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How Life Sciences Ac­tu­ally Work: Find­ings of a Year-Long Investigation

guzeyAug 16, 2019, 7:43 PM
63 points
14 comments23 min readEA link

Re­port on So­cial Re­turns to Pro­duc­tivity Growth

Tom_DavidsonJul 15, 2022, 10:31 PM
55 points
5 comments2 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Amy Huang: Clos­ing gaps in al­ter­na­tive pro­tein science

EA GlobalOct 25, 2020, 5:48 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Progress stud­ies vs. longter­mist EA: some differences

Max_DanielMay 31, 2021, 9:35 PM
84 points
27 comments3 min readEA link

Help me find the crux be­tween EA/​XR and Progress Studies

jasoncrawfordJun 2, 2021, 6:47 PM
119 points
37 comments3 min readEA link

In­no­va­tion is Dispro­por­tionately More Effec­tive at Change

Rishiit SharmaJun 17, 2023, 9:39 AM
8 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Me­ta­science of the Ve­su­vius Challenge

Maxwell TabarrokMar 30, 2024, 12:04 PM
36 points
2 comments6 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

The $1 Trillion Para­dox: Why Re­form­ing Re­search Pub­lish­ing Should Be a Global Priority

sophie-gulliverMar 28, 2024, 8:10 AM
46 points
2 comments10 min readEA link

Re­port on the De­sir­a­bil­ity of Science Given New Biotech Risks

Matt ClancyJan 17, 2024, 7:42 PM
78 points
23 comments4 min readEA link

#188 – On whether sci­ence is good (Matt Clancy on the 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursMay 24, 2024, 3:04 PM
13 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

#202 – The cut­ting edge of anti-age­ing sci­ence (Venki Ra­makr­ish­nan on on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_HoursSep 19, 2024, 10:41 PM
13 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the first is­sue of Asterisk

Clara CollierNov 21, 2022, 6:51 PM
275 points
47 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the SoS Re­search Col­lec­tive for in­de­pen­dent researchers

rogersbacon1Jan 18, 2024, 12:52 AM
12 points
2 comments8 min readEA link
(www.theseedsofscience.pub)

Ed Boy­den: Eng­ineer­ing revolutions

EA GlobalAug 5, 2016, 9:19 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Meta-science

Stuart BuckSep 22, 2022, 5:35 AM
7 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Ge­orge Church: CRISPR and other tech­nolo­gies for global effec­tive altruism

EA GlobalJun 2, 2017, 8:48 AM
9 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Claire Za­bel: Open Philan­thropy Pro­ject — gen­eral up­date and sci­ence highlights

EA GlobalJun 2, 2017, 8:48 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

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

C TilliJun 14, 2021, 8:24 AM
109 points
33 comments19 min readEA link

Ja­son Ma­theny: Govern­ment-driven sci­ence and technology

EA GlobalAug 5, 2016, 9:19 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

List of Un­der-In­ves­ti­gated Fields—Matthew McAteer

EdoAradJan 30, 2021, 10:26 AM
23 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(matthewmcateer.me)

Break­ing Up Elite Colleges

sahajshardaJun 7, 2022, 5:21 AM
4 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(sahajsharda.substack.com)

[Question] What pre­vi­ous work has been done on fac­tors that af­fect the pace of tech­nolog­i­cal de­vel­op­ment?

Megan KinnimentApr 27, 2021, 6:43 PM
21 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Adam Mar­ble­stone: What sets the ex­po­nent of neu­ro­science progress

EA GlobalJun 2, 2017, 8:48 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Tom Kalil and Rox­anne He­ston: Op­por­tu­ni­ties in sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy policy

EA GlobalAug 5, 2016, 9:19 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Study Group for Progress – 50% off for EAs

jasoncrawfordSep 3, 2020, 5:04 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(rootsofprogress.org)

Kevin Esvelt and Genya Dana: Beyond malaria

EA GlobalAug 5, 2016, 9:19 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Science policy as a pos­si­ble EA cause area: prob­lems and solutions

PabloAMC 🔸Jan 23, 2022, 12:32 AM
26 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Best EA use of $500,000AUD/​$340,000 USD for ba­sic sci­ence?

AspiringPhilanthropistAug 27, 2019, 10:07 AM
58 points
12 comments1 min readEA link

[Help please/​Up­dated] Best EA use of $250,000AUD/​$190,000 USD for meta­science?

