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TagLast edit: 14 Jul 2022 17:50 UTC by Leo

Use the research methods tag for posts about how to conduct better research.

The tag can also be used for posts that present their research in such an exemplary way that a reader could learn about effective research methods simply by reading them.

For posts about improving research methods done in science, use the meta-science tag.

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In­gre­di­ents for cre­at­ing dis­rup­tive re­search teams

stefan.torges16 May 2019 16:23 UTC
159 points
17 comments54 min readEA link

Our re­search pro­cess: an overview from Re­think Pri­ori­ties’ Global Health and Devel­op­ment team

Rethink Priorities20 Mar 2023 17:02 UTC
63 points
12 comments6 min readEA link

Feed­back I’ve been giv­ing to ju­nior x-risk researchers

Will Aldred15 Aug 2022 20:46 UTC
145 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Use­ful Vices for Wicked Problems

Holden Karnofsky12 Apr 2022 19:19 UTC
115 points
3 comments16 min readEA link

How to gen­er­ate re­search proposals

Jaime Sevilla1 Aug 2019 16:38 UTC
164 points
7 comments8 min readEA link

Frank Feed­back Given To Very Ju­nior Researchers

NunoSempere1 Sep 2021 10:55 UTC
157 points
23 comments5 min readEA link

How to do the­o­ret­i­cal re­search, a per­sonal perspective

Mark Xu19 Aug 2022 19:43 UTC
132 points
7 comments15 min readEA link

Karolina Sarek: How to do re­search that matters

EA Global27 Jul 2020 14:55 UTC
43 points
0 comments16 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

How to eval­u­ate rel­a­tive im­pact in high-un­cer­tainty con­texts? An up­date on re­search method­ol­ogy & grant­mak­ing of FP Cli­mate

jackva26 May 2023 17:30 UTC
84 points
8 comments16 min readEA link

The Im­por­tance of Time Capping

Joey 🔸28 Dec 2018 17:02 UTC
72 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

What com­plex­ity sci­ence and simu­la­tion have to offer effec­tive altruism

Rory Greig8 Jun 2021 9:50 UTC
64 points
15 comments22 min readEA link

How to suc­ceed as an early-stage re­searcher: the “lean startup” approach

ts7 Sep 2021 11:19 UTC
182 points
31 comments8 min readEA link

[Part 1] Am­plify­ing gen­er­al­ist re­search via fore­cast­ing – mod­els of im­pact and challenges

jacobjacob19 Dec 2019 18:16 UTC
60 points
2 comments17 min readEA link

Ten­ta­tive prac­ti­cal tips for us­ing chat­bots in research

Erich_Grunewald 🔸29 Mar 2023 15:01 UTC
48 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

Tips for con­duct­ing wor­ld­view investigations

lukeprog12 Apr 2022 19:28 UTC
88 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

The case for build­ing more and bet­ter epistemic in­sti­tu­tions in the effec­tive al­tru­ism com­mu­nity

stefan.torges29 Mar 2020 17:01 UTC
131 points
22 comments6 min readEA link

Us­ing Sub­jec­tive Well-Be­ing to Es­ti­mate the Mo­ral Weights of Avert­ing Deaths and Re­duc­ing Poverty

MichaelPlant3 Aug 2020 16:17 UTC
98 points
8 comments35 min readEA link

Ex­plor­ing Ex­is­ten­tial Risk—us­ing Con­nected Papers to find Effec­tive Altru­ism al­igned ar­ti­cles and researchers

Maris Sala23 Jun 2021 17:03 UTC
52 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Defer­ence for Bayesians

John G. Halstead13 Feb 2021 12:33 UTC
101 points
30 comments7 min readEA link

Type Check­ing GiveWell’s GiveDirectly Cost Effec­tive Analysis

SamNolan23 Jun 2021 6:35 UTC
108 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Find­ing and man­ag­ing liter­a­ture on EA topics

kastrel13 Nov 2017 16:55 UTC
34 points
9 comments11 min readEA link

12 re­search apho­risms no­body asked for and yet

Mir7 Nov 2023 21:50 UTC
1 point
0 comments3 min readEA link

Nu­clear risk re­search ideas: Sum­mary & introduction

MichaelA🔸8 Apr 2022 11:17 UTC
103 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

