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Introduction to Effective Altruism

EA Handbook20 Mar 2020 16:27 UTC

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15 comments18 min readEA link

(www.effectivealtruism.org)

Notes on Effective Altruism

EA Handbook11 Jul 2022 23:00 UTC

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1 comment24 min readEA link

(michaelnotebook.com)

Scope Insensitivity

EA Handbook13 May 2007 23:08 UTC

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1 comment2 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Why you think you’re right—even when you’re wrong

EA Handbook27 Jul 2022 23:13 UTC

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(www.ted.com)

What cognitive biases feel like from the inside

EA Handbook27 Jul 2022 23:13 UTC

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6 comments5 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

The Possibility of an Ongoing Moral Catastrophe

EA Handbook7 Feb 2015 1:10 UTC

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0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.semanticscholar.org)

Why experts are terrified of a human-made pandemic — and what we can do to stop it

EA Handbook11 Apr 2022 23:00 UTC

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0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.vox.com)

More to explore on ‘Differences in Impact’

EA Handbook3 Jul 2022 23:00 UTC

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3 comments3 min readEA link

More to explore on ‘The Effectiveness Mindset’

EA Handbook13 Apr 2022 23:00 UTC

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Marginal Impact

EA Handbook8 Aug 2022 19:21 UTC

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3 comments1 min readEA link

(www.probablygood.org)

Responses to “The Logic of Effective Altruism”

EA Handbook1 Jul 2015 7:00 UTC

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0 comments13 min readEA link

Summary of 80,000 Hours’ key ideas

EA Handbook3 May 2022 23:00 UTC

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0 comments3 min readEA link

(80000hours.org)

Doing Good Better: On effective and ineffective altruism

EA Handbook27 May 2020 11:09 UTC

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0 comments10 min readEA link

Global health

EA Handbook31 May 2022 23:00 UTC

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(ourworldindata.org)

More to explore on ‘Putting it into Practice’

EA Handbook12 Jun 2022 23:00 UTC

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Want to help animals? Focus on corporate decisions, not people’s plates.

EA Handbook13 Feb 2019 0:00 UTC

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1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.vox.com)

[Question] Exercise for ‘Differences in Impact’

EA Handbook7 Jul 2022 17:48 UTC

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The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity (Kelsey Piper)

EA Handbook15 Oct 2020 7:00 UTC

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1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.vox.com)

Top open Metaculus forecasts

EA Handbook20 Jul 2022 23:00 UTC

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1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.metaculus.com)

Policymaking for Posterity

EA Handbook2 Sep 2008 1:39 UTC

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(www.nber.org)