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The Cognitive Science of Rationality
Dear EA, some answers to the questions you asked. But whatever the case, we really need a helping hand from you. We also need you as friends -- and as close allies.
(Cause Exploration Prizes) Emergence research as a high-impact cause area
How to evaluate neglectedness and tractability of aging research
Would a super-intelligent AI necessarily support its own existence?
The Ethics of Giving part one: Thomas Hill on the Kantian perspective on giving
My Experience as a Full-Time EA Community Builder in NYC
New Cause area: The Meta-Cause (Cause Exploration Prize)
Rowing, Steering, Anchoring, Equity, Mutiny
Any initiative to introduce small and cheap CO sensors?
Metascience/Progress: Michael Nielsen interview/podcast
Intentional Insights and the EA Movement Q & A
Five books to make you super effective
2023 Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest: Odds of Artificial General Intelligence by 2043
(Cause Exploration Prizes) Increasing the resilience of rural communities through financial literacy
Beyond a better world
The Moral Obligation to Organize
The effectiveness-alone strategy and evidence-based policy
Unpacking Martin Sandbu's recent(ish) take on EA
Charity Entrepreneurship Research Summary
Types of specification problems in forecasting
Best places to donate?
South Asian Air Quality Cause Investigation
The Intergovernmental Panel On Global Catastrophic Risks (IPGCR)
Reasons and Persons: Watch theories eat themselves
Book Review: Churchill and Orwell
2021 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison
Reza Negarestani's Intelligence & Spirit
The Attribution Moloch
Summary of Cartwright and Hardie's ""Evidence-based Policy: A practical guide to doing it better""
EA and Judaism Intro Fellowship Fall 2023
(xpost) An Effective Grab Bag
Building Blocks of Utility Maximization
Red teaming a model for estimating the value of longtermist interventions - A critique of Tarsney's ""The Epistemic Challenge to Longtermism""
Is SARS-CoV-2 a modern Greek Tragedy?
Is That DNA Dangerous
Agricultural research and development
The heterogeneity of human value types: Implications for AI alignment
Causality in altruism
(Linkpost) Eric Schwitzgebel: AI systems must not confuse users about their sentience or moral status
I. Starting Small
Gene Therapy for Mood Improvement
The AI guide I'm sending my grandparents
The Wages of North-Atlantic Bias
EA & LW Forum Weekly Summary (27th Feb - 5th Mar 2023)
Calibration dilemmas in the ethics of distribution
Forecasting Newsletter: December 2020
Future benefits of mitigating food shocks caused by abrupt sunlight reduction scenarios
Global lead exposure report
Compounding assumptions and what it mean to be altruistic
Orienting towards the long-term future (Joseph Carlsmith)
On sincerity
Getting on a different train: can Effective Altruism avoid collapsing into absurdity?
Philanthropy Advisory Fellowship: Gene Drive Report
Lessons from 'Famine, Affluence, and Morality' and its reflection on today.
Pollination in India
Rational Education as a Cause Priority?
Ngo's view on alignment difficulty
Moral trades for tax deductibility
Project ideas: Backup plans & Cooperative AI
Talking to Congress: Can constituents contacting their legislator influence policy?
Storable Votes with a Pay as you win mechanism: a contribution for institutional design
The case for transparent spending
Morality vs related concepts
Robert Wright on using cognitive empathy to save the world
Eliciting donations through causal closeness
Reducing global AI competition through the Commerce Control List and Immigration reform: a dual-pronged approach
Shallow Report on Access to Mental Health Drugs
My Morality
Why You Should Visit Vancouver
Forecasting With LLMs - An Open and Promising Research Direction
A summary of every ""Highlights from the Sequences"" post
A tool to compare the ease of operating in different countries
US Poverty Interventions: how should we prioritize?
A tentative dialogue with a Friendly-boxed-super-AGI on brain uploads
Toward a more approachable and accessible EA Forum
Improving local governance in fragile states - practical lessons from the field
Incentivizing Charity Cooperation
Digest #175 (short)
Exploration of Foods High in Vitamin D as a Dietary Strategy in the Event of Abrupt Sunlight Reduction
James Snowden: The evolution of GiveWell's research
Evidence Action Were Shutting Down No Lean Season, Our Seasonal Migration Program: Heres Why
Human vs animal trolley problem
Meetup : Animal Suffering Documentary Night
Why EAs researching mainstream topics can be useful
A Guide to Early Stage EA Group-Building at Liberal Arts Colleges
Is the reasoning of the Repugnant Conclusion valid?
Concrete actions to improve AI governance: the behaviour science approach
(Cause Exploration Prizes) Tuberculosis
Suggestions for developing national-level effective altruism organizations
Is it super cost-effective to buy out interest groups?
Notes on ""Barriers to Bioweapons"" (Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, 2014)
The counterfactual impact of agents acting in concert
Answering some questions about water quality programs
The innocent gene
The Alienation Objection to Consequentialism
Cause Area: Human Rights in North Korea
Charitable Giving With Crytpo In the US (How-To & Taxes)
The Cryonics reductio against pure time preference: a rhetorical low-hanging fruit - or ""Do we discount the future only because we won't live in it?""
A simplified cost-effectiveness estimation methodology for use in Solar4Africa's Fall-23 student projects

The Cognitive Science of Rationality

Dear EA, some answers to the questions you asked. But whatever the case, we really need a helping hand from you. We also need you as friends -- and as close allies.