AspiringPhilanthropistDec 22, 2020, 3:43 AM
42 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Re­search Communication

Open PhilanthropyAug 30, 2022, 3:13 AM
6 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

Two con­trast­ing mod­els of “in­tel­li­gence” and fu­ture growth

Magnus VindingNov 24, 2022, 11:54 AM
74 points
32 comments22 min readEA link

How to Ac­cel­er­ate Tech­nolog­i­cal Progress—New Things Un­der the Sun

Eevee🔹Oct 3, 2021, 5:49 PM
13 points
0 comments8 min readEA link
(www.newthingsunderthesun.com)

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

EA GlobalAug 5, 2016, 9:19 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

The case for de­lay­ing so­lar geo­eng­ineer­ing research

John G. HalsteadMar 23, 2019, 3:26 PM
53 points
22 comments5 min readEA link

Bi­anca Le: Cel­lu­lar agri­cul­ture: fu­ture­proofing our food sys­tems for hu­mans, an­i­mals and our planet

EA GlobalNov 21, 2020, 8:12 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Cri­te­ria for sci­en­tific choice I, II

EdoAradJul 29, 2020, 10:21 AM
30 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

A new study looks at how sci­en­tific fields have formed

Animal_EthicsJan 18, 2021, 8:31 PM
15 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

OPIS ini­ti­a­tive on ac­cess to psilo­cy­bin for cluster headaches

jonleightonSep 10, 2020, 8:22 AM
61 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] Is vol­un­teer com­put­ing an eas­ily ac­cessible way of effec­tive al­tru­ism?

KarinAug 27, 2021, 1:06 PM
6 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] How to es­ti­mate the EV of gen­eral in­tel­lec­tual progress

Ozzie GooenJan 27, 2020, 10:21 AM
40 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

Su­per-ex­po­nen­tial growth im­plies that ac­cel­er­at­ing growth is unim­por­tant in the long run

kbogAug 11, 2020, 7:20 AM
36 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

In­no­va­tion Re­search Boot­camp for Econ PhD Students

Kevin KurucJan 4, 2022, 2:58 PM
25 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Nick Bostrom: Astro­nom­i­cal stakes

EA GlobalAug 28, 2015, 8:37 AM
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

On Progress and Prosperity

Paul_ChristianoOct 15, 2014, 7:03 AM
69 points
32 comments9 min readEA link

What would bet­ter sci­ence look like?

C TilliAug 30, 2021, 8:57 AM
24 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

AMA: Ja­son Crawford, The Roots of Progress

jasoncrawfordDec 3, 2020, 4:49 PM
44 points
74 comments1 min readEA link

AI Im­pacts: His­toric trends in tech­nolog­i­cal progress

Aaron Gertler 🔸Feb 12, 2020, 12:08 AM
55 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

James Tu­ritto: Are we fac­ing a re­pro­ducibil­ity crisis, and what can we do about it?

EA GlobalJun 2, 2017, 8:48 AM
8 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Three ways to ad­vance sci­ence (Nick Bostrom)

EA Forum ArchivesJan 31, 2008, 9:04 PM
5 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.nickbostrom.com)

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] im­proved qual­ity con­trol in science

Sophie SchaumanAug 31, 2022, 7:12 PM
26 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

A re­view of the safety & effi­cacy of ge­net­i­cally en­g­ineered mosquitoes

AnjFeb 15, 2016, 11:26 PM
26 points
6 comments12 min readEA link

[Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes] Jhana meditation

Milan GriffesAug 12, 2022, 5:26 AM
74 points
7 comments11 min readEA link

A Sur­vey of the Po­ten­tial Long-term Im­pacts of AI

Sam ClarkeJul 18, 2022, 9:48 AM
63 points
2 comments27 min readEA link

[Question] Will the vast ma­jor­ity of tech­nolog­i­cal progress hap­pen in the longterm fu­ture?

Vasco Grilo🔸Jul 8, 2023, 8:40 AM
8 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Start­ing the sec­ond Green Revolution

freedomandutilityJun 29, 2023, 12:23 PM
30 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

From Lab­o­ra­to­ries to Lan­guage Models: Can AI Sup­port Ri­gor in the Jun­gle of Policy Anal­y­sis? (Linkpost)

Marcel DFeb 6, 2024, 6:51 PM
22 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org)

Lab-grown meat (prob­a­bly) won’t save us | MinuteFood on the ob­sta­cles to com­mer­cial­iz­ing cul­ti­vated meat

Eevee🔹Aug 5, 2023, 5:31 AM
15 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Could in­ter­ac­tive meta-stud­ies of sci­en­tific re­search im­prove de­ci­sion mak­ing?

