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Global health and development

• Aid and paternalism

• Burden of disease

• Cash transfers

• Deworming

• Economic growth

• Education

• Family planning

• Foreign aid

• Foreign aid skepticism

• Global health and wellbeing

• Global poverty

• Immigration reform

• Malaria

• Mass distribution of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets

• Micronutrient deficiencies

• Research into neglected tropical diseases

• Snakebite

• Smallpox Eradication Programme

• Tobacco control

• Universal basic income

Global Catastrophic Risk (other)

• Antibiotic resistance

• Asteroids

• Biosecurity

• Biosurveillance

• Civilizational collapse

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Climate change

• Climate engineering

• Conservation

• Dystopia

• Emergency response

• Existential risks from fundamental physics research

• Geomagnetic storms

• Great power conflict

• Human extinction

• Manhattan Project

• Metagenomics

• Nuclear disarmament movement

• Nuclear energy

• Nuclear security

• Nuclear warfare

• Nuclear winter

• Pandemic preparedness

• Russell–Einstein Manifesto

• Technology race

• Terrorism

• Trinity

• Supervolcano

• Weapons of mass destruction

Animal welfare

• Animal product alternatives

• Corporate cage-free campaigns

• Crustacean welfare

• Cultivated meat

• Dietary change

• Farmed animal welfare

• Fish welfare

• Invertebrate welfare

• Logic of the larder

• Meat-eater problem

• Speciesism

• Welfare biology

• Wild animal welfare

Building effective altruism

• Altruistic motivation

• Community

• Competitive debating

• Consultancy

• Effective altruism education

• Effective altruism groups

• Effective altruism in the media

• Effective altruism messaging

• Effective altruism outreach in schools

• Event strategy

• Field building

• Fundraising

• Global outreach

• Moral advocacy

• Movement collapse

• Network building

• Public giving

• Request for proposal

• Scalably using labour

• Teaching materials

• Value drift

• Value of movement growth

Other causes

• Aging research

• Air pollution

• Armed conflict

• Autonomous weapon

• Biodiversity loss

• Cause candidates

• Cause X

• Cluster headache

• Cognitive decline

• Cognitive enhancement

• COVID-19 pandemic

• Criminal justice reform

• Electoral reform

• Global priorities research

• Human challenge trials

• Improving institutional decision-making

• Land use reform

• Less-discussed causes

• Local priorities research

• Mental health

• Metascience

• Moral circle expansion

• Near-term AI ethics

• Research

• Risks from malevolent actors

• Space colonization

Global Catastrophic Risk (AI)

