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Four focus areas of effective altruism
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The link to Less Wrong goes to effective-altruism.com instead.

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Parenthood and effective altruism
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It looks like all the footnote links in this post go to a non-existent file instead of to the footnotes at the end.

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Sorry about that. I'm currently working on fixing this problem.
The history of the term 'effective altruism'
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I think it's funny that I have been involved in EA since before the term came into popular use, but I can't remember it ever not being called "effective altruism."

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Where I'm giving and why: Peter Hurford
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> Given all the uncertainties, do you honestly think that in 10 years' time the choice of which charity(ies) to fund will be significantly clearer than it is today?

I think it will be significantly clearer in 2-3 years. GiveWell only started fairly recently; for charities outside of GiveWell's field of vision, especially those that focus on non-human animals, serious charity evaluation (i.e. Effective Animal Activism) has existed for less than two years IIRC.

We're learning rapidly, and we still have a lot to learn. In all likelihood, there exist opport... (read more)

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