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Effec­tive Altruism

TagLast edit: 25 Feb 2024 21:00 UTC by Nathan Young

Effective Altruism (EA) is a movement trying to invest time and money in causes that do the most possible good per unit investment. EA was at one point called optimal philanthropy.

The basic concept behind EA is that you would really struggle to donate 100 times more money or time to charity than you currently do but, spending a little time researching who to donate to could have an impact on roughly this order of magnitude. The same argument works for doing good with your career or volunteer hours.

The Effective Altruism movement also has its own forum, The EA Forum. It runs on the same software as LessWrong.

Key Concepts

The Scale, Neglectedness, Tractability, (Personal Fit) criteria

Despite a broad diversity of ideas within the EA community on which areas are most pressing, there are a handful of criteria that are generally agreed make an area potentially impactful to work on (either directly or through donation). These are:

A fourth semi-area is:

Impartiality (geographic, species, time)

Global health and wellbeing (geographic impartiality)

One morning, I say to them, you notice a child has fallen in and appears to be drowning. To wade in and pull the child out would be easy but it will mean that you get your clothes wet and muddy, and by the time you go home and change you will have missed your first class.

I then ask the students: do you have any obligation to rescue the child? Unanimously, the students say they do. The importance of saving a child so far outweighs the cost of getting one’s clothes muddy and missing a class, that they refuse to consider it any kind of excuse for not saving the child. Does it make a difference, I ask, that there are other people walking past the pond who would equally be able to rescue the child but are not doing so? No, the students reply, the fact that others are not doing what they ought to do is no reason why I should not do what I ought to do.

Once we are all clear about our obligations to rescue the drowning child in front of us, I ask: would it make any difference if the child were far away, in another country perhaps, but similarly in danger of death, and equally within your means to save, at no great cost – and absolutely no danger – to yourself?[1]

It is not clear why, under many moral systems we should care more about people who are in our country than to those who aren’t. But those who are in developing nations can be helped about 100x more cheaply than those in the US.

Animal Welfare (species impartiality)

The question is not, Can they reason?, nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?

If states of wellbeing matter, then they matter regardless of a being’s ability to express or change the situation. A sleeping person can be tormented by nightmares but we still consider that suffering meaningful. Likewise animals are capable of states of pleasure and pain, regardless of their ability to tell us of their situation.

And there are many animals. Likewise, they cannot vote and cannot earn money so are unable to change their own situation. This suggests that supporting animal welfare legislation might be a very cheap way to improve wellbeing.

On a deeper level, EAs say that species is not the marker of moral worth. If we had evolved from dolphins rather than apes, would we be less deserving of moral consideration? If this logic follows, it implies significant low-cost opportunities to improve welfare.

Longtermism (time impartiality)

A large portion of the EA community are by and large, longtermist. This refers to the idea that, if there are many future generations (100s, 1000s or more), and their lives are as valuable as ours, then even very small impacts on all of their lives—or things like moving good changes forwards in time or bad ones back—far outweigh impacts on people who are currently alive. Because this concept is less broadly-accepted than charity for currently-alive people, longtermist solutions are also generally considered to be neglected. Longtermist interventions generally focus on S-risks or X-risks.

Examples of longtermist interventions include AI safety, pandemic preparedness, and nanotechnology security. Examples of other popular EA interventions include global poverty alleviation, malaria treatments, and vitamin supplementation in sub-saharan Africa.

Suspicious convergence

If many unrelated factors point towards doing the same action, beware that you may be using motivated reasoning[2].

Charity effectiveness

From [scale tractability neglectendness], we can see a vast number of charities do not meet all or indeed any of these criteria. A major issue with EA is that some areas are much easier to track progress in than others (think tracking the cost per life saved of malaria nets vs existential AI risk, for instance). What is clear, however, is that some of the more effective charities (of those which are easy to track) have far more benefit over the average charity than people think—perhaps as much as 10,000% as effective.

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An attempt at a minimal set of effective altruism axioms

Zvi wrote a set of axioms of EA as well as his disagreement with them in Criticism of EA Criticism Contest. This list is very roughly based on that, though with very substantial changes.

  1. Consequentialism. Or something that looks similar in most situations to most people.

  2. Importance of Suffering. Suffering is The Bad. Happiness/​pleasure is The Good.

  3. Quantification. It is good to quantify things, with made-up numbers if necessary.

  4. Weirdness humility. If the answer is strange, double-check your math.

  5. Scope Sensitivity. Shut up and multiply, two are twice as good as one.

  6. Openness to criticism. Create low-effort ways for people to test your decisions/​ theories of change/​ sums

  7. Intentionality. If you plan you will probably fail, but if you don’t plan it’s you are more likely to.

  8. Effectiveness. Do what works. The goal is to actually win.

  9. Altruism. The best way to do good yourself is to act selflessly to do good.

  10. Impartiality. Beyond close friends and family, we should treat all others equally.

  11. Evangelicalism. Belief that it is good to add skills and resources to EA.

  12. Existential Risk. Wiping out all value in the universe is really, really bad.

  13. Appreciate norms. It is usually good to be predictable to outsiders so you can work together well. It is very tempting to find reasons to break this rule.

  14. Seriousness. Our actions have real-world consequences. People live and die based on our choices.

  15. Grace. In practice, people can’t live up to this list fully and that’s acceptable.

  16. Totalization. Everything of value can be expressed in terms of this framework, though it’s often better to confine only part of your life to it and do what you want with the rest.

