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The Effective Altruism Newsletter & Open Thread − 12 October 2015 Edition

SoerenMind14 Oct 2015 14:21 UTC

5 points

8 comments5 min readEA link

Possible Reasons to Donate to Innefective Causes

SydMartin13 Oct 2015 20:53 UTC

3 points

15 comments4 min readEA link

Making Effective Altruism more emotionally appealing

Gleb_T13 Oct 2015 10:25 UTC

2 points

21 comments4 min readEA link

EA’s Image Problem

Tom_Davidson11 Oct 2015 13:44 UTC

28 points

60 comments9 min readEA link

Simply locate yourself

So8res11 Oct 2015 5:00 UTC

15 points

1 comment4 min readEA link

(mindingourway.com)

EA Open Thread: October

RyanCarey10 Oct 2015 19:27 UTC

1 point

36 comments1 min readEA link

How does fighting diarrhoea stack up to malaria in effectiveness?

MichaelDello9 Oct 2015 0:28 UTC

3 points

8 comments3 min readEA link

Stop saying “I can’t understand” (Julia Galef)

EA Handbook7 Oct 2015 22:08 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

An update on the Global Priorities Project

Owen Cotton-Barratt7 Oct 2015 16:19 UTC

5 points

5 comments5 min readEA link

Meetup : EA Vancouver monthly meetup

Tom_Ash6 Oct 2015 19:53 UTC

0 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Meetup : An Introduction to Effective Altruism

Daniel May6 Oct 2015 12:34 UTC

0 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Cause Selection Blogging Carnival Conclusion

MichaelDickens5 Oct 2015 20:16 UTC

7 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

New positions and recent hires at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

Sean_o_h5 Oct 2015 17:55 UTC

10 points

2 comments4 min readEA link

Detach the grim-o-meter

So8res5 Oct 2015 5:00 UTC

16 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

(mindingourway.com)

What is the expected effect of poverty alleviation efforts on existential risk?

WilliamKiely2 Oct 2015 20:43 UTC

13 points

25 comments1 min readEA link

Meetup : Stanford EA Meetup

AlexRichard29 Sep 2015 20:11 UTC

0 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Meetup : EA Chennai Meetup

harysh29 Sep 2015 15:51 UTC

0 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Differential Technological Development: Some Early Thinking

Nick_Beckstead29 Sep 2015 10:23 UTC

4 points

0 comments9 min readEA link

(blog.givewell.org)

Systematically under explored project areas?

RomeoStevens28 Sep 2015 20:16 UTC

14 points

17 comments1 min readEA link

Bertrand Russell on statistical empathy

jonathanstray28 Sep 2015 16:16 UTC

30 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

The last 3 months in EA projects

Tom_Ash27 Sep 2015 22:51 UTC

8 points

3 comments7 min readEA link

Low hanging fruit and ‘quick wins’

MichaelDello27 Sep 2015 6:24 UTC

4 points

16 comments3 min readEA link

Choose without suffering

So8res27 Sep 2015 5:00 UTC

14 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

(mindingourway.com)

Why we need more meta

Benjamin_Todd26 Sep 2015 22:40 UTC

27 points

16 comments3 min readEA link

Industrial farming is one of the worst crimes in history

EA Handbook25 Sep 2015 7:00 UTC

9 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

(www.theguardian.com)

CEA is Hiring! Applications due by 18th October

Sebastian_Farquhar24 Sep 2015 13:18 UTC

4 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

Empathic communication and strategy for Effective Altruism, Part 1

LucasNarukami24 Sep 2015 0:24 UTC

27 points

15 comments8 min readEA link

We’ll write you a will for free if you leave a gift to GiveWell’s top charities

kierangreig🔸23 Sep 2015 23:25 UTC

19 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Should we give to SCI or fund research into schistosomiasis?

MaxDalton23 Sep 2015 15:00 UTC

10 points

1 comment7 min readEA link

Humane Pesticides as the Most Marginally Effective Cause

JeffMJordan22 Sep 2015 6:35 UTC

26 points

20 comments10 min readEA link

Thread for discussing critical review of Doing Good Better in the London Review of Books

Benjamin_Todd21 Sep 2015 2:27 UTC

13 points

20 comments8 min readEA link

A minimal definition of Effective Altruism:

AlasdairGives20 Sep 2015 18:43 UTC

11 points

11 comments1 min readEA link

Charities I Would Like to See

MichaelDickens20 Sep 2015 15:22 UTC

7 points

31 comments3 min readEA link

Effective Altruism and Religious Faiths: Mutually Exclusive Entities, or an Important Nexus to Explore?

sophieritchie20 Sep 2015 12:50 UTC

19 points

7 comments25 min readEA link

See the dark world

So8res20 Sep 2015 5:00 UTC

31 points

1 comment8 min readEA link

(mindingourway.com)

My Cause Selection: Michael Dickens

MichaelDickens15 Sep 2015 23:29 UTC

36 points

69 comments43 min readEA link

Might wireheaders turn into paperclippers?

Lila13 Sep 2015 21:11 UTC

5 points

13 comments4 min readEA link

September Open Thread

RyanCarey13 Sep 2015 14:22 UTC

0 points

61 comments1 min readEA link

Should people be allowed to ear-mark their taxes to specific policy areas for a price?

Stefan_Schubert13 Sep 2015 11:01 UTC

4 points

11 comments4 min readEA link

Being unable to despair

So8res13 Sep 2015 5:00 UTC

16 points

0 comments3 min readEA link

(mindingourway.com)

You Can Now Make Any Event a Fundraiser for Effective Charities

Joey 🔸12 Sep 2015 18:17 UTC

13 points

9 comments2 min readEA link

The term “Vegan” needs to evolve

jonathonsmith12 Sep 2015 17:59 UTC

2 points

5 comments2 min readEA link

A new response to effective altruism

Benjamin_Todd12 Sep 2015 4:25 UTC

3 points

11 comments1 min readEA link

Effective Altruism’s fact-value separation as a weapon against political bias

Stefan_Schubert11 Sep 2015 14:58 UTC

13 points

1 comment3 min readEA link

Political Debiasing and the Political Bias Test

Stefan_Schubert11 Sep 2015 14:52 UTC

4 points

7 comments2 min readEA link

On Values Spreading

MichaelDickens11 Sep 2015 3:57 UTC

32 points

13 comments11 min readEA link

Cause selection: a flowchart [link]

Owen Cotton-Barratt10 Sep 2015 11:52 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Reducing Catastrophic Risks: A Practical Introduction

RyanCarey9 Sep 2015 22:33 UTC

5 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

Some Writings on Cause Selection

MichaelDickens8 Sep 2015 21:56 UTC

4 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

A Defense of Normality

EricHerboso7 Sep 2015 21:00 UTC

32 points

15 comments8 min readEA link