What We Owe the Fu­ture’

Alexander Herwix 🔸14 Sep 2023 14:43 UTC
−13 points
15 comments1 min readEA link
(perspecteeva.substack.com)

Us­ing Vol­un­teer Roles to Build Skills and Net­works in EA

Joey Bream🔸12 Sep 2025 21:33 UTC
22 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Pro­posal for Scal­ing Com­mu­nity Building

C.Jordan26 Feb 2024 1:13 UTC
13 points
1 comment15 min readEA link

My The­ory of Con­scious­ness: The Ex­pe­riencer and the Indicator

David Hammerle23 Dec 2024 4:07 UTC
1 point
1 comment7 min readEA link

Big Pic­ture AI Safety: Introduction

EuanMcLean23 May 2024 11:28 UTC
34 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Three tricky bi­ases: hu­man bias, ex­is­tence bias, and happy bias

Steven Rouk2 Feb 2024 14:20 UTC
54 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

Digi­tal Agents: The Fu­ture of News Consumption

Tharin16 May 2024 8:12 UTC
9 points
1 comment7 min readEA link
(echoesandchimes.com)

An­nounc­ing: On Underutilization

Peter Berggren🔸18 Sep 2025 15:23 UTC
31 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Be­ware of shift­ing baseline syndrome

MilleBrrrm12 Dec 2023 19:09 UTC
6 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

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

Avila22 Apr 2024 21:19 UTC
131 points
55 comments5 min readEA link

If AGI is im­mi­nent, why can’t I hail a rob­o­taxi?

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸9 Dec 2023 20:50 UTC
24 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Why I donate (& pledge) - Re­spon­si­bil­ity, life qual­ity & logic

Ameer Virani🔸8 Dec 2025 16:38 UTC
34 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Giv­ing more has made me less generous

Christopher Clay11 Mar 2025 14:30 UTC
52 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Deep Democ­racy as a promis­ing tar­get for pos­i­tive AGI futures

tylermjohn20 Aug 2025 12:18 UTC
62 points
32 comments3 min readEA link

Protest­ing Now for AI Reg­u­la­tion might be more Im­pact­ful than AI Gover­nance and Policy Research

Nicolae13 Apr 2025 2:11 UTC
71 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Map­ping of An­tibiotic-Re­sis­tant Bac­te­ria Through GIS Data and Med­i­cal Re­ports.

MiguelHG16 Sep 2024 15:50 UTC
8 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Why Many EAs Prob­a­bly Un­der­value Their Happiness

emily.fan20 Oct 2025 6:47 UTC
24 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Com­par­ing AI Labs and Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal Companies

mxschons13 Nov 2024 14:51 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(mxschons.com)

AI Ver­sion of an Am­bi­tious Pro­posal to Effec­tively Ad­dress World Suffering

RobertDaoust18 Jan 2025 15:33 UTC
−12 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Taiwan’s mil­i­tary com­pla­cency.

JKitson4 Dec 2023 9:28 UTC
32 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

(Cross­post) Is Effec­tive Altru­ism just a gi­ant meme?

cryptopsyfan694205 Oct 2024 23:33 UTC
−18 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Where Are the Older Peo­ple in Our Move­ment?

Ronen Bar14 Mar 2025 13:05 UTC
51 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

Cap­i­tal­is­ing on Trust—A Karmic Simulation

Non-zero-sum James28 Sep 2024 5:42 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

The ex­treme waste­ful­ness of high rent prices

Knight Lee27 May 2025 5:01 UTC
−9 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

The Boiled-Frog Failure Mode

ontologics30 Jun 2025 13:24 UTC
7 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Track­ing Crit­i­cal In­fras­truc­ture AI Incidents

Ben Turse29 Sep 2024 21:29 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link

How would you ap­proach an in­tro­duc­tion to Effec­tive Altru­ism in 1 hour in a class of sec­ond-year Philos­o­phy stu­dents?

jrcl391 Feb 2024 12:47 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Cul­ti­vated Meat: A Wakeup Call for Optimists

CianHamilton22 Sep 2025 9:37 UTC
139 points
23 comments15 min readEA link

Differ­en­tial knowl­edge interconnection

Roman Leventov12 Oct 2024 12:52 UTC
3 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

My in­de­pen­dent im­pres­sions on the EA Handbook

VictorW7 Aug 2023 9:09 UTC
15 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

Surgery Works Well Without The FDA

Maxwell Tabarrok26 Jan 2024 13:32 UTC
19 points
5 comments4 min readEA link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)