Why EAs re­search­ing main­stream top­ics can be useful

MichaelA🔸13 Jun 2021 10:14 UTC
37 points
5 comments14 min readEA link

Learn­ing By Writing

Holden Karnofsky22 Feb 2022 15:39 UTC
146 points
12 comments10 min readEA link

Welfare Foot­print Pro­ject—a blueprint for quan­tify­ing an­i­mal pain

MichaelStJules26 Jun 2021 20:05 UTC
73 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

When To Find More In­for­ma­tion: A Short Explanation

Davidmanheim28 Dec 2019 18:00 UTC
76 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

Chris Blattman on the chaotic na­ture of run­ning surveys

Aaron Gertler 🔸20 Feb 2022 10:27 UTC
32 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(chrisblattman.com)

An­nounc­ing the Distil­la­tion for Align­ment Practicum (DAP)

Jonas Hallgren18 Aug 2022 22:31 UTC
20 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

De­liber­ate prac­tice for re­search?

Alex_Altair8 Oct 2022 3:45 UTC
19 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How to work with self-con­scious­ness?

Dawn Drescher3 Feb 2021 18:53 UTC
25 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] How would you define “dis­en­tan­gle­ment re­search”?

nonzerosum22 Jun 2019 2:13 UTC
15 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Com­mon Points of Ad­vice for Stu­dents and Early-Ca­reer Pro­fes­sion­als In­ter­ested in Global Catas­trophic Risk

SethBaum16 Nov 2021 20:51 UTC
60 points
5 comments15 min readEA link

[Question] How do you ap­proach hard prob­lems?

Dawn Drescher4 Jan 2021 14:00 UTC
13 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Some read­ings & notes on how to do high-qual­ity, effi­cient research

MichaelA🔸17 Nov 2021 17:01 UTC
69 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

Why sci­en­tific re­search is less effec­tive in pro­duc­ing value than it could be: a mapping

C Tilli14 Jun 2021 8:24 UTC
109 points
33 comments19 min readEA link

Les­sons learned run­ning the Sur­vey on AI ex­is­ten­tial risk scenarios

Sam Clarke13 Oct 2021 11:33 UTC
69 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

Michael Kre­mer: How much ev­i­dence is enough?

EA Global5 Aug 2016 9:19 UTC
8 points
0 comments15 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

What I learned from work­ing at GiveWell

Ben Kuhn22 Feb 2021 6:31 UTC
55 points
1 comment7 min readEA link
(www.benkuhn.net)

“Nu­clear risk re­search, fore­cast­ing, & im­pact” [pre­sen­ta­tion]

MichaelA🔸21 Oct 2021 10:54 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

A Bayesian frame­work for in­ter­pret­ing im­pact evaluations

Lizka28 Apr 2022 12:27 UTC
23 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)

AI Gover­nance: Op­por­tu­nity and The­ory of Impact

Allan Dafoe17 Sep 2020 6:30 UTC
262 points
19 comments12 min readEA link

Ju­lia Galef, Stu­art Buck, Brian Nosek, Ivan Oran­sky, and Stephanie Wyk­stra: The repli­ca­tion crisis

EA Global5 Aug 2016 9:19 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] How do you stay emo­tion­ally mo­ti­vated while work­ing on highly spe­cific prob­lems?

Dawn Drescher2 May 2021 14:22 UTC
18 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Vikash Mans­inghka: AI-as­sisted data anal­y­sis for hu­man­i­tar­ian causes

EA Global2 Jun 2017 8:48 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Rea­son­ing Transparency

Lizka28 Sep 2022 12:22 UTC
117 points
8 comments17 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Fea­tures that make a re­port es­pe­cially helpful to me

lukeprog12 Apr 2022 13:57 UTC
107 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

AMA: Owen Cot­ton-Bar­ratt, RSP Director

Owen Cotton-Barratt28 Aug 2020 14:20 UTC
77 points
80 comments1 min readEA link

Mitch Riley: A/​B test­ing for­eign aid

EA Global26 Oct 2018 8:35 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] Does Qual­i­ta­tive Re­search im­prove dras­ti­cally with in­creas­ing ex­per­tise?

EdoArad5 Dec 2020 18:28 UTC
17 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

The Com­pa­ra­bil­ity of Sub­jec­tive Scales

MichaelPlant30 Nov 2020 16:47 UTC
79 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] What are the best jour­nals to pub­lish AI gov­er­nance pa­pers in?

