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2021
Building effective altruism
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AI safety
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AI alignment
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Career choice
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Cause prioritization
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Existential risk
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How can we make Our World in Data more useful to the EA community?
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Gifted $1 million. What to do? (Not hypothetical)
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Why aren't you freaking out about OpenAI? At what point would you start?
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Exposure to 3m Pointless viewers- what to promote?
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Why "cause area" as the unit of analysis?
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What is the role of public discussion for hits-based Open Philanthropy causes?
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AppliedDivinityStudies
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Why do you find the Repugnant Conclusion repugnant?
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What Small Weird Thing Do You Fund?
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Yonatan Cale
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How many EA 2021 $s would you trade off against a 0.01% chance of existential catastrophe?
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What are some success stories of grantmakers beating the wider EA community?
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What's the Theory of Change/Theory of Victory for Farmed Animal Welfare?
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Is there evidence that recommender systems are changing users' preferences?
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How many people should get self-study grants and how can we find them?
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What should we call the other problem of cluelessness?
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Why does (any particular) AI safety work reduce s-risks more than it increases them?
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What is life like at the median global income?
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JP Addison
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Has anyone checked out Noora Health?
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Is it no longer hard to get a direct work job?
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What “defense layers” should governments, AI labs, and businesses use to prevent catastrophic AI failures?
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New Top EA Causes for 2021?
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MichaelA
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Is the current definition of EA not representative of hits-based giving?
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Venkatesh
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(Answered) Tax question: Help us donate millions, get a $500 bounty!
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Aaron Gertler
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The positive case for a focus on achieving safe AI?
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How valuable is ladder-climbing outside of EA for people who aren't unusually good at ladder-climbing or unusually entrepreneurial?
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Should pretty much all content that's EA-relevant and/or created by EAs be (link)posted to the Forum?
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What advice would you give to the world's most famous philanthropist: Father Christmas?
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What are examples of technologies which would be a big deal if they scaled but never ended up scaling?
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Which non-EA-funded organisations did well on Covid?
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What’s the low resolution version of effective altruism?
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What important questions are missing from Metaculus?
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What Are Your Software Needs?
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Yonatan Cale
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Is the Impact page on effectivealtruism.org double counting?
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Mundane trouble with EV / utility
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Should Grants Fund EA Projects Retrospectively?
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What is an example of recent, tangible progress in AI safety research?
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Aaron Gertler
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What are the highest impact questions in the behavioral sciences?
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Abby Hoskin
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Where should I donate?
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What would you do if you had a lot of money/power/influence and you thought that AI timelines were very short?
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What's the GiveDirectly of longtermism & existential risk?
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Nathan Young
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Is it crunch time yet? If so, who can help?
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Should the EA community have a DL engineering fellowship?
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What are some examples of successful social change?
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Aaron Gertler
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How to Train Better EAs?
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What are some high-impact paths for a young person in the developing world?
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Effective donations for COVID-19 in India
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Tejas Subramaniam
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EA views on the AUKUS security pact?
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Issues with Using Willingness-to-Pay as a Primary Tool for Welfare Analysis
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What are some moral catastrophes events in history?
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Adriana Arauzo
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What is most confusing to you about AI stuff?
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Should I go straight into EA community-building after graduation or do software engineering first?
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Where are you donating in 2021, and why?
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Aaron Gertler
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What has helped you write better?
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Nathan Young
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What would an entity with GiveWell's decision-making process have recommended in the past?
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What are the top priorities in a slow-takeoff, multipolar world?
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The last
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How do you compare human and animal suffering?
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[Meta] Is it legitimate to ask people to upvote posts on this forum?
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How to get more academics enthusiastic about doing AI Safety research?
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What is the closest thing you know to EA that isn't EA?
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What material should we cross-post for the Forum's archives?
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Aaron Gertler
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Starting a Small Charity to Give Grants
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What are the 'PlayPumps' of cause prioritisation?
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What are your favorite examples of moral heroism/altruism in movies and books?
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What would you ask a policymaker about existential risks?
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Would an EA have directed their career on fixing the subprime mortgage crisis of '07-'08 before it happened?
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Are there any current students at University of Washington?
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What should CEEALAR be called?
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Which EA orgs, programs, companies, etc. started as side projects?
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Celebrating 2021: What are your favourite wins & good news for EA, the world and yourself?
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Luke Freeman
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How can I best use product management skills for digital services for good?
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What are some effective/impactful charities in the domain of human rights and anti-authoritarianism?
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When and how should an online community space (e.g., Slack workspace) for a particular type/group of people be created?
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Books and lecture series relevant to AI governance?
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MichaelA
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How much will pre-transformative AI speed up R&D?
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Impact of Charity Evaluations on Evaluated Charities' Effectiveness
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EA Organisations: If you created a sequence about your approach to doing good, what would you write?
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How much time should EAs spend engaging with other EAs vs with people outside of EA?
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How do ideas travel from academia to the world: any advice on what to read?
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What are some convincing arguments & pieces of evidence that people of a wide range of backgrounds can have fulfilling, enjoyable careers while also working in a top EA cause area?
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How to get up to speed on a new field of research?
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Post on maximizing EV by diversifying w/ declining marginal returns and uncertainty
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What are some skills useful for EA that one could learn in ~6 months?
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Are there any evaluations or impact assessments of circular economy or related initiatives?
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What effectively altruistic inducement prize contest would you like to be funded?
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Know anyone interested in litigation?
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Are there any 'maximum egoism' pledges?
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Metaculus Questions Suggest Money Will Do More Good in the Future
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Career advice for Australian science undergrad interested in welfare biology
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What previous work has been done on factors that affect the pace of technological development?
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How impactful is free and open source software development?
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How much money donated and to where (in the space of animal wellbeing) would "cancel out" the harm from leasing a commercial building to a restaurant that presumably uses factory farmed animals?
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How would you run the Petrov Day game?
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Pros and cons of working on near-term technical AI safety and assurance
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Research into people's willingness to change cause *areas*?
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Climate change questions for Johannes Ackva and John Halstead
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What are the long term consequences of poverty alleviation?
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What are the bad EA memes? How could we reframe them?
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What are your favourite ways to buy time?
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[Coronavirus] Is it a good idea to meet people indoors if everyone's rapid antigen test came back negative?
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How to decide which productivity coach to try?
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