How Effec­tive Altru­ism im­pacts the views on Ex­is­ten­tial Risks

Daniel Pidgornyi2 Feb 2024 15:34 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readEA link

How to donate effi­ciently to LMIC Organisations

AnimalAdvocacyAfrica27 Feb 2024 11:39 UTC
27 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Crabs in a Bucket ~ Or Links in a Chain

Non-zero-sum James28 Feb 2024 23:04 UTC
3 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

The An­i­mal Welfare Case for Open Ac­cess: Break­ing Bar­ri­ers to Scien­tific Knowl­edge and En­hanc­ing LLM Training

Wladimir J. Alonso23 Nov 2024 13:07 UTC
32 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Could Adeno-As­so­ci­ated Virus (AAV) Vec­tors Be the Fu­ture of One-Shot, Long-Last­ing Vac­cines?

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi28 Aug 2025 14:11 UTC
10 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

How Im­por­tant is Ex­plo­ra­tion and Pri­ori­ti­za­tion?

Babel8 Apr 2025 14:48 UTC
7 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Out­landish Claims

HonoreDB30 Jun 2024 19:01 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(outlandishclaims.substack.com)

EA in Poli­tics: Let’s De­bunk a Taboo

Anna Toso12 Dec 2023 16:25 UTC
12 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

8) The Lines of Defence Ap­proach to Pan­demic Risk Management

PandemicRiskMan17 Mar 2024 19:00 UTC
4 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

re­flec­tions on smileys and how to make so­ciety’s in­ter­pre­tive pri­ors more charitable

Emrik16 May 2024 3:27 UTC
20 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Mo­ral Ed­u­ca­tion in the Age of AI: Are We Rais­ing Good Hu­mans?

Era Sarda31 Jul 2025 13:25 UTC
3 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

I Am Not a Good Fit: Reflec­tions on My Jour­ney with EA and Global Priorities

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi30 Aug 2025 3:25 UTC
41 points
15 comments2 min readEA link

2) Pan­demics Are Solved With Risk Man­age­ment, Not Science

PandemicRiskMan31 Jan 2024 15:51 UTC
−9 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Why En­gag­ing with Global Ma­jor­ity AI Policy Matters

Heramb Podar2 Jul 2025 1:54 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

How my com­pas­sion for an­i­mals up­dated my views on cap­i­tal punishment

Aditi Basu🔸24 Jan 2025 6:42 UTC
24 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Things EA Group Or­ganisers Need To Hear

Kenneth_Diao13 Apr 2024 19:24 UTC
125 points
8 comments11 min readEA link
(kennethdiao.substack.com)

Strate­gic Neu­tral­ity for ACE: Max­i­miz­ing Im­pact by Avoid­ing Divi­sive Signaling

AndeanCondor3 Jun 2025 15:47 UTC
14 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

SDG prompt challenge

chrisaiki2 Jun 2025 7:17 UTC
−9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Some thoughts on Leopold Aschen­bren­ner’s Si­tu­a­tional Aware­ness paper

Luke Dawes14 Jun 2024 13:50 UTC
14 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Even af­ter GPT-4, AI re­searchers fore­casted a 50% chance of AGI by 2047 or 2116, de­pend­ing how you define AGI

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸28 Oct 2025 16:55 UTC
18 points
17 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Can we train AI so that fu­ture philan­thropy is more effec­tive?

Ricardo Pimentel3 Nov 2024 15:08 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

You Don’t Have to Be an AI Doomer to Sup­port AI Safety

Liam Robins14 Jun 2025 23:10 UTC
10 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(thelimestack.substack.com)

The Curse of Not Be­ing Seen: A Note on EA Hiring and Distance

Luca Parodi10 Jun 2025 14:54 UTC
23 points
12 comments4 min readEA link

What will the first hu­man-level AI look like, and how might things go wrong?

