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David_Moss

Karma: 10,213

I am the Principal Research Director at Rethink Priorities. I lead our Surveys and Data Analysis department and our Worldview Investigation Team.

The Worldview Investigation Team previously completed the Moral Weight Project and CURVE Sequence /​ Cross-Cause Model. We’re currently working on tools to help EAs decide how they should allocate resources within portfolios of different causes, and to how to use a moral parliament approach to allocate resources given metanormative uncertainty.

The Surveys and Data Analysis Team primarily works on private commissions for core EA movement and longtermist orgs, where we provide:

Formerly, I also managed our Wild Animal Welfare department and I’ve previously worked for Charity Science, and been a trustee at Charity Entrepreneurship and EA London.

My academic interests are in moral psychology and methodology at the intersection of psychology and philosophy.

EA Sur­vey 2024: Cause prioritization

Rethink Priorities4 Dec 2025 16:57 UTC
57 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

[Question] Cause prio cruxes in 2026?

Hayley Clatterbuck11 Nov 2025 15:22 UTC
81 points
29 comments1 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2024: Com­mu­nity Satis­fac­tion, Re­ten­tion & Men­tal Health

Rethink Priorities29 Oct 2025 12:12 UTC
59 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Fram­ing EA: ‘Do­ing Good Bet­ter’ Did Worse

Rethink Priorities27 Oct 2025 15:06 UTC
162 points
14 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] What are the key un­cer­tain­ties that are well-suited to a par­li­a­men­tary ap­proach?

David_Moss16 Oct 2025 20:53 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

US pub­lic at­ti­tudes to­wards ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence (Wave 2 of Pulse)

Jamie E12 Sep 2025 14:15 UTC
46 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Wave 2 of Pulse: Aware­ness and per­cep­tions of Effec­tive Altruism

Jamie E22 Aug 2025 13:02 UTC
102 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2024: Geography

Jamie E4 Aug 2025 10:27 UTC
85 points
9 comments8 min readEA link

Do­ing Pri­ori­ti­za­tion Better

arvomm16 Apr 2025 9:53 UTC
136 points
25 comments19 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2024: What Helps Peo­ple Have an Im­pact and Con­nect with Other EAs

Willem Sleegers14 Apr 2025 12:58 UTC
50 points
5 comments11 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2024: How Peo­ple Get In­volved in EA

Willem Sleegers24 Mar 2025 12:38 UTC
86 points
19 comments13 min readEA link

Beyond Ex­tinc­tion: Re­vis­it­ing the Ques­tion and Broad­en­ing Our View

arvomm17 Mar 2025 16:03 UTC
36 points
3 comments10 min readEA link

EA Sur­vey 2024: Demographics

Willem Sleegers28 Feb 2025 10:39 UTC
112 points
14 comments11 min readEA link

Meta Co­or­di­na­tion Fo­rum (2024) /​ Ta­lent Need Survey

David_Moss29 Jan 2025 10:16 UTC
94 points
14 comments19 min readEA link

Strate­gic Direc­tions for a Digi­tal Con­scious­ness Model

Derek Shiller10 Dec 2024 19:33 UTC
41 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

Please Take the EA Sur­vey 2024

Willem Sleegers9 Dec 2024 13:52 UTC
120 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Pulse 2024: At­ti­tudes to­wards ar­tifi­cial intelligence

Jamie E27 Nov 2024 11:33 UTC
62 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Pulse 2024: En­gage­ment in and per­cep­tions of im­pact­ful char­i­ta­ble giving

Jamie E27 Nov 2024 11:33 UTC
53 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Pulse 2024: Aware­ness and per­cep­tions of effec­tive altruism

Jamie E27 Nov 2024 11:33 UTC
122 points
19 comments7 min readEA link

Pulse 2024: Public at­ti­tudes to­wards char­i­ta­ble cause areas

Jamie E27 Nov 2024 11:32 UTC
38 points
0 comments4 min readEA link