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Cheerfully

Julia_Wise🔸21 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
128 points
27 comments2 min readEA link

$1.25/​day—What does that mean?

William_MacAskill17 May 2013 4:00 UTC
90 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Effi­cient char­ity: do unto oth­ers...

Scott Alexander3 Sep 2013 4:40 UTC
82 points
13 comments6 min readEA link

Why I’m skep­ti­cal about un­proven causes (and you should be too)

Peter Wildeford7 Aug 2013 4:00 UTC
54 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

Giv­ing now vs. later: a summary

Julia_Wise🔸23 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC
43 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

A pro­posed ad­just­ment to the as­tro­nom­i­cal waste argument

Nick_Beckstead27 May 2013 4:00 UTC
43 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Carl Shul­man — How are brain mass (and neu­rons) dis­tributed among hu­mans and the ma­jor farmed land an­i­mals?

Tessa A 🔸10 Sep 2013 23:22 UTC
41 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(reflectivedisequilibrium.blogspot.com)

Three Im­pacts of Ma­chine Intelligence

Paul_Christiano23 Aug 2013 10:10 UTC
33 points
5 comments8 min readEA link
(rationalaltruist.com)

A cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

Ben Kuhn3 Dec 2013 1:39 UTC
30 points
5 comments12 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

A Long-run per­spec­tive on strate­gic cause se­lec­tion and philanthropy

CarlShulman5 Nov 2013 23:08 UTC
29 points
29 comments7 min readEA link

Brian To­masik – Differ­en­tial In­tel­lec­tual Progress as a Pos­i­tive-Sum Project

Tessa A 🔸23 Oct 2013 23:31 UTC
28 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(longtermrisk.org)

Prevent­ing hu­man extinction

Peter Singer19 Aug 2013 21:07 UTC
25 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Helping other altruists

William_MacAskill1 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC
18 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Replaceability

Paul_Christiano22 Jan 2013 5:00 UTC
15 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Nick Bostrom – Ex­is­ten­tial Risk Preven­tion as Global Priority

Zach Stein-Perlman1 Feb 2013 17:00 UTC
15 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.existential-risk.org)

What is effec­tive al­tru­ism?

William_MacAskill13 May 2013 4:00 UTC
15 points
23 comments2 min readEA link

Four fo­cus ar­eas of effec­tive altruism

lukeprog8 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC
13 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism read­ing list

Richard_Batty28 Oct 2013 19:10 UTC
12 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

Which stage of effec­tive­ness mat­ters most?

Katja_Grace22 Oct 2013 17:23 UTC
12 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Notes on not dying

William_MacAskill15 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC
11 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

What Is earn­ing to give?

Peter Wildeford26 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
10 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

An ex­am­ple of do-good­ing done wrong

William_MacAskill15 May 2013 4:00 UTC
9 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Show me the harm

Benjamin_Todd6 Aug 2013 4:00 UTC
7 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

The rules of effec­tive al­tru­ism. Rule #1: don’t die

William_MacAskill24 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Could you live on the in­ter­na­tional poverty line?

RyanCarey30 May 2013 4:00 UTC
7 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Altru­ism isn’t about sacrifice

Jeff Kaufman 🔸6 Sep 2013 4:00 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

So­cial im­pact, effec­tive al­tru­ism, and mo­ti­vated cognition

Jonah_Sinick8 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
6 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

A per­sonal his­tory of in­volve­ment with effec­tive altruism

Jonah_Sinick12 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
6 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Effec­tive altruism

Holden Karnofsky14 Aug 2013 4:00 UTC
6 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Risk aver­sion and in­vest­ment (for al­tru­ists)

Paul_Christiano28 Feb 2013 5:00 UTC
5 points
6 comments8 min readEA link

Why might the fu­ture be good?

Paul_Christiano27 Feb 2013 5:00 UTC
5 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Keep­ing choices dona­tion neutral

Jeff Kaufman 🔸28 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
5 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Effec­tive­ness or al­tru­ism?

Katja_Grace10 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC
5 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

On the ro­bust­ness of cost-effec­tive­ness estimates

William_MacAskill24 May 2013 4:00 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Us­ing time effec­tively as a student

Katja_Grace17 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
5 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Giv­ing now cur­rently seems to beat giv­ing later

Peter Wildeford18 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
5 points
1 comment8 min readEA link

Where I’m giv­ing and why: Peter Hurford

Peter Wildeford24 Dec 2013 22:34 UTC
5 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

Per­sonal con­sump­tion changes as charity

Jeff Kaufman 🔸31 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Why it should be easy to dom­i­nate GiveWell’s recommendations

Robert_Wiblin17 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC
4 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Peter Singer – Good Char­ity, Bad Charity

Zach Stein-Perlman10 Aug 2013 16:01 UTC
4 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(web.archive.org)

Giv­ing now vs. later

Paul_Christiano12 Mar 2013 4:00 UTC
4 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Vege­tar­i­anism, health, and pro­mot­ing the right changes

William_MacAskill7 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
3 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Get­ting in­spired by cost-effec­tive giving

William_MacAskill20 May 2013 4:00 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Geo­eng­ineer­ing Research

Holden Karnofsky16 Oct 2013 16:07 UTC
3 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Effec­tive al­tru­ists and outsiders

Ben Kuhn5 Aug 2013 4:00 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The Track Record of Policy-Ori­ented Philanthropy

Holden Karnofsky6 Nov 2013 17:11 UTC
3 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Where I’m giv­ing and why: Ju­lia Wise

Julia_Wise🔸27 Dec 2013 20:05 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

To save the world, don’t get a job at a char­ity; go work on Wall Street

William_MacAskill27 Feb 2013 5:00 UTC
3 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

How might we be wildly wrong?

William_MacAskill4 Sep 2013 19:19 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Haiti and dis­aster relief

Jeff Kaufman 🔸19 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link