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Celebrating wins — discussion thread
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Eli Svoboda🔸
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A community morale and documentation thread from the EA Forum; marginally relevant to AI safety as one of several cause areas mentioned, but primarily focused on broad EA community building and celebrating impact across multiple domains.
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An EA Forum discussion thread arguing that the effective altruism community should more actively celebrate positive accomplishments, as wins often go unrecognized because the problems addressed are neglected and beneficiaries are voiceless. The post provides concrete examples of recent community wins across animal welfare, global health, charitable giving, and AI safety to illustrate the kinds of progress worth highlighting.
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- •Celebrating wins is important for community motivation and inspiration, but EA-adjacent successes often go unnoticed due to the neglected nature of the problems being solved.
- •Beneficiaries of EA-influenced work are frequently voiceless (e.g., animals, future generations), making it harder for successes to be naturally amplified.
- •The post catalogs wins across multiple cause areas including animal welfare, global health, charitable giving, and AI safety.
- •The thread serves as a community resource for documenting and sharing evidence of real-world impact achieved by EA-affiliated individuals and organizations.
- •Highlighting concrete accomplishments can help counter pessimism and burnout within the EA and adjacent AI safety communities.
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by Eli Svoboda🔸 Jan 19 3 min read 21 89
Community Good things & impact stories Announcements and updates Effective altruism culture Motivational Frontpage Perhaps my favorite part of my job is that I’m often exposed to mind-boggling accomplishments achieved by people within and around the EA community. Stories of impact remind us why our principles are valuable, inspire an openness to ambitious bets , and motivate altruism. Yet we can’t expect to hear about positive outcomes by default — the problems we solve are neglected, and beneficiaries are frequently voiceless (literally).
That’s why @Toby Tremlett🔹 and I would like to invite you to add stories of impact that have inspired you to the banner on the frontpage . They’ll be displayed all week, and the text will appear in the comments under this post. We endorse an expansive definition here: for example, feel free to celebrate your own work or that of your friends, and both smaller-scale and older wins are appreciated!
You could consider:
What accomplishments seem important or underappreciated to you?
What stories make you smile?
What changed your mind about what’s possible?
What work are you grateful for?
I’ll kick off the discussion by listing a few wins from 2025 that stood out to me, but don’t feel like you have to follow my approach. Our community is vast, and I can’t learn about every story — let me know what I missed.
Over 2,800 companies have signed cage-free commitments to spare egg-laying hens from psychological suffering and physical trauma, affecting millions of hens. Additionally, 92% of corporate cage-free egg commitments with deadlines of 2024 or earlier have been fulfilled , up from 89% in 2024. These achievements are in large part due to persistent corporate campaigning efforts from organizations like The Humane League (THL).
10,000 people have now taken the Giving What We Can (GWWC) 10% pledge , making a commitment to give at least 10% of one’s income to highly impactful organizations. GWWC estimates that every pledge leads to $15,000 in counterfactual donations to high-impact charities. I’ve certainly donated more than I would have had I not taken a pledge!
GiveWell announced its largest single grant ever of $96.3 million , given to the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF). The grant will distribute over 17 million insecticide-treated nets in Chad, DRC, Nigeria, and Zambia, expected to cover nearly 4 million children and avert over 20 thousand deaths. AMF has prevented an estimated 270,000 deaths since its inception.
California signed the first USA bill to directly regulate AI catastrophic risk into law, and New York followed suit . SB 53 requires large AI developers to publish safety frameworks, report critical incidents within 15 days,
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