“12x more cost-effective than EAG - how I organised EA North 2025 (and how you could do something similar)” by matthes
I put on a small one-day conference. The cost per attendee was £50 (vs £1.2k for EAGs) and the cost per new connection was £11 (vs £130 for EAGs). intro EA North was a one-day event for the North of ...
8 Mai 202512min
“E2G help available” by Will Kirkpatrick
If you’re interested in having a meaningful EA career but your experience doesn’t match the types of jobs that the typical white collar, intellectual EA community leans towards, then you’re just like ...
5 Mai 20255min
“Cultivating doubt: why I no longer believe cultivated meat is the answer” by Tom Bry-Chevalier🔸
Introduction In this post, I present what I believe to be an important yet underexplored argument that fundamentally challenges the promise of cultivated meat. In essence, there are compelling reasons...
3 Mai 202524min
“Reflections on 7 years building the EA Forum — and moving on” by JP Addison🔸
I’m ironically not a very prolific writer. I’ve preferred to stay behind the scenes here and leave the writing to my colleagues who have more of a knack for it. But a goodbye post is something I must ...
3 Mai 20254min
“Prioritizing Work” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸
I recently read a blog post that concluded with: When I'm on my deathbed, I won't look back at my life and wish I had worked harder. I'll look back and wish I spent more time with the peopl...
1 Mai 20251min
“Reflections on the $5 Minimum Donation Barrier on the Giving What We Can Platform — A Student Perspective from a Lower-Income Country.” by Habeeb Abdul
I wanted to share a small but important challenge I've encountered as a student engaging with Effective Altruism from a lower-income country (Nigeria), and invite thoughts or suggestions from the comm...
29 Apr 20252min
[Linkpost] “Scaling Our Pilot Early-Warning System” by Jeff Kaufman 🔸
This is a link post. Summary: The NAO will increase our sequencing significantly over the next few months, funded by a $3M grant from Open Philanthropy. This will allow us to scale our early-warning s...
25 Apr 20255min
“Why you can justify almost anything using historical social movements” by JamesÖz 🔸
[Cross-posted from my Substack here] If you spend time with people trying to change the world, you’ll come to an interesting conundrum: Various advocacy groups reference previous successful social mov...
25 Apr 20259min