Additional axioms for longtermism

  1. Expected value still applies with very small chances of very large outcomes.

Total resources and how they are split

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https://​​forum.effectivealtruism.org/​​posts/​​ZbaDmowkXbTBsxvHn/​​historical-ea-funding-data Spreadsheet https://​​docs.google.com/​​spreadsheets/​​d/​​1IeO7NIgZ-qfSTDyiAFSgH6dMn1xzb6hB2pVSdlBJZ88/​​edit#gid=771773474

Current EA billionaires

Maybe

Number of Community Members

Funding in general

Impact

Global health and economic development

Lives saved − 90% CI [50,000, 10mn] - Nathan Young

The Against Malaria Foundation has distributed more than 70 million bednets to protect people (mostly children) from a debilitating parasite. (Source) [number of lives saved]

GiveDirectly has facilitated more than $100 million in direct cash transfers to families living in extreme poverty, who determine for themselves how best to spend the money. (Source) [number of lives saved]

The Schistosomiasis Control Initiative and Deworm the World Initiative invests in people’s health and future well-being by treating preventable diseases that often get little attention. They have given out hundreds of millions of deworming treatments to fight intestinal parasites, which may help people earn higher incomes later in life. (Sources for SCI and DWI)

Animal welfare

Chicken equivalent lives saved per year: 90% CI [10m , 100T] - Nathan Young

The Humane League and Mercy for Animals, alongside many other organizations, have orchestrated corporate campaigns and legal reforms to fight the use of battery cages. Because of this work, more than 100 million hens that would have been caged instead live cage-free. (This includes all cage-free reform work, of which a sizable fraction was funded by EA-aligned donors.)

The Good Food Institute works with scientists, entrepreneurs, and investors to develop and promote meat alternatives that don’t require the suffering of farmed animals.

Existential risk and the long-term future

[how much lower higher? risk of existential catastrphe as a result][3]

Organizations like the Future of Humanity Institute and the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk work on research and policy related to some of the biggest threats facing humanity, from pandemics and climate change to nuclear war and superintelligent AI systems.

Some organizations in this space, like the Center for Human-Compatible AI and the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, focus entirely on solving issues posed by advances in artificial intelligence. AI systems of the future could be very powerful and difficult to control—a dangerous combination.

Sherlock Biosciences is developing a diagnostic platform that could reduce threats from viral pandemics. (They are a private company, but much of their capital comes from a grant made by Open Philanthropy, an EA-aligned grantmaker.)

Criticisms

Criticisms to add

Stefan Shubert’s criticisms and responses

Kuhn, Ben (2013) A critique of effective altruism, Ben Kuhn’s Blog, December 2.

McMahan, Jeff (2016) Philosophical critiques of effective altruism, The Philosophers’ Magazine, vol. 73, pp. 92–99.

Nielsen, Michael (2022) Notes on effective altruism, Michael’s Notebook, June 2.

Rowe, Abraham (2022) Critiques of EA that I want to read, Effective Altruism Forum, June 19.

Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2019) Vitalik Buterin on effective altruism, better ways to fund public goods, the blockchain’s problems so far, and how it could yet change the world, 80,000 Hours, September 3.

Zhang, Linchuan (2021) The motivated reasoning critique of effective altruism, Effective Altruism Forum, September 14.

The winners of this https://​​forum.effectivealtruism.org/​​posts/​​YgbpxJmEdFhFGpqci/​​winners-of-the-ea-criticism-and-red-teaming-contest

Related pages

Notable EA orgs

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Scope Insensitivity

Eliezer Yudkowsky14 May 2007 2:53 UTC
276 points
68 comments2 min readLW link

One Life Against the World

Eliezer Yudkowsky18 May 2007 22:06 UTC
116 points
84 comments3 min readLW link

So you say you’re an al­tru­ist...

John_Maxwell12 Mar 2009 22:15 UTC
12 points
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Dead Aid

PhilGoetz17 Mar 2009 14:51 UTC
2 points
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Altru­ist Co­or­di­na­tion—Cen­tral Station

MBlume27 Mar 2009 22:24 UTC
7 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

Money: The Unit of Caring

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Mar 2009 12:35 UTC
210 points
132 comments4 min readLW link

Pur­chase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately

Eliezer Yudkowsky1 Apr 2009 9:51 UTC
212 points
88 comments4 min readLW link

Another Call to End Aid to Africa

Eliezer Yudkowsky3 Apr 2009 18:55 UTC
11 points
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The Craigslist Revolu­tion: a real-world ap­pli­ca­tion of tor­ture vs. dust specks OR How I learned to stop wor­ry­ing and cre­ate one billion dol­lars out of nothing

Kevin10 Feb 2010 3:15 UTC
53 points
227 comments2 min readLW link

Against Cry­on­ics & For Cost-Effec­tive Charity

multifoliaterose10 Aug 2010 3:59 UTC
9 points
189 comments11 min readLW link

The Effec­tive­ness of Devel­op­ing World Aid

multifoliaterose12 Sep 2010 21:56 UTC
33 points
51 comments7 min readLW link

How to Save the World

Louie1 Dec 2010 17:17 UTC
103 points
135 comments7 min readLW link

Effi­cient Charity

multifoliaterose4 Dec 2010 10:27 UTC
42 points
185 comments9 min readLW link

Op­ti­miz­ing Fuzzies And Utilons: The Altru­ism Chip Jar

orthonormal1 Jan 2011 18:53 UTC
138 points
49 comments3 min readLW link

The Value of The­o­ret­i­cal Research

paulfchristiano25 Feb 2011 18:06 UTC
65 points
53 comments3 min readLW link

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

syllogism26 Feb 2011 13:37 UTC
52 points
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Plant Seeds of Rationality

lukeprog10 Mar 2011 17:51 UTC
45 points
77 comments1 min readLW link

Defeat­ing Mun­dane Holo­causts With Robots

lsparrish30 May 2011 22:34 UTC
34 points
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Op­ti­mal Philan­thropy for Hu­man Beings

lukeprog25 Jul 2011 7:27 UTC
49 points
86 comments7 min readLW link

Ca­reer choice for a util­i­tar­ian giver

juliawise8 Aug 2011 2:10 UTC
39 points
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Why We Can’t Take Ex­pected Value Es­ti­mates Liter­ally (Even When They’re Un­bi­ased)

HoldenKarnofsky18 Aug 2011 23:34 UTC
123 points
253 comments17 min readLW link

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

Normal_Anomaly29 Nov 2011 3:11 UTC
29 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Peter Singer and Tyler Cowen transcript

jefftk6 Apr 2012 12:25 UTC
56 points
34 comments31 min readLW link

The prin­ci­ple of ‘al­tru­is­tic ar­bi­trage’

RobertWiblin9 Apr 2012 1:29 UTC
27 points
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What Is Op­ti­mal Philan­thropy?

alyssavance12 Jul 2012 0:17 UTC
40 points
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The High Im­pact Net­work (THINK) - Launch­ing Now

Raemon8 Aug 2012 2:29 UTC
51 points
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What are your ques­tions about mak­ing a differ­ence?

