Linch

Announcing the Q1 2025 Long-Term Future Fund grant round
by Linch, calebp, Habryka @ 2024-12-20 | +30 | 0 comments

A Qualitative Case for LTFF: Filling Critical Ecosystem Gaps
by Linch @ 2024-12-03 | +84 | 0 comments

The Grant Decision Boundary: Recent Cases from the Long-Term Future Fund
by Linch, calebp @ 2024-11-29 | +66 | 0 comments

Animal Welfare Fund: Payout recommendations from May 2022 to March 2024
by Linch, kierangreig🔸, KarolinaSarek🔸, Zoë Sigle, Neil_Dullaghan🔹 @ 2024-06-26 | +134 | 0 comments

Long-Term Future Fund: May 2023 to March 2024 Payout recommendations
by Linch, calebp, Habryka, Lawrence Chan, Clara Collier, Daniel_Eth, Lauro Langosco, Thomas Larsen, elifland @ 2024-06-12 | +75 | 0 comments

Effective Altruism Infrastructure Fund: March 2024 recommendations
by Linch, calebp, Harri Besceli, Tom Barnes @ 2024-05-27 | +88 | 0 comments

[Linkpost] Statement from Scarlett Johansson on OpenAI's use of the "Sky" voice,...
by Linch @ 2024-05-20 | +46 | 0 comments

[April Fools' Day] Introducing Open Asteroid Impact
by Linch, Austin @ 2024-04-01 | +286 | 0 comments

EA Infrastructure Fund's Plan to Focus on Principles-First EA
by Linch, calebp, Tom Barnes @ 2023-12-06 | +224 | 0 comments

EA Infrastructure Fund: June 2023 grant recommendations
by Linch, Max_Daniel, Michelle_Hutchinson, Tom Barnes, calebp @ 2023-10-26 | +40 | 0 comments

What do Marginal Grants at EAIF Look Like? Funding Priorities and Grantmaking...
by Linch @ 2023-10-12 | +70 | 0 comments

The Long-Term Future Fund is looking for a full-time fund chair
by Linch, calebp, abergal @ 2023-10-05 | +101 | 0 comments

Long-Term Future Fund Ask Us Anything (September 2023)
by Linch, calebp, abergal, Habryka, Thomas Larsen, Daniel_Eth, Clara Collier, Lauro Langosco, Lawrence Chan @ 2023-08-30 | +64 | 0 comments

LTFF and EAIF are unusually funding-constrained right now
by Linch, calebp @ 2023-08-29 | +168 | 0 comments

Select examples of adverse selection in longtermist grantmaking
by Linch @ 2023-08-23 | +201 | 0 comments

What Does a Marginal Grant at LTFF Look Like? Funding Priorities and Grantmaking...
by Linch, calebp, Daniel_Eth @ 2023-08-10 | +175 | 0 comments

Some lesser-known megaproject ideas
by Linch @ 2023-04-02 | +132 | 0 comments

How did our historical moral heroes deal with severe adversity and/or moral...
by Linch @ 2023-01-09 | +46 | 0 comments

[Draft Amnesty] Unfinished draft on the case for a first principles, systematic...
by Linch @ 2022-12-19 | +58 | 0 comments

What Rethink Priorities General Longtermism Team Did in 2022, and Updates in...
by Linch @ 2022-12-14 | +162 | 0 comments

[Linkpost] Dan Luu: Futurist prediction methods and accuracy
by Linch @ 2022-09-15 | +64 | 0 comments

Notes on Apollo report on biodefense
by Linch @ 2022-07-23 | +69 | 0 comments

Some unfun lessons I learned as a junior grantmaker
by Linch @ 2022-05-23 | +352 | 0 comments

Help us make civilizational refuges happen
by Linch @ 2022-04-13 | +120 | 0 comments

What would you do with a Facebook meme page with 250k followers?
by Linch @ 2022-04-12 | +41 | 0 comments

Announcing Impact Island: A New EA Reality TV Show
by Linch @ 2022-04-01 | +245 | 0 comments

Potentially great ways forecasting can improve the longterm future
by Linch @ 2022-03-14 | +43 | 0 comments

Early-warning Forecasting Center: What it is, and why it'd be cool
by Linch @ 2022-03-14 | +62 | 0 comments

.01% Fund - Ideation and Proposal
by Linch @ 2022-03-01 | +69 | 0 comments

As an independent researcher, what are the biggest bottlenecks (if any) to your...
by Linch @ 2022-02-17 | +47 | 0 comments

As an independent researcher, how do you stay or become motivated, productive,...
by Linch @ 2022-02-17 | +27 | 0 comments

What's your prior probability that "good things are good" (for the long-term...
by Linch @ 2022-02-05 | +69 | 0 comments

