Effec­tive al­tru­ism read­ing list

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

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

Tessa23 Oct 2013 23:31 UTC
28 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(longtermrisk.org)

Which stage of effec­tive­ness mat­ters most?

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

Geo­eng­ineer­ing Research

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

Creat­ing a world with more effec­tive char­i­ta­ble giving

Eric_Friedman1 Oct 2013 4:00 UTC
0 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Learn­ing to be an effec­tive altruist

Cari_Tuna26 Sep 2013 21:24 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link

Nav­i­gat­ing the episte­molo­gies of effec­tive altruism

Ozzie_Gooen23 Sep 2013 19:50 UTC
0 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Want to give feed­back on a draft sam­ple chap­ter for a book on effec­tive al­tru­ism?

William_MacAskill22 Sep 2013 4:00 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Case study: de­sign­ing a new or­gani­sa­tion that might be more effec­tive than GiveWell’s top recommendation

Benjamin_Todd16 Sep 2013 4:00 UTC
0 points
0 comments10 min readEA link

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

Tessa10 Sep 2013 23:22 UTC
41 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(reflectivedisequilibrium.blogspot.com)

Altru­ism isn’t about sacrifice

Jeff Kaufman6 Sep 2013 4:00 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

How might we be wildly wrong?

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

Effi­cient char­ity: do unto oth­ers...

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

Re­place­abil­ity in altruism

Ben Kuhn29 Aug 2013 4:00 UTC
0 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

How effi­cient is the char­i­ta­ble mar­ket?

lukeprog26 Aug 2013 4:00 UTC
1 point
1 comment2 min readEA link

Three Im­pacts of Ma­chine Intelligence

Paul_Christiano23 Aug 2013 10:10 UTC
33 points
5 comments9 min readEA link
(rationalaltruist.com)

Prevent­ing hu­man extinction

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

Effec­tive altruism

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

Up­date on the es­tab­lish­ment of Cam­bridge’s Cen­tre for Study of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk

Sean_OHeigeartaigh212 Aug 2013 4:00 UTC
2 points
0 comments3 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)

CEA is hiring

admin39 Aug 2013 4:00 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

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

Peter Wildeford7 Aug 2013 4:00 UTC
48 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Show me the harm

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

Effec­tive al­tru­ists and outsiders

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

Per­sonal con­sump­tion changes as charity

Jeff Kaufman31 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC
4 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Money can buy you (a bit) of happiness

William_MacAskill29 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Coun­ter­fac­tual credit assignment

Brian_Tomasik24 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC
2 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Giv­ing now vs. later: a summary

Julia_Wise23 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC
43 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

On dis­count rates

William_MacAskill22 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Haiti and dis­aster relief

Jeff Kaufman19 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC
3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Em­pow­er­ment and Catas­trophic Risk

Holden Karnofsky18 Jul 2013 16:04 UTC
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)

Why it should be easy to dom­i­nate GiveWell’s recommendations

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

Notes on not dying

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

Effec­tive­ness or al­tru­ism?

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

Four fo­cus ar­eas of effec­tive altruism

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

Spend­ing on your­self vs. charity

Ben Kuhn5 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC
1 point
0 comments2 min readEA link

Helping other altruists

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

Keep­ing choices dona­tion neutral

Jeff Kaufman28 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
5 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

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

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

Cheerfully

Julia_Wise21 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
125 points
27 comments2 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

Us­ing time effec­tively as a student

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

The best rea­son to give later

Paul_Christiano14 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
2 points
0 comments8 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

Com­mon re­sponses to earn­ing to give

Ben Kuhn10 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
1 point
1 comment5 min readEA link

So­cial im­pact, effec­tive al­tru­ism, and mo­ti­vated cognition

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

Vege­tar­i­anism, health, and pro­mot­ing the right changes

William_MacAskill7 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
3 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

Earn­ing to give vs. al­tru­is­tic ca­reer choice revisited

Jonah_Sinick28 May 2013 4:00 UTC
2 points
0 comments8 min readEA link