Introduction to EA | Ajeya Cotra | EAGxBerkeley 2016 (Video − 30 mins.)
Doing Good Better—Introduction through to the end of Chapter 3 (50 mins.)
Effective Altruism: An Introduction − 80,000 Hours—Ten curated episodes from The 80,000 Hours Podcast. (Ten 1.5 hour − 4 hour podcasts)
Effective altruism as I see it (7 mins.)
No matter your job, here’s 3 evidence-based ways anyone can have a real impact − 80,000 Hours (20 mins.)
Other-centered ethics and Harsanyi’s Aggregation Theorem (107 min)
The value of a life—Minding Our Own Way—Disentangling the difference between the value of a life and what it costs to save a life in our broken world. (15 mins.)
Excited altruism—GiveWell—Where does our own passion and excitement fit in? (10 mins.)
Tradeoffs—How can we balance our own needs with the needs of others? (5 mins.)
Famine, affluence, and morality (15 mins.) Note that many people in effective altruism disagree about exactly how demanding these ideas are.
Sustainable motivation—How can we stay motivated when facing massive problems (24 min talk)?
Minimal trust investigations (18 mins.)
Double crux: a strategy for mutual understanding (17 mins.)
Outline of Julia Galef’s “Scout Mindset” (20 mins.)
Humans are not automatically strategic (5 mins.)
Beware surprising and suspicious convergence (22 mins.)
Crucial Considerations and Wise Philanthropy (25 mins) - talk by Nick Bostrom on the almost overwhelming difficulty of knowing what kind of impacts actions have.
More to explore on ‘The Effectiveness Mindset’
Other introductions
Introduction to EA | Ajeya Cotra | EAGxBerkeley 2016 (Video − 30 mins.)
Doing Good Better—Introduction through to the end of Chapter 3 (50 mins.)
Effective Altruism: An Introduction − 80,000 Hours—Ten curated episodes from The 80,000 Hours Podcast. (Ten 1.5 hour − 4 hour podcasts)
Effective altruism as I see it (7 mins.)
No matter your job, here’s 3 evidence-based ways anyone can have a real impact − 80,000 Hours (20 mins.)
Other-centered ethics and Harsanyi’s Aggregation Theorem (107 min)
Essays on caring
The value of a life—Minding Our Own Way—Disentangling the difference between the value of a life and what it costs to save a life in our broken world. (15 mins.)
Excited altruism—GiveWell—Where does our own passion and excitement fit in? (10 mins.)
Tradeoffs
Tradeoffs—How can we balance our own needs with the needs of others? (5 mins.)
Famine, affluence, and morality (15 mins.) Note that many people in effective altruism disagree about exactly how demanding these ideas are.
Sustainable motivation—How can we stay motivated when facing massive problems (24 min talk)?
Thinking carefully
Minimal trust investigations (18 mins.)
Double crux: a strategy for mutual understanding (17 mins.)
Outline of Julia Galef’s “Scout Mindset” (20 mins.)
Humans are not automatically strategic (5 mins.)
Beware surprising and suspicious convergence (22 mins.)
Crucial Considerations and Wise Philanthropy (25 mins) - talk by Nick Bostrom on the almost overwhelming difficulty of knowing what kind of impacts actions have.