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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
307
Reducing long-term risks from malevolent actors
David_Althaus
2y
85
273
Problem areas beyond 80,000 Hours' current priorities
Ardenlk
2y
64
216
Should we buy coal mines?
John G. Halstead
7mo
31
205
Steering AI to care for animals, and soon
Andrew Critch
6mo
38
160
Who is protecting animals in the long-term future?
alene
9mo
33
151
Aligning Recommender Systems as Cause Area
IvanVendrov
3y
45
116
Key Lessons From Social Movement History
Jamie_Harris
1y
20
113
Wild animal welfare in the far future
saulius
5mo
11
103
Space governance is important, tractable and neglected
Tobias_Baumann
2y
18
102
Genetic Enhancement as a Cause Area
Galton
2y
20
101
Should Longtermists Mostly Think About Animals?
abrahamrowe
2y
41
98
Some EA Forum Posts I'd like to write
Linch
1y
10
97
Why I prioritize moral circle expansion over reducing extinction risk through artificial intelligence alignment
Jacy
4y
72
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How moral progress happens: the decline of footbinding as a case study
rosehadshar
4mo
10
235
Big List of Cause Candidates
NunoSempere
1y
69
146
Is Democracy a Fad?
Ben Garfinkel
1y
36
121
Big List of Cause Candidates: January 2021–March 2022 update
Leo
7mo
16
115
Centre for Exploratory Altruism Research (CEARCH)
Joel Tan (CEARCH)
2mo
15
113
Opportunities that surprised us during our Clearer Thinking Regrants program
spencerg
1mo
5
109
Getting money out of politics and into charity
Eric Neyman
2y
48
106
EA considerations regarding increasing political polarization
Alfred Dreyfus
2y
52
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Towards a longtermist framework for evaluating democracy-related interventions
Tom Barnes
1y
5
80
Thoughts on electoral reform
Tobias_Baumann
2y
33
79
Will Three Gorges Dam Collapse And Kill Millions?
DonyChristie
2y
9
79
New Book: "Reasoned Politics" + Why I have written a book about politics
Magnus Vinding
9mo
5
77
New EA Cause Area: Run Blackwell's Bookstore
Ben Pace
10mo
33
76
AMA: Jason Brennan, author of "Against Democracy" and creator of a Georgetown course on EA
Jason Brennan
1y
92
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Democracy Promotion as an EA Cause Area
bryanschonfeld
2y
15