“Historical EA funding data: 2025 update” by J_R🔸
NOTE: Original post updated with additional data, which impacts some conclusions / observations - see "Updated data" section for further details. Check out this post for more up-to-date and interactiv...
17 Nov 20253min
“If wild animal welfare is intractable, everything is intractable.” by mal_graham🔸
Author's note: This is an adapted version of my recent talk at EA Global NYC (I’ll add a link when it's available). The content has been adjusted to reflect things I learned from talking to people aft...
16 Nov 202528min
“12 Theses on EA” by Mjreard
This is a crosspost from my Substack, where people have been liking and commenting a bunch. I'm too busy during my self-imposed version of Inkhaven to engage much – yes, pity me, I have to blog – but ...
13 Nov 202513min
“Recruitment is extremely important and impactful. Some people should be completely obsessed with it.” by abrahamrowe
Cross-post from Good Structures. Over the last few years, I helped run several dozen hiring rounds for around 15 high-impact organizations. I've also spent the last few months talking with organizatio...
11 Nov 202517min
“Announcing ACE’s 2025 Charity Recommendations” by Animal Charity Evaluators, Vince Mak 🔸
16 minute read We update our list of Recommended Charities annually. This year, we announced recommendations on November 4. Each year, hundreds of billions of animals are trapped in the food industry ...
9 Nov 202524min
“Leaving Open Philanthropy, going to Anthropic” by Joe_Carlsmith
(Audio version, read by the author, here, or search for "Joe Carlsmith Audio" on your podcast app.) Last Friday was my last day at Open Philanthropy. I’ll be starting a new role at Anthropic in mid-N...
6 Nov 202532min
“How Well Does RL Scale?” by Toby_Ord
This is the latest in a series of essays on AI Scaling. You can find the others on my site. Summary: RL-training for LLMs scales surprisingly poorly. Most of its gains are from allowing LLMs to produ...
3 Nov 202515min
“Recommitting to Giving: A Personal Update” by frankieaw
TL;DR: I took the 🔸10% Pledge in 2016 and haven’t kept to it consistently. I’ve decided not to pay the backlog donations, and instead to recommit fresh from today, with simple systems to keep me on t...
1 Nov 20253min
