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Less-discussed causes
Moral circle expansion
Artificial sentience
Non-humans and the long-term future
Center on Long-Term Risk
Sentience Institute
Near-term AI ethics
Space colonization
Dystopia
Space governance
Cause X
Peter Singer
169 posts
Cause candidates
Political polarization
Electoral reform
Democracy
Safeguarding liberal democracy
Center for Election Science
Misinformation
331
Reducing long-term risks from malevolent actors
David_Althaus
2y
85
279
Problem areas beyond 80,000 Hours' current priorities
Ardenlk
2y
64
219
Steering AI to care for animals, and soon
Andrew Critch
6mo
38
192
Who is protecting animals in the long-term future?
alene
9mo
33
187
Should we buy coal mines?
John G. Halstead
7mo
31
160
Aligning Recommender Systems as Cause Area
IvanVendrov
3y
45
131
Why I prioritize moral circle expansion over reducing extinction risk through artificial intelligence alignment
Jacy
4y
72
121
Should Longtermists Mostly Think About Animals?
abrahamrowe
2y
41
114
Genetic Enhancement as a Cause Area
Galton
2y
20
111
Space governance is important, tractable and neglected
Tobias_Baumann
2y
18
107
Wild animal welfare in the far future
saulius
5mo
11
101
Key Lessons From Social Movement History
Jamie_Harris
1y
20
100
Friendship Forever (new EA cause area?)
rogersbacon1
1mo
13
92
Cause X Guide
Joey
3y
35
293
Big List of Cause Candidates
NunoSempere
1y
69
135
Is Democracy a Fad?
Ben Garfinkel
1y
36
128
Getting money out of politics and into charity
Eric Neyman
2y
48
127
EA considerations regarding increasing political polarization
Alfred Dreyfus
2y
52
115
New Book: "Reasoned Politics" + Why I have written a book about politics
Magnus Vinding
9mo
5
112
Big List of Cause Candidates: January 2021–March 2022 update
Leo
7mo
16
110
Towards a longtermist framework for evaluating democracy-related interventions
Tom Barnes
1y
5
106
Centre for Exploratory Altruism Research (CEARCH)
Joel Tan (CEARCH)
2mo
15
97
Democracy Promotion as an EA Cause Area
bryanschonfeld
2y
15
96
Opportunities that surprised us during our Clearer Thinking Regrants program
spencerg
1mo
5
85
Informational Lobbying: Theory and Effectiveness
Matt_Lerner
2y
20
77
Incentivizing forecasting via social media
David_Althaus
2y
19
77
Will Three Gorges Dam Collapse And Kill Millions?
DonyChristie
2y
9
67
Technocracy vs populism (including thoughts on the democratising risk paper and its responses)
freedomandutility
11mo
27