“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 Spartz 🔶 ⏸️, Andy Masley
This is a cross post written by Andy Masley, not me. I found it really interesting and wanted to see what EAs/rationalists thought of his arguments. This post was inspired by similar posts by Tyler C...
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
“Please, no more group brainstorming” by OllieRodriguez
And other ways to make event content more valuable. I organise and attend a lot of conferences, so the below is correct and need not be caveated based on my experience, but I could be missing some a...
29 Jul 202512min
“Building an EA-aligned career from an LMIC” by Rika Gabriel
This is Part 1 of a multi-part series, shared as part of Career Conversations Week. The views expressed here are my own and don't reflect those of my employer. TL;DR: Building an EA-aligned career sta...
28 Jul 202516min
