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Nuclear energy is power obtained from nuclear reactions to produce electricity.
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A Fermi estimate (or back-of-the-envelope calculation, often abbreviated BOTEC) is a rough calculation that aims to be right within about an order of magnitude, prioritizing getting an answer good enough to be useful without putting the large amounts of thought and research needed to attain greater accuracy. Fermi estimates typically approximate an answer by...
The Qualia Research Institute (QRI) is a nonprofit research organization based in San Francisco that focuses on consciousness research. QRI's goals are to develop a precise mathematical language for describing phenomenal experience; to understand the nature of emotional valence; and to develop technologies based on this research that improve people’s lives. ...
Effective altruism is the project of using evidence and reason to find out how to do the most good and to act on these findings.
Further reading
80,000 Hours (2021) Effective altruism: Ten global problems, 80,000 Hours.
Berkey, Brian (2021) The philosophical core of effective altruism, Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 52, pp. 92–113.
Greaves, Hilary & Theron...
The Motivational tag covers posts that focus on inspiring us to do good (either a specific kind of good, or whatever we already want to work on).
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Longtermism is the view that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time.[1][2]
Longtermism may be seen as following from the conjunction of three core claims:[3]
- Future people matter morally.
- If Earth-originating intelligence is not prematurely extinguished, the vast majority of people that will ever exist will exist
Ask Me Anything, or AMA, is a post format where people offer to answer questions from Forum users. The format originated with the IAmA subreddit.
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Soil animals are terrestrial invertebrates that spend most of their life in soil or litter (e.g., nematodes, mites, springtails, earthworms, many ants and termites).litter. They are extremely numerous and influence nutrient cycling, plant growth, and carbon dynamics. Recent EA Forum work arguesExamples of soil animals include soil ants, termites, springtails, mites, and nematodes. Each of these groups is much more numerous, and has many more neurons in total than wild vertebrates and farmed animals. Vasco Grilo argued overall changes in welfare may be determined by effects on soil animals, even accounting for soil ants and termites only, instead of effects on the beneficiaries targeted by interventions. However, there is large uncertainty about the expected intensity of the subjective experiences of soil animals, whether they may dominate animal-year counts relevanthave positive or negative, and what increases or decreases their population. So Vasco advocated for more research on informing how to increase the welfare analyses, but their sentience and net welfare remain highly uncertain.of soil animals over pursuing whatever land use change interventions naively seem to achieve that the most cost-effectively.
animal welfare | wild animalartificial sentience | invertebrate welfare | moral circle expansion | moral weight | digital mindsnematode welfare | wild animal welfare
FarmKind "connect[s] compassionate people with impactful charities that are fixing factory farming".
FarmKind "connect[s] compassionate people with impactful charities that are fixing factory farming"
Rethink Priorities is a think tank dedicated to informing decisions made by high-impact organisations and funders . We workfunders. It works across various cause areas such as longtermism (including forecasting, AI governance, and nuclear risks), building effective altruism, animal welfare (for both farmed and wild animals), and global health and development.
The Center for Wild Animal Welfare (CWAW) is a new policy advocacy organization, working to improve the lives of wild animals today and build support for wild animal welfare policy.
The Center for Wild Animal Welfare (CWAW) is a new policy advocacy organization, working to improve the lives of wild animals today and build support for wild animal welfare policy.
Holden Karnofsky (born 1981) is an American philanthropist. He is a visiting scholar Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.member of technical staff at Anthropic.
Coefficient Giving's leadership can be viewed on its team page.[5] At present, Alexander Berger is the CEO, and Cari Tuna is Coefficient Giving's president, and Holden Karnofsky and Alexander Berger are its two co-CEOs. Karnofsky oversees grantmaking in biosecurity, AI safety and longtermism, while Berger oversees grantmaking in global health and development, farmed animal welfare, scientific research and other areas within global health and wellbeing.[5]
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Applications are currently open for young individuals interested in obtaining financial support for pursuing careers that help improve the long-term future.[6]chair.
Walsh, Bryan (2025) One of the world's most influential philanthropies is changing its name. Here's why it matters.Vox, November 18.
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Karnofsky, Holden (2011) Announcing GiveWell Labs, The GiveWell Blog, September 8 (updated 2 September 2014).
