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Aaron Gertler 🔸

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I ran the Forum for three years. I’m no longer an active moderator, but I still provide advice to the team in some cases.

I’m a Communications Officer at Open Philanthropy. Before that, I worked at CEA, on the Forum and other projects. I also started Yale’s student EA group, and I spend a few hours a month advising a small, un-Googleable private foundation that makes EA-adjacent donations.

Outside of EA, I play Magic: the Gathering on a semi-professional level and donate half my winnings (more than $50k in 2020) to charity.

Before my first job in EA, I was a tutor, a freelance writer, a tech support agent, and a music journalist. I blog, and keep a public list of my donations, at aarongertler.net.

Tech­ni­cal Re­port on Mir­ror Bac­te­ria: Fea­si­bil­ity and Risks

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

We can pro­tect mil­lions of kids from a global kil­ler — with­out billions of dol­lars (Wash­ing­ton Post)

Aaron Gertler 🔸Sep 23, 2024, 7:16 PM
181 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.washingtonpost.com)

On John Wool­man (Thing of Things)

Aaron Gertler 🔸May 2, 2024, 1:36 AM
46 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(thingofthings.substack.com)

How to Speedrun a New Drug Ap­pli­ca­tion (In­ter­view with Alvea’s former CEO)

Aaron Gertler 🔸Mar 3, 2024, 12:53 AM
37 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.statecraft.pub)

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)

The Vice of Spice: Con­fronting Lead-Tainted Turmeric (Wu­dan Yan)

Aaron Gertler 🔸Sep 3, 2023, 7:11 PM
25 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(undark.org)

Re­think­ing the Liber­a­tion Pledge (Eva Hamer)

Aaron Gertler 🔸Sep 3, 2023, 6:44 PM
76 points
4 comments7 min readEA link
(paxfauna.org)

Re­cov­er­ing from Rejection

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jul 3, 2023, 9:42 AM
172 points
5 comments11 min readEA link

Life in a Day: The film that opened my heart to effec­tive altruism

Aaron Gertler 🔸Apr 27, 2023, 10:44 PM
179 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

No Silver Bul­let Solu­tions for the Were­wolf Crisis

Aaron Gertler 🔸Feb 9, 2023, 1:41 AM
333 points
10 comments7 min readEA link
(progressandpoverty.substack.com)

Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes: An­nounc­ing our prizes

ChrisSmithSep 9, 2022, 1:47 PM
221 points
28 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Where can I learn about how DALYs are calcu­lated?

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jun 10, 2022, 10:03 PM
45 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the launch of Open Phil’s new website

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jun 7, 2022, 8:32 PM
47 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

Open Philan­thropy’s Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes: $120k for writ­ten work on global health and wellbeing

ChrisSmithMay 25, 2022, 12:06 PM
190 points
22 comments1 min readEA link

New? Start here! (Use­ful links)

Aaron Gertler 🔸Mar 25, 2022, 9:07 AM
112 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

Chris Blattman on the chaotic na­ture of run­ning surveys

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

Bryan Ca­plan on EA groups

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jan 10, 2022, 8:31 PM
163 points
12 comments2 min readEA link
(www.econlib.org)

Creative Writ­ing Con­test: The Win­ning Entries

Aaron Gertler 🔸Dec 26, 2021, 10:43 AM
124 points
12 comments2 min readEA link

Rea­sons and Per­sons: Watch the­o­ries eat themselves

Aaron Gertler 🔸Dec 25, 2021, 3:53 AM
64 points
7 comments15 min readEA link
(dynomight.net)

[Question] (An­swered) Tax ques­tion: Help us donate mil­lions, get a $500 bounty!

Aaron Gertler 🔸Dec 24, 2021, 6:19 AM
35 points
2 comments2 min readEA link