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How much (physical) suffering is there? Part I: Humans
Q&A with Will MacAskill
Challenges in Scaling EA Organizations
(linkpost) H5N1: Two confirmed infected in same family; four symptomatic close contacts tested but none of these confirmed as positive
Why the EA aversion to local altruistic action?
Effective Altruism as a Social Movement
On Stories, their impact and how to improve them
Explicit Ethics
Vertical farming to lessen our reliance on the Sun
Forecasting Transformative AI: What Kind of AI?
Students for High-Impact Charity: 2018 Update
Speedrun: Demonstrate the ability to rapidly scale food production in the case of nuclear winter
Book Review: The Precipice
How effective are prizes at spurring innovation?
How a lazy eater went vegan
Valuing Leisure Time
Comparing Health Interventions in Colombia and Nigeria: Which are More Effective and by How Much?
Five recommendations for better political discourse
Uma Valeti: Biology and technology II
Some more projects Id like to see
What are the effects of considering that (human) morality emerges from evolutionary and other functional pressures?
(Unofficial PR FAQ) Posting more jobs to the forum (but they are hidden by default)
Announcing: EAGxVRChat
Peter Singer: Fireside chat (2020)
Prediction Markets in The Corporate Setting
(Cause Exploration Prizes) Longer, healthier lives: public engagement around ageing and health
Democratizing the workplace as a cause area
Some examples of EA Themes in Fiction - Please add your own!
IV. Parallels and Review
What Are Dreams Worth?
Why EA needs Operations Research: the science of decision making
The repugnant conclusion is not a problem for the total view
Climate change - Problem profile
The Old AI: Lessons for AI governance from early electricity regulation
Notes: Stubble Burning in India
Effective Volunteering
Will we eventually be able to colonize other stars? Notes from a preliminary review
In search of systems change that lasts: 3 lessons we've learned at Fortify Health
Critiquing GiveWell's Model of Economic Effects from Health Interventions
Consciousness, counterfactual robustness and absurdity
Friendship as a sacred value
Future Academy - Successes, Challenges, and Recommendations to the Community
Free agents
My Cause Selection: Dave Denkenberger
Some thoughts on risks from narrow, non-agentic AI
Animal Weapons: Lesson learned from biological arms race to modern day weapons
My Cause Selection: Denis Drescher
Summary: Longtermism, Aggregation, and Catastrophic Risk (Emma J. Curran)
What ""Saving Private Ryan"" can teach us about EA
thoughts on buying beef from brazil?
How does Amazon deforestation actually work? It's not about soy.
New UK aid strategy prioritising research and crisis response
2020 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison
Boundaries of Empathy and Their Consequences
Are there any celebrities promoting EA?
Disruptive climate protests in the UK didnt lead to a loss of public support for climate policies
Don't we need political action rather than charity?
How ""AGI"" could end up being many different specialized AI's stitched together
A personal history of involvement with effective altruism
How Engineers can Effectively Contribute to Tackling Climate Change
Biotechnology and biosecurity
Experientialist Theories of Well-Being
Go Mobilize? Lessons from GM Protests for Pausing AI
(Cause Exploration Prizes) Economic Growth and State Capacity
Impact obsession: Feeling like you never do enough good
No More Pandemics: a grassroots group?
Two things that I think could make the community better
Against the normative realist's wager
Increasing Urban Density as a Recommended Cause Area?
Enantiodromia
Forecasting of Priorities: a tool for effective political participation?
Amesh Adalja: Pandemic pathogens
Responding to the Progressive Platform of Foreign Policy Generation
How Engineers can Contribute to Global Heath and Development
How to do theoretical research, a personal perspective
some concerns with classical utilitarianism
CEAs events team: capacity building and mistakes
AI Benefits Post 1: Introducing AI Benefits
(Repost) A poem on struggling with personal cause prioritization
The Precipice - Summary/Review
Facilitating international labor migration via a digital platform
Event Review: EA Global: London (2018)
Three wild speculations from amateur quantitative macrohistory
Improving the future by influencing actors' benevolence, intelligence, and power
any anime watchers here drawing parallels between EA and JJK?
EA Interview Series: Michelle Hutchinson, December 2015
Summary of the AI Bill of Rights and Policy Implications
Self compassion
Any state / local politicians in this community? (state legislators / city council members / etc)
Reflections on doing good with lump sums - the retired person's dilemma
Day Zero Antivirals for Future Pandemics by Brian Wang
III. Running its course
CEA's work in 2022
The ""TESCREAL"" Bungle
The EA Behavioral Science Newsletter #11 (December 2023)
Sentientism: Improving the human epistemology and ethics baseline
Forecasting Newsletter: September 2021.
(updated) Global development interventions are generally more effective than climate change interventions
LLM-Secured Systems: A General-Purpose Tool For Structured Transparency
Parenthood and effective altruism

How much (physical) suffering is there? Part I: Humans

Q&A with Will MacAskill

Challenges in Scaling EA Organizations

(linkpost) H5N1: Two confirmed infected in same family; four symptomatic close contacts tested but none of these confirmed as positive

Why the EA aversion to local altruistic action?