EuanMcLean23 May 2024 11:28 UTC
12 points
1 comment15 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on some ex­pe­riences in EA

NatKiilu16 Jul 2024 15:50 UTC
160 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

EA, i love you

Roger Hunt - The Center for Innovation Ethics3 Jun 2024 9:41 UTC
2 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

The Im­pact Case for Tak­ing a Break from Your Non-EA Job

SarahPomeranz4 Oct 2023 7:47 UTC
79 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

Post-hu­man­ism is the an­swer for pros­per­ity, peace and eter­nal life of all ‘hu­man be­ings’

Soe Lin29 Oct 2025 1:51 UTC
1 point
4 comments1 min readEA link

Reflec­tions from the AVA Sum­mit Kenya 2025: Build­ing Bridges for Effec­tive An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy in Africa

Lutebemberwa Isa30 Oct 2025 10:55 UTC
5 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

AI Align­ment and the Fi­nan­cial War Against Nar­cis­sis­tic Manipulation

Julian Nalenz19 Feb 2025 20:36 UTC
2 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

A Scheme for us­ing Wor­ldCoin to provide elec­tric­ity & smart phone ac­cess in ru­ral Malawi, Africa

Robert Van Buskirk31 Jul 2023 19:22 UTC
1 point
2 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] If EAs ex­isted 100 years ago, would they sup­port Pro­hi­bi­tion?

WillieG1 Feb 2025 18:49 UTC
66 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

When You Don’t Know the Op­ti­mal An­swer, the Marginal An­swer Might Still Suffice

Liam Robins4 Sep 2025 19:15 UTC
5 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(thelimestack.substack.com)

Part 3: Reflec­tions af­ter at­tend­ing the CEA In­tro to EA Vir­tual Pro­gram in Sum­mer 2023 – Chap­ter 3: Rad­i­cal Empathy

Andreas P13 Oct 2023 17:40 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Why Most Efforts Towards “Demo­cratic AI” Fall Short

Jacob-Haimes29 Sep 2025 20:47 UTC
9 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(www.odysseaninstitute.org)

An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Ta­lent Survey

Animal Advocacy Careers1 Jul 2024 9:42 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Se­cond Man­hat­tan: His­tor­i­cal Les­sons for AGI Control

Chiastic Slide13 Oct 2025 23:50 UTC
2 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

How gov­ern­ments might re­spond to the eco­nomic up­heaval of TAI

Tax Geek17 Oct 2025 11:02 UTC
11 points
6 comments8 min readEA link

China’s Pe­ti­tion Sys­tem: It Looks Like Democ­racy — But It Isn’t

Seven_Hu378927 Apr 2025 23:41 UTC
0 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Ob­ser­va­tions on the fund­ing land­scape of EA and AI safety

Vilhelm Skoglund2 Oct 2023 9:45 UTC
136 points
12 comments15 min readEA link

An Ar­gu­ment for Fo­cus­ing on Mak­ing AI go Well

Chris Leong28 Dec 2023 13:25 UTC
13 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

The Causes of Reluc­tance to Donation

alphaplus25 Feb 2025 12:57 UTC
9 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Ca­reer Ad­vice: How to Make Ex­traor­di­nary Things Happen

Dr Faraz Harsini3 Jan 2024 15:25 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.alliedscholars.org)

Pod­cast: PEPFAR Freeze Could Kill Millions

JDBauman1 Mar 2025 4:03 UTC
14 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The State of AI Gover­nance in Africa: Mus­ings from the Global South

Thaiya Jesse Wallace17 Aug 2023 11:34 UTC
6 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Eigh­teen Open Re­search Ques­tions for Govern­ing Ad­vanced AI Systems

Ihor Ivliev3 May 2025 19:00 UTC
2 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

‘GiveWell for AI Safety’: Les­sons learned in a week

Lydia Nottingham30 May 2025 16:10 UTC
45 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

EA is bad for men­tal health (and I’m tired of pre­tend­ing it’s not)

VictorW31 Oct 2024 14:58 UTC
24 points
24 comments21 min readEA link

About my Job: Re­search Manager

Cameron Holmes19 Dec 2025 15:41 UTC
12 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Redesign­ing the In­tro Fel­low­ship: Re­sults, Re­sources, Reflec­tions, & more

Sam_E_2422 Aug 2023 1:59 UTC
34 points
2 comments14 min readEA link

EA needs or­ganic op­tics, not ‘no’ op­tics

barkbellowroar16 Oct 2025 16:07 UTC
25 points
19 comments3 min readEA link

Max Teg­mark — The AGI En­tente Delusion

Matrice Jacobine🔸🏳️‍⚧️13 Oct 2024 17:42 UTC
0 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

The Case for Coun­ter­fac­tual Think­ing in Non­profit Fundraising

Seema Jayachandran10 Dec 2025 17:34 UTC
7 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

USA/​China Rec­on­cili­a­tion a Ne­ces­sity Be­cause of AI/​Tech Acceleration

bhrdwj🔸17 Apr 2025 13:13 UTC
1 point
7 comments7 min readEA link

Why you are not mo­ti­vated to work on AI safety

MountainPath25 Oct 2024 16:12 UTC
7 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Ca­reer Op­tions for EA-al­igned Ca­reers in Non-Profit or So­cial Im­pact—Em­manuel Katto Uganda