Benjamin_Todd12 Aug 2012 23:14 UTC
28 points
43 comments1 min readLW link

Who Wants To Start An Im­por­tant Startup?

ShannonFriedman16 Aug 2012 20:02 UTC
59 points
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[LINK] The most im­por­tant un­solved prob­lems in ethics

jefftk17 Oct 2012 20:03 UTC
35 points
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Giv­ing What We Can, 80,000 Hours, and Meta-Charity

wdmacaskill15 Nov 2012 20:34 UTC
60 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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AidGrade—GiveWell fi­nally has some competition

Raemon22 Jan 2013 15:41 UTC
65 points
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The Un­in­tu­itive Power Laws of Giving

jefftk2 Apr 2013 2:10 UTC
40 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

Tak­ing Char­ity Se­ri­ously: Toby Ord talk on char­ity effectivess

jefftk10 Apr 2013 0:59 UTC
25 points
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Max­i­miz­ing Your Dona­tions via a Job

Alexei5 May 2013 23:19 UTC
177 points
58 comments22 min readLW link

Ro­bust­ness of Cost-Effec­tive­ness Es­ti­mates and Philanthropy

JonahS24 May 2013 20:28 UTC
56 points
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Re­search is polyg­a­mous! The im­por­tance of what you do needn’t be pro­por­tional to your awe­some­ness

diegocaleiro26 May 2013 22:29 UTC
35 points
43 comments2 min readLW link

[link] Join Wall Street. Save the World

Pablo31 May 2013 16:49 UTC
37 points
16 comments3 min readLW link

Earn­ing to Give vs. Altru­is­tic Ca­reer Choice Revisited

JonahS2 Jun 2013 2:55 UTC
48 points
153 comments8 min readLW link

Four Fo­cus Areas of Effec­tive Altruism

lukeprog9 Jul 2013 0:59 UTC
67 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
98 comments11 min readLW link

Q for GiveWell: What is GiveDirectly’s mechanism of ac­tion?

Eliezer Yudkowsky31 Jul 2013 20:02 UTC
33 points
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A cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

benkuhn2 Dec 2013 16:53 UTC
100 points
153 comments12 min readLW link

Another Cri­tique of Effec­tive Altruism

jsteinhardt5 Jan 2014 9:51 UTC
28 points
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Salary or startup? How do-good­ers can gain more from risky careers

Adam Zerner5 Feb 2014 22:54 UTC
7 points
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Jobs and in­tern­ships available at the Cen­tre for Effec­tive Altruism

tog7 Feb 2014 12:16 UTC
26 points
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Effec­tive Altru­ism Sum­mit 2014

Ben_LandauTaylor21 Mar 2014 20:30 UTC
25 points
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What has .im­pact done so far?

Peter Wildeford31 Mar 2014 17:50 UTC
10 points
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An­nounc­ing The Effec­tive Altru­ism Forum

RyanCarey24 Aug 2014 8:07 UTC
44 points
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Fund­ing can­ni­bal­ism mo­ti­vates con­cern for overheads

Thrasymachus30 Aug 2014 0:42 UTC
40 points
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Fight­ing Mosquitos

ChristianKl16 Oct 2014 11:53 UTC
28 points
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Elon Musk donates $10M to the Fu­ture of Life In­sti­tute to keep AI benefi­cial

Paul Crowley15 Jan 2015 16:33 UTC
78 points
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Pur­chas­ing re­search effec­tively open thread

John_Maxwell21 Jan 2015 12:24 UTC
19 points
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The Effec­tive Altru­ism Handbook

RyanCarey24 Apr 2015 0:30 UTC
22 points
13 comments2 min readLW link

Why you should at­tend EA Global and (some) other conferences

Habryka16 Jul 2015 4:50 UTC
26 points
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The Growth of My Pes­simism: Tran­shu­man­ism, Im­mor­tal­ism, Effec­tive Altru­ism.

diegocaleiro28 Nov 2015 11:07 UTC
16 points
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Cel­e­brat­ing All Who Are in Effec­tive Altruism

Gleb_Tsipursky20 Jan 2016 1:31 UTC
25 points
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Now is the time to elimi­nate mosquitoes

James_Miller6 Aug 2016 19:10 UTC
33 points
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I’m Not An Effec­tive Altru­ist Be­cause I Pre­fer...

ozymandias28 Dec 2016 22:39 UTC
12 points
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(thingofthings.wordpress.com)

[LINK] EA Has A Ly­ing Problem

Benquo11 Jan 2017 22:31 UTC
28 points
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(srconstantin.wordpress.com)

80,000 Hours: EA and Highly Poli­ti­cal Causes

The_Jaded_One26 Jan 2017 21:44 UTC
46 points
25 comments7 min readLW link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism is self-recommending

Benquo21 Apr 2017 18:37 UTC
90 points
68 comments27 min readLW link

Against EA PR

ozymandias21 Sep 2017 1:23 UTC
48 points
6 comments6 min readLW link

Oxford Pri­ori­ti­sa­tion Pro­ject Review

[deleted]13 Oct 2017 23:07 UTC
11 points
6 comments23 min readLW link

Creat­ing Welfare Biol­ogy: A Re­search Proposal

ozymandias16 Nov 2017 19:06 UTC
20 points
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Cash trans­fers are not nec­es­sar­ily wealth transfers

Benquo1 Dec 2017 10:10 UTC
59 points
36 comments11 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

2017 AI Safety Liter­a­ture Re­view and Char­ity Com­par­i­son

Larks24 Dec 2017 18:52 UTC
41 points
5 comments23 min readLW link

Com­ments on Power Law Distri­bu­tion of In­di­vi­d­ual Impact

Ben Pace29 Dec 2017 1:49 UTC
21 points
22 comments8 min readLW link

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

Raemon31 Jan 2018 5:39 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

EA Global SF 2018

epiphi23 Apr 2018 18:34 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Effec­tive Altru­ism’s Ul­ti­mate Goal: Erad­i­cate Hu­man Suffer­ing.

willfranks25 Apr 2018 12:12 UTC
−1 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

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

Dacyn30 Apr 2018 14:41 UTC
10 points
50 comments3 min readLW link

Please Take the 2018 Effec­tive Altru­ism Sur­vey!