What's the Theory of Change/Theory of Victory for Farmed Animal Welfare?
by Linch @ 2021-12-01 | +50 | 0 comments

How would you define "existential risk?"
by Linch @ 2021-11-29 | +12 | 0 comments

How many EA 2021 $s would you trade off against a 0.01% chance of existential...
by Linch @ 2021-11-27 | +55 | 0 comments

[Linkpost] Don't Look Up - a Netflix comedy about asteroid risk and realistic...
by Linch @ 2021-11-18 | +63 | 0 comments

[Job ad] Research important longtermist topics at Rethink Priorities!
by Linch @ 2021-10-06 | +65 | 0 comments

Cultured meat: A comparison of techno-economic analyses
by Linch, Neil_Dullaghan🔹 @ 2021-09-24 | +163 | 0 comments

The motivated reasoning critique of effective altruism
by Linch @ 2021-09-14 | +285 | 0 comments

How valuable is ladder-climbing outside of EA for people who aren't unusually...
by Linch @ 2021-09-01 | +39 | 0 comments

What are examples of technologies which would be a big deal if they scaled but...
by Linch @ 2021-08-27 | +36 | 0 comments

What are some key numbers that (almost) every EA should know?
by Linch @ 2021-06-18 | +105 | 0 comments

Epistemic Trade: A quick proof sketch with one example
by Linch @ 2021-05-11 | +19 | 0 comments

[Linkpost] New Oxford Malaria Vaccine Shows ~75% Efficacy in Initial Trial with...
by Linch @ 2021-04-23 | +62 | 0 comments

Some EA Forum Posts I'd like to write
by Linch @ 2021-02-23 | +100 | 0 comments

RP Work Trial Output: How to Prioritize Anti-Aging Prioritization - A Light...
by Linch @ 2021-01-12 | +46 | 0 comments

Some learnings I had from forecasting in 2020
by Linch @ 2020-10-03 | +90 | 0 comments

How can good generalist judgment be differentiated from skill at forecasting?
by Linch @ 2020-08-21 | +25 | 0 comments

What are some low-information priors that you find practically useful for...
by Linch @ 2020-08-07 | +63 | 0 comments

David Manheim: A Personal (Interim) COVID-19 Postmortem
by Linch @ 2020-07-01 | +32 | 0 comments

I'm Linch Zhang, an amateur COVID-19 forecaster and generalist EA. AMA
by Linch @ 2020-06-30 | +77 | 0 comments

Are there historical examples of excess panic during pandemics killing a lot of...
by Linch @ 2020-05-27 | +28 | 0 comments

[Open Thread] What virtual events are you hosting that you'd like to open to the...
by Linch @ 2020-04-07 | +16 | 0 comments

Should recent events make us more or less concerned about biorisk?
by Linch @ 2020-03-19 | +23 | 0 comments

Are there any public health funding opportunities with COVID-19 that are...
by Linch @ 2020-03-12 | +25 | 0 comments

All Bay Area EA events will be postponed until further notice
by Linch @ 2020-03-06 | +25 | 0 comments

Are there good EA projects for helping with COVID-19?
by Linch @ 2020-03-03 | +31 | 0 comments

How can EA local groups reduce likelihood of our members getting COVID-19 or...
by Linch @ 2020-02-26 | +23 | 0 comments

What types of content creation would be useful for local/university groups, if...
by Linch @ 2020-02-15 | +6 | 0 comments

How much will local/university groups benefit from targeted EA content creation?
by Linch @ 2020-02-15 | +25 | 0 comments

Should EAs be more welcoming to thoughtful and aligned Republicans?
by Linch @ 2020-01-20 | +38 | 0 comments

Is learning about EA concepts in detail useful to the typical EA?
by Linch @ 2020-01-16 | +42 | 0 comments

8 things I believe about climate change
by Linch @ 2019-12-28 | +64 | 0 comments

Is there a clear writeup summarizing the arguments for why deep ecology is wrong...
by Linch @ 2019-10-25 | +11 | 0 comments

Linch's Quick takes
by Linch @ 2019-09-19 | +8 | 0 comments

The Possibility of an Ongoing Moral Catastrophe (Summary)
by Linch @ 2019-08-02 | +144 | 0 comments

Outcome of GWWC Outreach Experiment
by Linch @ 2017-02-09 | +14 | 0 comments

Proposal for an Pre-registered Experiment in EA Outreach
by Linch @ 2017-01-08 | +11 | 0 comments

Tentative Summary of the Giving What We Can Pledge Event 2015/2016
by Linch @ 2016-01-19 | +7 | 0 comments

The Bystander
by Linch @ 2016-01-10 | +7 | 0 comments