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Note: I work at MIRI, but not on the comms team. I don’t work on the book directly and am writing this post in my personal capacity, but do think it would be great if a lot of people read the book.

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Giving What We Can has reached 10,000 🔸10% pledgers! We see this as an important milestone on the road to a cultural norm, and we’ve made a video to celebrate:

If you’re a 🔸10% or 🔹Trial pledger, we…

We are pleased to announce that our new Executive Director, Attila Ujvari, has started work.

Up until now, CEEALAR has been led by Greg Colbourn, our Founder. Greg has been in the role of Executive …

The fact that the ITN framework[1] can help us prioritize between problems feels almost magical to me.

But when I see ITN BOTECs in the wild, I’m often very skeptical. It seems really easy for these …

Crosspost of my blog post.

Factory farming is evil.

I know, I know, I’ve made this point before. I’ve described, in depth, the way we treat animals. I’ve described that we stuff billions of chicken…

Is there anything we can do to make the longterm future go better other than preventing the risk of extinction?

My paper, Persistent Path-Dependence, addresses that question. I suggest there are a n…

With Gather Town announcing a sharp price hike and removal of their free tier, I wanted to remind both organisations and remote-workers/students/anyone individually interested that the EA Gather is …

We’re already in the second half of 2025 and there are still an incredible number of EAGx and Summit events coming up, as well as the first ever EA Global: New York City. We’re so excited to continu…

Maybe my favorite quote ever is from a recent Scott Alexander article, but in order to explain it, I will have to provide some context.

Scott's recent piece, My Heart of Hearts, is broadly about why…

Audio note: this article contains 69 uses of latex notation, so the narration may be difficult to follow. There's a link to the original text in the episode description.

How lo…

First off, every ethical argument for having children is dominated by other options that are more effective.

1) If you’re worried about population issues, just donate $10k to bednets. That's roughl…

This is a personal essay about my failed attempt to convince effective altruists to become socialists. I started as a convinced socialist who thought EA ignored the 'root causes'…

To what extent, in the future, will we get widespread, accurate, and motivational moral convergence - where future decision-makers avoid all major moral mistakes, are motivated to act to promote goo…

(I wrote this quickly for my own edification. It isn't original thinking; it condenses takes I’ve read on X over the past few days. Where relevant I’ve linked tweets. I hope it's…

This past June, we hosted EA Global: London 2025. This was my second EAG as Program Lead and one that ended up feeling like a real milestone for the project. I’ve been reflecting on why that was, an…

TLDR

1. Group Support Grants are back, with payout processing[1] from 11th August!

2. Rapid Group Funding is merging into Group Support Grants (but you can still request fast-track processing)

3. Apply her…

Note: This post was crossposted from the Open Philanthropy Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on t…

TL;DR: If a (meta) org had a meaningful impact on you (in line with what they hope to achieve), you should probably tell them. It is essential for their impact reporting, which is essential for them…

This is a summary of the new paper “No Easy Eutopia”, here.

How easy is it to get to a future that's pretty close to ideal?

You could think of reaching eutopia as like an expedition to sail to an un…

It's time once again for our annual EA Forum user survey! :) Thank you to everyone who filled it in last year — those results were especially helpful for developing our current Forum strategy.

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