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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.

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

Aaron Gertler3 Mar 2024 0:53 UTC
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 Gertler15 Feb 2024 0:28 UTC
166 points
8 comments17 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

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

Aaron Gertler3 Sep 2023 19:11 UTC
26 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
(undark.org)

Re­think­ing the Liber­a­tion Pledge (Eva Hamer)

Aaron Gertler3 Sep 2023 18:44 UTC
76 points
4 comments7 min readEA link
(paxfauna.org)

Re­cov­er­ing from Re­jec­tion (writ­ten for the In-Depth EA Pro­gram)

Aaron Gertler3 Jul 2023 9:42 UTC
164 points
5 comments11 min readEA link

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

Aaron Gertler27 Apr 2023 22:44 UTC
179 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

No Silver Bul­let Solu­tions for the Were­wolf Crisis

Aaron Gertler9 Feb 2023 1:41 UTC
333 points
10 comments7 min readEA link
(progressandpoverty.substack.com)

Cause Ex­plo­ra­tion Prizes: An­nounc­ing our prizes

ChrisSmith9 Sep 2022 13:47 UTC
221 points
28 comments2 min readEA link

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

Aaron Gertler10 Jun 2022 22:03 UTC
45 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the launch of Open Phil’s new website

Aaron Gertler7 Jun 2022 20:32 UTC
47 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

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

ChrisSmith25 May 2022 12:06 UTC
190 points
22 comments1 min readEA link

New? Start here! (Use­ful links)

Aaron Gertler25 Mar 2022 9:07 UTC
112 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

Chris Blattman on the chaotic na­ture of run­ning surveys

Aaron Gertler20 Feb 2022 10:27 UTC
32 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(chrisblattman.com)

Bryan Ca­plan on EA groups

Aaron Gertler10 Jan 2022 20:31 UTC
163 points
12 comments2 min readEA link
(www.econlib.org)

Creative Writ­ing Con­test: The Win­ning Entries

Aaron Gertler26 Dec 2021 10:43 UTC
124 points
12 comments2 min readEA link

Rea­sons and Per­sons: Watch the­o­ries eat themselves

Aaron Gertler25 Dec 2021 3:53 UTC
63 points
7 comments15 min readEA link
(dynomight.net)

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

Aaron Gertler24 Dec 2021 6:19 UTC
35 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Where are you donat­ing in 2021, and why?

Aaron Gertler16 Dec 2021 9:18 UTC
24 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism: The First Decade (Fo­rum Re­view)

Aaron Gertler1 Dec 2021 22:18 UTC
93 points
45 comments6 min readEA link

EA Or­ga­ni­za­tion Up­dates: Novem­ber 2021

Aaron Gertler29 Nov 2021 17:53 UTC
27 points
0 comments9 min readEA link