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Accidental harm is harm resulting from unforeseen effects of attempts to do good.

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Max Dalton and Jonas Vollmer: How to avoid accidentally having a negative impact with your project
EA Global
· 5y ago · 12m read
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Impact markets may incentivize predictably net-negative projects
Ofer
· 1y ago · 5m read
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Concerns about AMF from GiveWell reading - Part 4
JPHoughton
· 1y ago · 5m read
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What harm could AI safety do?Q
SeanEngelhart
· 2y ago · 1m read
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Shallow evaluations of longtermist organizations
NunoSempere
· 2y ago · 41m read
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Counterproductive Altruism: The Other Heavy Tail
Vasco Grilo
· 3mo ago · 8m read
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Open Philanthropy is seeking proposals for outreach projects
abergal
· 2y ago · 12m read
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Managing risk in the EA policy space
weeatquince
· 3y ago · 15m read
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Peacefulness, nonviolence, and experientialist minimalism
Teo Ajantaival
· 1y ago · 34m read
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Goals we might have when taking actions to improve the EA-aligned research pipeline
MichaelA
· 2y ago · 8m read
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Most harmful people in history?Q
SiebeRozendal
· 9mo ago · 1m read
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Mogensen & MacAskill, 'The paralysis argument'
Pablo
· 2y ago · 1m read
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If EA Community-Building Could Be Net-Negative, What Follows?
joshcmorrison
· 5mo ago · 6m read
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We summarized the top info hazard articles and made a prioritized reading list
Corey_Wood
· 1y ago · 26m read
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Some initial work to evaluate the merits of an EA legal service
Tyrone-Jay Barugh
· 4mo ago · 32m read
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