Caro2 May 2022 10:07 UTC
26 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Distil­la­tion and re­search debt

Lizka15 Mar 2022 11:45 UTC
69 points
7 comments3 min readEA link
(distill.pub)

[Question] As an in­de­pen­dent re­searcher, how do you stay or be­come mo­ti­vated, pro­duc­tive, and im­pact­ful?

Linch17 Feb 2022 19:00 UTC
27 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Ste­fan Torges: In­gre­di­ents for build­ing dis­rup­tive re­search teams

EA Global18 Oct 2019 8:23 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

In­tro­duc­ing An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Africa

AnimalAdvocacyAfrica7 Dec 2020 16:11 UTC
118 points
11 comments6 min readEA link

Should marginal longter­mist dona­tions sup­port fun­da­men­tal or in­ter­ven­tion re­search?

MichaelA🔸30 Nov 2020 1:10 UTC
43 points
4 comments15 min readEA link

[Question] How val­ue­able are ex­ter­nal re­views?

aaron_mai1 Oct 2022 9:01 UTC
14 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

Re­view of FHI’s Sum­mer Re­search Fel­low­ship 2020

rosehadshar19 Nov 2020 11:32 UTC
124 points
2 comments21 min readEA link

My ex­pe­rience on a sum­mer re­search programme

Jaime Sevilla22 Sep 2019 9:54 UTC
50 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

Do­ing Good Badly? - Michael Plant’s the­sis, Chap­ters 5,6 on Cause Pri­ori­ti­za­tion

EdoArad4 Mar 2021 16:57 UTC
75 points
16 comments7 min readEA link

Re­search ex­er­cise: 5-minute in­side view on how to re­duce risk of nu­clear war

Emrik23 Oct 2022 12:42 UTC
16 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

In­ter­ven­tion op­tions for im­prov­ing the EA-al­igned re­search pipeline

MichaelA🔸28 May 2021 14:26 UTC
49 points
27 comments12 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing the EA-al­igned re­search pipeline: Se­quence introduction

MichaelA🔸11 May 2021 17:57 UTC
63 points
10 comments3 min readEA link

RCTs in Devel­op­ment Eco­nomics, Their Crit­ics and Their Evolu­tion (Og­den, 2020) [linkpost]

KarolinaSarek🔸6 Apr 2021 12:29 UTC
78 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

Luisa Ro­driguez: How to do em­piri­cal cause pri­ori­ti­za­tion re­search

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

What’s wrong with the EA-al­igned re­search pipeline?

MichaelA🔸14 May 2021 18:38 UTC
70 points
21 comments7 min readEA link

Open, rigor­ous and re­pro­ducible re­search: A prac­ti­tioner’s handbook

Eevee🔹24 Jun 2021 21:20 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(stanforddatascience.github.io)

The FDA de­manded my em­ployer bury in­con­ve­nient clini­cal trial data. What should I do?

Throwaway64115 Apr 2022 12:47 UTC
139 points
13 comments6 min readEA link

Are you work­ing on a re­search agenda? A guide to in­creas­ing the im­pact of your re­search by in­volv­ing de­ci­sion-makers

KarolinaSarek🔸24 Sep 2019 11:00 UTC
70 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Why is “Ar­gu­ment Map­ping” Not More Com­mon in EA/​Ra­tion­al­ity (And What Ob­jec­tions Should I Ad­dress in a Post on the Topic?)

Marcel D23 Dec 2022 21:55 UTC
15 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties Im­pact Survey

Neil_Dullaghan🔹 21 Nov 2019 19:20 UTC
54 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

Con­crete Ad­vice for Form­ing In­side Views on AI Safety

Neel Nanda17 Aug 2022 23:26 UTC
58 points
4 comments10 min readEA link
(www.alignmentforum.org)

Tara Mac Au­lay, Ju­lia Galef, Sarah Con­stantin, and Heidi McAn­nally-Linz: Ag­gre­gat­ing knowledge

EA Global5 Aug 2016 9:19 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Solv­ing the repli­ca­tion crisis (FTX pro­posal)

Michael_Wiebe25 Apr 2022 21:04 UTC
86 points
19 comments4 min readEA link

[Part 2] Am­plify­ing gen­er­al­ist re­search via fore­cast­ing – re­sults from a pre­limi­nary exploration

jacobjacob19 Dec 2019 16:36 UTC
32 points
1 comment14 min readEA link

[Question] How to get up to speed on a new field of re­search?

