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To WELLBY or not to WELLBY? Measuring non-health, non-pecuniary benefits using subjective wellbeing
Extinguishing or preventing coal seam fires is a potential cause area
Welcome to Effective Altruism (A Poem)
New open letter on AI ""Include Consciousness Research""
Forecasting Newsletter: October 2020.
Consumer preferences for labgrown and plant-based meat
The Hacker and the Beggar
Advisory panel at CEA
Guesstimate: Why and how to use it
Equity should be a part of effectiveness evaluations
Here are the finalists from FLIs $100K Worldbuilding Contest
Possible way of reducing great power war probability?
Want to Save the World? Enter the Priesthood
Effective altruism as a lifestyle movement (A Masters Thesis)
(link post) How effective altruism went from a niche movement to a billion-dollar force
Wholehearted choices and ""morality as taxes""
Punching Utilitarians in the Face
Is there any research or forecasts of how likely AI Alignment is going to be a hard vs. easy problem relative to capabilities?
Justice and Global Priorities Research Reading List
Solar4Africa launches six Fall-23 student projects in partnership with EA at UC Berkeley
Could poverty interventions in the US be cost-effective for global health?
Report: Food Security in Argentina in the event of an Abrupt Sunlight Reduction Scenario (ASRS)
A modest case for hope
Nuclear risk, its potential long-term impacts, & doing research on that: An introductory talk
A ranked list of all EA-relevant (audio)books I've read
The Importance of AI Alignment, explained in 5 points
Millions in cash transfers, without spending a penny
Our plans for hosting an EA wiki on the Forum
The religion problem in AI alignment
Abandoning functionalism: Some intuition pumps
Symbiosis, not alignment, as the goal for liberal democracies in the transition to artificial general intelligence
Giving What We Can is Cause Neutral
Utopia In The Fog
Impact Opportunity: Influence UK Biological Security Strategy
Announcing leadership changes at One for the World
The Role of Behavioural Science in Effective Altruism
Thoughts on being mortal
Effective Giving Projects That Have (and Haven't) Been Tried Among Christians
Harsanyi's simple proof of utilitarianism
Needed EA-related Articles on the English Wikipedia
EA Interview Series, January 2016: Perumal Gandhi, Cofounder of Muufri
Green basic income and health taxes as a way for systemic change
Predicting what future people value: A terse introduction to Axiological Futurism
Is Democracy a Fad?
Upcoming interviews on the 80,000 Hours Podcast
Metaculus Announces Forecasting Tournament to Evaluate Focused Research Organizations, in Partnership With the Federation of American Scientists
Malengo Expands Work on International Educational Migration: Our Update
The Hidden Cost of Shifting Away from Poverty
Launching 'Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems'
Dylan Matthews: The case for caring about the year 3000
Tithing: much more than you wanted to know
162 benefits of coronavirus
What can we do now to prepare for AI sentience, in order to protect them from the global scale of human sadism?
Why I view effective giving as complementary to direct work
What I learned from the criticism contest
(Linkpost) The elemental foe
So you want to be a charity entrepreneur. Read these first.
How to discuss topics that are emotionally loaded?
National EA groups shouldnt focus on city groups
Lab-grown meat (probably) won't save us \| MinuteFood on the obstacles to commercializing cultivated meat
Food security and catastrophic famine risks - Managing complexity and climate
My vision of a good future, part I
Robert Wiblin: Making sense of long-term indirect effects
There are transparent monsters in the world - part 1
AI alignment with humans... but with which humans?
How do you, personally, experience ""EA motivation""?
Introducing Training for Good (TFG)
Crucial Considerations and Wise Philanthropy', by Nick Bostrom
List of ways in which cost-effectiveness estimates can be misleading
Law-Following AI 3: Lawless AI Agents Undermine Stabilizing Agreements
Clarifying two uses of ""alignment""
What has Effective Altruism actually done?
Every moment of an electron's existence is suffering
Will the growing deer prion epidemic spread to humans? Why not? (Link)
Increasing Concern for Digital Beings Through LLM Persuasion (Empirical Results)
Against philanthropic diversification
Paper summary: The Epistemic Challenge to Longtermism (Christian Tarsney)
Paper summary: Do not go gentle: why the Asymmetry does not support anti-natalism (Andreas Mogensen)
Art Recommendation: Dr. Stone
EA Forum Prize: Winners for March 2020
Population Size/Growth & Reproductive Choice: Highly effective, synergetic & neglected
Meditations on Caring
Announcing the SPT Model Web App for AI Governance
Linkpost for ""Organizations vs. Getting Stuff Done"" and discussion of Zvi's post about SFF and the S-process (or; Doing Actual Thing)
AI Timelines: Where the Arguments, and the ""Experts,"" Stand
Response to Torres The Case Against Longtermism
Evaluating large-scale movement building: A better way to critique Open Philanthropy's criminal justice reform
James Lovelock (1919 2022)
To Be Born in a Bag
Effective Altruism Handbook - Now Online
AI Regulation is Unsafe
(Creative writing contest) Super-parenting
Latest Research and Updates for November
5,000 people have pledged to give at least 10% of their lifetime incomes to effective charities
Optimizing seed:pollen ratio to spread ideas
The phrase hard-core EAs does more harm than good
Future people might not exist
Promoting Effective Giving this Giving Season: For groups, networks and individuals
Towards a longtermist framework for evaluating democracy-related interventions
QRI and the Symmetry Theory of Valence

To WELLBY or not to WELLBY? Measuring non-health, non-pecuniary benefits using subjective wellbeing

Extinguishing or preventing coal seam fires is a potential cause area

Welcome to Effective Altruism (A Poem)

New open letter on AI ""Include Consciousness Research""

Forecasting Newsletter: October 2020.