Peter Wildeford2 May 2018 7:58 UTC
14 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Could we send a mes­sage to the dis­tant fu­ture?

paulfchristiano9 Jun 2018 4:27 UTC
37 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

Ge­offrey Miller on Effec­tive Altru­ism and Rationality

Jacob Falkovich15 Jun 2018 17:05 UTC
19 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(putanumonit.com)

Ben Hoff­man’s donor recommendations

Rob Bensinger21 Jun 2018 16:02 UTC
41 points
19 comments1 min readLW link

The Values-to-Ac­tions De­ci­sion Chain

Remmelt30 Jun 2018 21:52 UTC
29 points
6 comments10 min readLW link

Anti-trib­al­ism and pos­i­tive men­tal health as high-value cause areas

Kaj_Sotala2 Aug 2018 8:30 UTC
24 points
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(kajsotala.fi)

EA Tourism: Lon­don, Black­pool and Prague

Jsevillamol7 Aug 2018 10:41 UTC
36 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Ap­ply for Emer­gent Ventures

Zvi13 Sep 2018 21:50 UTC
40 points
6 comments3 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

The new Effec­tive Altru­ism fo­rum just launched

habryka8 Nov 2018 1:59 UTC
27 points
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[Question] Why should EA care about ra­tio­nal­ity (and vice-versa)?

Gordon Seidoh Worley9 Dec 2018 22:03 UTC
14 points
13 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] Does anti-malaria char­ity de­stroy the lo­cal anti-malaria in­dus­try?

Viliam5 Jan 2019 19:04 UTC
61 points
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The Case for The EA Hotel

Matt Goldenberg31 Mar 2019 12:31 UTC
57 points
26 comments10 min readLW link

To­tal­i­tar­ian eth­i­cal systems

Benquo3 May 2019 19:35 UTC
33 points
12 comments3 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

[Question] How much do ma­jor foun­da­tions grant per hour of staff time?

Raemon5 May 2019 19:57 UTC
22 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Frac­tional Re­serve Charity

Alicorn7 Jun 2019 5:14 UTC
34 points
4 comments5 min readLW link

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

Siebe20 Jun 2019 20:22 UTC
24 points
19 comments20 min readLW link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Every­day Decisions

jefftk16 Sep 2019 19:00 UTC
24 points
6 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Long-term Dona­tion Bunch­ing?

jefftk27 Sep 2019 12:40 UTC
23 points
21 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Please Take the 2019 EA Sur­vey!

Peter Wildeford30 Sep 2019 21:21 UTC
21 points
5 comments1 min readLW link
(www.surveymonkey.co.uk)

One Million Dollars

jefftk19 Dec 2019 2:10 UTC
61 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

REVISED: A drown­ing child is hard to find

Benquo31 Jan 2020 18:07 UTC
22 points
35 comments1 min readLW link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Map Of Effec­tive Altruism

Scott Alexander3 Feb 2020 6:20 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readLW link
(slatestarcodex.com)

Jaan Tal­linn’s Philan­thropic Pledge

jaan22 Feb 2020 10:03 UTC
78 points
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The Real Standard

orthonormal30 Mar 2020 3:09 UTC
18 points
1 comment2 min readLW link

Choos­ing the Zero Point

orthonormal6 Apr 2020 23:44 UTC
170 points
24 comments3 min readLW link2 reviews

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

Tim Liptrot29 Jul 2020 1:54 UTC
16 points
3 comments6 min readLW link

The Iso­la­tion As­sump­tion of Ex­pected Utility Maximization

Pedro Oliboni6 Aug 2020 4:05 UTC
7 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Self-Similar­ity Experiment

Dawn Drescher15 Aug 2020 13:19 UTC
12 points
0 comments10 min readLW link

Be­com­ing an EA-in­fluencer on YouTube etc.

culturechange16 Aug 2020 8:09 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

When can Fic­tion Change the World?

Timothy Underwood24 Aug 2020 13:47 UTC
79 points
18 comments11 min readLW link

A Re­fu­ta­tion of (Global) “Hap­piness Max­i­miza­tion”

fare25 Aug 2020 20:33 UTC
−2 points
4 comments15 min readLW link

Euro­pean Master’s Pro­grams in Ma­chine Learn­ing, Ar­tifi­cial In­tel­li­gence, and re­lated fields

Master Programs ML/AI14 Nov 2020 15:51 UTC
34 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

Giv­ing Tues­day 2020

jefftk30 Nov 2020 22:30 UTC
28 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(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
12 points
12 comments6 min readLW link

Please Take the 2020 Effec­tive Altru­ism Survey

Peter Wildeford7 Dec 2020 22:18 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Ap­ply to Effec­tive Altru­ism Funds now

Jonas Vollmer13 Feb 2021 13:36 UTC
26 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Don’t en­courage pris­on­ers dilemmas

Yair Halberstadt16 Feb 2021 6:33 UTC
8 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

So­cietal Self-control

Aaron Bergman20 Feb 2021 3:05 UTC
2 points
0 comments10 min readLW link
(aaronbergman.substack.com)

Men­tor­ship, Man­age­ment, and Mys­te­ri­ous Old Wizards

Raemon24 Feb 2021 22:00 UTC
81 points
13 comments3 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Why Hasn’t Effec­tive Altru­ism Grown Since 2015?

AppliedDivinityStudies9 Mar 2021 1:43 UTC
64 points
28 comments9 min readLW link

Why does Ap­plied Div­inity Stud­ies think EA hasn’t grown since 2015?