Dawn Drescher1 Mar 2021 0:36 UTC
23 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] As an in­de­pen­dent re­searcher, what are the biggest bot­tle­necks (if any) to your mo­ti­va­tion, pro­duc­tivity, or im­pact?

Linch17 Feb 2022 19:32 UTC
47 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Want To Be An Ex­pert? Build Deep Models

lynettebye4 Dec 2021 22:20 UTC
67 points
5 comments18 min readEA link

[Question] Should sur­veys about the qual­ity/​im­pact of re­search out­puts be more com­mon?

MichaelA🔸8 Sep 2020 9:10 UTC
22 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Some ad­vice on in­de­pen­dent research

mariushobbhahn8 Nov 2022 14:46 UTC
65 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

In­ter­ested in EA/​longter­mist re­search ca­reers? Here are my top recom­mended resources

MichaelA🔸26 Jun 2022 17:13 UTC
112 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Cliffnotes to Craft of Re­search parts I, II, and III

quinn26 Jun 2021 14:04 UTC
16 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

A case for strat­egy re­search: what it is and why we need more of it

SiebeRozendal20 Jun 2019 20:18 UTC
70 points
8 comments20 min readEA link

[Question] How do you bal­ance read­ing and think­ing?

Dawn Drescher17 Jan 2021 13:47 UTC
28 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Ev­i­dence on good fore­cast­ing prac­tices from the Good Judg­ment Pro­ject: an ac­com­pa­ny­ing blog post

kokotajlod15 Feb 2019 19:14 UTC
79 points
14 comments21 min readEA link

[Question] Do re­search or­gani­sa­tions make the­ory of change di­a­grams? Should they?

MichaelA🔸22 Jul 2020 4:58 UTC
52 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are some re­search re­sources that you have found par­tic­u­larly helpful?

michel6 Oct 2021 16:00 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Eva Vi­valt: Global poverty II

EA Global28 Aug 2015 8:37 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Notes on EA-re­lated re­search, writ­ing, test­ing fit, learn­ing, and the Forum

MichaelA🔸27 Mar 2021 9:52 UTC
98 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

In­tro­duc­ing the Prin­ci­ples of In­tel­li­gent Be­havi­our in Biolog­i­cal and So­cial Sys­tems (PIBBSS) Fellowship

adamShimi18 Dec 2021 15:25 UTC
37 points
5 comments10 min readEA link

Learn­ings about liter­a­ture re­view strat­egy from re­search prac­tice sessions

alexlintz20 Nov 2020 8:35 UTC
81 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

EA move­ment build­ing: Should you run an ex­per­i­ment?

Jamie_Harris5 Oct 2021 15:42 UTC
41 points
3 comments8 min readEA link
(www.animaladvocacycareers.org)

Se­quence think­ing vs. cluster thinking

GiveWell25 Jul 2016 10:43 UTC
17 points
0 comments28 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

EA needs consultancies

lukeprog28 Jun 2021 15:18 UTC
257 points
88 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Does “cal­ibrated prob­a­bil­ity as­sess­ment” train­ing work?

Tyner6 Jul 2022 22:06 UTC
14 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

EA Mar­ket Testing

david_reinstein30 Sep 2021 15:17 UTC
81 points
23 comments9 min readEA link

How to use AI speech tran­scrip­tion and anal­y­sis to ac­cel­er­ate so­cial sci­ence research

Alexander Saeri31 Jan 2023 4:01 UTC
39 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

Di­ag­nos­ing EA Re­search- Are stake­holder-en­gaged meth­ods the solu­tion?

Jack_S27 Jan 2023 14:38 UTC
28 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

[Question] Tools/​meth­ods for find­ing most pivotal un­jour­nal-wor­thy re­search

david_reinstein23 Apr 2022 1:10 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

CE: Ri­gor­ously pri­ori­tiz­ing the top health se­cu­rity (biose­cu­rity) ideas

CE30 Jun 2023 13:25 UTC
69 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

Learn­ing to ask ac­tion-rele­vant questions

Ronja_Lutz28 Dec 2019 19:26 UTC
34 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

Nu­clear risk, its po­ten­tial long-term im­pacts, & do­ing re­search on that: An in­tro­duc­tory talk