Consumer preferences for labgrown and plant-based meat

The Hacker and the Beggar

Advisory panel at CEA

Guesstimate: Why and how to use it

Equity should be a part of effectiveness evaluations

Here are the finalists from FLIs $100K Worldbuilding Contest

Possible way of reducing great power war probability?

Want to Save the World? Enter the Priesthood

Effective altruism as a lifestyle movement (A Masters Thesis)

(link post) How effective altruism went from a niche movement to a billion-dollar force

Wholehearted choices and ""morality as taxes""

Punching Utilitarians in the Face

Is there any research or forecasts of how likely AI Alignment is going to be a hard vs. easy problem relative to capabilities?

Justice and Global Priorities Research Reading List

Solar4Africa launches six Fall-23 student projects in partnership with EA at UC Berkeley

Could poverty interventions in the US be cost-effective for global health?

Report: Food Security in Argentina in the event of an Abrupt Sunlight Reduction Scenario (ASRS)

A modest case for hope

Nuclear risk, its potential long-term impacts, & doing research on that: An introductory talk

A ranked list of all EA-relevant (audio)books I've read

The Importance of AI Alignment, explained in 5 points

Millions in cash transfers, without spending a penny

Our plans for hosting an EA wiki on the Forum

The religion problem in AI alignment

Abandoning functionalism: Some intuition pumps

Symbiosis, not alignment, as the goal for liberal democracies in the transition to artificial general intelligence

Giving What We Can is Cause Neutral

Utopia In The Fog

Impact Opportunity: Influence UK Biological Security Strategy

Announcing leadership changes at One for the World

The Role of Behavioural Science in Effective Altruism

Thoughts on being mortal

Effective Giving Projects That Have (and Haven't) Been Tried Among Christians

Harsanyi's simple proof of utilitarianism

Needed EA-related Articles on the English Wikipedia

EA Interview Series, January 2016: Perumal Gandhi, Cofounder of Muufri

Green basic income and health taxes as a way for systemic change

Predicting what future people value: A terse introduction to Axiological Futurism

Is Democracy a Fad?

Upcoming interviews on the 80,000 Hours Podcast

Metaculus Announces Forecasting Tournament to Evaluate Focused Research Organizations, in Partnership With the Federation of American Scientists

Malengo Expands Work on International Educational Migration: Our Update

The Hidden Cost of Shifting Away from Poverty

Launching 'Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems'

Dylan Matthews: The case for caring about the year 3000

Tithing: much more than you wanted to know

162 benefits of coronavirus

What can we do now to prepare for AI sentience, in order to protect them from the global scale of human sadism?

Why I view effective giving as complementary to direct work

What I learned from the criticism contest

(Linkpost) The elemental foe

So you want to be a charity entrepreneur. Read these first.

How to discuss topics that are emotionally loaded?

National EA groups shouldnt focus on city groups

Lab-grown meat (probably) won't save us | MinuteFood on the obstacles to commercializing cultivated meat

Food security and catastrophic famine risks - Managing complexity and climate

My vision of a good future, part I

Robert Wiblin: Making sense of long-term indirect effects

There are transparent monsters in the world - part 1

AI alignment with humans... but with which humans?

How do you, personally, experience ""EA motivation""?

Introducing Training for Good (TFG)

Crucial Considerations and Wise Philanthropy', by Nick Bostrom

List of ways in which cost-effectiveness estimates can be misleading

Law-Following AI 3: Lawless AI Agents Undermine Stabilizing Agreements

Clarifying two uses of ""alignment""

What has Effective Altruism actually done?

Every moment of an electron's existence is suffering

Will the growing deer prion epidemic spread to humans? Why not? (Link)

Increasing Concern for Digital Beings Through LLM Persuasion (Empirical Results)

Against philanthropic diversification

Paper summary: The Epistemic Challenge to Longtermism (Christian Tarsney)

Paper summary: Do not go gentle: why the Asymmetry does not support anti-natalism (Andreas Mogensen)

Art Recommendation: Dr. Stone

EA Forum Prize: Winners for March 2020

Population Size/Growth & Reproductive Choice: Highly effective, synergetic & neglected

Meditations on Caring

Announcing the SPT Model Web App for AI Governance

Linkpost for ""Organizations vs. Getting Stuff Done"" and discussion of Zvi's post about SFF and the S-process (or; Doing Actual Thing)

AI Timelines: Where the Arguments, and the ""Experts,"" Stand

Response to Torres The Case Against Longtermism

Evaluating large-scale movement building: A better way to critique Open Philanthropy's criminal justice reform

James Lovelock (1919 2022)

To Be Born in a Bag

Effective Altruism Handbook - Now Online

AI Regulation is Unsafe

(Creative writing contest) Super-parenting

Latest Research and Updates for November

5,000 people have pledged to give at least 10% of their lifetime incomes to effective charities

Optimizing seed:pollen ratio to spread ideas

The phrase hard-core EAs does more harm than good

Future people might not exist

Promoting Effective Giving this Giving Season: For groups, networks and individuals

Towards a longtermist framework for evaluating democracy-related interventions

QRI and the Symmetry Theory of Valence