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Policy advocacy for eradicating screwworm looks remarkably cost-effective
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AI stocks could crash. And that could have implications for AI safety
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Priors and Prejudice
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GDP per capita in 2050
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Can we help individual people cost-effectively? Our trial with three sick kids
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10 years of Earning to Give
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Killing the moths
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EA Wins 2023
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Things to check about a job or internship
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Tragic Beliefs
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Social science research we'd like to see on global health and wellbeing [Open Philanthropy]
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Aaron Gertler
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Open Philanthropy
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Conferences are great for scientific entrepreneurs
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How Long Do Policy Changes Matter? New Paper
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On Living Without Idols
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Rockwell
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1y
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Clean Water - the incredible 30% mortality reducer we can’t explain
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AI things that are perhaps as important as human-controlled AI (Chi version)
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GWWC's evaluations of evaluators
Sjir Hoeijmakers
Sjir Hoeijmakers
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Giving What We Can
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Michael Townsend
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Alana HF
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Attention on AI X-Risk Likely Hasn't Distracted from Current Harms from AI
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A year of wins for farmed animals
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Rethink Priorities’ Cross-Cause Cost-Effectiveness Model: Introduction and Overview
Derek Shiller
Derek Shiller
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Bernardo Baron
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Chase Carter
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Agustín Covarrubias
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Marcus_A_Davis
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MichaelDickens
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Laura Duffy
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Peter Wildeford
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What are the biggest misconceptions about biosecurity and pandemic risk?
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Alvea’s Story, Wins, and Challenges [Unofficial]
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Economic Growth - Donation suggestions and ideas
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Some observations from an EA-adjacent (?) charitable effort
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1y
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What do we really know about growth in LMICs? (Part 1: sectoral transformation)
Karthik Tadepalli
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Price-, Taste-, and Convenience-Competitive Plant-Based Meat Would Not Currently Replace Meat
Jacob_Peacock
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Preliminary Analysis of Intervention to Reduce Lead Exposure from Adulterated Turmeric in Bangladesh Shows Cost Benefit of About US$1 per DALY
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Kate Porterfield
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Nobody’s on the ball on AGI alignment
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Shrimp: The animals most commonly used and killed for food production
Rethink Priorities
Rethink Priorities
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Daniela R. Waldhorn
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Thoughts on responsible scaling policies and regulation
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Thoughts on far-UVC after working in the field for 8 months
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How economists got Africa’s AIDS epidemic wrong
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1y
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Why Anima International suspended the campaign to end live fish sales in Poland
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Jakub Stencel
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Weronika Zurek
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Anima International
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Why I don’t agree with HLI’s estimate of household spillovers from therapy
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JamesSnowden
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1y
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Rethink Priorities’ Welfare Range Estimates
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Bob Fischer
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What you can do to help stop violence against women and girls
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AGI and the EMH: markets are not expecting aligned or unaligned AI in the next 30 years
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J. Zachary Mazlish
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Why I No Longer Prioritize Wild Animal Welfare
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StrongMinds should not be a top-rated charity (yet)
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The Welfare Range Table
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Let’s think about slowing down AI
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1y
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PhD on Moral Progress - Bibliography Review
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Bringing about animal-inclusive AI
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What is the current most representative EA AI x-risk argument?
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Two cheap ways to test your fit for policy work
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5 possibly impactful career paths for researchers
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Tips for people considering starting new incubators
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How much should governments pay to prevent catastrophes? Longtermism’s limited role
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EJT
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1y
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My take on What We Owe the Future
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What happens on the average day?
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