MichaelA🔸10 Apr 2023 15:26 UTC
50 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Re­search pro­ject idea: Cli­mate, agri­cul­tural, and famine effects of nu­clear conflict

MichaelA🔸15 Apr 2023 14:35 UTC
17 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Re­search pro­ject idea: Tech­nolog­i­cal de­vel­op­ments that could in­crease risks from nu­clear weapons

MichaelA🔸15 Apr 2023 14:28 UTC
17 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Re­search pro­ject idea: In­ter­me­di­ate goals for nu­clear risk reduction

MichaelA🔸15 Apr 2023 14:25 UTC
24 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

How We Think about Ex­pected Im­pact in Cli­mate Philanthropy

jackva28 Nov 2023 19:02 UTC
39 points
8 comments25 min readEA link

“Pivotal ques­tions”: an Un­jour­nal trial ini­ti­a­tive

david_reinstein21 Jul 2024 16:57 UTC
34 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

[Question] Is there a cal­ibra­tion train­ing tool for ‘per­centile rank­ings from a refer­ence group’?

david_reinstein14 Sep 2024 21:55 UTC
8 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Some heuris­tics I use for de­cid­ing how much I trust sci­en­tific results

Nathan_Barnard18 Jan 2024 2:50 UTC
74 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

How much should gov­ern­ments pay to pre­vent catas­tro­phes? Longter­mism’s limited role

EJT19 Mar 2023 16:50 UTC
258 points
35 comments35 min readEA link
(philpapers.org)

Ex­plor­ing Tacit Linked Premises with GPT

RomeoStevens24 Mar 2023 22:50 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Pro­posed method­ol­ogy for leaflet­ing study

Alex_Barry6 Feb 2017 14:41 UTC
7 points
17 comments11 min readEA link

Re­search Depri­ori­tiz­ing Ex­ter­nal Communication

Jeff Kaufman 🔸6 Oct 2022 12:20 UTC
89 points
26 comments8 min readEA link
(www.jefftk.com)

An Ex­er­cise in Speed-Read­ing: The Na­tional Se­cu­rity Com­mis­sion on AI (NSCAI) Fi­nal Report

abiolvera17 Aug 2022 16:55 UTC
47 points
4 comments12 min readEA link

De­sign­ing Ar­tifi­cial Wis­dom: The Wise Work­flow Re­search Organization

Jordan Arel12 Jul 2024 6:57 UTC
14 points
1 comment9 min readEA link

Dan Brown: Un­der­stand­ing the gaps be­tween academia and policymaking

EA Global25 Jun 2020 8:48 UTC
14 points
0 comments18 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Question] Sam­ple size and clus­ter­ing ad­vice needed

brb24329 Jul 2020 14:21 UTC
15 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What “pivotal” and use­ful re­search … would you like to see as­sessed? (Bounty for sug­ges­tions)

david_reinstein28 Apr 2022 15:49 UTC
37 points
21 comments7 min readEA link

Health and hap­piness re­search top­ics—Part 3: The sHALY: Devel­op­ing sub­jec­tive wellbe­ing-based health metrics

Derek30 Dec 2020 15:27 UTC
38 points
2 comments42 min readEA link

What do DALYs cap­ture?

Danae_Arroyos20 Sep 2017 21:18 UTC
15 points
10 comments11 min readEA link

AGI will be made of het­ero­ge­neous com­po­nents, Trans­former and Selec­tive SSM blocks will be among them

Roman Leventov27 Dec 2023 14:51 UTC
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Learn­ing Math in Time for Alignment

Nicholas / Heather Kross9 Jan 2024 1:02 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

A re­view of two books on sur­vey-making

NunoSempere1 Mar 2020 19:11 UTC
33 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

LW4EA: Paper-Read­ing for Gears

Jeremy14 Mar 2022 17:26 UTC
18 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

doebem’s Re­search Method­ol­ogy for Eval­u­at­ing Dona­tion Opportunities

Luan Paciencia2 Aug 2024 19:27 UTC
16 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Ob­jec­tions and Con­cerns About Our New Direction

Holden Karnofsky22 Jun 2012 15:59 UTC
2 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

AI-nu­clear in­te­gra­tion: ev­i­dence of au­toma­tion bias from hu­mans and LLMs [re­search sum­mary]

taoburga27 Apr 2024 21:59 UTC
17 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