EmmanuelKatto21 Jun 2024 5:22 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

“Do­ing Good” is not a Mission

Cat🔸28 Feb 2025 14:28 UTC
14 points
2 comments21 min readEA link

Effec­tive AI Outreach | A Data Driven Approach

NoahCWilson🔸28 Feb 2025 0:44 UTC
15 points
2 comments15 min readEA link

How Altru­ism can be Ineffective

Ethan Spencer26 Mar 2025 15:32 UTC
3 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

If an ASI wakes up be­fore my ideas catch on… will it still read my blog?

Astelle Kay10 Jul 2025 22:37 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

EA over­looks the ‘Why’

Joseph Sarvary3 Jan 2025 18:47 UTC
0 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

Songs on the Death of Children

Nicholas Decker5 Jul 2024 18:27 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(nicholasdecker.substack.com)

Su­per­mar­ket Meat Re­duc­tion in Europe

ASuchy30 Jan 2025 19:51 UTC
19 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

An ar­gu­ment for ac­cel­er­at­ing in­ter­na­tional AI gov­er­nance re­search (part 2)

MattThinks22 Aug 2023 22:40 UTC
5 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

The Cap­i­tal­ist Agent

Julian Nalenz6 Feb 2025 13:22 UTC
1 point
1 comment3 min readEA link
(blog.hermesloom.org)

7) How to Build Speed Into Our Pan­demic Re­sponse Plans

PandemicRiskMan15 Mar 2024 16:53 UTC
1 point
0 comments13 min readEA link

Bet on Your­self—Let Char­i­ties Win if You Don’t

Dav1d19 Oct 2025 21:41 UTC
9 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] If an AI fi­nan­cial bub­ble popped, how much would that change your mind about near-term AGI?

Yarrow Bouchard 🔸21 Oct 2025 22:39 UTC
19 points
6 comments2 min readEA link

Why build­ing ven­tures in AI Safety is par­tic­u­larly challeng­ing

Heramb Podar6 Nov 2023 0:16 UTC
16 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Is “cage free” re­ally the most hu­mane op­tion for egg-lay­ing hens?

mvolz23 Oct 2025 5:30 UTC
54 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

Did LessWrong call covid-19 early? No

Yarrow - community posts 🔸15 Dec 2025 14:14 UTC
6 points
14 comments7 min readEA link

GIFTing breeder an­i­mals is a hu­man­i­tar­ian intervention

Aaron Boddy🔸27 May 2025 22:20 UTC
74 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

The ‘Bad Par­ent’ Prob­lem: Why Hu­man So­ciety Com­pli­cates AI Alignment

Beyond Singularity5 Apr 2025 21:08 UTC
11 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Karma bias

Bulat21 Sep 2025 14:16 UTC
1 point
2 comments1 min readEA link

deleted

funnyfranco24 Mar 2025 19:44 UTC
4 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Should you pur­sue an MA de­gree in In­ter­na­tional Re­la­tions?

Shaan Shaikh20 Oct 2024 22:45 UTC
27 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

Is RLHF cruel to AI?

Hzn16 Dec 2024 14:01 UTC
−1 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

In­creas­ing risks of GCRs due to cli­mate change

Leonora_Camner12 Apr 2024 15:57 UTC
19 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

The “low-hang­ing fruits” of AI safety

Julian Nalenz19 Dec 2024 13:38 UTC
−1 points
0 comments6 min readEA link
(blog.hermesloom.org)

Im­poster syn­drome is not always irrational

VictorW30 Jan 2025 1:24 UTC
13 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

[Question] Are U.S. Poli­ti­ci­ans In­tel­lec­tu­ally Ri­gor­ous Be­hind the Scenes or Do Public De­bates Ac­cu­rately Reflect Their Un­der­stand­ing?

