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Effective Altruism is a Question (not an ideology)
Helen
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On Caring
So8res
· · 12m read
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500 Million, But Not A Single One More
jai
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Six Ways To Get Along With People Who Are Totally Wrong*
Robert_Wiblin
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The EA community does not own its donors' money
Nick Whitaker
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10 years of Earning to Give
AGB
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Peter Eckersley (1979-2022)
Gavin
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Beware surprising and suspicious convergence
Gregory Lewis
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EA is three radical ideas I want to protect
Peter Wildeford
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468
EA is about maximization, and maximization is perilous
Holden Karnofsky
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On Living Without Idols
Rockwell
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Growth and the case against randomista development
Hauke Hillebrandt
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709
We must be very clear: fraud in the service of effective altruism is unacceptable
evhub
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Open EA Global
Scott Alexander
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Free-spending EA might be a big problem for optics and epistemics
George Rosenfeld
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EV updates: FTX settlement and the future of EV
Zachary Robinson
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Marisa, the Co-Founder of EA Anywhere, Has Passed Away 
carrickflynn
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The FTX Future Fund team has resigned
Nick_Beckstead
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EA risks falling into a "meta trap". But we can avoid it.
Peter Wildeford
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Open Phil Should Allocate Most Neartermist Funding to Animal Welfare
Ariel Simnegar
· · 17m read
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Some comments on recent FTX-related events
Holden Karnofsky
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Can we help individual people cost-effectively? Our trial with three sick kids
NickLaing
· · 11m read
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"Long-Termism" vs. "Existential Risk"
Scott Alexander
· · 4m read
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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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Learning from our mistakes: how HLI plans to improve
PeterBrietbart
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University EA Groups Need Fixing
Dave Banerjee
· · 12m read
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Bad Omens in Current Community Building
Theo Hawking
· · 22m read
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Announcing the Publication of Animal Liberation Now
Peter Singer
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EA and the current funding situation
William_MacAskill
· · 25m read
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Maternal Health Initiative is Shutting Down
Ben Williamson
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Reducing long-term risks from malevolent actors
David_Althaus
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EA Wins 2023
Shakeel Hashim
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Leaning into EA Disillusionment
Helen
· · 16m read
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What happens on the average day?
rosehadshar
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My current impressions on career choice for longtermists
Holden Karnofsky
· · 31m read
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Power dynamics between people in EA
Julia_Wise
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My highly personal skepticism braindump on existential risk from artificial intelligence.
NunoSempere
· · 17m read
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My take on What We Owe the Future
elifland
· · 31m read
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EA for dumb people?
Olivia Addy
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My mistakes on the path to impact
Denise_Melchin
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In defence of epistemic modesty
Gregory Lewis
· · 44m read
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The Cost of Rejection
Daystar Eld
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Are you really in a race? The Cautionary Tales of Szilárd and Ellsberg
HaydnBelfield
· · 21m read
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Some observations from an EA-adjacent (?) charitable effort
patio11
· · 9m read
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436
Sharing Information About Nonlinear
Ben Pace
· · 41m read
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Concrete Biosecurity Projects (some of which could be big)
ASB
· · 6m read
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427
Statement on AI Extinction - Signed by AGI Labs, Top Academics, and Many Other Notable Figures
Center for AI Safety
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Critiques of EA that I want to read
abrahamrowe
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356
The Centre for Effective Altruism is spinning out of the Centre for Effective Altruism
OllieBase
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Quick Update on Leaving the Board of EV
Rebecca Kagan
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