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Global health and development
Criticism of effective altruism
Climate change
Cause Exploration Prizes
Criticism and Red Teaming Contest
Forum Prize
Mental health
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Criticism of effective altruist organizations
Ask Me Anything
Effective altruism in the media
Economic growth
1360 posts
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Utilitarianism
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Epistemic deference
499
Growth and the case against randomista development
Hauke Hillebrandt
2y
194
484
Peter Eckersley (1979-2022)
Gavin
3mo
9
465
Leaning into EA Disillusionment
Helen
5mo
59
440
Critiques of EA that I want to read
abrahamrowe
6mo
86
373
The case of the missing cause prioritisation research
weeatquince
2y
89
348
Announcing What We Owe The Future
William_MacAskill
8mo
36
310
Snakebites kill 100,000 people every year, here's what you should know
MathiasKB
7mo
36
307
My take on What We Owe the Future
elifland
3mo
51
303
Concerns with ACE's Recent Behavior
Hypatia
1y
153
303
What We Owe The Future is out today
William_MacAskill
4mo
68
299
Deworming and decay: replicating GiveWell’s cost-effectiveness analysis
JoelMcGuire
4mo
35
294
Effective altruism in the garden of ends
tyleralterman
3mo
38
283
A Critical Review of Open Philanthropy’s Bet On Criminal Justice Reform
NunoSempere
6mo
99
282
New cause area: Violence against women and girls
Akhil
6mo
60
561
"Long-Termism" vs. "Existential Risk"
Scott Alexander
8mo
83
430
EA is about maximization, and maximization is perilous
Holden Karnofsky
3mo
56
315
New book on s-risks
Tobias_Baumann
1mo
25
310
Introducing Asterisk
Clara Collier
6mo
33
279
Messy personal stuff that affected my cause prioritization (or: how I started to care about AI safety)
Julia_Wise
7mo
14
244
List of ways in which cost-effectiveness estimates can be misleading
saulius
3y
30
243
Announcing the first issue of Asterisk
Clara Collier
29d
47
238
Counterarguments to the basic AI risk case
Katja_Grace
2mo
22
229
Longtermist EA needs more Phase 2 work
Owen Cotton-Barratt
8mo
36
229
Critique of MacAskill’s “Is It Good to Make Happy People?”
Magnus Vinding
3mo
114
228
Response to Recent Criticisms of Longtermism
ab
1y
32
222
Killing the ants
Joe_Carlsmith
1y
13
218
Reality is often underpowered
Gregory Lewis
3y
17
206
Getting on a different train: can Effective Altruism avoid collapsing into absurdity?
Peter McLaughlin
2mo
60