KatjaGrace9 Mar 2021 10:10 UTC
51 points
1 comment3 min readLW link
(worldspiritsockpuppet.com)

Re­sponses and Tes­ti­monies on EA Growth

AppliedDivinityStudies10 Mar 2021 22:57 UTC
67 points
3 comments15 min readLW link

Some blindspots in ra­tio­nal­ity and effec­tive altruism

Remmelt19 Mar 2021 11:40 UTC
37 points
44 comments14 min readLW link

[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
7 comments1 min readLW link

What are all these chil­dren do­ing in my ponds?

dominicq3 Apr 2021 20:16 UTC
81 points
15 comments3 min readLW link

Jaan Tal­linn’s 2020 Philan­thropy Overview

jaan27 Apr 2021 16:22 UTC
113 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(jaan.online)

Small and Vulnerable

sapphire3 May 2021 4:55 UTC
157 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

[Question] Donat­ing Bit­coin to Cri­sis Zones—Is there a plat­form col­lat­ing and ver­ify­ing pub­lic key ad­dress for in­di­vi­d­u­als in con­flict zones which al­lows donors to send Bit­coin di­rectly to them?

Siddhartha Gautama27 May 2021 8:20 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Neo-Mohism

Bae's Theorem16 Jun 2021 21:57 UTC
5 points
11 comments7 min readLW link

[cross-post with EA Fo­rum] The EA Fo­rum Pod­cast is up and running

Garrett Baker5 Jul 2021 21:52 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How to turn money into AI safety?

Charlie Steiner25 Aug 2021 10:49 UTC
66 points
26 comments8 min readLW link

Altru­ism Un­der Ex­treme Uncertainty

lsusr27 Aug 2021 6:58 UTC
37 points
9 comments2 min readLW link

Plea­sure and Pain are Long-Tailed

lsusr9 Sep 2021 5:10 UTC
38 points
10 comments4 min readLW link

The Mo­ti­vated Rea­son­ing Cri­tique of Effec­tive Altruism

Linch15 Sep 2021 1:43 UTC
26 points
0 comments23 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

GiveWell Dona­tion Matching

jefftk21 Sep 2021 22:50 UTC
10 points
5 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

From Manch­ester to Beirut: The power of ed­u­ca­tion to change lives

gareth26 Sep 2021 11:40 UTC
3 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(medium.com)

Is­sues with Giv­ing Multiplier

jefftk29 Sep 2021 21:40 UTC
28 points
0 comments6 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

X-Risk, An­throp­ics, & Peter Thiel’s In­vest­ment Thesis

Jackson Wagner26 Oct 2021 18:50 UTC
21 points
1 comment19 min readLW link

Sasha Chapin on bad so­cial norms in ra­tio­nal­ity/​EA

Kaj_Sotala17 Nov 2021 9:43 UTC
48 points
22 comments5 min readLW link
(sashachapin.substack.com)

Ngo and Yud­kowsky on AI ca­pa­bil­ity gains

18 Nov 2021 22:19 UTC
130 points
61 comments39 min readLW link1 review

In­creased Availa­bil­ity and Willing­ness for De­ploy­ment of Re­sources for Effec­tive Altru­ism and Long-Termism

Evan_Gaensbauer29 Dec 2021 20:30 UTC
33 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

An­i­mal welfare EA and per­sonal dietary options

Rob Bensinger5 Jan 2022 18:53 UTC
37 points
32 comments3 min readLW link

(briefly) RaDVaC and SMTM, two things we should be doing

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 Jan 2022 6:20 UTC
227 points
79 comments3 min readLW link1 review

Do­ing “good”

pchvykov13 Jan 2022 19:52 UTC
9 points
7 comments2 min readLW link

Paradigm-build­ing from first prin­ci­ples: Effec­tive al­tru­ism, AGI, and alignment

Cameron Berg8 Feb 2022 16:12 UTC
26 points
5 comments14 min readLW link

Sim­plify EA Pitches to “Holy Shit, X-Risk”

Neel Nanda11 Feb 2022 1:59 UTC
57 points
21 comments10 min readLW link
(www.neelnanda.io)

Be­ing an in­di­vi­d­ual al­ign­ment grantmaker

A_donor28 Feb 2022 20:02 UTC
64 points
5 comments2 min readLW link

[Question] What are some low-cog­ni­tive -work­load tasks that can help im­prove the world?

Yitz1 Mar 2022 17:47 UTC
29 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Have You Tried Hiring Peo­ple?

rank-biserial2 Mar 2022 2:06 UTC
185 points
117 comments8 min readLW link1 review

Dona­tions, The First Year

jenn10 Mar 2022 3:57 UTC
21 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(jenn.site)

[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
28 comments1 min readLW link

Even more cu­rated con­ver­sa­tions with brilli­ant rationalists

spencerg21 Mar 2022 23:49 UTC
59 points
0 comments15 min readLW link

Brain preser­va­tion to pre­vent in­vol­un­tary death: a pos­si­ble cause area

Andy_McKenzie22 Mar 2022 12:36 UTC
39 points
1 comment10 min readLW link

[Question] Good Heart Dona­tion Lottery

Gordon Seidoh Worley1 Apr 2022 17:51 UTC
72 points
14 comments2 min readLW link

In­creas­ing De­mand­ing­ness in EA

jefftk29 Apr 2022 1:20 UTC
61 points
22 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Most prob­lems don’t differ dra­mat­i­cally in tractabil­ity (un­der cer­tain as­sump­tions)

Thomas Kwa4 May 2022 0:05 UTC
8 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Re­vis­it­ing “Why Global Poverty”

jefftk1 Jun 2022 20:20 UTC
20 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

An­nounc­ing a con­test: EA Crit­i­cism and Red Teaming

fin2 Jun 2022 20:27 UTC
17 points
1 comment14 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

On effec­tive al­tru­ism, util­i­tar­i­anism and localness

David Hugh-Jones3 Jun 2022 10:34 UTC
14 points
2 comments5 min readLW link
(wyclif.substack.com)

