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

Benjamin_Todd21 Sep 2015 2:27 UTC
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A min­i­mal defi­ni­tion of Effec­tive Altru­ism:

AlasdairGives20 Sep 2015 18:43 UTC
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Char­i­ties I Would Like to See

MichaelDickens20 Sep 2015 15:22 UTC
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Effec­tive Altru­ism and Reli­gious Faiths: Mu­tu­ally Ex­clu­sive En­tities, or an Im­por­tant Nexus to Ex­plore?

sophieritchie20 Sep 2015 12:50 UTC
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See the dark world

So8res20 Sep 2015 5:00 UTC
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My Cause Selec­tion: Michael Dickens

MichaelDickens15 Sep 2015 23:29 UTC
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Might wire­head­ers turn into pa­per­clip­pers?

Lila13 Sep 2015 21:11 UTC
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Septem­ber Open Thread

RyanCarey13 Sep 2015 14:22 UTC
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Should peo­ple be al­lowed to ear-mark their taxes to spe­cific policy ar­eas for a price?

Stefan_Schubert13 Sep 2015 11:01 UTC
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Be­ing un­able to despair

So8res13 Sep 2015 5:00 UTC
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You Can Now Make Any Event a Fundraiser for Effec­tive Charities

Joey 🔸12 Sep 2015 18:17 UTC
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The term “Ve­gan” needs to evolve

jonathonsmith12 Sep 2015 17:59 UTC
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A new re­sponse to effec­tive altruism

Benjamin_Todd12 Sep 2015 4:25 UTC
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Effec­tive Altru­ism’s fact-value sep­a­ra­tion as a weapon against poli­ti­cal bias

Stefan_Schubert11 Sep 2015 14:58 UTC
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Poli­ti­cal De­bi­as­ing and the Poli­ti­cal Bias Test

Stefan_Schubert11 Sep 2015 14:52 UTC
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On Values Spreading

MichaelDickens11 Sep 2015 3:57 UTC
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Cause se­lec­tion: a flowchart [link]

Owen Cotton-Barratt10 Sep 2015 11:52 UTC
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Re­duc­ing Catas­trophic Risks: A Prac­ti­cal Introduction

RyanCarey9 Sep 2015 22:33 UTC
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Some Writ­ings on Cause Selection

MichaelDickens8 Sep 2015 21:56 UTC
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A Defense of Normality

EricHerboso7 Sep 2015 21:00 UTC
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To Grow, Hit the Brakes (Why Con­ver­sion Rate Mat­ters So Much and Means EA is Not Do­ing Any­where Close to as Well as We Think)

Josh Jacobson7 Sep 2015 17:12 UTC
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Re­sid­ing in the mor­tal realm

So8res6 Sep 2015 5:00 UTC
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Per­ma­nent So­cietal Im­prove­ments

Larks6 Sep 2015 1:30 UTC
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EA Lon­don Strat­egy Quarterly

DavidNash5 Sep 2015 21:48 UTC
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In­tro­duc­ing the EA Assembly

Clifford3 Sep 2015 21:36 UTC
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The Re­dun­dancy of Quantity

Dawn Drescher3 Sep 2015 17:47 UTC
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My Cause Selec­tion: De­nis Drescher

Dawn Drescher2 Sep 2015 11:28 UTC
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Do­ing Good Bet­ter—In­tro­duc­tion through to the end of Chap­ter 3.

Jesse Rothman1 Sep 2015 23:00 UTC
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His­tory of Philan­thropy Case Study: The Im­pact of Philan­thropy on the Pas­sage of the Afford­able Care Act

Milan_Griffes1 Sep 2015 10:25 UTC
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There are no “bad peo­ple”

So8res30 Aug 2015 5:00 UTC
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Jess Whit­tle­stone: Ra­tion­al­ity and effec­tive altruism

EA Global28 Aug 2015 17:21 UTC
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Grace Hol­lister: Let’s de­worm the world

EA Global28 Aug 2015 17:21 UTC
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Hilary Greaves, Peter Singer, David Pearce, & Justin Oak­ley: Philos­o­phy and effec­tive altruism

EA Global28 Aug 2015 17:21 UTC
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Sam Deere: Effec­tive policy change

EA Global28 Aug 2015 17:21 UTC
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Peter Singer: Non-hu­man an­i­mal ethics

EA Global28 Aug 2015 17:21 UTC
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Sam Deere: Giv­ing what we can to erad­i­cate global poverty

EA Global28 Aug 2015 17:21 UTC
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Kerry Vaughan: Be greedy for the most good you can do

EA Global28 Aug 2015 16:14 UTC
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Niel Bow­er­man: Astro­nom­i­cal stakes

EA Global28 Aug 2015 16:14 UTC
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Leon Di Ste­fano: Chris­ti­an­ity and effec­tive altruism

EA Global28 Aug 2015 16:14 UTC
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Hilary Greaves: Repug­nant interventions

EA Global28 Aug 2015 16:14 UTC
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David Pearce: Abo­li­tion­ist bioethics

EA Global28 Aug 2015 16:14 UTC
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Ben Hoff­man: Ra­tion­al­ity II

EA Global28 Aug 2015 15:37 UTC
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Will MacAskill: State of the effec­tive al­tru­ism union

EA Global28 Aug 2015 15:37 UTC
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Jonathan Court­ney, Ben Kuhn, Ajeya Co­tra, Chris Jenk­ins, & Aaron Tucker: Run­ning a chapter

EA Global28 Aug 2015 15:37 UTC
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Matt Fal­lshaw: Ra­tion­al­ity I

EA Global28 Aug 2015 15:25 UTC
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Nick Beck­stead: Pri­ori­ti­za­tion research

EA Global28 Aug 2015 15:25 UTC
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Matthew Gentzel: Policy change III

EA Global28 Aug 2015 15:25 UTC
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Ra­jesh Mir­chan­dani: Policy change II

EA Global28 Aug 2015 15:25 UTC
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Justin Oak­ley: Virtue ethics and effec­tive altruism

EA Global28 Aug 2015 9:21 UTC
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Peter Singer: The most good you should do

EA Global28 Aug 2015 9:21 UTC
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