Top Posts
Nick Whitaker - The EA community does not own its donors' money
Akhil - What you can do to help stop violence against women and girls
Rockwell - On Living Without Idols
Ollie Base - Celebrating EAGxLatAm and EAGxIndia
Bob Fischer - Rethink Priorities’ Welfare Range Estimates
Karthik Tadepalli - The ones that walk away
Michelle Hutchinson - My thoughts on parenting and having an impactful career
Nuño Sempere - My highly personal skepticism braindump on existential risk from artificial intelligence.
Events
24th-26th February - EAG Bay Area - Applications close 8th Feb
17th-19th March - EAGx Cambridge - Applications open
14th-15th April - EA for Christians 2023 Annual Conference - London
21st-23rd April - EAGxNordics
19th-21st May - EAG London - Applications opened
9th-11th June - EAGxWarsaw
Virtual Events
16th February - Effective Giving Open Forum
5th March - Giving What We Can Meetup
March to April - EA Virtual Programs - Apply by 19th February
Meta
Foundation Entrepreneurship - How the first training program went
Simon M - Moral Weights according to EA Orgs
2022 EA conference talks are now live
Rob Bensinger - Be wary of enacting norms you think are unethical
Jack S and Jah Ying - Diagnosing EA Research - Are stakeholder-engaged methods the solution?
Stan van Wingerden - It was probably hard to hedge financial risk to EA
Lizka - EA Forum posts from 2022 you thought were valuable (or underrated)
New Projects
Christian Pearson - Announcing Insights for Impact, a YouTube channel aiming to communicate key insights of EA-aligned research papers
Emily - New version of Mental Health Navigator website
Rachel Weinberg and Austin - OpenBook: New EA Grants Database
Rebecca Herbst - FIRE & EA: Seeking feedback on "Fi-lanthropy" Calculator
Chana Messinger and Brook - Announcing Introductions for Collaborative Truth Seeking Tools
Effective Giving
Alana Horowitz Friedman - Aren’t the best charities those with the lowest overhead costs?
Sjir - Overview of effective giving organisations
Jeff Kaufman - GWWC Should Require Public Charity Evaluations
Jeff Kaufman - GWWC's Handling of Conflicting Funding Bars
Pradyu Prasad - Funding by Voting: Ignorance and Irrationality
Movement building
Sarah Tegeler and Patrick Gruban - EA Germany's Strategy for 2023
Tim K. Sankara - Building Effective Altruism in Africa: My Experience Running a University Group in Kenya
Joel Becker - Some intuitions about fellowship programs
Simon Ruiz-Martinez - ¿Por qué escribir en español?
Critiques
Carla Cremer - How effective altruists ignored risk
Jason - Moving Toward More Concrete Proposals for Reform
Sigal Samuel interviewing Holden Karnofsky on how to reform effective altruism
ConcernedEAs - Doing EA Better
Bostrom
Lizka - Thread for discussing Bostrom's email and apology
CEA statement on Nick Bostrom's email
Habiba - A personal response to Nick Bostrom's "Apology for an Old Email"
Organisation Updates
Howie Lempel - Regulatory inquiry into Effective Ventures Foundation UK
Owen Cotton-Barratt and Rebecca Kagan - Announcing Interim CEOs of EVF
David Manheim - ALTER Israel - End-of-2022 Update
Jaime Sevilla - Epoch Impact Report 2022
Karolina Sarek - CE Incubation Programs - applications now open + updates to the programs
Anti Entropy: Supporting ops professionals in EA
Tegmark - Future of Life Institute FAQ on the rejected grant proposal controversy
And the original post they were responding too
Careers
Habiba Islam - The quick, medium and long versions of career planning
Ben Kuhn - Leaving Wave, joining Anthropic
Paige Henchen on why consultants should consider operations for EA orgs
Probably Good career profile - Prioritisation Research
