Effective altruism discussion
Not necessarily EA aligned, but people who comment on effective altruism, Open Philanthropy, and related topics. Leans towards an AI focus.
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@robertwiblin.bsky.social
@vitalik.ca
@benstew.bsky.social
Research Fellow at Open Philanthropy, on catastrophic risks from AI and biology. Own views. 🔸 giving 10% of my lifetime income to effective charities via Giving What We Can
@aveek18.bsky.social
Treasury civil servant, so afraid I have to be a bit more boring on here now. Ex @smfthinktank.bsky.social
@bjornjohann.bsky.social
Professional science communicator. On the Research team at Faunalytics. I write about animals, food, and climate. Barcelona based. Bird dad. Views my own.
@davidlawrenceuk.bsky.social
Shooting for UK growth & progress with ukdayone.org @ukdayone.bsky.social Previously: Chatham House research fellow and Labour parliamentary candidate. Britain could have the highest living standards in the world!
@tobyord.bsky.social
Senior Researcher at Oxford University. Author — The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. tobyord.com
@peterhartree.bsky.social
Something happening. http://type3.audio, http://radiobostrom.com, http://thevalmy.com http://notes.pjh.is, http://sun.pjh.is, http://mtv.pjh.is http://inboxwhenready.org, http://comment-helper.org
@aronvallinder.bsky.social
@eapaddington.bsky.social
I like marmalade, friends, effective opportunities for doing good, and marmalade
@ourworldindata.org
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems. Based out of Oxford University (@ox.ac.uk), founded by @maxroser.bsky.social.
@jburnmurdoch.ft.com
Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com 📝 ft.com/jbm
@lynettebye.bsky.social
@bshlgrs.bsky.social
@givingwhatwecan.bsky.social
Home of the 🔸10% Pledge | Creating a global community who gives effectively and significantly
@habibabanu.bsky.social
Co-founder http://spiro.ngo - TB screening and prevention charity focused on children 🔸 10% Pledge #103 with @givingwhatwecan.bsky.social
@trevorlevin.bsky.social
Trying to help the world navigate the potential craziness of the 21st century, currently via AI Governance and Policy at @openphil; dad rock enjoyer; he/him
@michaelwiebe.bsky.social
Economics (UBC), yimby, replication, effective altruism, data science.
@thezvi.bsky.social
Blog at thezvi.substack.com, this is a pure backup, same handle on Twitter.
@christopher-webster.com
I do infosec and IT work for Open Phil. Trying to get better at lifting weights, making cocktails, and Magic: The Gathering. Blog at christopher-webster.com ✌️
@harrylaw.bsky.social
Thinking about thinking machines | University of Cambridge, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence | Previously Google DeepMind
@jacobpeacock.bsky.social
Research Advisor at Stanford focused on improving animal welfare. Quantitative social scientist & ex-computational biologist. Open science and anti-speciesism. Views mine.
@rychappell.bsky.social
Philosophy prof. Posts better stuff at www.goodthoughts.blog 🔸10% Pledge #54 with @GivingWhatWeCan
@vidurkapur.bsky.social
Superforecaster at Good Judgment. Also forecasting at Swift Centre, Samotsvety, RAND and a hedge fund. Impartial beneficence enthusiast.
@opsimath.bsky.social
An Effective Altruist in grad school who's interested in catastrophic risk reduction and the welfare of non-human animals.
@1daysooner.bsky.social
1Day Sooner leads campaigns in science, policy, and bioethics to stop the world’s most harmful infectious diseases. We advocate for volunteers who participate in high-impact medical studies, including human challenge studies. www.1daysooner.org
@noemidreksler.bsky.social
Research Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI | Public and expert opinion of AI | AI Governance survey research
@kareninkenya.bsky.social
Founding Partner, Fit for Purpose. Proud Nairobian; mtoto wa pwani. Evidence seeker, social entrepreneur, up-scaler, worm slayer. Brown, LSE, YCombinator.
@shakeelhashim.com
Writing about AI policy at Transformer. Supporting AI journalism with grants at Tarbell. Prev: AI safety and EA comms; journalist at The Economist, Protocol, Finimize. London. https://transformernews.ai
@scientificdiscovery.dev
Science writer and chart maker. Researcher at Our World in Data. Co-founder of Works in Progress. Newsletter: https://scientificdiscovery.dev https://twitter.com/salonium 🏳️🌈
@davidpearce.bsky.social
Let’s use biotech to engineer paradise: hedweb.com https://x.com/webmasterdave https://www.bltc.com/bltc-websites.html https://www.facebook.com/groups/hedonistic.imperative/
@ryancbriggs.net
Raising kids & bread & grant money. Cleaning data & diapers & fish. EA (bed nets, not light cone). Social scientist. typos. twitter.com/ryancbriggs
@thetetra.space
@deenamousa.com
Global health & development at Open Philanthropy https://newsletter.deenamousa.com/
@arthurwright.bsky.social
Dilettante interested in econ, animal liberation, progress, philosophy, Buddhism // EA-adjacent (Head of Community @ Effective Altruism DC) // Views my own, etc
@80000hours.bsky.social
You have 80,000 hours in your career. This makes it your best opportunity to have a positive impact on the world. https://80000hours.org
@mordaroso.bsky.social
Director of Tech at Giving What We Can and Software Engineer at Giving Multiplier
@bellaforristal.bsky.social
I was so close to 1k Twitter followers but here we are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Effective altruism, veganism, various weakly-held takes on things | she/her | https://admonymous.co/bellaforristal
@timhua.bsky.social
Helping people is good I guess Trying to do AI interp and control Used to do economics timhua.me
@benleoecon.bsky.social
Postdoc University of Exeter | Experimental & Behavioural Econ | Interested in Altruism, Cooperation, and Morality | PhD from Monash University | Clinical Assistant Professor at Purdue University (Fall, 2025) https://sites.google.com/view/bengrodeck
@michaeldplant.bsky.social
Moral philosopher and happiness nerd. Founder and Director, Happier Lives Institute. Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford Unviersity. All views yours, weirdly.
