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How does this kind of work help?The world (or, the global population) has better epistemics and a greater ability to coordinate, which means that it is broadly more robust and capable of responding to new problems.
Cruxes for prioritizing this kind of workEpistemics can be improved, and more coordination is good; people make good decisions, given the chance. 
Topic highlightsInstitutional decision-making, Forecasting, Meta-scienceMetascience
  • Cause prioritization
    • Cause-neutral prioritization research seeks to identify new promising focus areas and to compare their relative value.
  • Global health and development
    • Improving public health, reducing poverty, increasing economic growth, or finding new interventions to help the developing world.
  • Farmed animal welfare
    • Factory farming likely produces a lot of suffering; discussions around this topic explore the most promising interventions for helping farmed animals, different ways to study the problem, and more.
  • Wild animal welfare
    • Most animals are not domesticated; this topic explores their welfare and how we might be able to improve it.
  • AI risk
    • How dangerous we should expect advanced artificial intelligence to be, and possible paths for making it safer.
  • Biosecurity
    • How we can mitigate risks from viruses and bacteria, and avoid or relieve future pandemics.
  • Existential risk
    • Everything from discussions of specific risks, like those posed by new technologies or natural catastrophic events, to analyses of the impact of different approaches and interventions.
  • Building effective altruism
    • Making sure “effective altruism” actually does good.
  • Moral philosophy
    • A wide range of discussion topics around moral philosophy covers questions like “what is social impact?” and “How can we act when we’re uncertain about the consequences of our actions?”
  • Take action
    • Specific ways to take action based on the principles of effective altruism.
  • Career choice
    • Everything from overviews of the most important skills to develop to in-depth profiles or specific jobs.
  • Cause prioritization
    • Cause-neutral prioritization research seeks to identify new promising focus areas and to compare their relative value.
  • Community
    • Posts about the EA community and applying EA in one's personal life.
  • Core topics
  • Key concepts
  • Types of work in effective altruism
    • 1. Global health and development
    • 2. Animal welfare
    • 3. Mitigation of global risk factors
    • 4. Shaping the future
    • 5. Broad epistemics and coordination
    • 6. Philosophy, cause prioritization, and how to do good bettermethods for assessing effectiveness
    • 7. Building effective altruism
  • A list of all the topics on the EA Forum

Other pages of this type

You can also findpages that collect expanded lists of: 

Areas of work

  • Take actionGlobal health and development
    • SpecificImproving public health, reducing poverty, increasing economic growth, or finding new interventions to help the developing world.
  • Farmed animal welfare
    • Factory farming likely produces a lot of suffering; discussions around this topic explore the most promising interventions for helping farmed animals, different ways to take action based onstudy the principles of effective altruism.problem, and more.
  • Career choiceWild animal welfare
    • Most animals are not domesticated; this topic explores their welfare and how we might be able to improve it.
  • AI risk
    • How dangerous we should expect advanced artificial intelligence to be, and possible paths for making it safer.
  • Biosecurity
    • How we can mitigate risks from viruses and bacteria, and avoid or relieve future pandemics.
  • Existential risk
    • Everything from overviewsdiscussions of specific risks, like those posed by new technologies or natural catastrophic events, to analyses of the most important skills to develop to in-depth profiles or specific jobs.impact of different approaches and interventions.
  • Cause prioritizationBuilding effective altruism
    • Cause-neutral prioritization research seeks to identify new promising focus areas and to compare their relative value.Making sure “effective altruism” actually does good.
  • Moral philosophy
    • A wide range of discussion topics around moral philosophy covers questions like “what is social impact?” and “How can we act when we’re uncertain about the consequences of our actions?”

Relevant to the community

  • Global health and developmentTake action
    • Improving public health, reducing poverty, increasing economic growth, or finding new interventionsSpecific ways to helptake action based on the developing world.principles of effective altruism.
  • Farmed animal welfareCareer choice
    • Factory farming likely produces a lot of suffering; discussions around this topic explore the most promising interventions for helping farmed animals, different ways to study the problem, and more.
  • Wild animal welfare
    • Most animals are not domesticated; this topic explores their welfare and how we might be able to improve it.
  • Biosecurity
    • How we can mitigate risks from viruses and bacteria, and avoid or relieve future pandemics.
  • Existential risk
    • Everything from discussions of specific risks, like those posed by new technologies or natural catastrophic events, to analysesoverviews of the impact of different approaches and interventions.most important skills to develop to in-depth profiles or specific jobs.
  • AI riskCause prioritization
    • How dangerous we should expect advanced artificial intelligenceCause-neutral prioritization research seeks to be,identify new promising focus areas and possible paths for making it safer.to compare their relative value.
  • Building effective altruism
    • Making sure “effective altruism” actually does good.
  • Community
    • Posts about the EA community and applying EA in one's personal life.

We’ve organized different projects and areas of work by the answer to the following question: “How“How does your work help the world?” We’ve also noted some potential (non-exhaustive!) cruxes for prioritizing each kind of work.

6. Philosophy, cause prioritization, and how to do good bettermethods for assessing effectiveness

This is a sorted list of pages — known as “Topics” — in the EA Forum Wiki, which collects and explains topics relevant to discussions on the Effective Altruism Forum (this platform).[1] You can find out more about the Wiki and “Topics” in the Wiki FAQ.[1]2]

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    The pages are also tags that can be added to posts so that people can find posts on certain topics. You can upvote or downvote a tag for a given post to move it higher or lower in the list of posts on the corresponding topic's page. There are tagging instructions and guidelines.

    Topics were announced in this post — they were then known as “tags.” Discussions on proposals for new topics are found here. 

    More information on the Wiki

    • The Wiki FAQ explains the basics, including how to structure an article.
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  • Take action
    • Specific ways to take action based on the principles of effective altruism. 
  • Career choice
    • Everything from overviews of the most important skills to develop to in-depth profiles or specific jobs.
  • Cause prioritization
    • Cause-neutral prioritization research seeks to identify new promising focus areas and to compare their relative value. 
  • Moral philosophy
    • A wide range of discussion topics around moral philosophy covers questions like “what is social impact?” and “How can we act when we’re uncertain about the consequences of our actions?”
  • Global health and development
    • Improving public health, reducing poverty, increasing economic growth, or finding new interventions to help the developing world.
  • Farmed animal welfare
    • Factory farming likely produces a lot of suffering; discussions around this topic explore the most promising interventions for helping farmed animals, different ways to study the problem, and more. 
  • Wild animal welfare
    • Most animals are not domesticated; this topic explores their welfare and how we might be able to improve it. 
  • Biosecurity
    • How we can mitigate risks from viruses and bacteria, and avoid or relieve future pandemics. 
  • Existential risk
    • Everything from discussions of specific risks, like those posed by new technologies or natural catastrophic events, to analyses of the impact of different approaches and interventions. 
  • AI risk 
    • How dangerous we should expect advanced artificial intelligence to be, and possible paths for making it safer. 
  • Building effective altruism
    • Making sure “effective altruism” actually does good. 
  • Community
    • Posts about the EA community and applying EA in one's personal life.

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The articles are also tags that can be addedWiki, which collects and explains topics relevant to posts, so that people can find postsdiscussions on certain topicsthe Effective Altruism Forum (this platform). You can upvote or downvote a tag for a given post to move it higher or lowerfind out more about the Wiki and “Topics” in the list of postsWiki FAQ.

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