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Highlights
- Expected value
- Cause prioritization
- ITN framework
- Moral circle expansion
- Distribution of cost-effectiveness
Key concepts
- Expected value
- Counterfactual reasoning
- Cause prioritization
- ITN framework
- Other important concepts
- Systemic change
- Effective Giving (see a full list of pages related to effective giving here)
- Curses and hazards
Career choice
- Academia
- Ambition
- Career advising
- Career capital
- Career choice
- Career framework
- Coaching
- Data science
- Earning to give
- Effective altruism hiring
- Entrepreneurship
- Expertise
- Fellowships & internships
- Independent research
- Job profile
- Job satisfaction
- Operations
- Personal fit
- Public interest technology
- Replaceability
- Research careers
- Research training programs
- Role impact
- Software engineering
- Supportive conditions
- Working at EA vs. non-EA orgs
Fields of study and research methods
- Fields
- Game theory
- Economics
- Decision theory and Rationality
- Cognitive bias
- Credal resilience
- See a full list of pages related to decision theory and rationality here.
- Epistemology
- Disentanglement research
- History
- Information security
- Life sciences
- Medicine
- Statistics
- Progress studies
- Law
- International relations
- Journalism
- Different approaches to finding information
- Moral philosophy
- Key moral theories
- Non-humans
- Cluelessness
- Ethics of existential risk
- Hedonism
- Intrinsic value vs. instrumental value
- Longtermism
- Moral uncertainty
- Person-affecting views
- See a full list of pages related to moral philosophy here.