Devel­op­ing Farmed An­i­mal Welfare in China—En­gag­ing Stake­hold­ers in Re­search for Im­proved Effectiveness

Jack_S25 Apr 2023 13:46 UTC
52 points
3 comments19 min readEA link

In­ves­ti­gat­ing the scope of con­sumer-ini­ti­ated ge­netic test­ing in the US

37aaron29 Apr 2022 8:00 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

How to find EA doc­u­ments on a par­tic­u­lar topic

Jc_Mourrat19 Nov 2019 2:41 UTC
60 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Me­taS­cience Sym­po­sium on Iden­ti­fy­ing Im­pact­ful Re­search Topics

Falk Lieder2 May 2023 18:41 UTC
8 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(metascience.info)

[Question] Are you al­lo­cated op­ti­mally in your own es­ti­ma­tion?

Emrik20 Aug 2022 21:19 UTC
28 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Nar­ra­tion: Im­prov­ing the EA-al­igned re­search pipeline: Se­quence introduction

D0TheMath27 Jul 2021 0:56 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

Thoughts on the Re­duc­etar­ian Labs MTurk Study

Peter Wildeford2 Dec 2016 17:12 UTC
15 points
10 comments10 min readEA link

Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship’s re­search into large-scale global health interventions

CE16 May 2023 11:51 UTC
77 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

A Pro­to­type Ap­pli­ca­tion for al­lo­cat­ing peo­ple to Effec­tive Projects

SamNolan22 Aug 2021 7:51 UTC
19 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Heuris­tics for mak­ing the­o­ret­i­cal progress (in philos­o­phy) from Alan Ha­jek (ANU)

aaron_mai29 Sep 2022 11:24 UTC
10 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)

Four com­po­nents of strat­egy research

MichaelA🔸30 Jan 2020 19:08 UTC
26 points
8 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Could AI-gen­er­ated con­tent help think-tanks & re­search orgs be­come more effec­tive?

Justin Olive10 Jan 2023 22:58 UTC
13 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Why We Sleep — a tale of in­sti­tu­tional failure

yhoiseth27 Mar 2020 13:53 UTC
28 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Prepar­ing for AI-as­sisted al­ign­ment re­search: we need data!

CBiddulph17 Jan 2023 3:28 UTC
11 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Pre­dict­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of fu­ture R&D pro­jects and aca­demic research

Falk Lieder8 May 2023 9:58 UTC
23 points
3 comments11 min readEA link
(observablehq.com)

The Im­por­tance of Com­mit­ting to Causes

Holden Karnofsky14 May 2014 12:41 UTC
2 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

We in­ter­viewed 15 China-fo­cused re­searchers on how to do good research

gabriel_wagner19 Dec 2022 19:08 UTC
47 points
3 comments23 min readEA link

There should be a pub­lic ad­ver­sar­ial col­lab­o­ra­tion on AI x-risk

pradyuprasad23 Jan 2023 4:09 UTC
56 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Five tools that make our re­search lives easier

Ren Ryba20 Feb 2023 0:50 UTC
50 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

In­sti­tu­tional eco­nomics through the lens of scale-free reg­u­la­tive de­vel­op­ment, mor­pho­gen­e­sis, and cog­ni­tive science

Roman Leventov23 Jan 2024 19:42 UTC
3 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

New database for eco­nomics research

Oshan23 Feb 2023 16:33 UTC
21 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Char­ity En­trepreneur­ship’s 2020 re­search plans

KarolinaSarek🔸3 Apr 2020 3:33 UTC
55 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

[Link] Re­search as a Stochas­tic De­ci­sion Process

arikr10 Sep 2019 22:25 UTC
33 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Health and hap­piness re­search top­ics—Part 1: Back­ground on QALYs and DALYs

Derek9 Dec 2020 0:38 UTC
126 points
8 comments61 min readEA link

Maha Rehman on work­ing with gov­ern­ments to rapidly de­liver masks to mil­lions of people

80000_Hours25 Oct 2021 15:15 UTC
11 points
0 comments80 min readEA link

An­i­mal Equal­ity showed that ad­vo­cat­ing for diet change works. But is it cost-effec­tive?

