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CEA is hiring a Head of Communications
by Ben_West @ 2024-03-08 | +100 | 0 comments

Rates of Criminality Amongst Giving Pledge Signatories
by Ben_West @ 2024-01-22 | +202 | 0 comments

Cause-Generality Is Hard If Some Causes Have Higher ROI
by Ben_West @ 2024-01-12 | +102 | 0 comments

Zach Robinson will be CEA’s next CEO
by Ben_West, Eli Rose, ClaireZabel, lincolnq, Michelle_Hutchinson, MaxDalton, Oscar Howie @ 2023-12-28 | +182 | 0 comments

CEA is fundraising, and funding constrained
by Ben_West, Oscar Howie, Angelina Li @ 2023-11-20 | +58 | 0 comments

AMA: Ben West, former startup founder and EtGer
by Ben_West @ 2023-11-07 | +45 | 0 comments

Debate series: should we push for a pause on the development of AI?
by Ben_West @ 2023-09-08 | +252 | 0 comments

CEA: still doing CEA things
by Ben_West, Angelina Li, Oscar Howie @ 2023-07-14 | +65 | 0 comments

Benefits of being rejected from CEA’s Online team
by Ben_West @ 2023-07-03 | +53 | 0 comments

Some Reflections on EA Strategy Fortnight
by Ben_West @ 2023-06-29 | +83 | 0 comments

Lab-grown meat is cleared for sale in the United States
by Ben_West @ 2023-06-22 | +209 | 0 comments

Third Wave Effective Altruism
by Ben_West @ 2023-06-17 | +219 | 0 comments

How has FTX's collapse affected public perception of EA?
by Ben_West, 2ndRichter @ 2023-06-16 | +97 | 0 comments

EA Strategy Fortnight (June 12-24)
by Ben_West @ 2023-06-07 | +141 | 0 comments

An Earn to Learn Pledge
by Ben_West, jessica_mccurdy @ 2023-06-01 | +76 | 0 comments

How much do markets value Open AI?
by Ben_West @ 2023-05-14 | +39 | 0 comments

Leaked EU Draft Proposes Substantial Animal Welfare Improvements
by Ben_West @ 2023-04-21 | +126 | 0 comments

Can we evaluate the "tool versus agent" AGI prediction?
by Ben_West @ 2023-04-08 | +63 | 0 comments

Announcing CEA’s Interim Managing Director
by Ben_West @ 2023-04-04 | +266 | 0 comments

Some Comments on the Recent FTX TIME Article
by Ben_West @ 2023-03-20 | +296 | 0 comments

EU Food Agency Recommends Banning Cages
by Ben_West @ 2023-02-21 | +173 | 0 comments

Entrepreneurship ETG Might Be Better Than 80k Thought
by Ben_West @ 2022-12-29 | +134 | 0 comments

YCombinator fraud rates
by Ben_West @ 2022-12-25 | +90 | 0 comments

First FDA Cultured Meat Safety Approval
by Ben_West @ 2022-11-19 | +131 | 0 comments

Moderator Appreciation Thread
by Ben_West @ 2022-11-18 | +337 | 0 comments

New Forum License: Creative Commons
by Ben_West @ 2022-10-25 | +57 | 0 comments

Changing Licences on the EA Forum
by Ben_West @ 2022-10-07 | +66 | 0 comments

[Job] Project Manager: Community Health
by Ben_West @ 2022-09-10 | +35 | 0 comments

[TikTok] Comparability between suffering and happiness
by Ben_West @ 2022-09-01 | +23 | 0 comments

Product Managers: the EA Forum Needs You
by Ben_West @ 2022-06-22 | +88 | 0 comments

You should join an EA organization with too many employees
by Ben_West, JP Addison, Clifford @ 2022-05-21 | +44 | 0 comments

EA Tours of Service
by Ben_West @ 2022-05-10 | +59 | 0 comments

Why CEA Online doesn’t outsource more work to non-EA freelancers
by Ben_West @ 2022-05-04 | +137 | 0 comments

Comparative advantage does not mean doing the thing you're best at
by Ben_West @ 2022-04-29 | +134 | 0 comments

TikTok DGB Giveaway Results
by Ben_West @ 2022-04-15 | +33 | 0 comments

Why CEA has stopped using Net Promoter Score
by Ben_West @ 2022-02-03 | +85 | 0 comments

