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Existential risk
History of effective altruism
Information hazard
The Precipice
Atomically precise manufacturing
Climate engineering
Estimation of existential risk
Vulnerable world hypothesis
Macrostrategy
Toby Ord
Anthropogenic existential risk
Asteroids
251 posts
COVID-19 pandemic
Biosecurity
Vaccines
Pandemic preparedness
Global catastrophic biological risk
Research agendas, questions, and project lists
Megaprojects
Refuges
Biosurveillance
Journalism
Antibiotic resistance
1Day Sooner
374
A Letter to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
John G. Halstead
27d
56
319
Overreacting to current events can be very costly
Kelsey Piper
2mo
71
220
Most* small probabilities aren't pascalian
Gregory Lewis
4mo
20
188
Review: What We Owe The Future
Kelsey Piper
29d
3
180
Lord Martin Rees: an appreciation
HaydnBelfield
1mo
18
151
My thoughts on nanotechnology strategy research as an EA cause area
Ben Snodin
7mo
17
138
We should expect to worry more about speculative risks
Ben Garfinkel
6mo
15
133
Which World Gets Saved
trammell
4y
27
130
Matt Levine on the Archegos failure
Kelsey Piper
1y
5
123
Complete archive of the Felicifia forum
Louis_Francini
2y
0
120
Database of existential risk estimates
MichaelA
2y
37
112
Some global catastrophic risk estimates
Tamay
1y
14
106
Gordon Irlam: an effective altruist ahead of his time
Louis_Francini
2y
5
99
Mitigating x-risk through modularity
Toby Newberry
2y
6
381
Some observations from an EA-adjacent (?) charitable effort
patio11
11d
8
362
Announcing Alvea—An EA COVID Vaccine Project
kyle_fish
10mo
25
359
Concrete Biosecurity Projects (some of which could be big)
ASB
11mo
72
202
Experimental longtermism: theory needs data
Jan_Kulveit
9mo
10
202
COVID: How did we do? How can we know?
Ghost_of_Li_Wenliang
1y
48
199
Announcing the Nucleic Acid Observatory project for early detection of catastrophic biothreats
Will Bradshaw
7mo
3
186
Delay, Detect, Defend: Preparing for a Future in which Thousands Can Release New Pandemics by Kevin Esvelt
Jeremy
1mo
7
168
EA Projects I'd Like to See
finm
9mo
41
166
List of Lists of Concrete Biosecurity Project Ideas
Tessa
5mo
5
165
What Rethink Priorities General Longtermism Team Did in 2022, and Updates in Light of the Current Situation
Linch
6d
8
157
EA megaprojects continued
mariushobbhahn
1y
49
147
Stop Thinking about FTX. Think About Getting Zika Instead.
jeberts
1mo
5
142
Map of Biosecurity Interventions
James Lin
1mo
29
141
Biosecurity needs engineers and materials scientists
Will Bradshaw
1y
11