Tran­script of a Twit­ter Dis­cus­sion on EA from June 2022

Zvi6 Jun 2022 13:50 UTC
85 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

When Giv­ing Peo­ple Money Doesn’t Help

Zvi7 Jul 2022 13:00 UTC
58 points
12 comments10 min readLW link
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

An­nounc­ing Fu­ture Fo­rum—Ap­ply Now

11 Jul 2022 22:57 UTC
8 points
0 comments4 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Pass­ing Up Pay

jefftk13 Jul 2022 14:10 UTC
29 points
8 comments5 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Crit­i­cism of EA Crit­i­cism Contest

Zvi14 Jul 2022 14:30 UTC
108 points
17 comments31 min readLW link1 review
(thezvi.wordpress.com)

Spend­ing Up­date 2022

jefftk19 Jul 2022 14:10 UTC
28 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

En­light­en­ment Values in a Vuln­er­a­ble World

Maxwell Tabarrok20 Jul 2022 19:52 UTC
15 points
6 comments31 min readLW link
(maximumprogress.substack.com)

Hu­man tri­als for the Mar­burg vac­cine: fund­ing op­por­tu­nity?

americanwalrus27 Jul 2022 5:53 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.independent.co.uk)

[Question] I want to donate some money (not much, just what I can af­ford) to AGI Align­ment re­search, to what­ever or­ga­ni­za­tion has the best chance of mak­ing sure that AGI goes well and doesn’t kill us all. What are my best op­tions, where can I make the most differ­ence per dol­lar?

lumenwrites2 Aug 2022 12:08 UTC
15 points
9 comments1 min readLW link

Against pop­u­la­tion ethics

jasoncrawford16 Aug 2022 5:19 UTC
29 points
39 comments3 min readLW link

What does moral progress con­sist of?

jasoncrawford19 Aug 2022 0:22 UTC
32 points
23 comments2 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Re­place­ment for PONR concept

Daniel Kokotajlo2 Sep 2022 0:09 UTC
58 points
6 comments2 min readLW link

How Josiah be­came an AI safety researcher

Neil Crawford6 Sep 2022 17:17 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] How can we se­cure more re­search po­si­tions at our uni­ver­si­ties for x-risk re­searchers?

Neil Crawford6 Sep 2022 17:17 UTC
11 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Job] Pro­ject Man­ager: Com­mu­nity Health (CEA)

Xodarap10 Sep 2022 18:40 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org)

Effec­tive al­tru­ism in the gar­den of ends

Tyler Alterman14 Sep 2022 22:02 UTC
24 points
1 comment27 min readLW link

I wrote a fan­tasy novel to pro­mote EA: More Chapters

Timothy Underwood16 Sep 2022 9:47 UTC
18 points
0 comments47 min readLW link

High-Im­pact Psy­chol­ogy (HIPsy): Pilot­ing a Global Network

Inga G.29 Sep 2022 18:16 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

We can do bet­ter than argmax

Jan_Kulveit10 Oct 2022 10:32 UTC
48 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

Res­lab Re­quest for In­for­ma­tion: EA hard­ware projects

Joel Becker26 Oct 2022 21:13 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Five Areas I Wish EAs Gave More Focus

Prometheus27 Oct 2022 6:13 UTC
15 points
18 comments1 min readLW link

Mildly Against Donor Lotteries

jefftk1 Nov 2022 18:10 UTC
10 points
9 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Op­por­tu­ni­ties that sur­prised us dur­ing our Clearer Think­ing Re­grants program

spencerg7 Nov 2022 13:09 UTC
20 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

We must be very clear: fraud in the ser­vice of effec­tive al­tru­ism is unacceptable

evhub10 Nov 2022 23:31 UTC
42 points
56 comments1 min readLW link

Women and Effec­tive Altruism

P. G. Keerthana Gopalakrishnan12 Nov 2022 20:57 UTC
−29 points
15 comments2 min readLW link
(keerthanapg.com)

Not­ing an un­sub­stan­ti­ated com­mu­nal be­lief about the FTX disaster

Yitz13 Nov 2022 5:37 UTC
50 points
52 comments1 min readLW link

Es­ti­mat­ing the prob­a­bil­ity that FTX Fu­ture Fund grant money gets clawed back

spencerg14 Nov 2022 3:33 UTC
28 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

SBF x LoL

NicholasKross15 Nov 2022 20:24 UTC
17 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

If Pro­fes­sional In­vestors Missed This...

jefftk16 Nov 2022 15:00 UTC
37 points
18 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Dis­cus­sion: Was SBF a naive util­i­tar­ian, or a so­ciopath?

NicholasKross17 Nov 2022 2:52 UTC
0 points
4 comments1 min readLW link

In­tro­duc­ing The Log­i­cal Foun­da­tion, A Plan to End Poverty With Guaran­teed Income

Michael Simm18 Nov 2022 8:13 UTC
9 points
23 comments1 min readLW link

Austin LW meetup notes: The FTX Affair

jchan22 Nov 2022 14:01 UTC
20 points
3 comments16 min readLW link

Fair Col­lec­tive Effi­cient Altruism

Jobst Heitzig25 Nov 2022 9:38 UTC
2 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

Prevent­ing atheroscle­ro­sis, the eas­iest way to im­prove your life ex­pec­tancy?

Eli_29 Nov 2022 20:05 UTC
24 points
9 comments15 min readLW link

His­tor­i­cal Notes on Char­i­ta­ble Funds

jefftk4 Dec 2022 23:30 UTC
28 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

[Question] How should I judge the im­pact of giv­ing $5k to a fam­ily of three kids and two men­tally ill par­ents?

