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We must be very clear: fraud in the service of effective altruism is unacceptable
evhub
evhub
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The FTX Future Fund team has resigned
Nick_Beckstead
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
Holden Karnofsky
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2y
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· 5m read
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636
10 years of Earning to Give
AGB
AGB
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6mo
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· 10m read
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28
630
The EA community does not own its donors' money
Nick Whitaker
Nick Whitaker
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1y
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· 5m read
116
116
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EA is three radical ideas I want to protect
Peter Wildeford
Peter Wildeford
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1y
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· 4m read
16
16
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500 Million, But Not A Single One More
jai
jai
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2y
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· 3m read
28
28
571
Bad Omens in Current Community Building
Theo Hawking
Theo Hawking
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2y
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· 22m read
131
131
564
EA and the current funding situation
William_MacAskill
William_MacAskill
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2y
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· 25m read
185
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562
Free-spending EA might be a big problem for optics and epistemics
George Rosenfeld
George Rosenfeld
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2y
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· 10m read
186
186
543
On Living Without Idols
Rockwell
Rockwell
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1y
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· 7m read
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"Long-Termism" vs. "Existential Risk"
Scott Alexander
Scott Alexander
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2y
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· 4m read
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Peter Eckersley (1979-2022)
Gavin
Gavin
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2y
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Open Phil Should Allocate Most Neartermist Funding to Animal Welfare
Ariel Simnegar
Ariel Simnegar
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6mo
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· 17m read
125
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EA for dumb people?
Olivia Addy
Olivia Addy
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2y
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· 2m read
160
160
480
Transitioning to an advisory role
MaxDalton
MaxDalton
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1y
ago
· 3m read
31
31
476
Power dynamics between people in EA
Julia_Wise
Julia_Wise
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2y
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· 9m read
15
15
472
Announcing the Publication of Animal Liberation Now
Peter Singer
Peter Singer
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1y
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· 3m read
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468
EA is about maximization, and maximization is perilous
Holden Karnofsky
Holden Karnofsky
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2y
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· 8m read
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467
Are you really in a race? The Cautionary Tales of Szilárd and Ellsberg
HaydnBelfield
HaydnBelfield
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2y
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· 21m read
44
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466
IMPCO, don't injure yourself by returning FTXFF money for services you already provided
EliezerYudkowsky
EliezerYudkowsky
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2y
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· 10m read
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Critiques of EA that I want to read
abrahamrowe
abrahamrowe
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2y
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· 11m read
85
85
452
The FTX crisis highlights a deeper cultural problem within EA - we don't sufficiently value good governance
Fods12
Fods12
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2y
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· 5m read
55
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440
Marisa, the Co-Founder of EA Anywhere, Has Passed Away
carrickflynn
carrickflynn
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436
EV updates: FTX settlement and the future of EV
Zachary Robinson
Zachary Robinson
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5mo
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· 3m read
39
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435
Sharing Information About Nonlinear
Ben Pace
Ben Pace
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9mo
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· 41m read
497
497
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Some observations from an EA-adjacent (?) charitable effort
patio11
patio11
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1y
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· 9m read
8
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431
My highly personal skepticism braindump on existential risk from artificial intelligence.
NunoSempere
NunoSempere
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1y
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· 17m read
116
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429
Open EA Global
Scott Alexander
Scott Alexander
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2y
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· 7m read
155
155
428
Growth and the case against randomista development
Hauke Hillebrandt
Hauke Hillebrandt
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4y
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· 37m read
197
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Statement on AI Extinction - Signed by AGI Labs, Top Academics, and Many Other Notable Figures
Center for AI Safety
Center for AI Safety
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1y
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· 1m read
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My mistakes on the path to impact
Denise_Melchin
Denise_Melchin
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3y
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· 13m read
74
74
425
My current impressions on career choice for longtermists
Holden Karnofsky
Holden Karnofsky
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3y
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· 31m read
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Taking a leave of absence from Open Philanthropy to work on AI safety
Holden Karnofsky
Holden Karnofsky
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1y
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· 2m read
31
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415
Leaning into EA Disillusionment
Helen
Helen
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2y
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· 16m read
61
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414
Open Phil is seeking applications from grantees impacted by recent events
Bastian_Stern
Bastian_Stern
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2y
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· 2m read
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Why I Spoke to TIME Magazine, and My Experience as a Female AI Researcher in Silicon Valley
Lucretia
Lucretia
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1y
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· 47m read
95
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Concrete Biosecurity Projects (some of which could be big)
ASB
ASB
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eca
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2y
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· 6m read
71
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399
Why I love effective altruism
Michelle_Hutchinson
Michelle_Hutchinson
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1y
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· 6m read
12
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Things I Learned by Spending Five Thousand Hours In Non-EA Charities
jenn
jenn
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1y
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· 10m read
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391
Can we help individual people cost-effectively? Our trial with three sick kids
NickLaing
NickLaing
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3mo
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· 11m read
35
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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
EA applicant
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5y
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· 4m read
184
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My takes on the FTX situation will (mostly) be cold, not hot
Holden Karnofsky
Holden Karnofsky
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2y
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· 6m read
35
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383
EA’s success no one cares about
Jakub Stencel
Jakub Stencel
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1y
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· 11m read
13
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The Spanish-Speaking Effective Altruism community is awesome
Jaime Sevilla
Jaime Sevilla
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1y
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· 4m read
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379
Announcing my retirement
Aaron Gertler
Aaron Gertler
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2y
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No injuries were reported
JulianHazell
JulianHazell
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1y
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· 3m read
10
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Maternal Health Initiative is Shutting Down
Ben Williamson
Ben Williamson
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Sarah Eustis-Guthrie
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2mo
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· 24m read
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We can all help solve funding constraints. What stops us?
Luke Freeman
Luke Freeman
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1y
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· 15m read
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Announcing Alvea—A COVID Vaccine Project
kyle_fish
kyle_fish
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