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Spending on yourself vs. charity
Ben Kuhn
5 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC
1
point
0
comments
2
min read
EA
link
Helping other altruists
William_MacAskill
1 Jul 2013 4:00 UTC
18
points
0
comments
1
min read
EA
link
Keeping choices donation neutral
Jeff Kaufman 🔸
28 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
5
points
2
comments
2
min read
EA
link
What Is earning to give?
Peter Wildeford
26 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
10
points
0
comments
3
min read
EA
link
The rules of effective altruism. Rule #1: don’t die
William_MacAskill
24 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
7
points
0
comments
1
min read
EA
link
Cheerfully
Julia_Wise🔸
21 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
126
points
27
comments
2
min read
EA
link
Giving now currently seems to beat giving later
Peter Wildeford
18 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
5
points
1
comment
8
min read
EA
link
Using time effectively as a student
Katja_Grace
17 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
5
points
1
comment
2
min read
EA
link
The best reason to give later
Paul_Christiano
14 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
2
points
0
comments
8
min read
EA
link
A personal history of involvement with effective altruism
Jonah_Sinick
12 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
6
points
0
comments
5
min read
EA
link
Common responses to earning to give
Ben Kuhn
10 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
1
point
1
comment
5
min read
EA
link
Social impact, effective altruism, and motivated cognition
Jonah_Sinick
8 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
6
points
0
comments
2
min read
EA
link
Vegetarianism, health, and promoting the right changes
William_MacAskill
7 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
3
points
0
comments
1
min read
EA
link
Could you live on the international poverty line?
RyanCarey
30 May 2013 4:00 UTC
7
points
0
comments
5
min read
EA
link
Earning to give vs. altruistic career choice revisited
Jonah_Sinick
28 May 2013 4:00 UTC
2
points
0
comments
8
min read
EA
link
A proposed adjustment to the astronomical waste argument
Nick_Beckstead
27 May 2013 4:00 UTC
43
points
0
comments
12
min read
EA
link
On the robustness of cost-effectiveness estimates
William_MacAskill
24 May 2013 4:00 UTC
5
points
0
comments
2
min read
EA
link
Peter Singer’s TED talk on effective altruism
William_MacAskill
22 May 2013 4:00 UTC
1
point
0
comments
1
min read
EA
link
Getting inspired by cost-effective giving
William_MacAskill
20 May 2013 4:00 UTC
3
points
0
comments
2
min read
EA
link
$1.25/day—What does that mean?
William_MacAskill
17 May 2013 4:00 UTC
89
points
4
comments
2
min read
EA
link
An example of do-gooding done wrong
William_MacAskill
15 May 2013 4:00 UTC
9
points
0
comments
2
min read
EA
link
What is effective altruism?
William_MacAskill
13 May 2013 4:00 UTC
14
points
23
comments
2
min read
EA
link
Doing well by doing good: careers that benefit others also benefit you
William_MacAskill
18 Apr 2013 4:00 UTC
0
points
0
comments
1
min read
EA
link
Giving now vs. later
Paul_Christiano
12 Mar 2013 4:00 UTC
4
points
1
comment
7
min read
EA
link
Risk aversion and investment (for altruists)
Paul_Christiano
28 Feb 2013 5:00 UTC
5
points
6
comments
8
min read
EA
link
Why might the future be good?
Paul_Christiano
27 Feb 2013 5:00 UTC
5
points
0
comments
9
min read
EA
link
To save the world, don’t get a job at a charity; go work on Wall Street
William_MacAskill
27 Feb 2013 5:00 UTC
3
points
4
comments
3
min read
EA
link
Nick Bostrom – Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority
Zach Stein-Perlman
1 Feb 2013 17:00 UTC
15
points
1
comment
1
min read
EA
link
(www.existential-risk.org)
Replaceability
Paul_Christiano
22 Jan 2013 5:00 UTC
15
points
0
comments
4
min read
EA
link
Some general concerns about GiveWell
William_MacAskill
23 Dec 2012 5:00 UTC
2
points
0
comments
4
min read
EA
link
GiveWell’s recommendation of GiveDirectly
William_MacAskill
30 Nov 2012 5:00 UTC
2
points
0
comments
5
min read
EA
link
Researching what we should
William_MacAskill
12 Nov 2012 5:00 UTC
0
points
0
comments
6
min read
EA
link
The most important unsolved problems in ethics
William_MacAskill
15 Oct 2012 2:28 UTC
16
points
0
comments
2
min read
EA
link
How to be a high impact philosopher, part II
William_MacAskill
27 Sep 2012 4:00 UTC
0
points
0
comments
3
min read
EA
link
Objections and Concerns About Our New Direction
Holden Karnofsky
22 Jun 2012 15:59 UTC
2
points
0
comments
7
min read
EA
link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)
How to be a high impact philosopher
William_MacAskill
8 May 2012 4:00 UTC
3
points
0
comments
3
min read
EA
link
Philanthropy’s Success Stories
Holden Karnofsky
1 Mar 2012 16:53 UTC
3
points
0
comments
7
min read
EA
link
(www.openphilanthropy.org)
Practical ethics given moral uncertainty
William_MacAskill
31 Jan 2012 5:00 UTC
23
points
5
comments
3
min read
EA
link
Giving isn’t demanding*
William_MacAskill
25 Nov 2011 5:00 UTC
22
points
3
comments
2
min read
EA
link
The Cognitive Science of Rationality
lukeprog
12 Sep 2011 10:35 UTC
14
points
3
comments
14
min read
EA
link
(www.lesswrong.com)
Brian Tomasik – The Importance of Wild-Animal Suffering
Babel
8 Jul 2009 12:42 UTC
12
points
0
comments
1
min read
EA
link
(longtermrisk.org)
Pascal’s Mugging
EA Handbook
1 Jul 2009 7:00 UTC
9
points
0
comments
4
min read
EA
link
(www.nickbostrom.com)
Scott Alexander – A Modest Proposal
Zach Stein-Perlman
26 Nov 2008 17:00 UTC
19
points
4
comments
3
min read
EA
link
(web.archive.org)
Policymaking for Posterity
EA Handbook
2 Sep 2008 1:39 UTC
10
points
0
comments
1
min read
EA
link
(www.nber.org)
Biotechnology and biosecurity
EA Handbook
1 Sep 2008 7:00 UTC
10
points
0
comments
4
min read
EA
link
Three ways to advance science (Nick Bostrom)
EA Forum Archives
31 Jan 2008 21:04 UTC
5
points
1
comment
2
min read
EA
link
(www.nickbostrom.com)
What is evidence?
EliezerYudkowsky
22 Sep 2007 4:09 UTC
8
points
0
comments
3
min read
EA
link
(www.lesswrong.com)
Scope Insensitivity
EA Handbook
13 May 2007 23:08 UTC
36
points
1
comment
2
min read
EA
link
(www.lesswrong.com)
The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant
EA Forum Archives
1 May 2005 13:18 UTC
39
points
3
comments
20
min read
EA
link
(nickbostrom.com)
Peter Singer – Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Zach Stein-Perlman
1 Mar 1972 17:00 UTC
42
points
2
comments
19
min read
EA
link
(www.jstor.org)
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