RSS

MichaelDickens

Karma: 4,259

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.

Meetup : Stan­ford THINK

MichaelDickens23 Oct 2014 2:10 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

How We Run Dis­cus­sions at Stan­ford EA

MichaelDickens14 Apr 2015 16:36 UTC
15 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Stan­ford EA His­tory and Les­sons Learned

MichaelDickens2 Jul 2015 3:36 UTC
25 points
11 comments2 min readEA link

Why Effec­tive Altru­ists Should Use a Robo-Advisor

MichaelDickens4 Aug 2015 3:37 UTC
10 points
25 comments3 min readEA link

EA Blog­ging Car­ni­val: My Cause Selection

MichaelDickens16 Aug 2015 1:07 UTC
13 points
20 comments1 min readEA link

Some Writ­ings on Cause Selection

MichaelDickens8 Sep 2015 21:56 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

On Values Spreading

MichaelDickens11 Sep 2015 3:57 UTC
32 points
13 comments11 min readEA link

My Cause Selec­tion: Michael Dickens

MichaelDickens15 Sep 2015 23:29 UTC
36 points
69 comments43 min readEA link

Char­i­ties I Would Like to See

MichaelDickens20 Sep 2015 15:22 UTC
7 points
31 comments3 min readEA link

Cause Selec­tion Blog­ging Car­ni­val Conclusion

MichaelDickens5 Oct 2015 20:16 UTC
7 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

More on REG’s Room for More Funding

MichaelDickens16 Nov 2015 17:31 UTC
9 points
17 comments4 min readEA link

Are GiveWell Top Char­i­ties Too Spec­u­la­tive?

MichaelDickens21 Dec 2015 4:05 UTC
24 points
58 comments3 min readEA link

Ex­pected Value Es­ti­mates You Can (Maybe) Take Literally

MichaelDickens6 Apr 2016 15:11 UTC
21 points
6 comments11 min readEA link

How Should a Large Donor Pri­ori­tize Cause Areas?

MichaelDickens25 Apr 2016 20:46 UTC
15 points
9 comments11 min readEA link

On Priors

MichaelDickens26 Apr 2016 22:35 UTC
12 points
26 comments12 min readEA link

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

MichaelDickens17 May 2016 1:51 UTC
30 points
52 comments8 min readEA link

Quan­tify­ing the Far Fu­ture Effects of Interventions

MichaelDickens18 May 2016 2:15 UTC
8 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

A Com­plete Quan­ti­ta­tive Model for Cause Selection

MichaelDickens18 May 2016 2:17 UTC
42 points
44 comments22 min readEA link

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

MichaelDickens10 Jun 2016 21:35 UTC
10 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Why the Open Philan­thropy Pro­ject Should Pri­ori­tize Wild An­i­mal Suffering

MichaelDickens26 Aug 2016 2:08 UTC
22 points
16 comments2 min readEA link