Hello!

This is the 100th EA Forum Digest! At the bottom of this email, we’re sharing some Forum-related things that have happened since the first one.

A few other announcements from our team: 

• There’s a new introduction to effective altruism
• The EA Handbook has been revamped — give us feedback on it
• If you’re interested in using your career to mitigate global catastrophic biological risks, you can get advice from someone working in the field. This is a new service we’re testing on the Forum.

We recommend:

1. How to do theoretical research, a personal perspective (Mark Xu, 18 min)
2. Critique of MacAskill’s “Is It Good to Make Happy People?” (Magnus Vinding, 14 min)
3. Protest movements: How effective are they? (James Ozden, Sam Glover, 12 min) 
4. Concrete Advice for Forming Inside Views on AI Safety (Neel Nanda, 11 min)
5. Pressing News Front Page (art) (Andre Ferreti, 1 min)
6. The community health team’s work on interpersonal harm in the community (Julia Wise, 16 min)
7. Have faux-evil EA energy (Rob Bensinger, 2 min) 
8. Huge volcanic eruptions: time to prepare (published in Nature) (Mike Cassidy, Lara Mani)
9. The Repugnant Conclusion Isn't (AppliedDivinityStudies, 2 min)
10. Vox: EA billionaires aren't taxed enough. But they're trying (link-posted by Luke Freeman)
11. The EA community might be neglecting the value of influencing people (Julian Hazell, 12 min)

Announcements:

1. The EAIF is discontinuing most university group funding (Max Daniel, Emma Williamson)
2. Open Phil is seeking bilingual people to for translations into non-English languages (Eli Rose)

Classic Forum post:

• Why "cause area" as the unit of analysis? (Issa Rice, 5 min)

🎉  Happy 100th Digest!

• The first Digest ever sent (on September 28, 2020) was opened by 166 people. The 99th one (last week’s digest) was opened by 2076 people. 
• When the first Digest was sent, there were around 100 topic pages (then known as tags). There’s now a whole wiki with ~750 topics. 
• In the month of the first Digest, we had 119 posts. Last month, we had 454.
• The Digest has changed, and continues to change; please share your feedback!