(Cause Exploration Prizes) Emergence research as a high-impact cause area

How to evaluate neglectedness and tractability of aging research

Would a super-intelligent AI necessarily support its own existence?

The Ethics of Giving part one: Thomas Hill on the Kantian perspective on giving

My Experience as a Full-Time EA Community Builder in NYC

New Cause area: The Meta-Cause (Cause Exploration Prize)

Rowing, Steering, Anchoring, Equity, Mutiny

Any initiative to introduce small and cheap CO sensors?

Metascience/Progress: Michael Nielsen interview/podcast

Intentional Insights and the EA Movement Q & A

Five books to make you super effective

2023 Open Philanthropy AI Worldviews Contest: Odds of Artificial General Intelligence by 2043

(Cause Exploration Prizes) Increasing the resilience of rural communities through financial literacy

Beyond a better world

The Moral Obligation to Organize

The effectiveness-alone strategy and evidence-based policy

Unpacking Martin Sandbu's recent(ish) take on EA

Charity Entrepreneurship Research Summary

Types of specification problems in forecasting

Best places to donate?

South Asian Air Quality Cause Investigation

The Intergovernmental Panel On Global Catastrophic Risks (IPGCR)

Reasons and Persons: Watch theories eat themselves

Book Review: Churchill and Orwell

2021 AI Alignment Literature Review and Charity Comparison

Reza Negarestani's Intelligence & Spirit

The Attribution Moloch

Summary of Cartwright and Hardie's ""Evidence-based Policy: A practical guide to doing it better""

EA and Judaism Intro Fellowship Fall 2023

(xpost) An Effective Grab Bag

Building Blocks of Utility Maximization

Red teaming a model for estimating the value of longtermist interventions - A critique of Tarsney's ""The Epistemic Challenge to Longtermism""

Is SARS-CoV-2 a modern Greek Tragedy?

Is That DNA Dangerous

Agricultural research and development

The heterogeneity of human value types: Implications for AI alignment

Causality in altruism

(Linkpost) Eric Schwitzgebel: AI systems must not confuse users about their sentience or moral status

I. Starting Small

Gene Therapy for Mood Improvement

The AI guide I'm sending my grandparents

The Wages of North-Atlantic Bias

EA & LW Forum Weekly Summary (27th Feb - 5th Mar 2023)

Calibration dilemmas in the ethics of distribution

Forecasting Newsletter: December 2020

Future benefits of mitigating food shocks caused by abrupt sunlight reduction scenarios

Global lead exposure report

Compounding assumptions and what it mean to be altruistic

Orienting towards the long-term future (Joseph Carlsmith)

On sincerity

Getting on a different train: can Effective Altruism avoid collapsing into absurdity?

Philanthropy Advisory Fellowship: Gene Drive Report

Lessons from 'Famine, Affluence, and Morality' and its reflection on today.

Pollination in India

Rational Education as a Cause Priority?

Ngo's view on alignment difficulty

Moral trades for tax deductibility

Project ideas: Backup plans & Cooperative AI

Talking to Congress: Can constituents contacting their legislator influence policy?

Storable Votes with a Pay as you win mechanism: a contribution for institutional design

The case for transparent spending

Morality vs related concepts

Robert Wright on using cognitive empathy to save the world

Eliciting donations through causal closeness

Reducing global AI competition through the Commerce Control List and Immigration reform: a dual-pronged approach

Shallow Report on Access to Mental Health Drugs

My Morality

Why You Should Visit Vancouver

Forecasting With LLMs - An Open and Promising Research Direction

A summary of every ""Highlights from the Sequences"" post

A tool to compare the ease of operating in different countries

US Poverty Interventions: how should we prioritize?

A tentative dialogue with a Friendly-boxed-super-AGI on brain uploads

Toward a more approachable and accessible EA Forum

Improving local governance in fragile states - practical lessons from the field

Incentivizing Charity Cooperation

Digest #175 (short)

Exploration of Foods High in Vitamin D as a Dietary Strategy in the Event of Abrupt Sunlight Reduction

James Snowden: The evolution of GiveWell's research

Evidence Action Were Shutting Down No Lean Season, Our Seasonal Migration Program: Heres Why

Human vs animal trolley problem

Meetup : Animal Suffering Documentary Night

Why EAs researching mainstream topics can be useful

A Guide to Early Stage EA Group-Building at Liberal Arts Colleges

Is the reasoning of the Repugnant Conclusion valid?

Concrete actions to improve AI governance: the behaviour science approach

(Cause Exploration Prizes) Tuberculosis

Suggestions for developing national-level effective altruism organizations

Is it super cost-effective to buy out interest groups?

Notes on ""Barriers to Bioweapons"" (Ben Ouagrham-Gormley, 2014)

The counterfactual impact of agents acting in concert

Answering some questions about water quality programs

The innocent gene

The Alienation Objection to Consequentialism

Cause Area: Human Rights in North Korea

Charitable Giving With Crytpo In the US (How-To & Taxes)

The Cryonics reductio against pure time preference: a rhetorical low-hanging fruit - or ""Do we discount the future only because we won't live in it?""

A simplified cost-effectiveness estimation methodology for use in Solar4Africa's Fall-23 student projects