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Accidental harm is harm resulting from unforeseen effects of attempts to do good.

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Shallow evaluations of longtermist organizations
NunoSempere
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Counterproductive Altruism: The Other Heavy Tail
Vasco Grilo
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Open Philanthropy is seeking proposals for outreach projects
abergal
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If EA Community-Building Could Be Net-Negative, What Follows?
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Impact markets may incentivize predictably net-negative projects
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Managing risk in the EA policy space
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Peacefulness, nonviolence, and experientialist minimalism
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We summarized the top info hazard articles and made a prioritized reading list
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Some initial work to evaluate the merits of an EA legal service
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What is the impact of animal agriculture on wild animal suffering?
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Oscar Delaney
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The Unilateralist's Curse, An Explanation
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Concerns about AMF from GiveWell reading - Part 4
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Goals we might have when taking actions to improve the EA-aligned research pipeline
MichaelA
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Max Dalton and Jonas Vollmer: How to avoid accidentally having a negative impact with your project
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Most harmful people in history?
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