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Scope Insensitivity

EA Handbook13 May 2007 23:08 UTC

36 points

1 comment2 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

Biotechnology and biosecurity

EA Handbook1 Sep 2008 7:00 UTC

10 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Policymaking for Posterity

EA Handbook2 Sep 2008 1:39 UTC

10 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.nber.org)

Pascal’s Mugging

EA Handbook1 Jul 2009 7:00 UTC

9 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(www.nickbostrom.com)

Another critique of effective altruism

EA Handbook5 Jan 2014 8:00 UTC

2 points

0 comments5 min readEA link

(www.lesswrong.com)

The Possibility of an Ongoing Moral Catastrophe

EA Handbook7 Feb 2015 1:10 UTC

17 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.semanticscholar.org)

Responses to “The Logic of Effective Altruism”

EA Handbook1 Jul 2015 7:00 UTC

14 points

0 comments13 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)

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)

Why “scout mindset” is crucial to good judgment (Julia Galef)

EA Handbook4 Apr 2016 7:00 UTC

5 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.youtube.com)

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

EA Handbook13 Feb 2019 0:00 UTC

12 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.vox.com)

Should animals, plants, and robots have the same rights as you?

EA Handbook4 Apr 2019 23:37 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.vox.com)

Introduction to Effective Altruism

EA Handbook20 Mar 2020 16:27 UTC

61 points

15 comments18 min readEA link

(www.effectivealtruism.org)

Doing Good Better: On effective and ineffective altruism

EA Handbook27 May 2020 11:09 UTC

12 points

0 comments10 min readEA link

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

EA Handbook15 Oct 2020 7:00 UTC

11 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

(www.vox.com)

The Case Against Speciesism

EA Handbook9 Nov 2020 1:00 UTC

10 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity

EA Handbook10 Nov 2020 0:00 UTC

9 points

0 comments1 min readEA link

(www.vox.com)

Objections to effective altruism

EA Handbook29 Dec 2020 8:00 UTC

4 points

2 comments7 min readEA link

(www.effectivealtruism.org)

Expanding Our Compassion: Interactive exercise

EA Handbook1 Jan 2021 8:14 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readEA link

Longtermism: Interactive exercise

EA Handbook1 Jan 2021 8:17 UTC

2 points

0 comments1 min readEA link