Mov­able Hous­ing for Scal­able Cities

Effi­cient Char­ity: Do Unto Others...

Why any­thing that can be for-profit, should be

On Caring

Some­thing to Protect

Scope Insensitivity

Med­i­ta­tions On Moloch

How can non­prof­its gain the ad­van­tages of the for-profit model?

Beyond the Reach of God

Ex­tract­ing Value from Inad­e­quate Equilibria

[Job ad] Lead an am­bi­tious COVID-19 fore­cast­ing pro­ject [Dead­line ex­tended: June 10th]

What failure looks like

Why I’m Not Vegan

[Question] Coron­avirus: Jus­tified Key In­sights Thread

The Unilat­er­al­ist’s “Curse” Is Mostly Good

Reflec­tions on Ar­gu­ing about Politics

Alarm bell for the next pan­demic, V.2

Player vs. Char­ac­ter: A Two-Level Model of Ethics

[Question] Isn’t Tesla stock highly un­der­val­ued?

Effec­tive al­tru­ism and crit­i­cism to­ward ac­tivism: An­swer to a paradox

Pos­si­ble take­aways from the coro­n­avirus pan­demic for slow AI takeoff

In­di­vi­d­ual Ra­tion­al­ity Needn’t Gen­er­al­ize to Ra­tional Consensus

Pro­ject Pro­posal: Gears of Aging

Dom­i­nant As­surance Con­tracts are not the same as Crow­dac­tion platforms

Coron­avirus as a test-run for X-risks

You Can Do Futarchy Yourself

$1,000 Bounty for Pro-BLM Policy Analysis

Han­son & Mow­show­itz De­bate: COVID-19 Variolation

On R0

App-Based Disease Surveillance After COVID-19

What We Owe to Ourselves

What is Your Goal Hive?

In my cul­ture: the re­spon­si­bil­ities of open source maintainers

[Question] The Sa­mu­rai and the Daimyo: A Use­ful Dy­namic?

One Hun­dred Billion Chil­dren’s Sky

Scrap­ing web­sites cur­rently free due to coronavirus

The World Ac­cord­ing to Do­minic Cummings

Far-Ul­travi­o­let Light in Public Spaces to Fight Pan­demic is a Good Idea but Premature

Dem­i­na­tal­ist To­tal Utilitarianism

[Question] What are the ex­ter­nal­ities of pre­dic­tions on wars?

Database of ex­is­ten­tial risk estimates

So­lar sys­tem colon­i­sa­tion might not be driven by economics

Thoughts on the Sin­gu­lar­ity In­sti­tute (SI)

Act of Charity

How likely is the COVID-19 apoc­a­lyp­tic sce­nario?

[Question] Poll: ask any­thing to an all-know­ing de­mon edition

Is ethics a memetic trap ?

So­cial Im­pact, Effec­tive Altru­ism, and Mo­ti­vated Cognition

Mo­ti­va­tors: Altru­is­tic Ac­tions for Non-Altru­is­tic Reasons

Would Your Real Prefer­ences Please Stand Up?

[Question] For­bid­den Technology

[Question] Should we be re­assess­ing the ar­gu­ment for global­iza­tion?

Mar­ket-shap­ing ap­proaches to ac­cel­er­ate COVID-19 re­sponse: a role for op­tion-based guaran­tees?

Emer­gency Cen­tral Planning

A spec­u­la­tive in­cen­tive de­sign: self-de­ter­mined price com­mit­ments as a way of avert­ing monopoly

How Effi­cient is the Char­i­ta­ble Mar­ket?

Melt­ing democracy

Prolong­ing life is about the op­tion­al­ity, not about the immortality

• Error

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Hate Crime Statistics

TFW No Incels

[Question] What in­for­ma­tion on (or rele­vant to) modal im­mor­tal­ity do you recom­mend?

[Question] I’d Like To Max­i­miz­ing Profit and Hap­piness but My Hap­piness con­flicts a lot with mak­ing profit...