Peter Wildeford7 Jun 2018 4:06 UTC
28 points
22 comments26 min readEA link

Let’s Fund: Bet­ter Science im­pact eval­u­a­tion. Registered Re­ports now available in Nature

Hauke Hillebrandt26 Feb 2023 15:05 UTC
171 points
4 comments2 min readEA link
(hauke.substack.com)

Guessti­mate Al­gorithm for Med­i­cal Research

Elizabeth22 Sep 2022 21:40 UTC
37 points
2 comments7 min readEA link
(acesounderglass.com)

Model-Based Policy Anal­y­sis un­der Deep Uncertainty

Utilon6 Mar 2023 14:24 UTC
103 points
31 comments21 min readEA link

The Benefits of Distil­la­tion in Research

Jonas Hallgren4 Mar 2023 19:19 UTC
45 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Anal­y­sis: Which an­i­mal prod­ucts cause the most an­i­mal suffer­ing and deaths in the United States?

Casey Riordan16 Sep 2020 18:38 UTC
65 points
8 comments11 min readEA link

Giv­ing Green team re­flects on 2022 cli­mate giv­ing research

Giving Green16 Mar 2023 14:39 UTC
30 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] How do peo­ple do re­mote re­search col­lab­o­ra­tions effec­tively?

Krieger16 Nov 2022 11:52 UTC
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How do EA re­searchers de­cide on which top­ics to write on, and how much time to spend on it?

BrianTan31 Dec 2020 14:33 UTC
24 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

GiveWell should fund an SMC replication

Seth Ariel Green28 Oct 2022 12:31 UTC
93 points
17 comments5 min readEA link

Mea­sur­ing Change in Diet for An­i­mal Advocacy

Jacob_Peacock9 Nov 2018 20:21 UTC
9 points
2 comments11 min readEA link

The Two Faces of Mo­ral Con­cern: Welfare Pro­mo­tion & Suffer­ing Reduction

Maryam Ali Khan3 Oct 2023 13:50 UTC
13 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Health and hap­piness re­search top­ics—Part 2: The HALY+: Im­prov­ing prefer­ence-based health metrics

Derek3 Jan 2021 15:08 UTC
56 points
3 comments73 min readEA link

Beliefs About Chick­ens & Fish And Their Re­la­tion­ship To An­i­mal-Pos­i­tive Behaviors

Casey Riordan11 Nov 2020 17:04 UTC
11 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

Roy Head: How to put your own char­ity to the test

EA Global2 Jul 2020 14:31 UTC
16 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Pro­posal for an Pre-reg­istered Ex­per­i­ment in EA Outreach

Linch8 Jan 2017 10:19 UTC
11 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

New re­search plans from The Hu­mane League Labs

samaramendez30 Jan 2020 19:34 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(thehumaneleague.org)

Pro­posal: al­ter­na­tive to tra­di­tional aca­demic jour­nals for EA-rele­vant re­search (multi-link post)

david_reinstein3 Nov 2021 20:16 UTC
28 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

How you can con­tribute to the broader EA re­search project

Robert_Wiblin17 Feb 2016 9:23 UTC
14 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

An Effec­tive Altru­ist Mes­sage Test

Michael_S1 Apr 2017 14:45 UTC
17 points
20 comments4 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2017 Series: Distri­bu­tion and Anal­y­sis Methodology

Tee29 Aug 2017 18:31 UTC
6 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

Notes on cul­ti­vat­ing good incentives

rime7 Jul 2023 20:07 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Us­ing Ama­zon’s Me­chan­i­cal Turk for An­i­mal Ad­vo­cacy Stud­ies: Op­por­tu­ni­ties and Challenges

Peter Wildeford2 Aug 2016 19:24 UTC
26 points
3 comments15 min readEA link

The ap­pli­ca­bil­ity of transsen­tien­tist crit­i­cal path analysis

Peter Sølling11 Aug 2020 11:26 UTC
0 points
2 comments32 min readEA link
(www.optimalaltruism.com)

Dis­abil­ity Weights

Jeff Kaufman 🔸11 Sep 2014 21:34 UTC
12 points
23 comments8 min readEA link

[Link] Against “Why We Sleep” (Guzey)

Milan_Griffes15 Nov 2019 21:15 UTC
18 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Some re­flec­tions on test­ing fit for research

rosehadshar21 Feb 2022 9:53 UTC
64 points
6 comments13 min readEA link

‘Force mul­ti­pli­ers’ for EA research

Craig Drayton18 Jun 2022 13:39 UTC
18 points
7 comments4 min readEA link
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