Cause Prioritization

TagLast edit: 17 Jan 2021 15:17 UTC by Yoav Ravid

Cause Prioritization is the process of researching which charitable causes offer the most benefit for the marginal investment. Priorities can shift as existing causes reach funding and hiring goals, and new opportunities to do good are discovered. Cause prioritization is an important part of Effective Altruism.

See also: Cause Prioritization Wiki

Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others...

Scott Alexander24 Dec 2010 21:26 UTC

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Why SENS makes sense

emanuele ascani22 Feb 2020 16:28 UTC

28 points

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

AnnaSalamon12 Dec 2016 19:39 UTC

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Why CFAR’s Mission?

AnnaSalamon2 Jan 2016 23:23 UTC

60 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

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

Kaj_Sotala20 Jun 2017 12:34 UTC

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(foundational-research.org)

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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Prioritization Research for Advancing Wisdom and Intelligence

ozziegooen18 Oct 2021 22:28 UTC

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(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

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

ChristianKl10 Mar 2022 18:52 UTC

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

rockthecasbah29 Jul 2020 1:54 UTC

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On Doing the Improbable

Eliezer Yudkowsky28 Oct 2018 20:09 UTC

125 points

36 comments1 min readLW link 1 review

Caring less

eukaryote13 Mar 2018 22:53 UTC

69 points

24 comments4 min readLW link 3 reviews

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

Jameson Quinn17 Feb 2019 23:45 UTC

42 points

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Robustness of Cost-Effectiveness Estimates and Philanthropy

JonahS24 May 2013 20:28 UTC

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Ben Hoffman’s donor recommendations

Rob Bensinger21 Jun 2018 16:02 UTC

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

syllogism26 Feb 2011 13:37 UTC

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

Raemon31 Jan 2018 5:39 UTC

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(www.openphilanthropy.org)

On characterizing heavy-tailedness

Jsevillamol16 Feb 2020 0:14 UTC

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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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Efficient Charity

multifoliaterose4 Dec 2010 10:27 UTC

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

wdmacaskill20 Nov 2012 22:41 UTC

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Defeating Mundane Holocausts With Robots

lsparrish30 May 2011 22:34 UTC

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Oxford Prioritisation Project Review

[deleted]13 Oct 2017 23:07 UTC

11 points

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

Dacyn30 Apr 2018 14:41 UTC

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

Siebe20 Jun 2019 20:22 UTC

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

Normal_Anomaly29 Nov 2011 3:11 UTC

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Cause Awareness as a Factor against Cause Neutrality

Darmani13 Aug 2018 20:00 UTC

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Giving Tuesday 2020

jefftk30 Nov 2020 22:30 UTC

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(www.jefftk.com)

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

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Probability and Politics

CarlShulman24 Nov 2010 17:02 UTC

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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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Maximizing Cost-effectiveness via Critical Inquiry

HoldenKarnofsky10 Nov 2011 19:25 UTC

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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

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Overview of Rethink Priorities’ work on risks from nuclear weapons

MichaelA11 Jun 2021 20:05 UTC

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Announcing the Nuclear Risk Forecasting Tournament

MichaelA16 Jun 2021 16:16 UTC

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The Bunny: An EA Short Story

JohnGreer21 Aug 2022 20:59 UTC

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Five Areas I Wish EAs Gave More Focus

Prometheus27 Oct 2022 6:13 UTC

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Socialist firms as a cause area

B Jacobs27 Nov 2022 9:46 UTC

30 points

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