JohannaEApr 17, 2023, 5:49 PM
15 points
2 comments13 min readEA link

En­light­en­ment Values in a Vuln­er­a­ble World

Maxwell TabarrokJul 18, 2022, 11:54 AM
66 points
18 comments31 min readEA link

Me­tac­u­lus Pre­sents: Trans­for­ma­tive Science at Startup Speed

christianOct 31, 2023, 9:12 PM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

So­cial sci­ence re­search we’d like to see on global health and wellbe­ing [Open Philan­thropy]

Aaron Gertler 🔸Feb 15, 2024, 12:28 AM
167 points
8 comments17 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Em­piri­cal vs. Math­e­mat­i­cal Joints of Nature

ElizabethJul 2, 2024, 10:43 PM
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

How to Be a Techno-Op­ti­mist for Animals

Vasco Grilo🔸Nov 15, 2024, 5:18 PM
8 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(optimistsbarn.substack.com)

Differ­en­tial tech­nol­ogy de­vel­op­ment: preprint on the concept

Hamish_HobbsSep 12, 2022, 1:52 PM
65 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

En­light­ened Con­cerns of Tomorrow

cassidynelsonMar 15, 2018, 5:29 AM
15 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] A bill to mas­sively ex­pand NSF to tech do­mains. What’s the rele­vance for x-risk?

EdoAradJul 12, 2020, 3:20 PM
22 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

We Need Ma­jor, But Not Rad­i­cal, FDA Reform

Maxwell TabarrokFeb 24, 2024, 4:55 PM
9 points
1 comment7 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

Trans­la­tional Science and the “Valley of Death”

Holden KarnofskyApr 9, 2015, 12:58 PM
3 points
0 comments10 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

The Path to Biomed­i­cal Progress

Holden KarnofskyFeb 27, 2015, 1:52 PM
2 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Good news that matters

Michelle_HutchinsonAug 27, 2018, 5:38 AM
23 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

What if hu­man his­tory oc­curred dur­ing your life? How was last night? Last week?

Nic Kruus🔸Apr 8, 2024, 2:24 PM
19 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

My take on What We Owe the Future

eliflandSep 1, 2022, 6:07 PM
354 points
51 comments26 min readEA link

Is Progress Real?

rogersbacon1Jan 10, 2023, 5:45 PM
7 points
0 comments14 min readEA link
(www.secretorum.life)

Progress and re­search dis­rup­tive­ness

Eleni_AJan 12, 2023, 3:45 AM
5 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.nature.com)

Na­ture: The im­por­tance of philan­thropy in sci­en­tific research

Michael HuangJan 17, 2023, 3:43 AM
22 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.nature.com)

Emerg­ing Paradigms: The Case of Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence Safety

Eleni_AJan 18, 2023, 5:59 AM
16 points
0 comments19 min readEA link

Do­ing EA Bet­ter: grant-mak­ers should con­sider grant app peer re­view along the pub­lic-sec­tor model

ben.smithJan 24, 2023, 3:01 PM
50 points
7 comments9 min readEA link

Fore­cast­ing Our World in Data: The Next 100 Years

AlexLeaderFeb 1, 2023, 10:13 PM
97 points
8 comments66 min readEA link
(www.metaculus.com)

Paradigm Shifts—change ev­ery­thing… ex­cept al­most everything

Non-zero-sum JamesNov 26, 2024, 5:04 PM
2 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(nonzerosum.games)

Will Tech­nol­ogy Keep Pro­gress­ing? (A Hap­pier World video)

Jeroen Willems🔸Mar 9, 2023, 5:38 PM
13 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

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

david_reinsteinNov 3, 2021, 8:16 PM
28 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] How bad would AI progress need to be for us to think gen­eral tech­nolog­i­cal progress is also bad?

