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Classic posts (from the Forum Digest)

This is a sequence of posts that were shared as "Classics" in the EA Forum Digest

103

Use resilience, instead of imprecision, to communicate uncertainty

· 5y ago · 8m read

112

The Possibility of an Ongoing Moral Catastrophe (Summary)

· 6y ago · 5m read

59

'Ugh Fields', or why you can't even bear to think about that task

· 5y ago · 6m read

85

The world is much better. The world is awful. The world can be much better.

· 3y ago · 6m read

38

Differential progress / intellectual progress / technological development

· 6y ago · 9m read

141

Keeping Absolutes in Mind

Michelle_Hutchinson

· 7y ago · 3m read

403

Growth and the case against randomista development

Hauke Hillebrandt

· 6y ago · 37m read

252

Effective Altruism is a Question (not an ideology)

· 11y ago · 4m read

538

500 Million, But Not A Single One More

· 3y ago · 3m read

192

Beware surprising and suspicious convergence

· 10y ago · 18m read

248

· 11y ago · 12m read

135

How bad would nuclear winter caused by a US-Russia nuclear exchange be?

Luisa_Rodriguez

· 6y ago · 52m read

284

What is the likelihood that civilizational collapse would directly lead to human extinction (within decades)?

Luisa_Rodriguez

· 5y ago · 60m read

315

Reducing long-term risks from malevolent actors

· 6y ago · 45m read

25

· 10y ago · 3m read

261

You have more than one goal, and that's fine

· 7y ago · 2m read

158

Integrity for consequentialists

Paul_Christiano

· 9y ago · 9m read

72

Mentorship, Management, and Mysterious Old Wizards

· 5y ago · 1m read

138

Scope-sensitive ethics: capturing the core intuition motivating utilitarianism

· 5y ago · 5m read

276

The motivated reasoning critique of effective altruism

· 4y ago · 28m read

145

Aim high, even if you fall short

· 11y ago · 2m read

85

Why "cause area" as the unit of analysis?

· 5y ago · 5m read

26

No, it's not the incentives — it's you

· 5y ago · 4m read

223

List of ways in which cost-effectiveness estimates can be misleading

· 6y ago · 15m read

53

Epistemic Legibility

· 4y ago · 24m read

57

Potential downsides of using explicit probabilities

· 6y ago · 22m read

139

Learning By Writing

Holden Karnofsky

· 4y ago · 12m read

108

Reasoning Transparency

· 3y ago · 21m read

47

Care and demandingness

· 5y ago · 13m read

27

Comparing charities: How big is the difference?

Giving What We Can

· 4y ago · 6m read

85

Moral circles: Degrees, dimensions, visuals

· 5y ago · 16m read

131

Shapley values: Better than counterfactuals

· 6y ago · 18m read

19

Amanda Askell: The moral value of information

· 9y ago · 16m read

197

What gives me hope

Michelle_Hutchinson

· 5y ago · 4m read

42

The extraordinary value of ordinary norms

· 8y ago · 15m read

157

Minimal-trust investigations

Holden Karnofsky

· 4y ago · 15m read

48

Existential risk as common cause

· 7y ago · 6m read

20

What is a 'broad intervention' and what is a 'narrow intervention'? Are we confusing ourselves?

· 10y ago · 3m read

93

Why Charities Usually Don't Differ Astronomically in Expected Cost-Effectiveness

· 8y ago · 34m read

112

· 12y ago · 2m read

36

On everyday altruism and the local circle

Bernadette_Young

· 11y ago · 2m read

166

Six Ways To Get Along With People Who Are Totally Wrong*

· 11y ago · 6m read

122

Key Lessons From Social Movement History

· 4y ago · 13m read

216

Aiming for the minimum of self-care is dangerous

· 4y ago · 7m read

100

Crucial questions for longtermists

· 5y ago · 23m read

29

Hard-to-reverse decisions destroy option value

Stefan_Schubert

· 9y ago · 14m read

219

Reality is often underpowered

· 6y ago · 6m read

325

The Unweaving of a Beautiful Thing

· 4y ago · 28m read

195

Three intuitions about EA: responsibility, scale, self-improvement

· 4y ago · 6m read

149

Independent impressions

· 4y ago · 2m read

77

Efficient charity: do unto others...

Scott Alexander

· 12y ago · 7m read

64

Distillation and research debt

· 4y ago · 4m read

39

Failing with abandon

· 11y ago · 1m read

44

If you don't have good evidence one thing is better than another, don't pretend you do

· 10y ago · 1m read

205

On "fringe" ideas

· 6y ago · 6m read

29

The Value of a Life

· 11y ago · 12m read

126

You Don't Need To Justify Everything

· 3y ago · 3m read

158

Biosecurity needs engineers and materials scientists

· 4y ago · 4m read

41

Supportive scepticism in practice

Michelle_Hutchinson

· 11y ago · 10m read

164

Managing 'Imposters'

Michelle_Hutchinson

· 4y ago · 10m read

96

Contra Ari Ne'eman On Effective Altruism

· 3y ago · 8m read

67

When in doubt, apply*

Vaidehi Agarwalla

· 4y ago · 10m read

145

Virtues for Real-World Utilitarians

Stefan_Schubert

· 4y ago · 1m read

85

Why "cause area" as the unit of analysis?

· 5y ago · 5m read

40

Summary: When should an effective altruist donate? (William MacAskill)

Global Priorities Institute

· 2y ago · 4m read

166

We are in triage every second of every day

· 9y ago · 5m read

75

Wholehearted choices and "morality as taxes"

· 5y ago · 4m read

59

Radical Empathy

Holden Karnofsky

· 9y ago · 8m read