Ben Kuhn - There is now an EA Managers Slack
Vaidehi Agarwalla and Alexandra Malikova - Pineapple now lists marketing, comms & fundraising talent and fiscal sponsorship recs
Grants
Open Philanthropy have made 40 grants recently, with a value of $105 million
$86,700,000 - Global Development
$48,000,000 - Malaria Consortium
$20,000,000 - SCI Foundation
$9,000,000 - Nutrition International
$2,600,000 - GDi Partners - Air Quality Governance in India
$1,600,000 - University of Chicago - Research on Mobile Conditional Cash Transfers
$1,000,000 - International Refugee Assistance Program
$6,600,000 - Longtermism Community Growth
$4,500,000 - Lightcone Infrastructure
$1,800,000 - Atlas Fellowship
$5,200,000 - Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness
$3,900,000 - Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
$750,000 - Funding for Projects to Estimate Biological Risk
$4,500,000 - Animal Welfare
$2,400,000 - Equalia
$2,700,000 - Potential Risks from Advanced AI
$2,000,000 - Wilson Center - AI Policy Training Program
Global Development
Announcing the awardees for Open Philanthropy's $150M Regranting Challenge
Ryan C Briggs - The Capability Approach
Rethink Priorities - Livelihood interventions: overview, evaluation, and cost-effectiveness
Joel McGuire - Evaluating StrongMinds: how strong is the evidence?
Open Philanthropy Shallow Investigation: Tobacco Control
Wellcome is planning to spend £16 billion over the next ten years, roughly double their current spending
Catherine Fist - What I thought about child marriage as a cause area, and how I've changed my mind
Global health support from the State Department and USAID grew from $9.8 billion in 2022 to $10.5 billion in 2023
Henry Howard - Dean Karlan is now Chief Economist of USAID
A post introducing Lafiya Nigeria, including an ask for volunteers
Animal Welfare
The FDA no longer needs to require animal tests before human drug trials
Bob Fischer - Don’t Balk at Animal-friendly Results
Sigal Samuel - Philosopher Martha Nussbaum says humans should grant equal rights to animals, even in the wild. Is she right?
Marina Bolotnikova - To fight the meat industry, veterinarians have to fight their own profession
Aidan Kankyoku - A new framing to replace "Welfarism vs. Abolitionism"
Jack S and Jah Ying - Giving Opportunities for Animal Welfare in Asia
Ren Springlea - Longtermism and animals: Resources + join our Discord community!
Dhruv Makwana - Abolitionist in the Streets, Pragmatist in the Sheets: New Ideas for Effective Animal Advocacy
Mai T - Demodex mites: Large and neglected group of wild animals
Biosecurity
Ziyue Zeng and Brianna Gopaul - Technological Bottlenecks for PCR, LAMP, and Metagenomics Sequencing
Devex have launched a pandemic preparedness article series
Dizzy Marmot - Questions about Open Phil grant to Helena
Sofya Lebedeva - Biosecurity newsletters you should subscribe to
Brianna Gopaul and Ziyue Zeng - Overview of the Pathogen Biosurveillance Landscape
Existential & Catastrophic Risks
Summit on Existential Security 2023
The Era of Global Risk: Panel discussion - Cambridge - March 21st
Christian Ruhl - Call me, maybe? Hotlines and Global Catastrophic Risk
John Thornhill on protecting against nuclear war
Tom Gardiner and Anders Sandberg - Military support in a global catastrophe
Mohammad Ismam Huda - Existential Risk Modelling with Continuous-Time Markov Chains
Freya Jephcott - WHO: Early Warning Alert and Response in Emergencies: an operational guide
Jen Kirby - Agreement on arms control is getting harder, but it still really matters
Improving Institutions, Metascience and Progress
Kelsey Piper - Why is science slowing down?
