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Centre for Effective Altruism

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Building a global community of people thinking carefully about the world’s biggest problems and taking action to solve them

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Toby Tremlett (@toby_tremlett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Three stories from May’s EA newsletter — each about preventing suffering at scale before it's too late 🧵 Center for Global Development and Market Shaping Accelerator (MSA) creating market incentives for sepsis diagnostics Rethink Priorities on the projected growth of insect farming Anthropic new research on AI model welfare

Effective Altruism Global (@ea_global) 's Twitter Profile Photo

⏰ Last chance to join EA Global: London this June! Applications close Sunday, May 25 at 11:59 PM BST — just 2 days left. Connect with hundreds of EAs working on global challenges 📍 London, June 6-8 Apply now: effectivealtruism.org/ea-global/even…

Effective Altruism (@effectvaltruism) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Now live: a completely revamped effectivealtruism.org! 💡 Effective altruism asks a simple question: how can we do the most good with our time, money, and resources? Our new site demonstrates how this philosophy translates into real action across fields like global health,

Now live: a completely revamped effectivealtruism.org! 💡

Effective altruism asks a simple question: how can we do the most good with our time, money, and resources? Our new site demonstrates how this philosophy translates into real action across fields like global health,
Toby Tremlett (@toby_tremlett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Simpler organisms like shrimp or insects have less complex minds than us. But does that mean they have a lower capacity for suffering? Last week, I curated a post from @welfarefootpr on the EA Forum which explored this question. 🧵:

Simpler organisms like shrimp or insects have less complex minds than us. But does that mean they have a lower capacity for suffering?

Last week, I curated a post from @welfarefootpr on the EA Forum which explored this question.

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Toby Tremlett (@toby_tremlett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This week, I've curated a research-in-progress post on the 'Easterlin Paradox', or the puzzle that life satisfaction reports have remained flat while economic growth has increased. (link at end of thread) 🧵:

This week, I've curated a research-in-progress post on the 'Easterlin Paradox', or the puzzle that life satisfaction reports have remained flat while economic growth has increased.
(link at end of thread)
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Ollie Base (@ollie_base) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Missed out on EA Global: London? There is an EA event scheduled to take place on *every continent* (bar Antarctica, sorry) in the second half of this year. Apply now! effectivealtruism.org/ea-global/even…

Missed out on EA Global: London?

There is an EA event scheduled to take place on *every continent* (bar Antarctica, sorry) in the second half of this year. 

Apply now! 

effectivealtruism.org/ea-global/even…
Zachary Robinson (@zach_y_robinson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

At last year’s EAG London, I talked about EA needing to tell our own stories. Since then we've seen great progress — TIME + The New York Times coverage, even The Daily Show ft. shrimp welfare. But one line from that segment (which I overall love) stuck with me: "Fuck your feelings." 🧵

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🚀 We're hiring a Director of EA Funds — and apps close in 4 days! We're looking for an ambitious leader to thoughtfully scale $10M+ in grantmaking across global health, animal welfare, AI safety, and EA infrastructure. Remote + $181k total comp. Apply: centreforeffectivealtruism.org/careers?ashby_…

Toby Tremlett (@toby_tremlett) 's Twitter Profile Photo

For this month's EA Newsletter, I featured: • 80,000 Hours on reasons AGI may not come soon • Lewis Bollard on crunch time for cage-free campaigns • A Works in Progress article on 'The end of lead' My favourite takeaways in thread 🧵 :