@carlrobi.bsky.social
Program Officer on nuclear policy at Longview Philanthropy (http://longview.org). Opinions are my own.
@rosiecampbell.xyz
Forever expanding my nerd/bimbo Pareto frontier. Ex-OpenAI, AGI safety and governance, fellow @rootsofprogress.
@alexlizhill.com
Former logician. Aspiring health economist. Research fellow @lshtm-gheco.bsky.social. Thinking about philosophy, public health, econ, stats, feminism, & lots of other things! https://alexlizhill.com
@astralcodexten.com.web.brid.gy
P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary. Click to read Astral Codex Ten, by Scott Alexander, a […] [bridged from astralcodexten.com on the web: https://fed.brid.gy/web/astralcodexten.com ]
@poli.sisti.ca
Posts on public policy (in 🇨🇦 or abroad), humanities, classical music, altruism effective and ineffective. Many silly posts. Toronto-adjacent.
@birchlse.bsky.social
Professor, LSE. Philosophy of science, animal consciousness, animal ethics. Director of The Jeremy Coller Centre for Animal Sentience.
@tomchivers.bsky.social
"Far too nice to be a journalist," per Terry Pratchett. Lead writer on Semafor's Flagship newsletter. DMs open; chiversthomas(a)gmail. Latest book, Everything is Predictable: geni.us/EIPBook Podcast, The Studies Show: https://www.thestudiesshowpod.com
@panickssery.bsky.social
Effective Altruism | Spaced Repetition | Quoting Old Books | PELTIV Score of 190 (+6σ) | http://arjunpanickssery.substack.com
@franceslorenz.bsky.social
Claude says I process my emotions externally. I am interested in events, effective altruism, and gabbing with the girlies (all-inclusive). I also work on the EA Global team @ CEA.
@lgilbert.co
researcher, writer, projects georg. currently: horizon scanning @ renaissance philanthropy; writer, laurenpolicy.com. formerly: open phil, qi, ucsd, caltech, etc.
@hannahritchie.bsky.social
Deputy Editor, Our World in Data Senior Researcher, University of Oxford Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
@mattsclancy.bsky.social
Runs Open Philanthropy’s Innovation Policy program. Creator of newthingsunderthesun.com, a living literature review about innovation. Website: mattsclancy.com.
@andymasley.bsky.social
When the going gets weird the weird turn pro. Director of EA DC linktr.ee/andymasley
@michaelnielsen.bsky.social
Searching for the numinous Australian Canadian, currently living in the US https://michaelnotebook.com
@daniel-eth.bsky.social
AI alignment & memes | "known for his humorous and insightful tweets" - Bing/GPT-4 | prev: @FHIOxford
@absurdlymax.bsky.social
I do philosophy and a little math, also Effective Altruism. Every day things can get a bit better
@timfduffy.com
I like utilitarianism, consciousness, AI, EA, space, kindness, liberalism, progressive rock, economics, and most people. Substack: http://timfduffy.substack.com
@nainabajekal.bsky.social
@sebfar.bsky.social
Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. AGI Alignment researcher. Views my dog's.
@gjmcgowan.bsky.social
@robbensinger.bsky.social
@lewisdartnell.bsky.social
Prof., astrobiology researcher, science communicator & book author (http://beinghumanbook.org / http://originsbook.com / http://the-knowledge.org)
@beebytes.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Bio @ IUPUI; Director of the Insect Welfare Research Society; Insect neuroscience, farmed insect welfare meghan-barrett.com opinions mine & do not reflect views of IUPUI
@ahappier.world
🎬 YouTuber (youtube.com/ahappierworldyt) 💡 Active in EA Belgium 🔸 10% Pledge #9211 at givingwhatwecan.org/pledge 📍 Brussels 🌱 #sentientist #effectivealtruism "Yeroon" /jəˈʀuːn/ (he/him)
@garrisonlovely.bsky.social
Omidyar Network - Reporter in Residence + freelance journalist. Covers: The Nation, Jacobin. Bylines: NYT, Nature, BBC, Guardian, TIME, The Verge, Vox, Thomson Reuters Foundation, + others.
@jeffsebo.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, Director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy, and Co-Director of the Wild Animal Welfare Program, New York University. jeffsebo.net
@rossaokod.bsky.social
Research @ Open Philanthropy. Formerly economist at GPI / Nuffield College, Oxford. Interests: development econ, animal welfare, global catastrophic risks
@aarongertler.bsky.social
Comms officer @ Open Philanthropy, former Magic pro, webfiction connoisseur. https://aarongertler.net/
@spencrgreenberg.bsky.social
A mathematician/entrepreneur in social science. On here, I write about psychology, critical thinking, philosophy, tech, and society.
@sean-o-h.bsky.social
Academic, AI nerd and science nerd more broadly. Currently obsessed with stravinsky (not sure how that happened).
@aaronbergman18.bsky.social
👎: suffering | 👍: EA, AI alignment, decoupling, R, cringe, amateur pharmacology + programming | Georgetown '22 (math+econ+phil) | Career status: 🤷♂️
@girving.bsky.social
Chief Scientist at the UK AI Security Institute (AISI). Previously DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Brain, etc.
@colah.bsky.social
Reverse engineering neural networks at Anthropic. Previously Distill, OpenAI, Google Brain.Personal account.