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2024

Frontpage Posts

227
Priors and Prejudice
MathiasKB
· 15d ago · 9m read
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13
391
Can we help individual people cost-effectively? Our trial with three sick kids
NickLaing
· 3mo ago · 11m read
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35
225
Killing the moths
Bella
· 1mo ago · 6m read
16
16
65
Conferences are great for scientific entrepreneurs
JP Addison
· 22d ago · 6m read
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3
191
Things to check about a job or internship
Julia_Wise
· 3mo ago · 10m read
12
12
184
Tragic Beliefs
tobytrem
· 3mo ago · 6m read
9
9
166
Social science research we'd like to see on global health and wellbeing [Open Philanthropy]
Aaron Gertler
· 3mo ago · 21m read
8
8
109
AI things that are perhaps as important as human-controlled AI (Chi version)
Chi
· 2mo ago · 25m read
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9
98
What are the biggest misconceptions about biosecurity and pandemic risk?
80000_Hours
· 2mo ago · 17m read
3
3
136
Economic Growth - Donation suggestions and ideas
DavidNash
· 4mo ago · 9m read
28
28
85
5 possibly impactful career paths for researchers
CE
· 3mo ago · 7m read
2
2
78
Report on the Desirability of Science Given New Biotech Risks
Matt Clancy
· 4mo ago · 4m read
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23
71
On the abolition of man
Joe_Carlsmith
· 4mo ago
4
4

2023

Frontpage Posts

636
10 years of Earning to Give
AGB
· 6mo ago · 10m read
28
28
347
EA Wins 2023
Shakeel Hashim
· 4mo ago · 4m read
9
9
271
How Long Do Policy Changes Matter? New Paper
zdgroff
· 6mo ago · 6m read
37
37
247
Clean Water - the incredible 30% mortality reducer we can’t explain
NickLaing
· 6mo ago · 6m read
46
46
189
Attention on AI X-Risk Likely Hasn't Distracted from Current Harms from AI
Erich_Grunewald
· 5mo ago
13
13
541
On Living Without Idols
Rockwell
· 1y ago · 7m read
24
24
221
GWWC's evaluations of evaluators
Sjir Hoeijmakers
· 5mo ago · 7m read
42
42
171
A year of wins for farmed animals
Vasco Grilo
· 4mo ago · 4m read
5
5
214
Rethink Priorities’ Cross-Cause Cost-Effectiveness Model: Introduction and Overview
Derek Shiller
· 6mo ago · 16m read
69
69
202
Alvea’s Story, Wins, and Challenges [Unofficial]
kyle_fish
· 6mo ago · 11m read
16
16
158
What do we really know about growth in LMICs? (Part 1: sectoral transformation)
Karthik Tadepalli
· 5mo ago · 10m read
42
42
237
Price-, Taste-, and Convenience-Competitive Plant-Based Meat Would Not Currently Replace Meat
Jacob_Peacock
· 9mo ago · 45m read
68
68
224
Preliminary Analysis of Intervention to Reduce Lead Exposure from Adulterated Turmeric in Bangladesh Shows Cost Benefit of About US$1 per DALY
Kate Porterfield
· 8mo ago · 7m read
10
10
177
Thoughts on responsible scaling policies and regulation
Paul_Christiano
· 6mo ago · 7m read
5
5
209
Shrimp: The animals most commonly used and killed for food production
Rethink Priorities
· 8mo ago · 30m read
26
26
325
Nobody’s on the ball on AGI alignment
leopold
· 1y ago · 11m read
65
65
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2022

Frontpage Posts

433
Some observations from an EA-adjacent (?) charitable effort
patio11
· 1y ago · 9m read
8
8
355
Why Anima International suspended the campaign to end live fish sales in Poland
Jakub Stencel
· 1y ago · 17m read
24
24
334
StrongMinds should not be a top-rated charity (yet)
Simon_M
· 1y ago · 8m read
129
129
334
Let’s think about slowing down AI
Katja_Grace
· 1y ago
9
9
358
The Welfare Range Table
Bob Fischer
· 1y ago · 10m read
17
17
353
My take on What We Owe the Future
elifland
· 2y ago · 31m read
51
51
357
What happens on the average day?
rosehadshar
· 2y ago · 6m read
32
32
280
Good things that happened in EA this year
Shakeel Hashim
· 1y ago · 3m read
13
13
288
Why Neuron Counts Shouldn't Be Used as Proxies for Moral Weight
Adam Shriver
· 1y ago · 11m read
45
45
280
Counterarguments to the basic AI risk case
Katja_Grace
· 2y ago · 41m read
23
23
258
Does Economic Growth Meaningfully Improve Well-being? An Optimistic Re-Analysis of Easterlin’s Research: Founders Pledge
Vadim Albinsky
· 2y ago · 11m read
45
45
238
What matters to shrimps? Factors affecting shrimp welfare in aquaculture
Lucas Lewit-Mendes
· 2y ago · 28m read
14
14
233
Measuring Good Better
MichaelPlant
· 2y ago · 18m read
19
19
247
Case for emergency response teams
Gavin
· 2y ago · 6m read
48
48
162
How might we align transformative AI if it’s developed very soon?
Holden Karnofsky
· 2y ago · 53m read
17
17
137
AGI and Lock-In
Lukas Finnveden
· 2y ago · 12m read
20
20
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2021

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