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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: How to avoid accidentally having a negative impact with your project
EA Global
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Impact markets may incentivize predictably net-negative projects
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Is mosquito net fishing really net-positive?
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Concerns about AMF from GiveWell reading - Part 4
JPHoughton
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What harm could AI safety do?
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Shallow evaluations of longtermist organizations
NunoSempere
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Counterproductive Altruism: The Other Heavy Tail
Vasco Grilo🔸
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Open Philanthropy is seeking proposals for outreach projects
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GiveWell may have made 1 billion dollars of harmful grants, and Ambitious Impact incubated 8 harmful organisations via increasing factory-farming?
Vasco Grilo🔸
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Managing risk in the EA policy space
weeatquince
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Peacefulness, nonviolence, and experientialist minimalism
Teo Ajantaival
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Managing risks while trying to do good
Wei Dai
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Some thoughts on moderation in doing good
Vasco Grilo🔸
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Insecticide-treated nets significantly harm mosquitoes, but one can easily offset this?
Vasco Grilo🔸
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Goals we might have when taking actions to improve the EA-aligned research pipeline
MichaelA🔸
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