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MichaelDickens

Karma: 5,443

I do independent research on EA topics. I write about whatever seems important, tractable, and interesting (to me). Lately, I mainly write about EA investing strategy, but my attention span is too short to pick just one topic.

I have a website: https://​​mdickens.me/​​ Most of the content on my website gets cross-posted to the EA Forum.

My favorite things that I’ve written: https://​​mdickens.me/​​favorite-posts/​​

I used to work as a software developer at Affirm.

Eval­u­a­tion Frame­works (or: When Im­por­tance /​ Ne­glect­ed­ness /​ Tractabil­ity Doesn’t Ap­ply)

MichaelDickensJun 10, 2016, 9:35 PM
10 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

A Com­plete Quan­ti­ta­tive Model for Cause Selection

MichaelDickensMay 18, 2016, 2:17 AM
42 points
44 comments22 min readEA link

Quan­tify­ing the Far Fu­ture Effects of Interventions

MichaelDickensMay 18, 2016, 2:15 AM
8 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

GiveWell’s Char­ity Recom­men­da­tions Re­quire Tak­ing a Con­tro­ver­sial Stance on Pop­u­la­tion Ethics

MichaelDickensMay 17, 2016, 1:51 AM
30 points
52 comments8 min readEA link

On Priors

MichaelDickensApr 26, 2016, 10:35 PM
12 points
26 comments12 min readEA link

How Should a Large Donor Pri­ori­tize Cause Areas?

MichaelDickensApr 25, 2016, 8:46 PM
15 points
9 comments11 min readEA link

Ex­pected Value Es­ti­mates You Can (Maybe) Take Literally

MichaelDickensApr 6, 2016, 3:11 PM
21 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

Are GiveWell Top Char­i­ties Too Spec­u­la­tive?

MichaelDickensDec 21, 2015, 4:05 AM
24 points
58 comments3 min readEA link

More on REG’s Room for More Funding

MichaelDickensNov 16, 2015, 5:31 PM
9 points
17 comments4 min readEA link

Cause Selec­tion Blog­ging Car­ni­val Conclusion

MichaelDickensOct 5, 2015, 8:16 PM
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Char­i­ties I Would Like to See

MichaelDickensSep 20, 2015, 3:22 PM
7 points
31 comments3 min readEA link

My Cause Selec­tion: Michael Dickens

MichaelDickensSep 15, 2015, 11:29 PM
36 points
69 comments43 min readEA link

On Values Spreading

MichaelDickensSep 11, 2015, 3:57 AM
33 points
13 comments11 min readEA link

Some Writ­ings on Cause Selection

MichaelDickensSep 8, 2015, 9:56 PM
4 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

EA Blog­ging Car­ni­val: My Cause Selection

MichaelDickensAug 16, 2015, 1:07 AM
13 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

Why Effec­tive Altru­ists Should Use a Robo-Advisor

MichaelDickensAug 4, 2015, 3:37 AM
10 points
25 comments3 min readEA link

Stan­ford EA His­tory and Les­sons Learned

MichaelDickensJul 2, 2015, 3:36 AM
25 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

How We Run Dis­cus­sions at Stan­ford EA

MichaelDickensApr 14, 2015, 4:36 PM
15 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Meetup : Stan­ford THINK

MichaelDickensOct 23, 2014, 2:10 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link