The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) has been formally established as an independent body with an £800 million budget
Saloni Dattani with scientific progress over the last 3 months
Eric Gilliam - A Report on Scientific Branch-Creation: How the Rockefeller Foundation helped bootstrap the field of molecular biology
Tyler Cowen Ask Me Anything on the Progress Forum
Nature looking at the role of philanthropy in science
Environment
Giving to Amplify Earth Action has been launched, aiming to 'unlock' around $3 trillion in annual financing to support efforts to reach net-zero by 2050
Bryan Walsh - Yes, you can have kids and fight climate change at the same time
Hear This Idea podcast with Greg Nemet - Technological Change and How Solar Became Cheap
Kelsey Piper - Why the ozone hole is on track to be healed by mid-century
Longtermism
Open Phil no longer "pausing most new longtermist funding commitments"
Nelson Mandela’s organization, The Elders, backing x risk prevention and longtermism
Holden Karnofsky - Spreading messages to help with the most important century
Summer Course- Forethought Foundation - Topics in Economic Theory & Global Prioritisation - Apply by February 18th
Foresight Institute - Workshop: Existential Hope - February 27th - SF
Artificial Intelligence
Holden Karnofsky - Transformative AI issues (not just misalignment): an overview
Maheen Shermohammed and Vael Gates - Interviews with 97 AI Researchers: Quantitative Analysis
Tom Davidson - What a compute-centric framework says about AI takeoff speeds - draft report
Emily Grundy - Why people want to work on AI safety (but don’t)
Benjamin Hilton - How many people are working (directly) on reducing existential risk from AI?
Holden Karnofsky - How we could stumble into AI catastrophe
Ben Cottier - Trends in the dollar training cost of machine learning systems
Katja Grace - We don’t trade with ants
Jan Leike - Distinguishing three alignment taxes
Michael Huang with a link post - Google will “recalibrate” the risk of releasing AI due to competition with OpenAI
Lizka - Beware safety-washing
JJ Hepburn - Announcing aisafety training
Eli Dourado presents the case for scepticism that AI will be economically transformative near term
blaked - How it feels to have your mind hacked by an AI
Kelsey Piper - Artificial intelligence experts foresee another year of breakthroughs. Is the world ready?
Principles of Intelligent Behavior in Biological and Social Systems - Summer Fellowship - Apply by February 5th
Elizabeth Seger, Giulio Corsi, Aviv Ovadya and Shahar Avin - OpenAI, LLMs, Influence Operations & Epistemic Security
Forecasting
Aidan Goth - Forecasting extreme outcomes
Tegan - Forecasting could use more gender diversity
Alex Leader - Forecasting Our World in Data: The Next 100 Years
Metaculus Launches Climate Tipping Points Tournament With The Federation of American Scientists
Other Causes
Andrew T. Little and Anne Meng looking at how most existing studies of democratic backsliding rely on subjective indicators and how this compares to empirical indicators
Joel Tan - Shallow Report on Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
Samuel Dupret and Joel McGuire - Pain relief: a shallow cause exploration
Safety Sells: For-profit investing into civilizational resilience (food security, biosecurity)
Joel Tan - Shallow Report on Productivity
80,000 Hours podcast with Athena Aktipis on cancer, cooperation and the apocalypse
Joel Tan - Shallow Report on Shigella
Our World in Data with an update to their Democracy page
Stories
Julia Wise - Crying in Museums
Aditi Bardia on her experience at EAGxIndia
GWWC Podcast with Rebecca Herbst, discussing financial independence and philanthropy
Forrest Wells on his commitment to helping people through medicine and EA
Cecilia Valenza on her experience attending EAGxLatAm
Stefanos Tsitsipas on being a member of High Impact Athletes
Other Links
Peter Singer on the Rich Roll podcast
Rhodri Davies with an essay on the history of philanthropy and population ethics
Gavin - On being compromised
Catherine Low - Questions I ask myself when making decisions (or communicating)
Tyler Cowen on effective altruism
Jeff Kaufman - When Did EA Start?
Catherine Low - Have worries about EA? Want to chat?
Louise Pfeiffer, Director of Philanthropy at The Life You Can Save, discussing philanthropy, politics and animal rights
Good News
The Democratic Republic of the Congo certified free of dracunculiasis transmission