Aaron Graifman23 Nov 2023 9:14 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

How EAs Can Em­bolden Em­ploy­ees (es­pe­cially those close to Bi­den)

Woody Campbell13 Jul 2024 16:25 UTC
9 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Un­limited room-for-more-fund­ing on effec­tive aid

simongrinsted2 Oct 2025 22:29 UTC
23 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

List of Good Begin­ner-friendly AI Law/​Policy/​Reg­u­la­tion Books

CAISID22 Feb 2024 14:51 UTC
28 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

I spent a lot of time and money on one dog. Do I need help?

tobiasleenaert10 Dec 2023 11:26 UTC
94 points
25 comments5 min readEA link

Up­dates on the effec­tive giv­ing ecosys­tem (MCF 2025 memo)

Luke Moore 🔸12 Sep 2025 14:48 UTC
86 points
10 comments7 min readEA link

Where to Give Lo­cally? Lack of Na­tional Eval­u­a­tors and the Case of Baby Lasagna

Adrian Satja Kurdija16 May 2024 12:29 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

We need to be hon­est with young peo­ple about biose­cu­rity careers

rjain 🔹19 Nov 2025 14:55 UTC
77 points
16 comments6 min readEA link

Les­sons from My First Month on Substack

Mónica Ulloa14 Aug 2025 1:15 UTC
22 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Thoughts on Mo­ral Am­bi­tion by Rut­ger Bregman

Patrick Gruban 🔸9 Jan 2025 11:50 UTC
186 points
30 comments2 min readEA link

A.I love you : AGI and Hu­man Traitors

Pilot Pillow2 Apr 2025 14:18 UTC
1 point
2 comments7 min readEA link

Un­der­stand­ing FTX’s crimes

FTXwatcher11 Apr 2024 9:14 UTC
238 points
32 comments19 min readEA link

Effec­tive Giv­ing: How to Make the Most of Your Dona­tions (Em­manuel Katto)

EmmanuelKatto16 Jul 2024 5:59 UTC
−5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Sonoma County’s Mea­sure J: Echoes of Switzer­land’s Fac­tory Farm­ing Vote

zoenewton8 Nov 2024 12:17 UTC
19 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

More thoughts on the Hu­man-AGI War

Ahrenbach27 Dec 2023 1:52 UTC
2 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

La­bor Par­ti­ci­pa­tion is a High-Pri­or­ity AI Align­ment Risk

alx12 Aug 2024 18:48 UTC
17 points
3 comments16 min readEA link

[Question] Co­or­di­na­tion failures in tack­ling hu­man­ity’s biggest problems

doemil14 Nov 2025 15:12 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Mir­ror Phages: When Viruses Meet the “Other” Kind of Life

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi1 Sep 2025 20:08 UTC
5 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Dis­cov­er­ing al­ign­ment wind­falls re­duces AI risk

James Brady28 Feb 2024 21:14 UTC
22 points
3 comments8 min readEA link
(blog.elicit.com)

The Value of a Statis­ti­cal Life is not a good metric

Christopher Clay19 Mar 2025 9:11 UTC
25 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Is In­spira­tion Effec­tive in An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy?

zoenewton14 Aug 2023 11:42 UTC
6 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

De­ci­sion Eng­ine For Model­ling AI in Society

Echo Huang7 Aug 2025 11:15 UTC
24 points
1 comment18 min readEA link

Are We Leav­ing the In­di­vi­d­ual Be­hind? The Role of An­i­mal Sto­ry­tel­ling in the An­i­mal Rights Movement

Ronen Bar18 Aug 2024 13:03 UTC
69 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Towards non-meat diets for do­mes­ti­cated dogs

Seth Ariel Green 🔸6 Nov 2023 14:21 UTC
51 points
12 comments7 min readEA link

The anti-AIDS pro­gram PEPFAR: the Euro­pean Union must re­place the United States (if nec­es­sary)

Arturo Macias28 Jan 2025 11:37 UTC
15 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Ex­is­ten­tial Risks Con­ven­tion: pos­si­bil­ities to act

Manfred Kohler17 Oct 2024 17:35 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link

GPT5 won’t be what kills us all

DPiepgrass28 Sep 2024 17:11 UTC
3 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(dpiepgrass.medium.com)

De-em­pha­sise al­ign­ment, em­pha­sise restraint

EuanMcLean4 Feb 2025 17:43 UTC
19 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

The RCT Agenda—Bryan Caplan

Hugh P13 Mar 2024 5:57 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(substack.com)

The Dilemma’s Dilemma

Non-zero-sum James19 Feb 2025 23:56 UTC
2 points
1 comment7 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

EA: Re­nais­sance or Di­as­pora?

