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Audio narrations from the Effective Altruism Forum, including curated posts, posts with 30+ karma, and other great writing.
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- “We tested 14 meat-reduction messages with real money at stake. Celebrities and history did best.” by Laura Thomas-Walters · 8 minTL;DR • In an online experiment with 4,761 Americans, short presentations built from 14 message modules increased the relative value people placed on a plant-based gift basket…
- “Warning shots for terrorism x-risk seem statistically nearly certain” by titotal · 22 minDisclaimer: I have a physics background, but not a statistics or terrorism background. I’m hoping the simple nature of the equations will protect against me screwing up the maths…
- “Keeping the EA Forum alive” by abrahamrowe · 14 minI’m a bit concerned that the EA Forum is going to die a slow death. I don’t want this to happen as it has long been, in my opinion, the best place on the internet. I'd like it to…
- “Doing Good in the Age of AGI: Recommended Reading List” by Roman Ross · 33 minTl;dr: This is my recommended curriculum for a 6-week "Doing Good in the Age of AGI" reading group. It is primarily focused on cause prioritization in recent months, and it is…
- “How to find out if mental health is ~10× more impactful than we thought” by huw · 17 minWith the AI windfall, mental health may be taken increasingly seriously by mainstream EA. There's increasingly room to explore the cause area and answer some of the biggest…
- “If no one builds it, trillions die” by Bruce Friedrich 🔸 · 20 minUnless plant-based or cultivated meat reaches taste and price parity with conventional meat, the amount of farm animal suffering will grow, with no end in sight. If we succeed…
- “80,000 Hours’ Shift To AI Is A Deep Loss For EA” by James Brobin · 5 minThis is a crosspost from my blog. For as long as “effective altruism” has been a term, 80,000 Hours has been one its most important organizations - introducing new people to EA's…
- “Small Groups of Correlated Researchers” by Roman Ross · 11 minSummary: The actions taken this decade may be exceptionally important for the future of civilization, but we should be unusually hesitant to proclaim that any course of action is…
- “Discrimination in AI safety: A call for incident reports” by Fran · 8 minTL;DR We (Frances, Sarah, and Geetha) work in AI safety and the broader EA ecosystem. We are increasingly concerned about sexual harassment, workplace harassment, and…
- “Launching the Global Priorities Research Group at LSE - currently hiring for two 4-year postdocs” by Andreas_Mogensen · 2 minI'm very happy to announce the launch of the Global Priorities Research Group, a new research group at LSE dedicated to the study of ethical prioritisation. We are hosted by…
- “Should EA fund Earth systems stabilization? New RP report + request for critique” by Liam St Louis · 9 minTL;DR: EA has traditionally deprioritized climate change as a cause area. But a new report from Rethink Priorities, an EA research institute, suggests that specific Earth systems…
- “CEA is now independent of Effective Ventures” by Ayla Smith · 5 minHi everyone! I’m CEA's new Chief of Staff. I also serve as our Board Liaison, and I’m posting to introduce you to CEA's new independent board. I’m happy to be a point of contact…
- “Drugs to shift food preferences” by Ronen Bar · 17 minTL;DR The animal movement works hard on two fronts: changing minds (e.g., outreach, investigations, campaigns) and changing supply (e.g., alternative proteins, vegan labeling)…
- “EA has not given up on diet change or animal liberation” by Seth Ariel Green 🔸 · 5 minContext: WelfareTech There has been some concern lately about effective altruism's supposed turn away from the big-picture parts of animal welfare: diet change, systemic shift…
- “Instrumental convergence is incoherent (so pls slightly lower your p(extinction))” by Arepo · 46 min‘Like most of life's dangers, the dangers of artificial intelligence are not easily identified from the armchair.’ J Dmitri Gallow Epistemic status I’m not an expert in this…
- “CCF: As more money arrives, the best place to give keeps moving” by Rethink Priorities · 14 minThis post is part of the Cross-Cause Fund (CCF) series by Rethink Priorities — a sequence of articles dedicated to effective giving across philanthropic areas. TL;DR: A lot of…
- “The Altruists and effective altruism: what the Netflix trailer portrays” by Tess Newton-Palmer · 5 minHi everyone. I lead marketing and communications at CEA, and this is a follow-up to my earlier post on The Altruists. The Netflix drama about FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried comes out…
- “Sanku: from 7 million to ~70 million people in three years — what we’ve learned and what it would take to scale much further” by Rickard Vikstrom, Felix Brooks-church · 27 minTL;DR • Food fortification is a well-established, highly cost-effective way to address micronutrient deficiencies, but in many countries the main constraint is implementation…
- “The direction I’d like for effective altruism” by Andy Masley · 9 minThis is a crosspost of my recent blog post on the specific version of EA I like the most and am excited to defend and promote. I'm working on a much longer post articulating the…
- “Counterfactual 2:1 match for $250k in animal welfare donations on October 22nd” by abrahamrowe · 3 minOn October 22nd starting at 10:00am Pacific Time, Every.org is matching donations to select animal welfare organizations at a 2:1 rate, up to 2,000 dollars per donor per…
