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“Eccentrically Effective” by William_MacAskill

October 9, 2026 · 7 min

This month effective altruism has gotten lots of attention, including a cover story in The Economist. It feels pretty surreal to be on the receiving end of it. But I feel grateful these ideas have caught on, and even more grateful for the…
“76x cash transfers: too good to be true or a (missed) opportunity? An invitation for dialogue on a recent Rethink Priorities Report” by Niek Versteegde, founder GOAL 3, Channelijne (Chan) Hulshof🔹

October 8, 2026 · 20 min

TL;DR GOAL 3 is a social enterprise that created IMPALA, a patient monitoring and digital platform system for low-resource settings. There is also a GOAL 3 foundation that raises funds to ensure underserved communities will be reached…
“Swarm Scaling” by Toby_Ord

September 25, 2026 · 13 min

Just how powerful are large swarms of AI agents? And how do their powers scale as more and more agents are added to the swarm? We’ve seen two large and extremely capable swarms from OpenAI in the last few months: 1,200 agents were being…
“Too many people in EA underprice the cost of a bad reputation” by GraceAdams🔸

September 17, 2026 · 7 min

Summary: Good work helps build a good reputation, but it's not the only factor. Reputation also requires making your work legible, building relationships with stakeholders, and communicating with them consistently over time. I think many…
“EA Should Invest in Animal Liberation and Diet Change Advocacy” by Bruce Friedrich 🔸

September 16, 2026 · 10 min

I want to start by noting that I am enthusiastic about everything that the EA animal welfare movement has accomplished. I am enthusiastically supportive of all of the campaigns that make living and dying conditions less bad for farmed…

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“Do AI safety talent programmes work? Nobody has run the study that would tell us.” by Laura Thomas-Walters

September 14, 2026 · 13 min

Headline finding: I audited 17 AI Safety Talent programmes. Zero of 17 have published any comparison group, rejected-applicant follow-up, matched control or randomisation. Not one. Every programme that mentions a counterfactual does it by…
“Beware Silver Bullets: Are we making “welfare tech” into the next animal advocacy bubble?” by Rockwell, Tom Billington

September 14, 2026 · 15 min

Epistemic status: Speculation from two decently informed advocates armed with anecdata. Note on process: After having some version of this conversation several times and saying, “we should probably write about this publicly,” we took the…
“Alone again: facing the possibility of AI takeover as the world sleepwalks on” by George Rosenfeld

September 9, 2026 · 8 min

I’ve been feeling pretty shaken since the METR report about the Hugging Face incident came out last week. Over the weekend, I wrote up some thoughts on how lonely the AI situation sometimes feels to me. It's more personal than what I’d…
“Population ethics is a big deal, which is why I made this population ethics quiz” by MichaelDickens

September 7, 2026 · 8 min

TLDR: Take the population ethics quiz here: https://mdickens.me/pop-ethics/ Population ethics is an oft-overlooked subfield within ethics. Many people hold views that they don't realize contradict each other, or that have strange…
“Is mild lifelong acne really worse than stunted growth?” by Kasey Markel

September 2, 2026 · 15 min

A preliminary estimate, and a request for better ones. Summary I believe the standard literature estimates for the number of DALYs attributable to a case of stunting are too low, largely because they don’t account for the long term…
“Moral Imagination & Effective Altruism” by Toby_Ord

August 28, 2026 · 11 min

Michael Nielsen has a beautiful new essay on moral imagination: the ability humans have to 'develop and transmit new notions of good action, indeed, even new kinds of good'. As examples, he gives: Hammurabi's creation of a code of laws…
“New Research: Climate Mitigation is Overlooked by EA” by Dan Stein

August 20, 2026 · 14 min

Disclaimer: This blog post focuses on a new piece of research from Rethink Priorities. I was not involved with the funding or execution of this research, and therefore write this piece merely as a consumer. However, I am the Executive…

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Audio narrations from the Effective Altruism Forum, including curated posts and posts with 125+ karma. If you'd like more episodes, subscribe to the "EA Forum (All audio)" podcast instead.