• AI alignment

• AI boxing

• AI forecasting

• AI governance

• AI interpretability

• AI race

• AI safety

• AI skepticism

• AI takeoff

• AI winter

• Alignment tax

• Anthropic capture

• Artificial intelligence

• Artificial sentience

• Basic AI drive

• Brain-computer interfaces

• Capability control method

• Collective superintelligence

• Compute governance

• Comprehensive AI Services

• Computation hazard

• Cooperative AI

• Economics of artificial intelligence

• Ethics of artificial intelligence

• Human-level artificial intelligence

• Indirect normativity

• Infrastructure profusion

• Instrumental convergence thesis

• Intelligence explosion

• Malignant AI failure mode

• Mind crime

• Motivation selection method

• Oracle AI

• Orthogonality thesis

• Perverse instantiation

• Quality superintelligence

• Quantum computing

• Sovereign AI

• Speed superintelligence

• Superintelligence

• Tabletop exercises

• Tool AI

• Whole brain emulation

• Windfall Clause

Moral Philosophy

• Animal cognition

• Animal sentience

• Applied ethics

• Astronomical waste

• Axiology

• Bioethics

• Classical utilitarianism

• Cluelessness

• Consciousness research

• Consequentialism

• Cosmopolitanism

• Demandingness of morality

• Deontology

• Equal consideration of interests

• Ethics of existential risk

• Ethics of personal consumption

• Excited vs. obligatory altruism

• Future of humanity

• Hedonism

• Hedonium

• Infinite ethics

• Intrinsic value vs. instrumental value

• Introspective hedonism

• Intuition of neutrality

• Longtermism

• Metaethics

• Moral offsetting

• Moral patienthood

• Moral uncertainty

• Moral weight

• Naive vs. sophisticated consequentialism

• Negative utilitarianism

• Non-wellbeing sources of value

• Normative ethics

• Normative uncertainty

• Other moral theories

• Pain and suffering

• Patient altruism

• Person-affecting views

• Personal identity

• Philosophy of mind

• Population ethics

• Prioritarianism

• Repugnant conclusion

• Sentience

• Subjective wellbeing

• Suffering-focused ethics

• Supererogation

• Total view

• Universe’s resources

• Utilitarianism

• Valence

• Virtue ethics

• Welfarism

• Wellbeing

Long-term risks and flourishing

• Alternative food

• Anthropogenic existential risk

• Anthropic shadow

• Broad vs. narrow interventions

• Compound existential risk

• Decisive strategic advantage

• Defense in depth

• Differential progress

• Estimation of existential risk

• Existential catastrophe

• Existential risk

• Existential risk factor

• Existential security

• Fermi paradox

• Flourishing futures

• Global catastrophic risk

• Global catastrophic biological risk

• Great Filter

• Hellish existential catastrophe

• Hinge of history

• Indirect long-term effects

• Long reflection

• Long-term future

• Longtermist institutional reform

• Natural existential risk

• Non-humans and the long-term future

• Offense-defense balance

• S-risk

• Singleton

• SPC framework

• Speeding up development

• Spillover effects

• State vs. step risk

• Technological completion conjecture

• Time of perils

• Timing of existential risk mitigation

• Total existential risk

• Trajectory changes

• Transformative development

• Transhumanism

• Unknown existential risk

• Unprecedented risks

• Value lock-in

• Vulnerable world hypothesis

• Warning shot

Decision Theory and Rationality

• Acausal trade

• Alternatives to expected value theory

• Altruistic coordination

• Altruistic wager

• Anthropics

• Bayesian epistemology

• Cause neutrality

• Cause prioritization

• Cognitive bias

• Counterfactual reasoning

• Credal resilience

• Crucial consideration

• Crux

• Debunking argument

• Decision theory

• Decision-theoretic uncertainty

• Definition of effective altruism

• Disentanglement research

• Doomsday argument

• Epistemic deference

• Epistemology

• Evolution heuristic

• Expected value

• Explore-exploit tradeoff

• Fanaticism

• Fermi estimate

• Forecasting

• Game theory

• Ideological Turing test

• Information hazard

• Inside vs. outside view

• Instrumental vs. epistemic rationality

• Intervention evaluation

• Long-range forecasting

• Macrostrategy

• Marginal charity

• Means neutrality

• Measuring and comparing value

• Model uncertainty

• Models

• Moral cooperation

• Moral psychology

• Moral trade

• Neutrality

• Operations research

• Optimizer’s curse

• Prediction markets

• Principle of epistemic deference

• Psychology research

• Randomized controlled trials

• Reasoning transparency

• Research methods

• Resource tradeoffs

• Reversal test

• Risk aversion

• Scope neglect

• Sequence vs. cluster thinking

• Simulation argument

• Statistical methods

• Status quo bias

• Thinking at the margin

• Unilateralist’s curse

• Value of information

Economics and finance

• Adjusted life year

• Blockchain technology

• Cost-benefit analysis

• Divestment

• Economics

• Impact investing

• International trade

• Macroeconomic policy

• Mechanism design

• Microfinance

• Public goods

• Welfare economics

Politics, Policy, and Culture

• Antitrust law

• Ballot initiative

• California effect

• Conflict theory vs. mistake theory

• Corruption

• Cultural evolution

• Cultural lag

• Cultural persistence

• Democracy

• Electoral politics

• Global governance

• International organization

• International relations

• Journalism

• Law

• Leadership

• Misinformation

• Peace and conflict studies

• Polarity

• Policy

• Political polarization

• Population decline

• Progress studies

• Safeguarding liberal democracy

• Social and intellectual movements

• Space governance

• Standards and regulation

• Systemic change

• Surveillance

• Totalitarianism

Effective Giving

• Cash transfers

• Certificate of impact

• Charity evaluation

• Constraints on effective altruism

• Cost-effectiveness

• Cost-effectiveness analysis

• Diminishing returns

• Distribution of cost-effectiveness

• Donation choice

• Donation matching

• Donation pledge

• Donation writeup

• Donor lotteries

• Effective altruism funding

• Funding high-impact for-profits

• Giving and happiness

• Impact assessment

• Importance

• Interpersonal comparisons of wellbeing

• Investing

• ITN framework

• Market efficiency of philanthropy

• Markets for altruism

• Neglectedness

• Org strategy

• Philanthropic coordination

• Philanthropic diversification

• Problem framework

• Room for more funding

• Socially responsible investing

• Temporal discounting

• Theory of change

• Timing of philanthropy

• Tractability

• Volunteering

• Workplace advocacy

• Workplace groups

Other

• Ambition

• Atomically precise manufacturing

• Biotechnology

• China

• Computational power of the human brain

• Computronium

• Corruption

• Cryonics

• Dual-use

• Environmental science

• European Union

• Extraterrestrial intelligence

• Fabianism

• Gene drives

• Grabby aliens

• History

• India

• Information security

• Iterated embryo selection

• Kidney donation

• Life sciences

• Low- and middle-income countries

• Medicine

• Nonprofit governance

• North Korea

• Obituary

• Philippines

• Philosophic Radicals

• Productivity

• Public relations

• Queen’s Lane Coffee House

• Rationality community

• Red teaming

• Religion

• Russia

• Scientific progress

• Semiconductors

• Ukraine

• United States

• Utilitarian Society

• Transparency

Effective Altruism Forum

• Open thread

• Wikis

Criticism

• Criticism of effective altruist causes

• Criticism of effective altruism

• Criticism of effective altruist organizations

• Criticism of longtermism and existential risk studies

Prizes and bounties

• Bounty (open)

• Bounty (closed)

• Community Builder Writing Contest

• Creative Writing Contest

• Critiques and Red Teaming Contest

• Forum prize

• Prize

Moods

• April Fools’ Day

• Humor

• Motivational

Newsletters

• Alignment Newsletter

• Effective Altruism Newsletter

• Forecasting Newsletter

• Future Matters

• Giving What We Can Newsletter

• Monthly Overload of Effective Altruism

Resources

• Application announcements

• Asterisk

• Collections and resources

• Community infrastructure

• Data (EA community)

• EA Librarian

• EA Organization Updates

• Effective altruism in French

• Effective altruism in Spanish

• Funding request

• Funding opportunities

• Introduction to effective altruism

• Job listing (closed)

• Job listing (open)

• Job profile

• Practical

• Quotes

• Requests (closed)

• Requests (open)

• Research summary

Effective altruism culture

• Community experiences

• Discussion norms

• Diversity and inclusion

• Effective altruism lifestyle

• Philosophy of effective altruism

Podcasts

• 80,000 Hours Podcast

• Hear This Idea

History

• History of effective altruism

• History of existential risk

• History of philanthropy

Personal

• Parenting

• Personal development

• Personal finance

• Self-care