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

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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
abergal
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If EA Community-Building Could Be Net-Negative, What Follows?
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Impact markets may incentivize predictably net-negative 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
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Cost-effectiveness accounting for soil nematodes, mites, and springtails
Vasco Grilo🔸
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Chicken welfare reforms may be beneficial or harmful accounting for effects on wild arthropods?
Vasco Grilo🔸
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Peacefulness, nonviolence, and experientialist minimalism
Teo Ajantaival
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New Book: “Minimalist Axiologies: Alternatives to ‘Good Minus Bad’ Views of Value”
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Is mosquito net fishing really net-positive?
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Managing risks while trying to do good
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We summarized the top info hazard articles and made a prioritized reading list
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Animal farming impacts soil nematodes, mites, and springtails hugely more than directly affected animals?
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