Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Cause Area Tier List, published by John Salter on April 1, 2024 on The Effective Altruism Forum.

F-Tier

Animal Advocacy

Billions spent, but they still haven't got a single animal to advocate for EA ideas.

AI Safety

It's not clear that we wan't AIs to be safe - they pose a threat to mankind. If anything, we should be trying to kill them.

Rationality

Entirely dominated by wordcels who can't handle surds.

Wild animal suffering

Not neglected. There's trillions of living creatures suffering perfectly well as it is.

S-Tier

Meta-EA

The numbers speak for themselves. Meta was valued at $1.24 trillion, Electronic Arts at $35 billion.

Climate-change

Incredible successful. Everyone in the western world, worth knowing, has a thermostat.

EA Forum

It's important to pay your staff well for the value they create. No organisation pays its staff more per unit value created.

Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org