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Bookmark or Share- Topics — Main Page — EA Forum - Effective altruismAt its core, effective altruism is about finding the best ways to do good and putting them into practice, but this motivates people to work on a wide variety of projects, for different reasons. We’ve organized different projects and areas of work by the answer to the following question: “ How does your work help the world?
- Effective Altruism ForumResearch, discussion, and updates on the world's most pressing problems. Including global health and development, animal welfare, AI safety, and biosecurity.
- The Effective Altruism Handbook — EA ForumEffective altruism is about helping others as much as you can. This is really difficult, but we’re making progress. And there are many outstanding ways to help. In fact, you can do much more good than you might realize. While the mission is simple, the details aren’t.
- EA Wins 2023 — EA Forum - Effective altruismExecutive summary: The effective altruism community had numerous impactful achievements in 2023, including a new malaria vaccine, upholding an animal welfare law, progress on AI safety going mainstream, results from a large UBI experiment, approval of cultivated meat, and shutting down a potentially dangerous virus-hunting program.
- The Ethics of Action and Inaction: Altruism ... - Effective altruismAltruism as an Obligation This thought experiment is offered in response to the common framing of helping others as an "obligation." Many in the Effective Altruism community reject this framing, finding it unhelpful. Instead, they prefer to think of altruism as a kind and commendable action, but not something that is morally required of us.
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