“I’m grateful for you” by Sarah Cheng 🔸
I recently wrote up some EA Forum-related strategy docs for a CEA team retreat, which meant I spent a bunch of time reflecting on the Forum and why I think it's worth my time to work on it. Since it's...
5 Dec 20242min
“Still donating half” by Julia_Wise🔸
Crossposted from Otherwise My husband and I were donating about 50% of our income until two years ago, when he took a significant pay cut to work at a nonprofit. We planned to cut our donation percen...
5 Dec 202410min
“Factory farming as a pressing world problem” by 80000_Hours, Benjamin Hilton
This is a link post. 80,000 Hours recently updated our problem profile on factory farming, and we now rank it among the most pressing problems in the world. We're sharing the summary of the article he...
4 Dec 20243min
“Bequest: An EA-ish TV show that didn’t make it” by Keiran Harris 🔸
Hey everyone, I’m the producer of The 80,000 Hours Podcast, and a few years ago I interviewed AJ Jacobs on his writing, and experiments, and EA. And I said that my guess was that the best approach to ...
29 Nov 20243min
“GWWC’s 2024 evaluations of evaluators” by Giving What We Can, Aidan Whitfield🔸, Sjir Hoeijmakers🔸
Introduction The Giving What We Can research team is excited to share the results of our 2024 round of evaluations of charity evaluators and grantmakers! In this round, we completed three evaluations...
28 Nov 202412min
“Research report: ‘Meaningfully reducing consumption of meat and animal products is an unsolved problem: A meta-analysis’” by Seth Ariel Green, Benny Smith, MMathur
This post summarizes the main findings of a new meta-analysis from the Humane and Sustainable Food Lab. We analyze the most rigorous randomized controlled trials (RCTs) that aim to reduce consumption ...
27 Nov 202410min
“How I Improved my Wellbeing” by Jessica McCurdy🔸
TL;DR In late summer 2023, I realized my mental health was the biggest barrier to achieving my goals. Over the next six months, I made it a priority, working with a therapist on CBT, adjusting medicat...
24 Nov 20249min
“Support Critical Research on Insect Welfare” by Bob Fischer
We’re far from certain that insects are sentient. But with over a trillion insects farmed annually, the welfare impacts are staggering if they can suffer. Unfortunately, fundamental questions about th...
22 Nov 20244min
