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We must be very clear: fraud in the service of effective altruism is unacceptable
evhub
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2y
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10 years of Earning to Give
AGB 🔸
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The FTX Future Fund team has resigned
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Nick_Beckstead
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leopold
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ab
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ketanrama
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2y
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Some comments on recent FTX-related events
Holden Karnofsky
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2y
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The EA community does not own its donors' money
Nick Whitaker
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EA is three radical ideas I want to protect
Peter Wildeford
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2y
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500 Million, But Not A Single One More
jai
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Bad Omens in Current Community Building
Theo Hawking
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3y
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EA and the current funding situation
William_MacAskill
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3y
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Free-spending EA might be a big problem for optics and epistemics
George Rosenfeld
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3y
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Center for Effective Aid Policy has shut down
MathiasKB🔸
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551
On Living Without Idols
Rockwell
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2y
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"Long-Termism" vs. "Existential Risk"
Scott Alexander
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3y
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Open Phil Should Allocate Most Neartermist Funding to Animal Welfare
Ariel Simnegar 🔸
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1y
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Marisa, the Co-Founder of EA Anywhere, Has Passed Away
carrickflynn
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1y
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EA for dumb people?
Olivia Addy
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3y
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Peter Eckersley (1979-2022)
technicalities
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3y
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EA is about maximization, and maximization is perilous
Holden Karnofsky
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3y
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494
Centre for Effective Altruism Is No Longer "Effective Altruism"-Related
2 authors
Anna Weldon
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Emma Richter🔸
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21d
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24
489
Are you really in a race? The Cautionary Tales of Szilárd and Ellsberg
HaydnBelfield
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3y
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44
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485
Power dynamics between people in EA
Julia_Wise🔸
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3y
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Transitioning to an advisory role
MaxDalton
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2y
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Announcing the Publication of Animal Liberation Now
Peter Singer
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2y
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Critiques of EA that I want to read
abrahamrowe
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3y
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IMPCO, don't injure yourself by returning FTXFF money for services you already provided
EliezerYudkowsky
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2y
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The FTX crisis highlights a deeper cultural problem within EA - we don't sufficiently value good governance
James Fodor
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2y
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My current impressions on career choice for longtermists
Holden Karnofsky
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4y
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Open EA Global
Scott Alexander
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3y
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My highly personal skepticism braindump on existential risk from artificial intelligence.
NunoSempere
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2y
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EV updates: FTX settlement and the future of EV
Zachary Robinson🔸
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1y
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Some observations from an EA-adjacent (?) charitable effort
patio11
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2y
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Growth and the case against randomista development
Hauke Hillebrandt
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5y
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Leaning into EA Disillusionment
Helen
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3y
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Sharing Information About Nonlinear
Ben Pace
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2y
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My mistakes on the path to impact
Denise_Melchin
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4y
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Statement on AI Extinction - Signed by AGI Labs, Top Academics, and Many Other Notable Figures
Center for AI Safety
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Taking a leave of absence from Open Philanthropy to work on AI safety
Holden Karnofsky
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Stepping down from GWWC: So long, and thanks for all the shrimp
Luke Freeman 🔸
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Open Phil is seeking applications from grantees impacted by recent events
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Why I Spoke to TIME Magazine, and My Experience as a Female AI Researcher in Silicon Valley
Lucretia
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2y
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Maybe let the non-EA world train you
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Concrete Biosecurity Projects (some of which could be big)
2 authors
ASB
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eca
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3y
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· 6m read
71
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Why I love effective altruism
Michelle_Hutchinson
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2y
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Can we help individual people cost-effectively? Our trial with three sick kids
NickLaing
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1y
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After one year of applying for EA jobs: It is really, really hard to get hired by an EA organisation
EA applicant
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Things I Learned by Spending Five Thousand Hours In Non-EA Charities
jenn
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EA’s success no one cares about
Jakub Stencel
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2y
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The Game Board has been Flipped: Now is a good time to rethink what you’re doing
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Maternal Health Initiative is Shutting Down
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Ben Williamson
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Sarah Eustis-Guthrie
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1y
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My takes on the FTX situation will (mostly) be cold, not hot
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