Effective Altruism as a Social Movement

On Stories, their impact and how to improve them

Explicit Ethics

Vertical farming to lessen our reliance on the Sun

Forecasting Transformative AI: What Kind of AI?

Students for High-Impact Charity: 2018 Update

Speedrun: Demonstrate the ability to rapidly scale food production in the case of nuclear winter

Book Review: The Precipice

How effective are prizes at spurring innovation?

How a lazy eater went vegan

Valuing Leisure Time

Comparing Health Interventions in Colombia and Nigeria: Which are More Effective and by How Much?

Five recommendations for better political discourse

Uma Valeti: Biology and technology II

Some more projects Id like to see

What are the effects of considering that (human) morality emerges from evolutionary and other functional pressures?

(Unofficial PR FAQ) Posting more jobs to the forum (but they are hidden by default)

Announcing: EAGxVRChat

Peter Singer: Fireside chat (2020)

Prediction Markets in The Corporate Setting

(Cause Exploration Prizes) Longer, healthier lives: public engagement around ageing and health

Democratizing the workplace as a cause area

Some examples of EA Themes in Fiction - Please add your own!

IV. Parallels and Review

What Are Dreams Worth?

Why EA needs Operations Research: the science of decision making

The repugnant conclusion is not a problem for the total view

Climate change - Problem profile

The Old AI: Lessons for AI governance from early electricity regulation

Notes: Stubble Burning in India

Effective Volunteering

Will we eventually be able to colonize other stars? Notes from a preliminary review

In search of systems change that lasts: 3 lessons we've learned at Fortify Health

Critiquing GiveWell's Model of Economic Effects from Health Interventions

Consciousness, counterfactual robustness and absurdity

Friendship as a sacred value

Future Academy - Successes, Challenges, and Recommendations to the Community

Free agents

My Cause Selection: Dave Denkenberger

Some thoughts on risks from narrow, non-agentic AI

Animal Weapons: Lesson learned from biological arms race to modern day weapons

My Cause Selection: Denis Drescher

Summary: Longtermism, Aggregation, and Catastrophic Risk (Emma J. Curran)

What ""Saving Private Ryan"" can teach us about EA

thoughts on buying beef from brazil?

How does Amazon deforestation actually work? It's not about soy.

New UK aid strategy prioritising research and crisis response

2020 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

Boundaries of Empathy and Their Consequences

Are there any celebrities promoting EA?

Disruptive climate protests in the UK didnt lead to a loss of public support for climate policies

Don't we need political action rather than charity?

How ""AGI"" could end up being many different specialized AI's stitched together

A personal history of involvement with effective altruism

How Engineers can Effectively Contribute to Tackling Climate Change

Biotechnology and biosecurity

Experientialist Theories of Well-Being

Go Mobilize? Lessons from GM Protests for Pausing AI

(Cause Exploration Prizes) Economic Growth and State Capacity

Impact obsession: Feeling like you never do enough good

No More Pandemics: a grassroots group?

Two things that I think could make the community better

Against the normative realist's wager

Increasing Urban Density as a Recommended Cause Area?

Enantiodromia

Forecasting of Priorities: a tool for effective political participation?

Amesh Adalja: Pandemic pathogens

Responding to the Progressive Platform of Foreign Policy Generation

How Engineers can Contribute to Global Heath and Development

How to do theoretical research, a personal perspective

some concerns with classical utilitarianism

CEAs events team: capacity building and mistakes

AI Benefits Post 1: Introducing AI Benefits

(Repost) A poem on struggling with personal cause prioritization

The Precipice - Summary/Review

Facilitating international labor migration via a digital platform

Event Review: EA Global: London (2018)

Three wild speculations from amateur quantitative macrohistory

Improving the future by influencing actors' benevolence, intelligence, and power

any anime watchers here drawing parallels between EA and JJK?

EA Interview Series: Michelle Hutchinson, December 2015

Summary of the AI Bill of Rights and Policy Implications

Self compassion

Any state / local politicians in this community? (state legislators / city council members / etc)

Reflections on doing good with lump sums - the retired person's dilemma

Day Zero Antivirals for Future Pandemics by Brian Wang

III. Running its course

CEA's work in 2022

The ""TESCREAL"" Bungle

The EA Behavioral Science Newsletter #11 (December 2023)

Sentientism: Improving the human epistemology and ethics baseline

Forecasting Newsletter: September 2021.

(updated) Global development interventions are generally more effective than climate change interventions

LLM-Secured Systems: A General-Purpose Tool For Structured Transparency

Parenthood and effective altruism