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Prudential implications of the Most Important Century hypothesis
Uses of EA Retreats, Case Study UK Uni Organisers Retreat Dec 2021
Why AGI systems will not be fanatical maximisers (unless trained by fanatical humans)
Measuring Global Inequality: Median Income, GDP per Capita, and the Gini Index
Impact of aging research besides LEV
Thought experiment: Trading off risk, intragenerational and intergenerational inequality, and fairness
Dietary habits Another potential Cause Area?
Some reasons to uphold norms that are common in other communities
Air pollution is really bad--Lets invest in better understanding its impact and saving lives.
Mosquito Eradication as opposed to netting and treatments, and why current prevention methods may be counterproductive
New Report on Early Field Growth
Can the moral circle be expanded through economic security and/or political trust?
(Creative Writing Contest) The Hike
The alignment problem from a deep learning perspective
International risk of food insecurity and mass mortality in a runaway global warming scenario
Will faster economic growth make us happier? The relevance of the Easterlin Paradox to Progress Studies
Effective Altruism Coaching 2020 Annual Review
We Cant Do Long Term Utilitarian Calculations Until We Know if AIs Can Be Conscious or Not
How has FTXs collapse impacted EA?
Forecasting Newsletter: March 2021
A relatively atheoretical perspective on astronomical waste
How to neglect the long term (Hayden Wilkinson)
Remarks about Longtermism inspired by Torress Against Longtermism
Should EA be explicitly long-termist or uncommitted?
EA should invest more in exploration
The case for more ambitious language model evals
Doing Good Better - Book review and comments
A Case Against Strong Longtermism
A ""Solipsistic"" Repugnant Conclusion
GCRI Open Call for Advisees and Collaborators
Wikipedia editing is important, tractable, and neglected
Biological anchors is about bounding, not pinpointing, AI timelines
EA Facebook New Member Report
Moral relativity
Stackelberg Games and Cooperative Commitment: My Thoughts and Reflections on a 2-Month Research Project
The ordinal utility argument against effective altruism
Three levels of cause prioritisation
Social Relationships: A Neglected Factor in Wellbeing
(Creative Writing Contest) Birthday Parties and Actuaries
Can foreign aid and international charity make a difference?
Summary of Cialdini's Influence
Notes on supporting Happier Lives Institute
Aesthetics as Epistemic Humility
New eBook: Essays on UFOs and Related Conjectures
The Germy Paradox The empty sky: How close did we get to BW usage?
How Epictetus May Help an Effective Altruist
(Cause Exploration Prizes) Social and Behavioral Science R&D
(blog cross-post) Charity hacks
The Rival AI Deployment Problem: a Pre-deployment Agreement as the least-bad response
Oral healthcare in LMIC is a promising new cause area: Founders Pledge (Medium Investigation)
Decision making under model ambiguity, moral uncertainty, and other agents with free will?
Guilt at EA
A new place to discuss cognitive science, ethics and human alignment
EA Twitter Job Bots and more
Forecasting Newsletter: July 2020.
A Gentle Introduction to Risk Frameworks Beyond Forecasting
Land redistribution, revisited.
Should We Be Private or Public About Giving to Charity?
EA Claremont Winter 21/22 Intro Fellowship Retrospective
How meditation has helped my EA mindset
Asymmetric altruism
Pain relief: a shallow cause exploration
How to make the best of the most important century?
The Importance of Truth-Oriented Discussions in EA
EA Sweden is looking for a Head of Strategic Development
Ilya: The AI scientist shaping the world
Why EAs in particular are good people to start charities
Please use art to convey EA!
Radical tactics can increase support for more moderate groups
Cost-Effectiveness of RC Forward
Using Breaking News Stories for Effective Altruism
The great energy descent - Post 3: What we can do, what we cant do
Kidney stone pain as a potential cause area
Making beliefs pay rent
Songs from 'The Kinks' resonating with EA ideas and experiences
Motivational Resources for Longtermists
Precise Altruism
Summary of Major Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Winter
Cause Exploration Prize: Antimicrobial Resistance
Hard-to-reverse decisions destroy option value
Why don't many effective altruists work on natural resource scarcity?
(Event) Metaculus Presents: Transformative Science at Startup Speed
Peter Singer Good Charity, Bad Charity
(Cause Exploration Prizes) Scaling Graduation to End Extreme Poverty
Book Review: Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham
EA and Judaism Intro Fellowship Spring 2024
Charter Cities: why they're exciting & how they might work
How you can save expected lives for $0.20-$400 each and reduce X risk
A parable of brightspots and blindspots
Cost-Effectiveness of Foods for Global Catastrophes: Even Better than Before?
Permanent Societal Improvements
Discussion Questions for Books with Experienced Professionals Audience
Making decisions under moral uncertainty
Building my Scout Mindset: #2
II. Triggering The Race
A disentanglement project for the nuclear security cause area
CE Research Report: Aid Quality Advocacy
Reducing long-term risks from malevolent actors
Guerrilla Foundation Response to EA Forum Discussion
What we owe the future (Will MacAskill)

Prudential implications of the Most Important Century hypothesis

Uses of EA Retreats, Case Study UK Uni Organisers Retreat Dec 2021

Why AGI systems will not be fanatical maximisers (unless trained by fanatical humans)

Measuring Global Inequality: Median Income, GDP per Capita, and the Gini Index

Impact of aging research besides LEV

Thought experiment: Trading off risk, intragenerational and intergenerational inequality, and fairness

Dietary habits Another potential Cause Area?

