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Detailed notes on 20 EA-relevant/recommended books
Welcome to our 978 new giving pledges!
OpenAI announces new members to board of directors
(Link) Normative Implications of Reductionism about Personal Identity
Announcing PriorityWiki: A Cause Prioritization Wiki
Is anyone here a philosopher or economist working on the interpersonal comparison problem?
Is region-level cause prioritization research valuable to spot promising long-term priority causes worldwide?
Notes on ""Bioterror and Biowarfare"" (2006)
Have the reputations of effective giving orgs like GiveWell taken a hit due to the FTX crisis?
French 2d explainer videos on longtermism (english subtitles)
Announcing What We Owe The Future
Weve renamed the Giving What We Can Pledge
The best $5,800 Ive ever donated (to pandemic prevention).
EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (5th Dec - 11th Dec 22')
Effective Altruism Reading List Information Design Poster (2/2)
Seven Philanthropic Wins: The Stories That Inspired Open Phils Offices
New book ""Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications""
Comparative advantage in the talent market
Impactful Animal Advocacy's Quick takes
(Cause Exploration Prizes) Adverse Childhood Experiences
Qualia Research Institute: History & 2021 Strategy
Reducing Transaction Costs, or Coasean Effective Altruism
How tractable is changing the course of history?
EA for people with non-technical skillsets
Which EA organisations' research has been useful to you?
Will MacAskill: Why should effective altruists embrace uncertainty?
AI Pause Will Likely Backfire
EA syllabi and teaching materials
Announcing Manifest 2023 (Sep 22-24 in Berkeley)
The Global Priorities of the Copenhagen Consensus
A Brief Overview of Recruitment and Retention Research
Practical ethics given moral uncertainty
(Link post) Sam Scheffler: Conservatism, Temporal Bias, and Future Generations
A small pile of thoughts on psychology of entrepreneurship
EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (5 - 11 Sep 22)
Summary of history (empowerment and well-being lens)
COVID-19 brief for friends and family
Characterising utopia
A better society shortcuts away the ""longterm consequences versus rules"" dilemma
Another call for EA distillers
No Silver Bullet Solutions for the Werewolf Crisis
Hi, I'm Luke Muehlhauser. AMA about Open Philanthropy's new report on consciousness and moral patienthood
New Video: A simple guide to giving effectively
Has your ""EA worldview"" changed over time? How and why?
A system for scoring political candidates. RFC (request for comments) on methodology and positions
It takes 5 layers and 1000 artificial neurons to simulate a single biological neuron (Link)
Farewell messages from the EA Philippines Core Team
EA is good, actually
Veg*n recidivism seems important, tractable, and neglected
The costs of caution
Presenting: 2022 Incubated Charities (Charity Entrepreneurship)
OPIS initiative on access to psilocybin for cluster headaches
Forum feature updates: add buttons, see your stats, send DMs easier, and more (March '24)
An epistemic critique of longtermism
Practical Implications of Wheeler's Single-Electron Postulate
Should pretty much all content that's EA-relevant and/or created by EAs be (link)posted to the Forum?
When unprecedented times meet unprecedented opportunities
Introducing Lafiya Nigeria
Editing Festival: Results and Prizes
Where I Am Donating in 2016
U.S. Regulatory Updates to Benefit-Cost Analysis: Highlights and Encouragement to Submit Public Comments
Lessons from Running Stanford EA and SERI
Is Civilization on the Brink of Collapse? - Kurzgesagt
How We Banned Fur in Berkeley
Nonprofit Boards are Weird
EA Glossary
What is the current best estimate of the cumulative elasticity of chicken?
Training Bottlenecks in EA (professional skills)
Jan Leike: On the windfall clause
CEA grew a lot in the past year
On Living
Use ""care"" with care.
EA & LW Forum Weekly Summary (6th - 12th March 2023)
Should you use EA in your group name? An update on PISEs naming experiment
Any Legal Consultancies for Early EA Orgs?
If any of you are current undergraduates at Rutgers University, you may be interested in knowing that Rutgers Effective Altruism is coming back!
Implementational Considerations for Digital Consciousness
Current Thinking on Prioritization 2018
Vox has a new department, Future Perfect, covering the world from an effective altruist perspective
Beware frictions from altruistic value differences
Against Making Up Our Conscious Minds
Data Science for Effective Good + Call for Projects + Call for Volunteers
EA and tackling racism
Pangea: The Worst of Times
My Effective Altruism Story
Karolina Sarek: How to do research that matters
Quantifying Uncertainty in GiveWell's GiveDirectly Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
The problem of artificial suffering
Anonymous contributors answer: How honest and candid should high-profile people be?
What is the size of the EA community?
Deconfusing Effective Altruism: The Philosophy
Social Beneficence (Jacob Barrett)
Charities I Would Like to See
Announcement: Were launching Effectief Geven
Are we neglecting education? Philosophy in schools as a longtermist area
Companies pledge to donate at least 10% of profits to effective charities
Pitfalls in Diversity Outreach
Summary of 'Sharing the World With Digital Minds' by Carl Shulman and Nick Bostrom
Why the triviality objection to EA is beside the point
Emphasizing emotional altruism in effective altruism

Detailed notes on 20 EA-relevant/recommended books

Welcome to our 978 new giving pledges!

