The intellectual movement that calls itself longtermism is an outgrowth of Effective Altruism (EA), a utilitarianism-inspired philanthropic programme founded just over a decade ago by Oxford philosophers Toby Ord and William MacAskill. EA, which claims to guide charitable giving to ...| Radical Philosophy
It sounds obvious that it's better to help two people than one if the cost is the same. However, when applied to the world today, this obvious-sounding idea leads to surprising conclusions. In short, we believe we need a new approach to having an impact: effective altruism. Modern levels of wealth and technology have given some members of the present generation potentially enormous abilities to help others, while our common-sense views of what it means to be a good person have not caught up w...| 80,000 Hours
Socialism is the most effective altruism. Who needs anything else? The repugnant philosophy of “Effective Altruism” offers nothing to movements for global justice.| www.currentaffairs.org
It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity’s future. It’s now richly funded and increasingly dangerous| Aeon
We argue that operations management is among the highest-impact roles in the effective altruism and existential risk communities right now, and address common misconceptions about the roles.| 80,000 Hours
Update April 2019: We think that our use of the term 'talent gaps' in this post (and elsewhere) has caused some confusion. We've written a post clarifying what we meant by the term and addressing some misconceptions that our use of it may have caused. Most importantly, we now think it's much more useful to talk about specific skills and abilities that are important constraints on particular problems rather than talking about 'talent constraints' in general terms. This page may be misleading i...| 80,000 Hours
Texts on this and that.| Erich Grunewald's Blog
It’s easy to give away part of your income when you have a mansion in the Bahamas or multi-million-dollar budgets to promote your brand.| Truthdig