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Back to Search“Retrospective on the first West Coast EA Retreat” by Saul Munn, Aiden Kim, alexanderu
We (Aiden, Alex, Saul, Jesse) ran the first[1] West Coast EA Retreat, from April 10–12 2026, in Bass Lake, CA. We’re interested in sharing our retro…
4 days ago
[Linkpost] “Analysing the extreme spread in existential risk survey estimates” by titotal
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Disclaimer: I am not a subject matter expert in any of the fields being discussed here. I have done my best to check for errors …
4 days, 3 hours ago
[Linkpost] “Starfish” by Aaron Gertler 🔸
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By Alexander Wales
Thousands of starfish had washed up on the beach, and a little girl was diligently throwing them back into th…
4 days, 18 hours ago
“Time Sensitive Urgent Animal Welfare Action” by Bentham’s Bulldog
The EATS act—now called the save our bacon act—would make it illegal for states to pass animal welfare laws that apply to products produced out of s…
4 days, 22 hours ago
[Linkpost] “Contra Binder on far-UVC and filtration” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸
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Damon Binder recently wrote up an argument for prioritizing air filtration over far-UVC for pathogen control:
UVC and filtration…
5 days, 7 hours ago
″“If this had been published a decade earlier…” Help us change the career-advice canon for the better!” by Bella, 80000_Hours
80,000 Hours (the book) comes out in just one month!!
We asked OWID's Hannah Ritchie if she wanted to say something nice about the book, and she sai…
5 days, 14 hours ago
[Linkpost] “Shrimp Sentience Research: A Prioritization Guide” by Guillaume Reho
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I wrote a within-cause prioritization report discussing why we should continue studying shrimp sentience and how we…
5 days, 15 hours ago
[Linkpost] “The Data Is In: “Effective” Philanthropy Has an Evidence Issue” by GraceAdams🔸
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I recently wrote an op-ed in Inside Philanthropy about the trend for philanthropy and the non-profit sector to use the language …
5 days, 22 hours ago
[Linkpost] “Donate Less to AI Safety*” by Sophie Kim
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*if you want us to win
In one sense, AI safety is not funding-constrained. There are hundreds of millions of dollars flowing int…
6 days, 2 hours ago
“AI and animal welfare: am I missing something?” by SiobhanBall
Animal welfare is what brought me to EA. I spent several years working for animal advocacy organisations, and the EA ideals to do with rigorous thin…
6 days, 18 hours ago