Blake5 Dec 2022 13:42 UTC
10 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

I’ve started pub­lish­ing the novel I wrote to pro­mote EA

Timothy Underwood8 Dec 2022 17:30 UTC
10 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

pa­tio11′s “Ob­ser­va­tions from an EA-ad­ja­cent (?) char­i­ta­ble effort”

RobertM10 Dec 2022 0:27 UTC
43 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Con­sider work­ing more hours and tak­ing more stimulants

Arjun Panickssery15 Dec 2022 20:38 UTC
36 points
11 comments1 min readLW link

Vaguely in­ter­ested in Effec­tive Altru­ism? Please Take the Offi­cial 2022 EA Survey

Peter Wildeford16 Dec 2022 21:07 UTC
22 points
4 comments1 min readLW link
(rethinkpriorities.qualtrics.com)

CEA Disambiguation

jefftk19 Dec 2022 13:20 UTC
24 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Against Diversification

Jack Malde22 Dec 2022 13:29 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(ethicaleconomist.substack.com)

En­trepreneur­ship ETG Might Be Bet­ter Than 80k Thought

Xodarap29 Dec 2022 17:51 UTC
33 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] I have thou­sands of copies of HPMOR in Rus­sian. How to use them with the most im­pact?

Mikhail Samin3 Jan 2023 10:21 UTC
24 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

GWWC’s Han­dling of Con­flict­ing Fund­ing Bars

jefftk11 Jan 2023 20:30 UTC
19 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Is “Earn­ing to Give” a Bad Frame­work?

clans16 Jan 2023 5:35 UTC
2 points
4 comments6 min readLW link
(locationtbd.home.blog)

GWWC Pledge History

jefftk24 Jan 2023 15:50 UTC
15 points
0 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

When Did EA Start?

jefftk25 Jan 2023 14:30 UTC
37 points
2 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

My Model Of EA Burnout

LoganStrohl25 Jan 2023 17:52 UTC
237 points
49 comments5 min readLW link

EA novel pub­lished on Amazon

Timothy Underwood29 Jan 2023 8:33 UTC
17 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

Afri­can Wild Dogs Vote By Sneez­ing—Can AI Help Us Do Bet­ter?

Augmented Assembly6 Feb 2023 21:09 UTC
10 points
6 comments4 min readLW link

De­cep­tive Align­ment is <1% Likely by Default

DavidW21 Feb 2023 15:09 UTC
94 points
26 comments14 min readLW link

Milk EA, Casu Marzu EA

jefftk27 Feb 2023 14:00 UTC
18 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

Write a Book?

jefftk16 Mar 2023 0:10 UTC
45 points
7 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

New eco­nomic sys­tem for AI era

ksme sho17 Mar 2023 17:42 UTC
−1 points
1 comment5 min readLW link

[Question] What could EA’s new name be?

trevor2 Apr 2023 19:25 UTC
17 points
20 comments2 min readLW link

In fa­vor of ac­cel­er­at­ing prob­lems you’re try­ing to solve

Christopher King11 Apr 2023 18:15 UTC
2 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

GWWC Re­port­ing At­tri­tion Visualization

jefftk19 Apr 2023 15:40 UTC
16 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

EA might sys­tem­at­i­cally gen­er­ate a scarcity mind­set that pro­duces low-in­tegrity actors

Severin T. Seehrich25 Apr 2023 15:50 UTC
26 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Call for sub­mis­sions: Choice of Fu­tures sur­vey questions

c.trout30 Apr 2023 6:59 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(airtable.com)

Sup­port me in a Week-Long Pick­et­ing Cam­paign Near OpenAI’s HQ: Seek­ing Sup­port and Ideas from the LessWrong Community

Percy30 Apr 2023 17:48 UTC
−26 points
15 comments1 min readLW link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Ra­tion­al­ity Groups on Snipd

David Bravo14 May 2023 14:54 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readLW link

Is Effec­tive Vol­un­teer­ing Pos­si­ble?

David Bravo19 May 2023 12:41 UTC
13 points
2 comments9 min readLW link

The Pur­suit of In­tel­li­gent Life: Ad­vances in Achiev­ing AGI by 2043

Victor Babaniyi21 May 2023 3:48 UTC
1 point
0 comments12 min readLW link

Things I Learned by Spend­ing Five Thou­sand Hours In Non-EA Charities

jenn1 Jun 2023 20:48 UTC
377 points
34 comments8 min readLW link
(jenn.site)

How to em­bark on a jour­ney of self-dis­cov­ery (and po­ten­tially suc­ceed)

Ester Dobiášová4 Jun 2023 18:46 UTC
6 points
0 comments14 min readLW link
(ladyesik.wordpress.com)

Is the 10% Giv­ing What We Can Pledge Core to EA’s Rep­u­ta­tion?

DirectedEvolution6 Jun 2023 6:21 UTC
9 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Why I am not a longter­mist (May 2022)

boazbarak6 Jun 2023 20:36 UTC
39 points
18 comments9 min readLW link
(windowsontheory.org)

why I’m anti-YIMBY

bhauth12 Jun 2023 0:19 UTC
20 points
45 comments2 min readLW link

Cri­tiques of promi­nent AI safety labs: Conjecture

Omega.12 Jun 2023 1:32 UTC
14 points
32 comments33 min readLW link

An­throp­i­cally Blind: the an­thropic shadow is re­flec­tively inconsistent

Christopher King29 Jun 2023 2:36 UTC
40 points
38 comments10 min readLW link

shar­ing a re­source on LessWrong?

Nicky Antonellis2 Jul 2023 13:54 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(dharma-gates.org)

An­nounc­ing the EA Archive

Aaron Bergman6 Jul 2023 13:49 UTC
13 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

AI, Con­scious­ness, and the prob­lem of Mo­ral Considerability

stultus16 Jul 2023 19:56 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readLW link

Align­ment Grant­mak­ing is Fund­ing-Limited Right Now

johnswentworth19 Jul 2023 16:49 UTC
307 points
67 comments1 min readLW link

Long-Term Fu­ture Fund: April 2023 grant recommendations

2 Aug 2023 7:54 UTC
81 points
3 comments50 min readLW link

My Trial Pe­riod as an In­de­pen­dent Align­ment Researcher

Bart Bussmann8 Aug 2023 14:16 UTC
32 points
1 comment3 min readLW link

The God of Hu­man­ity, and the God of the Robot Utilitarians

Raemon24 Aug 2023 8:27 UTC
76 points
12 comments2 min readLW link

Shar­ing In­for­ma­tion About Nonlinear

Ben Pace7 Sep 2023 6:51 UTC
322 points
323 comments34 min readLW link

Science to Be Done In­ter­na­tion­ally Us­ing Blockchain

Victor Porton7 Sep 2023 23:29 UTC
−18 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(science-dao.org)

Ex­plor­ing Nat­u­ral Disaster Forecasting

GeoVane16 Sep 2023 17:01 UTC
1 point
0 comments5 min readLW link

Would You Work Harder In The Least Con­ve­nient Pos­si­ble World?