Kids and Mo­ral Agency

Help im­prove rea­son­ing eval­u­a­tion in in­tel­li­gence organisations

[Question] What would flour­ish­ing look like in Con­way’s Game of Life?

Re: Some Heroes

Wire­head your Chickens

Sub­space optima

The EMH Aten’t Dead

Why you should min­i­max in two-player zero-sum games

Allow­ing Ex­ploita­bil­ity in Game Theory

An­nounc­ing Progress Stud­ies for Young Schol­ars, an on­line sum­mer pro­gram in the his­tory of technology

[Question] What can cur­rently be done about the “flood­ing the zone” is­sue?

Help wanted: Im­prov­ing COVID-19 con­tact-trac­ing by es­ti­mat­ing res­pi­ra­tory droplets

Pre­dicted Land Value Tax: a bet­ter tax than an unim­proved land value tax

One sys­temic failure in particular

Our Need for Need

Trust-Build­ing: The New Ra­tion­al­ity Project

FHI pa­per on COVID-19 gov­ern­ment countermeasures

[Question] Is a near-term, self-sus­tain­ing Mars colony im­pos­si­ble?

[Question] Effec­tive chil­dren education

Ba­sic Mindsets

[Question] Con­se­quen­tial­ism and Accidents

The “hard” prob­lem of con­scious­ness is the least in­ter­est­ing prob­lem of consciousness

We’ve built Con­nected Papers—a vi­sual tool for re­searchers to find and ex­plore aca­demic papers

[Question] What does “tor­ture vs. dust specks” im­ply for in­sect suffer­ing?

[Question] What are some Civ­i­liza­tional San­ity In­ter­ven­tions?

Prepar­ing for “The Talk” with AI projects

Test­ing Han­son’s hy­poth­e­sis about the use­less­ness of health care.

Is util­i­tar­i­anism the re­sult of a Con­flict The­ory sin­gu­lar­ity?

[Question] What are some good pub­lic con­tri­bu­tion op­por­tu­ni­ties? (100$ bounty)

[Question] Col­lab­o­ra­tors for Effec­tive Th­e­sis pro­ject wanted

[on­go­ing] Thoughts on Pro­por­tional vot­ing methods

[Question] ‘Max­i­mum’ level of suffer­ing?

When is it Wrong to Click on a Cow?

[Question] Are Hu­mans Fun­da­men­tally Good?

You have be­come the supreme dic­ta­tor of the United States.

Don’t pun­ish your­self for bad luck

In­dus­try and workers

In­sti­tu­tional Senescence

Atem­po­ral Eth­i­cal Obligations

Self-sac­ri­fice is a scarce resource

The Illu­sion of Eth­i­cal Progress

What should we do about net­work-effect mo­nop­o­lies?

Models of Value of Learning

Nash Equil­ibria and Schel­ling Points

[Question] Does 3-2-1 Vot­ing work us­ing a six point scale?

Nor­mal­iza­tion of Deviance

Sur­vival in the im­moral maze of college

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  is not of type
    STRING
  when binding #:COMMENT-ID4

[Question] [Re­source Re­quest] What are good re­sources for best prac­tice for cre­at­ing bu­reau­cracy?

Kelly Bet on Everything

AI Re­search Con­sid­er­a­tions for Hu­man Ex­is­ten­tial Safety (ARCHES)

Guided By The Beauty Of Our Weapons

Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism

Against ac­cus­ing peo­ple of motte and bailey

Effec­tive Altru­ism Book Re­view: Rad­i­cal Abun­dance (Nan­otech­nol­ogy)

[Question] What are some fun ways to spend $100,000?

[Question] Where should I give spare com­put­ing power, as an as­piring ra­tio­nal­ist/​al­tru­ist?

The Trans­par­ent So­ciety: A rad­i­cal trans­for­ma­tion that we should prob­a­bly undergo

Mak­ing a Crow­dac­tion platform

Meta-Prefer­ence Utilitarianism

Nihilism doesn’t matter

In­no­va­tion and Dependence