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Radical tactics can increase support for more moderate groups
James Ozden
4d
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Paper summary: Do not go gentle: why the Asymmetry does not support anti-natalism (Andreas Mogensen)
Global Priorities Institute
13h
2
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Does putting kids in school now put money in their pockets later? Revisiting a natural experiment in Indonesia
David Roodman
25d
24
116
Evidence, cluelessness, and the long term - Hilary Greaves
james
2y
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Debate About Biased Methodology | Corentin Biteau and Elliot Temple
Elliot Temple
1mo
57
-14
Why complexity science is important for effective altruism
Nikiz
5d
6
10
Why you think you're right - even when you're wrong
EA Handbook
4mo
2
275
Announcing the first issue of Asterisk
Clara Collier
29d
47
70
Creating a database for base rates
nikos
8d
7
141
Clarifications on diminishing returns and risk aversion in giving
Robert_Wiblin
25d
25
15
How Many Lives Does X-Risk Work Save From Nonexistence On Average?
Jordan Arel
12d
10
11
Beyond a better world
Davidmanheim
6d
5
11
Can an evidentialist be risk-averse? (Hayden Wilkinson)
Global Priorities Institute
5d
4
154
EA should blurt
RobBensinger
28d
26
52
A Case for Voluntary Abortion Reduction
Ariel Simnegar
10h
71
35
New blog: Some doubts about effective altruism
David Thorstad
4h
5
40
Saving Lives vs Creating Lives
Richard Y Chappell
5d
17
175
Prioritizing x-risks may require caring about future people
elifland
4mo
39
10
Should we discount future people in proportion to the probability of them not existing?
Joseph Lemien
3d
3
3
List of reasons to discount the welfare of future generations
freedomandutility
3d
4
90
Naïve vs Prudent Utilitarianism
Richard Y Chappell
1mo
42
77
Do Brains Contain Many Conscious Subsystems? If So, Should We Act Differently?
Bob Fischer
15d
7
213
Critique of MacAskill’s “Is It Good to Make Happy People?”
Magnus Vinding
3mo
114
167
Getting on a different train: can Effective Altruism avoid collapsing into absurdity?
Peter McLaughlin
2mo
60
16
Consequentialism does not endorse frauding-to-give
Jasper Meyer
13d
9
30
Should strong longtermists really want to minimize existential risk?
tobycrisford
16d
9
30
What reason is there NOT to accept Pascal's Wager?
Khai
4mo
80
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New book on s-risks
Tobias_Baumann
1mo
25