Cause Prioritization

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Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others...

Scott Alexander24 Dec 2010 21:26 UTC

209 points

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[Question] What are the reasons to not consider reducing AI-Xrisk the highest priority cause?

David Scott Krueger (formerly: capybaralet)20 Aug 2019 21:45 UTC

29 points

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Differential knowledge interconnection

Roman Leventov12 Oct 2024 12:52 UTC

6 points

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Why I’m Skeptical About Unproven Causes (And You Should Be Too)

Peter Wildeford29 Jul 2013 9:09 UTC

42 points

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Why SENS makes sense

emanuele ascani22 Feb 2020 16:28 UTC

28 points

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Cause Awareness as a Factor against Cause Neutrality

Darmani13 Aug 2018 20:00 UTC

39 points

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Why CFAR’s Mission?

AnnaSalamon2 Jan 2016 23:23 UTC

59 points

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[Question] What’s the best ratio for Africans to starve compared to Ukrainians not dying in the war?

ChristianKl10 Mar 2022 18:52 UTC

9 points

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Short Timelines Don’t Devalue Long Horizon Research

Vladimir_Nesov9 Apr 2025 0:42 UTC

170 points

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Prioritization Research for Advancing Wisdom and Intelligence

ozziegooen18 Oct 2021 22:28 UTC

49 points

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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

S-risks: Why they are the worst existential risks, and how to prevent them

Kaj_Sotala20 Jun 2017 12:34 UTC

31 points

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(foundational-research.org)

Further discussion of CFAR’s focus on AI safety, and the good things folks wanted from “cause neutrality”

AnnaSalamon12 Dec 2016 19:39 UTC

65 points

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Is voting theory important? An attempt to check my bias.

Jameson Quinn17 Feb 2019 23:45 UTC

42 points

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Five Areas I Wish EAs Gave More Focus

Prometheus27 Oct 2022 6:13 UTC

13 points

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Probability and Politics

CarlShulman24 Nov 2010 17:02 UTC

28 points

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Attention on AI X-Risk Likely Hasn’t Distracted from Current Harms from AI

Erich_Grunewald21 Dec 2023 17:24 UTC

26 points

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(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Are long-term investments a good way to help the future?

Dacyn30 Apr 2018 14:41 UTC

10 points

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Announcing the Nuclear Risk Forecasting Tournament

MichaelA16 Jun 2021 16:16 UTC

16 points

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Caring less

eukaryote13 Mar 2018 22:53 UTC

75 points

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Overview of Rethink Priorities’ work on risks from nuclear weapons

MichaelA11 Jun 2021 20:05 UTC

12 points

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80,000 Hours: EA and Highly Political Causes

The_Jaded_One26 Jan 2017 21:44 UTC

46 points

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Is Optimal Reflection Competitive with Extinction Risk Reduction? - Requesting Reviewers

Jordan Arel29 Jun 2025 18:42 UTC

7 points

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Is GiveWell.org the best charity (excluding SIAI)?

syllogism26 Feb 2011 13:37 UTC

52 points

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Other Civilizations Would Recover 84+% of Our Cosmic Resources—A Challenge to Extinction Risk Prioritization

Maxime Riché17 Mar 2025 13:12 UTC

5 points

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How a billionaire could spend their money to help the disadvantaged: 7 ideas from the top of my head

Yitz4 Dec 2020 6:09 UTC

12 points

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Ben Hoffman’s donor recommendations

Rob Bensinger21 Jun 2018 16:02 UTC

41 points

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[Question] People are gathering 2 million USD to save a kid with a rare disease. I feel weird about it. Why?

hookdump2 Apr 2021 23:00 UTC

9 points

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Responses to questions on donating to 80k, GWWC, EAA and LYCS

wdmacaskill20 Nov 2012 22:41 UTC

34 points

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The Bunny: An EA Short Story

JohnGreer21 Aug 2022 20:59 UTC

15 points

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The Alignment Mapping Program: Forging Independent Thinkers in AI Safety—A Pilot Retrospective

Alvin Ånestrand, Jonas Hallgren and Utilop

10 Jan 2025 16:22 UTC

31 points

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On Doing the Improbable

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Oct 2018 20:09 UTC

131 points

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What To Do: Environmentalism vs Friendly AI (John Baez)

XiXiDu24 Apr 2011 18:03 UTC

31 points

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Longtermist implications of aliens Space-Faring Civilizations—Introduction

Maxime Riché21 Feb 2025 12:08 UTC

21 points

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On characterizing heavy-tailedness

Jsevillamol16 Feb 2020 0:14 UTC

38 points

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Why I stopped working on AI safety

jbkjr2 May 2024 5:08 UTC

−5 points

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(jbkjr.me)

A case for strategy research: what it is and why we need more of it

Siebe20 Jun 2019 20:22 UTC

24 points

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Decision-Relevance of worlds and ADT implementations

Maxime Riché6 Mar 2025 16:57 UTC

9 points

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Preserving our heritage: Building a movement and a knowledge ark for current and future generations

rnk829 Nov 2023 19:20 UTC

0 points

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Robustness of Cost-Effectiveness Estimates and Philanthropy

JonahS24 May 2013 20:28 UTC

56 points

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Maximizing Cost-effectiveness via Critical Inquiry

HoldenKarnofsky10 Nov 2011 19:25 UTC

31 points

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Doing Prioritization Better

arvomm16 Apr 2025 18:46 UTC

3 points

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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Two arguments against longtermist thought experiments

momom22 Nov 2024 10:22 UTC

15 points

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Super human AI is a very low hanging fruit!

Hzn26 Dec 2024 19:00 UTC

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Interstellar travel will probably doom the long-term future

Jordan Stone25 Jun 2025 15:32 UTC

28 points

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Does “Momentism” via Eternal Inflation dominate Longtermism in expectation?

Jordan Arel17 Aug 2024 22:28 UTC

8 points

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The Convergent Path to the Stars

Maxime Riché18 Mar 2025 17:09 UTC

6 points

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OpenPhil’s “Update on Cause Prioritization / Worldview Diversification”

Raemon31 Jan 2018 5:39 UTC

13 points

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(www.openphilanthropy.org)

[Link]: GiveWell is aiming to have a new #1 charity by December

Normal_Anomaly29 Nov 2011 3:11 UTC

29 points

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Reducing x-risk might be actively harmful

MountainPath18 Nov 2024 14:25 UTC

5 points

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Giving Tuesday 2020

jefftk30 Nov 2020 22:30 UTC

28 points

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(www.jefftk.com)

Defeating Mundane Holocausts With Robots

lsparrish30 May 2011 22:34 UTC

34 points

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A case for donating to AI risk reduction (including if you work in AI)

tlevin2 Dec 2024 19:05 UTC

60 points

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Oxford Prioritisation Project Review

[deleted]13 Oct 2017 23:07 UTC

11 points

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Longtermist Implications of the Existence Neutrality Hypothesis

Maxime Riché20 Mar 2025 12:20 UTC

3 points

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The (short) case for predicting what Aliens value

Jim Buhler20 Jul 2023 15:25 UTC

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Improving local governance in fragile states—practical lessons from the field

Tim Liptrot29 Jul 2020 1:54 UTC

16 points

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Comparing Alignment to other AGI interventions: Basic model

Martín Soto20 Mar 2024 18:17 UTC

12 points

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Efficient Charity

multifoliaterose4 Dec 2010 10:27 UTC

42 points

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The AI Belief-Consistency Letter

Knight Lee23 Apr 2025 12:01 UTC

−6 points

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