Some reasons to uphold norms that are common in other communities

Air pollution is really bad--Lets invest in better understanding its impact and saving lives.

Mosquito Eradication as opposed to netting and treatments, and why current prevention methods may be counterproductive

New Report on Early Field Growth

Can the moral circle be expanded through economic security and/or political trust?

(Creative Writing Contest) The Hike

The alignment problem from a deep learning perspective

International risk of food insecurity and mass mortality in a runaway global warming scenario

Will faster economic growth make us happier? The relevance of the Easterlin Paradox to Progress Studies

Effective Altruism Coaching 2020 Annual Review

We Cant Do Long Term Utilitarian Calculations Until We Know if AIs Can Be Conscious or Not

How has FTXs collapse impacted EA?

Forecasting Newsletter: March 2021

A relatively atheoretical perspective on astronomical waste

How to neglect the long term (Hayden Wilkinson)

Remarks about Longtermism inspired by Torress Against Longtermism

Should EA be explicitly long-termist or uncommitted?

EA should invest more in exploration

The case for more ambitious language model evals

Doing Good Better - Book review and comments

A Case Against Strong Longtermism

A ""Solipsistic"" Repugnant Conclusion

GCRI Open Call for Advisees and Collaborators

Wikipedia editing is important, tractable, and neglected

Biological anchors is about bounding, not pinpointing, AI timelines

EA Facebook New Member Report

Moral relativity

Stackelberg Games and Cooperative Commitment: My Thoughts and Reflections on a 2-Month Research Project

The ordinal utility argument against effective altruism

Three levels of cause prioritisation

Social Relationships: A Neglected Factor in Wellbeing

(Creative Writing Contest) Birthday Parties and Actuaries

Can foreign aid and international charity make a difference?

Summary of Cialdini's Influence

Notes on supporting Happier Lives Institute

Aesthetics as Epistemic Humility

New eBook: Essays on UFOs and Related Conjectures

The Germy Paradox The empty sky: How close did we get to BW usage?

How Epictetus May Help an Effective Altruist

(Cause Exploration Prizes) Social and Behavioral Science R&D

(blog cross-post) Charity hacks

The Rival AI Deployment Problem: a Pre-deployment Agreement as the least-bad response

Oral healthcare in LMIC is a promising new cause area: Founders Pledge (Medium Investigation)

Decision making under model ambiguity, moral uncertainty, and other agents with free will?

Guilt at EA

A new place to discuss cognitive science, ethics and human alignment

EA Twitter Job Bots and more

Forecasting Newsletter: July 2020.

A Gentle Introduction to Risk Frameworks Beyond Forecasting

Land redistribution, revisited.

Should We Be Private or Public About Giving to Charity?

EA Claremont Winter 21/22 Intro Fellowship Retrospective

How meditation has helped my EA mindset

Asymmetric altruism

Pain relief: a shallow cause exploration

How to make the best of the most important century?

The Importance of Truth-Oriented Discussions in EA

EA Sweden is looking for a Head of Strategic Development

Ilya: The AI scientist shaping the world

Why EAs in particular are good people to start charities

Please use art to convey EA!

Radical tactics can increase support for more moderate groups

Cost-Effectiveness of RC Forward

Using Breaking News Stories for Effective Altruism

The great energy descent - Post 3: What we can do, what we cant do

Kidney stone pain as a potential cause area

Making beliefs pay rent

Songs from 'The Kinks' resonating with EA ideas and experiences

Motivational Resources for Longtermists

Precise Altruism

Summary of Major Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Winter

Cause Exploration Prize: Antimicrobial Resistance

Hard-to-reverse decisions destroy option value

Why don't many effective altruists work on natural resource scarcity?

(Event) Metaculus Presents: Transformative Science at Startup Speed

Peter Singer Good Charity, Bad Charity

(Cause Exploration Prizes) Scaling Graduation to End Extreme Poverty

Book Review: Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham

EA and Judaism Intro Fellowship Spring 2024

Charter Cities: why they're exciting & how they might work

How you can save expected lives for $0.20-$400 each and reduce X risk

A parable of brightspots and blindspots

Cost-Effectiveness of Foods for Global Catastrophes: Even Better than Before?

Permanent Societal Improvements

Discussion Questions for Books with Experienced Professionals Audience

Making decisions under moral uncertainty

Building my Scout Mindset: #2

II. Triggering The Race

A disentanglement project for the nuclear security cause area

CE Research Report: Aid Quality Advocacy

Reducing long-term risks from malevolent actors

Guerrilla Foundation Response to EA Forum Discussion

What we owe the future (Will MacAskill)