TimothyTelleenLawton26 Oct 2024 22:59 UTC
58 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Buy­ing Good: In­sights from the Mo­ral Marketplace

Ethan Spencer24 Apr 2025 12:49 UTC
1 point
0 comments4 min readEA link

Harry Black­wood, A Researcher

Connor Wood18 Apr 2025 3:05 UTC
−7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

What I learned re­flect­ing on the his­tory of an­i­mal advocacy

Aditya Nair18 Apr 2025 14:54 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

From Plant Pathogens to Hu­man Threats: Un­veiling the Silent Me­nace of Fun­gal Diseases

Nnaemeka Emmanuel Nnadi24 Sep 2023 22:16 UTC
22 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

GenAI and a Skep­ti­cal Hy­poth­e­sis World

Ahrenbach25 Jan 2024 16:42 UTC
0 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

The Type Of An­i­mal Hus­bandry Is Rele­vant For An­i­mal Welfare

Achim17 Jun 2024 20:20 UTC
5 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

My guess for the most cost effec­tive AI Safety projects

Linda Linsefors24 Jan 2024 12:21 UTC
26 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

The Align­ment Prob­lem No One is Talk­ing About

Non-zero-sum James14 May 2024 10:42 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

How to give effec­tively to US Dems

Hauke Hillebrandt24 Sep 2024 14:38 UTC
27 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.slowboring.com)

Billion­aire philan­thropy (Part 7: Donor dis­cre­tion)

Matrice Jacobine🔸🏳️‍⚧️25 Nov 2024 8:38 UTC
37 points
17 comments1 min readEA link
(reflectivealtruism.com)

Co­op­er­a­tion for AI safety must tran­scend geopoli­ti­cal interference

Matrice Jacobine🔸🏳️‍⚧️16 Feb 2025 18:18 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.scmp.com)

New vol­un­tary com­mit­ments (AI Seoul Sum­mit)

Zach Stein-Perlman21 May 2024 11:00 UTC
12 points
1 comment7 min readEA link
(www.gov.uk)

[Question] (How) can we help the EA-space with our MEL/​im­pact Con­sult­ing best?

Teresa Jakovlev13 Feb 2025 12:25 UTC
21 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Poli­ti­cal Con­flict Re­s­olu­tion: We Can and We Should

Alex Weissenfels (ExCeph)3 Mar 2025 4:08 UTC
3 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Donat­ing everything

S12 May 2025 2:07 UTC
15 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Both-sidesism—When Fair & Balanced Goes Wrong

Non-zero-sum James2 Nov 2024 3:06 UTC
10 points
2 comments6 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

My AI safety in­de­pen­dent re­search en­g­ineer path so far

Artyom K25 Jul 2025 8:49 UTC
16 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

EA Has a Brand­ing Problem

Zoe L5 Nov 2025 14:01 UTC
26 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

Align­ing SDG and EA through effec­tive SDG

alexis schoenlaub28 Jan 2025 14:24 UTC
12 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Con­sider not donat­ing un­der $100 to poli­ti­cal candidates

DanielFilan11 May 2025 3:22 UTC
86 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

The abrupt end of USAID-funded clini­cal tri­als is profoundly unethical

Matrice Jacobine🔸🏳️‍⚧️17 Feb 2025 11:16 UTC
58 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(www.statnews.com)

The need for a cen­tral repos­i­tory of OH biosafety and biose­cu­rity surveillance data in­clud­ing data ag­gre­ga­tion, col­la­tion and visualization

Pamela Kajumba17 Dec 2024 17:58 UTC
9 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

Sen­tience-Based Align­ment Strate­gies: Should we try to give AI gen­uine em­pa­thy/​com­pas­sion?

Lloy2 🔹4 May 2025 20:45 UTC
16 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Ve­gans are down… an­i­mals are up...?

Taj Uppal9 Dec 2025 21:36 UTC
11 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Elec­tion by Jury: The Ul­ti­mate Demo­cratic Safe­guard in the Age of AI and In­for­ma­tion Warfare

ClayShentrup17 Apr 2025 19:50 UTC
13 points
5 comments27 min readEA link

The sec­ond bit­ter les­son — there’s a fun­da­men­tal prob­lem with al­ign­ing AI

aelwood19 Jan 2025 18:48 UTC
4 points
1 comment5 min readEA link
(pursuingreality.substack.com)

[Question] Should 80,000 Hours Con­sider Put­ting Ads on its Newslet­ters?

Noah Varley🔸14 Feb 2024 15:46 UTC
3 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Your Non­profit Strat­egy Roadmap: Ex­pert Tips + Live Training

Deena Englander3 Jun 2025 21:05 UTC
8 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

What I am open to chang­ing my mind about: polls and debates

BiologyTranslated9 May 2025 10:13 UTC
8 points
9 comments2 min readEA link