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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

· 5y ago · 12m read

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Impact markets may incentivize predictably net-negative projects

· 1y ago · 5m read

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Concerns about AMF from GiveWell reading - Part 4

· 2y ago · 5m read

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What harm could AI safety do?

· 3y ago · 1m read

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Shallow evaluations of longtermist organizations

· 2y ago · 41m read

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Counterproductive Altruism: The Other Heavy Tail

· 9mo ago · 8m read

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Open Philanthropy is seeking proposals for outreach projects

· 2y ago · 12m read

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Managing risk in the EA policy space

· 4y ago · 15m read

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Peacefulness, nonviolence, and experientialist minimalism

· 2y ago · 34m read

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Goals we might have when taking actions to improve the EA-aligned research pipeline

· 3y ago · 8m read

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Most harmful people in history?

· 1y ago · 1m read

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Mogensen & MacAskill, 'The paralysis argument'

· 2y ago · 1m read

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If EA Community-Building Could Be Net-Negative, What Follows?

· 1y ago · 6m read

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We summarized the top info hazard articles and made a prioritized reading list

· 2y ago · 26m read

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Some initial work to evaluate the merits of an EA legal service

Tyrone-Jay Barugh

· 10mo ago · 32m read

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