“Not inevitable, not impossible” by LewisBollard
Note: This post was crossposted from the Open Philanthropy Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on thi...
20 Aug 20257min
“PSA for vegan donors: GiveWell not ruling out animal-based aid” by AdamA
I’m a long-time GiveWell donor and an ethical vegan. In a recent GiveWell podcast on livelihoods programs, providing animals as “productive assets” was mentioned as a possible program type. After reac...
18 Aug 20251min
“A big milestone: 10,000 10% pledgers!” by Giving What We Can🔸
Giving What We Can has reached 10,000 🔸10% pledgers! We see this as an important milestone on the road to a cultural norm, and we’ve made a video to celebrate: If you’re a 🔸10% or 🔹Trial pledger, w...
14 Aug 20251min
[Linkpost] “Of Marx and Moloch: How My Attempt to Convince Effective Altruists to Become Socialists Backfired Completely” by LennoxJohnson
This is a link post. This is a personal essay about my failed attempt to convince effective altruists to become socialists. I started as a convinced socialist who thought EA ignored the 'root causes' ...
14 Aug 20252min
“Should we aim for flourishing over mere survival? The Better Futures series.” by William_MacAskill, Forethought
Today, Forethought and I are releasing an essay series called Better Futures, here.[1] It's been something like eight years in the making, so I’m pretty happy it's finally out! It asks: when looking t...
6 Aug 20259min
“Alcohol is so bad for society that you should probably stop drinking” by Kat Woods 🔶 ⏸️
This is a cross post written by Andy Masley, not me. I found it really interesting and wanted to see what EAs thought of his arguments. This post was inspired by similar posts by Tyler Cowen and Ferg...
6 Aug 202515min
“Frog Welfare” by Chad Brouze
This morning I was looking into Switzerland's new animal welfare labelling law. I was going through the list of abuses that are now required to be documented on labels, and one of them made me do a do...
6 Aug 20252min
“Why You Should Become a University Group Organizer” by Noah Birnbaum
Confidence Level: I’ve been an organizer at UChicago for over a year now with my co-organizer, Avik. I also started the UChicago Rationality Group, co-organized a 50-person Midwest EA Retreat, and hav...
4 Aug 202512min