OpenAI announces new members to board of directors

(Link) Normative Implications of Reductionism about Personal Identity

Announcing PriorityWiki: A Cause Prioritization Wiki

Is anyone here a philosopher or economist working on the interpersonal comparison problem?

Is region-level cause prioritization research valuable to spot promising long-term priority causes worldwide?

Notes on ""Bioterror and Biowarfare"" (2006)

Have the reputations of effective giving orgs like GiveWell taken a hit due to the FTX crisis?

French 2d explainer videos on longtermism (english subtitles)

Announcing What We Owe The Future

Weve renamed the Giving What We Can Pledge

The best $5,800 Ive ever donated (to pandemic prevention).

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (5th Dec - 11th Dec 22')

Effective Altruism Reading List Information Design Poster (2/2)

Seven Philanthropic Wins: The Stories That Inspired Open Phils Offices

New book ""Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications""

Comparative advantage in the talent market

Impactful Animal Advocacy's Quick takes

(Cause Exploration Prizes) Adverse Childhood Experiences

Qualia Research Institute: History & 2021 Strategy

Reducing Transaction Costs, or Coasean Effective Altruism

How tractable is changing the course of history?

EA for people with non-technical skillsets

Which EA organisations' research has been useful to you?

Will MacAskill: Why should effective altruists embrace uncertainty?

AI Pause Will Likely Backfire

EA syllabi and teaching materials

Announcing Manifest 2023 (Sep 22-24 in Berkeley)

The Global Priorities of the Copenhagen Consensus

A Brief Overview of Recruitment and Retention Research

Practical ethics given moral uncertainty

(Link post) Sam Scheffler: Conservatism, Temporal Bias, and Future Generations

A small pile of thoughts on psychology of entrepreneurship

EA & LW Forums Weekly Summary (5 - 11 Sep 22)

Summary of history (empowerment and well-being lens)

COVID-19 brief for friends and family

Characterising utopia

A better society shortcuts away the ""longterm consequences versus rules"" dilemma

Another call for EA distillers

No Silver Bullet Solutions for the Werewolf Crisis

Hi, I'm Luke Muehlhauser. AMA about Open Philanthropy's new report on consciousness and moral patienthood

New Video: A simple guide to giving effectively

Has your ""EA worldview"" changed over time? How and why?

A system for scoring political candidates. RFC (request for comments) on methodology and positions

It takes 5 layers and 1000 artificial neurons to simulate a single biological neuron (Link)

Farewell messages from the EA Philippines Core Team

EA is good, actually

Veg*n recidivism seems important, tractable, and neglected

The costs of caution

Presenting: 2022 Incubated Charities (Charity Entrepreneurship)

OPIS initiative on access to psilocybin for cluster headaches

Forum feature updates: add buttons, see your stats, send DMs easier, and more (March '24)

An epistemic critique of longtermism

Practical Implications of Wheeler's Single-Electron Postulate

Should pretty much all content that's EA-relevant and/or created by EAs be (link)posted to the Forum?

When unprecedented times meet unprecedented opportunities

Introducing Lafiya Nigeria

Editing Festival: Results and Prizes

Where I Am Donating in 2016

U.S. Regulatory Updates to Benefit-Cost Analysis: Highlights and Encouragement to Submit Public Comments

Lessons from Running Stanford EA and SERI

Is Civilization on the Brink of Collapse? - Kurzgesagt

How We Banned Fur in Berkeley

Nonprofit Boards are Weird

EA Glossary

What is the current best estimate of the cumulative elasticity of chicken?

Training Bottlenecks in EA (professional skills)

Jan Leike: On the windfall clause

CEA grew a lot in the past year

On Living

Use ""care"" with care.

EA & LW Forum Weekly Summary (6th - 12th March 2023)

Should you use EA in your group name? An update on PISEs naming experiment

Any Legal Consultancies for Early EA Orgs?

If any of you are current undergraduates at Rutgers University, you may be interested in knowing that Rutgers Effective Altruism is coming back!

Implementational Considerations for Digital Consciousness

Current Thinking on Prioritization 2018

Vox has a new department, Future Perfect, covering the world from an effective altruist perspective

Beware frictions from altruistic value differences

Against Making Up Our Conscious Minds

Data Science for Effective Good + Call for Projects + Call for Volunteers

EA and tackling racism

Pangea: The Worst of Times

My Effective Altruism Story

Karolina Sarek: How to do research that matters

Quantifying Uncertainty in GiveWell's GiveDirectly Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

The problem of artificial suffering

Anonymous contributors answer: How honest and candid should high-profile people be?

What is the size of the EA community?

Deconfusing Effective Altruism: The Philosophy

Social Beneficence (Jacob Barrett)

Charities I Would Like to See

Announcement: Were launching Effectief Geven

Are we neglecting education? Philosophy in schools as a longtermist area

Companies pledge to donate at least 10% of profits to effective charities

Pitfalls in Diversity Outreach

Summary of 'Sharing the World With Digital Minds' by Carl Shulman and Nick Bostrom

Why the triviality objection to EA is beside the point

Emphasizing emotional altruism in effective altruism