Jim BuhlerJul 6, 2024, 6:44 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Hope: How Far Hu­man­ity Has Come

Jess_WhittlestoneFeb 25, 2015, 3:06 PM
11 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

The An­i­mal Welfare Case for Open Ac­cess: Break­ing Bar­ri­ers to Scien­tific Knowl­edge and En­hanc­ing LLM Training

Wladimir J. AlonsoNov 23, 2024, 1:07 PM
32 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Thoughts on The Weapon of Openness

Will BradshawFeb 13, 2020, 12:10 AM
32 points
17 comments8 min readEA link

Repli­cato: Build­ing a Web­site to Find Re­search Repli­ca­tions & Re­trac­tions

alamo 2914Aug 1, 2023, 8:17 PM
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

New GPT3 Im­pres­sive Ca­pa­bil­ities—In­struc­tGPT3 [1/​2]

simeon_cMar 13, 2022, 10:45 AM
49 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

It seems hard to avoid sci­en­tific stag­na­tion due to the bur­den of knowl­edge in the long run

TobyWFeb 1, 2024, 2:40 PM
5 points
0 comments11 min readEA link
(nematobe.substack.com)

Devel­op­ing a Psy­cholog­i­cal Scale to Mea­sure Scout Mindset

Kalina PoydovskaOct 10, 2023, 11:47 AM
46 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

LW4EA: Science in a High-Di­men­sional World

JeremySep 6, 2022, 3:06 AM
11 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

[Question] Biomed­i­cal Re­search Models: Mice vs Man?

SnippyroDec 26, 2021, 7:04 PM
3 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Who or­dered al­ign­ment’s ap­ple?

Eleni_AAug 28, 2022, 2:24 PM
5 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Post­pon­ing re­search can some­times be the op­ti­mal decision

Michele CampoloJul 9, 2020, 3:18 PM
29 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

AI as a sci­ence, and three ob­sta­cles to al­ign­ment strategies

So8resOct 25, 2023, 9:02 PM
41 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Tech­ni­cal Re­port on Mir­ror Bac­te­ria: Fea­si­bil­ity and Risks

Aaron Gertler 🔸Dec 12, 2024, 7:07 PM
243 points
18 comments1 min readEA link
(purl.stanford.edu)

Book Re­view: En­light­en­ment Now, by Steven Pinker

Aaron Gertler 🔸Oct 21, 2018, 11:12 PM
24 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

An­i­mal Test­ing Is Ex­ploita­tive and Largely Ineffective

Erich_Grunewald 🔸Jun 13, 2021, 10:46 AM
27 points
3 comments11 min readEA link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Is Tech­nol­ogy Ac­tu­ally Mak­ing Things Bet­ter? – Pairagraph

Eevee🔹Oct 1, 2020, 4:06 PM
16 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.pairagraph.com)

[Question] Which sci­en­tific dis­cov­ery was most ahead of its time?

richard_ngoMay 16, 2019, 12:28 PM
34 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

Exegesis

rogersbacon1Dec 31, 2021, 5:51 PM
2 points
8 comments20 min readEA link
(rogersbacon.substack.com)

if you’re read­ing this it’s too late (a new the­ory on what is caus­ing the Great Stag­na­tion)

rogersbacon1Jun 8, 2023, 11:54 AM
−2 points
0 comments13 min readEA link
(www.secretorum.life)

Tax Cuts and Innovation

Maxwell TabarrokMay 31, 2024, 12:59 PM
18 points
2 comments6 min readEA link
(www.maximum-progress.com)

Cause Area: Differ­en­tial Neu­rotech­nol­ogy Development

mwcvitkovicAug 10, 2022, 2:39 AM
95 points
7 comments36 min readEA link

Hyper­bolic Science: Or, Play­ing Games with Growth

Adam GreenAug 26, 2022, 2:41 AM
2 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(markov.bio)

Moder­ately Skep­ti­cal of “Risks of Mir­ror Biol­ogy”

DavidmanheimDec 20, 2024, 12:57 PM
15 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(substack.com)

Me­ta­science Since 2012: A Per­sonal History

Stuart BuckAug 14, 2023, 1:12 AM
109 points
5 comments75 min readEA link
(goodscience.substack.com)

Book recom­men­da­tion: Loonshots

nonzerosumMay 3, 2019, 6:30 PM
25 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Pod­cast] Is sci­en­tific progress slow­ing? with James Evans

Miranda_ZhangMar 31, 2022, 1:19 PM
9 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

Pa­trick Col­li­son on Effec­tive Altruism

SamuelKnocheJun 23, 2020, 9:04 AM
98 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

There is no royal road to al­ign­ment

Eleni_ASep 17, 2022, 1:24 PM
18 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

In­no­va­tion Sys­tem needs fixing

Danila MedvedevMay 3, 2022, 7:56 PM
10 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
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