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Karnofsky, Holden (2014) Open Philanthropy Project (formerly GiveWell Labs), Open Philanthropy, August 20.
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Karnofsky, Holden (2017) The Open Philanthropy Project is now an independent organization, Open Philanthropy, June 12.
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Berger, Alexander (2025) Open Philanthropy Is Now Coefficient Giving, Coefficient Giving, November 18.
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Karnofsky, Holden (2021)Open Philanthropy’s new co-CEOTeam,Open PhilanthropyCoefficient Giving,June 15. ^Open Philanthropy (2020)Early-career funding for individuals interested in improving the long-term future,Open Philanthropy, August 31.November 20.
Soil animals are terrestrial invertebrates that spend most of their life in soil or litter (e.g., nematodes, mites, springtails, earthworms, many ants and termites). They are extremely numerous and influence nutrient cycling, plant growth, and carbon dynamics. Recent EA Forum work argues they may dominate animal-year counts relevant to welfare analyses, but their sentience and net welfare remain highly uncertain.
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Ambitious Impact — Does research into the most effective interventions and incubates charities to implement these interventions.
Charity Entrepreneurship — Does research into the most effective interventions and incubates charities to implement these interventions.
Coefficient Giving — Aims to help philanthropy improve lives effectively through research and grantmaking. Makes grants in areas including U.S. policy, farm animal welfare and global catastrophic risks.
Legal Priorities ProjectInstitute for Law & AI — Conducts legal research that tackles the world’s most pressing problems. Currently focusing on artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, climate change and institutional design.
Open Philanthropy — Aims to help philanthropy improve lives effectively through research and grantmaking. Makes grants in areas including U.S. policy, farm animal welfare and global catastrophic risks.
Coefficient Giving (previously Open Philanthropy (previously the Open Philanthropy Project) is a research and grantmaking foundation based in San Francisco.
Open PhilanthropyCoefficient Giving launched in late 2011, as a partnership between Good Ventures and GiveWell.[1] The partnership operated under the name GiveWell Labs before adopting, in August 2014, the name Open Philanthropy Project.[2] It continued to be part of GiveWell until 2017, when it became an independent organization.[3] The name was changed to Open Philanthropy around December 2019.2019, and Coefficient Giving in November 2025.[4]
Cari Tuna is Open Philanthropy'Coefficient Giving's president, and Holden Karnofsky and Alexander Berger are its two co-CEOs. Karnofsky oversees grantmaking in biosecurity, AI safety and longtermism, while Berger oversees grantmaking in global health and development, farmed animal welfare, scientific research and other areas within global health and wellbeing.[4]5]
Applications are currently open for young individuals interested in obtaining financial support for pursuing careers that help improve the long-term future.[5]6]
Wiblin, Robert (2017) You want to do as much good as possible and have billions of dollars. What do you do?, 80,000 Hours, October 11.
An interview with Nick Beckstead, a former program officer at Open Philanthropy.Coefficient Giving.
Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2018) The world’s most intellectual foundation is hiring. Holden Karnofsky, founder of GiveWell, on how philanthropy can have maximum impact by taking big risks, 80,000 Hours, February 27.
An interview with Holden Karnofsky, Open Philanthropy'Coefficient Giving's former CEO.
Open PhilanthropyCoefficient Giving. Official website.
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Karnofsky, Holden (2011) Announcing GiveWell Labs, The GiveWell Blog, September 8 (updated 2 September 2014).
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Karnofsky, Holden (2014) Open Philanthropy Project (formerly GiveWell Labs), Open Philanthropy, August 20.
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Karnofsky, Holden (2017) The Open Philanthropy Project is now an independent organization, Open Philanthropy, June 12.
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Berger, Alexander (2025) Open Philanthropy Is Now Coefficient Giving, Coefficient Giving, November 18.
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Karnofsky, Holden (2021) Open Philanthropy’s new co-CEO, Open Philanthropy, June 15.
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Open Philanthropy (2020) Early-career funding for individuals interested in improving the long-term future, Open Philanthropy, August 31.
During Marginal Funding Week (November 17 - 23), organisations post about their funding gaps, and what they could achieve with extra funding. [Here's a fancy page that also showcase Marginal Funding Week posts.]
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Looks like legal priorities project transfered to https://law-ai.org/