Firinn22 Sep 2023 5:17 UTC
69 points
93 comments9 min readLW link

Should Effec­tive Altru­ists be Valuists in­stead of util­i­tar­i­ans?

25 Sep 2023 14:03 UTC
1 point
3 comments6 min readLW link

EA Ve­gan Ad­vo­cacy is not truth­seek­ing, and it’s ev­ery­one’s problem

Elizabeth28 Sep 2023 23:30 UTC
316 points
246 comments22 min readLW link
(acesounderglass.com)

Every Men­tion of EA in “Go­ing In­finite”

KirstenH7 Oct 2023 14:42 UTC
48 points
0 comments8 min readLW link
(open.substack.com)

Knowl­edge Base 3: Shop­ping ad­vi­sor and other uses of knowl­edge base about products

iwis9 Oct 2023 11:53 UTC
0 points
0 comments4 min readLW link

Will no one rid me of this tur­bu­lent pest?

Metacelsus14 Oct 2023 15:27 UTC
147 points
21 comments10 min readLW link
(denovo.substack.com)

Knowl­edge Base 4: Gen­eral applications

iwis16 Oct 2023 12:26 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readLW link

How to Erad­i­cate Global Ex­treme Poverty [RA video with fundraiser!]

18 Oct 2023 15:51 UTC
50 points
5 comments9 min readLW link
(youtu.be)

The Drown­ing Child

Tomás B.22 Oct 2023 16:39 UTC
25 points
8 comments1 min readLW link

Beyond the Data: Why aid to poor doesn’t work

Lyrongolem25 Oct 2023 5:03 UTC
2 points
31 comments12 min readLW link

Truth­seek­ing, EA, Si­mu­lacra lev­els, and other stuff

27 Oct 2023 23:56 UTC
44 points
12 comments9 min readLW link

Re­grant up to $600,000 to AI safety pro­jects with GiveWiki

Dawn Drescher28 Oct 2023 19:56 UTC
33 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

EA orgs’ le­gal struc­ture in­hibits risk tak­ing and in­for­ma­tion shar­ing on the margin

Elizabeth5 Nov 2023 19:13 UTC
134 points
17 comments4 min readLW link

Why build­ing ven­tures in AI Safety is par­tic­u­larly challenging

Heramb6 Nov 2023 16:27 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

AMA: Earn­ing to Give

jefftk7 Nov 2023 16:20 UTC
52 points
8 comments1 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

The Top AI Safety Bets for 2023: GiveWiki’s Lat­est Recommendations

Dawn Drescher11 Nov 2023 9:04 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readLW link

Redi­rect­ing one’s own taxes as an effec­tive al­tru­ism method

David Gross13 Nov 2023 15:17 UTC
1 point
34 comments16 min readLW link

Kids or No kids

Kids or no kids14 Nov 2023 18:37 UTC
91 points
10 comments13 min readLW link

Re­think Pri­ori­ties: Seek­ing Ex­pres­sions of In­ter­est for Spe­cial Pro­jects Next Year

kierangreig29 Nov 2023 13:59 UTC
4 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

A So­cratic di­alogue with my student

lsusr5 Dec 2023 9:31 UTC
36 points
14 comments6 min readLW link

Ap­pli­ca­tions for EA Global are still open!

Eli_Nathan14 Dec 2023 19:10 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readLW link

Link Col­lec­tion: Im­pact Markets

Saul Munn26 Dec 2023 9:01 UTC
18 points
0 comments2 min readLW link
(www.brasstacks.blog)

Ex­tended Navel-Gaz­ing On My 2023 Donations

jenn31 Dec 2023 18:10 UTC
8 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(jenn.site)

Can Mo­ral­ity Be Quan­tified?

Julius9 Jan 2024 6:35 UTC
3 points
0 comments5 min readLW link

Sav­ing the world sucks

Defective Altruism10 Jan 2024 5:55 UTC
47 points
29 comments3 min readLW link

Against Non­lin­ear (Thing Of Things)

tailcalled18 Jan 2024 21:40 UTC
58 points
18 comments1 min readLW link
(thingofthings.substack.com)

Cat­a­logue of POLITICO Re­ports and Other Cited Ar­ti­cles on Effec­tive Altru­ism and AI Safety Con­nec­tions in Wash­ing­ton, DC

Evan_Gaensbauer21 Jan 2024 2:15 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(docs.google.com)

When Does Altru­ism Strengthen Altru­ism?

jefftk21 Jan 2024 18:50 UTC
44 points
2 comments3 min readLW link
(www.jefftk.com)

A Bridge Between Utili­tar­i­anism & Stoicism

Jonathan Moregård13 Feb 2024 22:46 UTC
5 points
0 comments5 min readLW link
(honestliving.substack.com)

An EA used de­cep­tive mes­sag­ing to ad­vance their pro­ject; we need mechanisms to avoid de­on­tolog­i­cally du­bi­ous plans

Mikhail Samin13 Feb 2024 23:15 UTC
16 points
1 comment1 min readLW link

Whole­some­ness and Effec­tive Altruism

owencb28 Feb 2024 20:28 UTC
42 points
3 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] In­crease the tax value of dona­tions with high-var­i­ance in­vest­ments?

Brendan Long3 Mar 2024 1:39 UTC
20 points
4 comments2 min readLW link

[Linkpost] Leif We­nar’s The Deaths of Effec­tive Altruism

Arden27 Mar 2024 19:17 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readLW link
(www.wired.com)