Supporting Video, Audio, and other non-text media on the Forum
by Ben_West @ 2021-12-19 | +31 | 0 comments

Creating Individual Connections via the Forum
by Ben_West @ 2021-11-30 | +67 | 0 comments

EA Communication Project Ideas
by Ben_West @ 2021-11-19 | +123 | 0 comments

TikTok EA Book Giveaway Intermediate Results
by Ben_West @ 2021-11-11 | +80 | 0 comments

EA Forum engagement doubled in the last year
by Ben_West @ 2021-11-04 | +74 | 0 comments

[Creative Writing Contest] An AI Safety Limerick
by Ben_West @ 2021-10-18 | +21 | 0 comments

Ben_West's Quick takes
by Ben_West @ 2021-10-17 | +7 | 0 comments

Does the Forum Prize lead people to write more posts?
by Ben_West, Akara @ 2021-09-21 | +8 | 0 comments

Who do intellectual prizewinners follow on Twitter?
by Ben_West, Akara @ 2021-08-25 | +72 | 0 comments

[PR FAQ] Improving tag notifications
by Ben_West @ 2021-08-09 | +20 | 0 comments

Our plan to share "PR FAQs" for new Forum features
by Ben_West @ 2021-07-29 | +48 | 0 comments

Some 2021 CEA Retention Statistics
by Ben_West @ 2021-07-09 | +45 | 0 comments

Thoughts on being overqualified for EA positions
by Ben_West @ 2021-04-30 | +118 | 0 comments

[Job Ad] Help us make this Forum better
by Ben_West @ 2021-03-25 | +27 | 0 comments

Layman’s Summary of Resolving Pascallian Decision Problems with Stochastic...
by Ben_West @ 2021-03-12 | +44 | 0 comments

Retention in EA - Part II: Possible Projects
by Ben_West @ 2021-02-05 | +35 | 0 comments

Retention in EA - Part I: Survey Data
by Ben_West @ 2021-02-05 | +40 | 0 comments

Retention in EA - Part III: Retention Comparisons
by Ben_West @ 2021-02-05 | +37 | 0 comments

EA Group Organizer Career Paths Outside of EA
by Ben_West @ 2020-07-14 | +37 | 0 comments

Are there robustly good and disputable leadership practices?
by Ben_West @ 2020-03-19 | +36 | 0 comments

Harsanyi's simple “proof” of utilitarianism
by Ben_West @ 2020-02-20 | +51 | 0 comments

Quote from Strangers Drowning
by Ben_West @ 2019-12-23 | +60 | 0 comments

Peaceful protester/armed police pictures
by Ben_West @ 2019-12-22 | +21 | 0 comments

How frequently do ACE and Open Phil agree about animal charities?
by Ben_West @ 2019-12-17 | +66 | 0 comments

EA Art: Neural Style Transfer Portraits
by Ben_West @ 2019-10-03 | +42 | 0 comments

Is pain just a signal to enlist altruists?
by Ben_West @ 2019-10-01 | +66 | 0 comments

Ways Frugality Increases Productivity
by Ben_West @ 2019-06-25 | +83 | 0 comments

What is the Impact of Beyond Meat?
by Ben_West @ 2019-05-03 | +25 | 0 comments

Identifying Talent without Credentialing In EA
by Ben_West @ 2019-03-11 | +46 | 0 comments

Deliberate Performance in People Management
by Ben_West @ 2017-11-25 | +42 | 0 comments

An Argument for Why the Future May Be Good
by Ben_West @ 2017-07-19 | +41 | 0 comments

Vote Pairing is a Cost-Effective Political Intervention
by Ben_West @ 2017-02-26 | +19 | 0 comments

Ben's expenses in 2016
by Ben_West @ 2017-01-29 | +28 | 0 comments

Voter Registration As an EA Group Meetup Activity
by Ben_West @ 2016-09-16 | +4 | 0 comments

You are a Lottery Ticket
by Ben_West @ 2015-05-10 | +10 | 0 comments

Earning to Give: Programming Language Choice
by Ben_West @ 2015-04-05 | +5 | 0 comments

Problems and Solutions in Infinite Ethics
by Ben_West @ 2015-01-01 | +14 | 0 comments

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