Peter Singer’s comment after Derek Parfit’s death: Peter Singer · January 2, 2017 at 7:56 pm With great sadness, I learned today … More
Category: Effective Altruism
In Memory of Aaron Swartz
From Holden Karnofsky, GiveWell co-founder and co-Executive Director: Note: this post is in memory of Aaron Swartz. Aaron was a … More
The Moral Value of the Far Future
Holden Karnofsky’s GiveWell blogpost on the Moral Value of the Far Future (March 18 2015): In brief: I broadly accept the … More
Life Involves A Leap Of Faith (William MacAskill and Peter Buffet Conversation about EA, Philanthropy, Bias)
Most interesting part (emphasis added): My primary academic work concerns how to take into account uncertainty over different ethical viewpoints. … More
Strangers Drowning
Just from the Guardian excerpt: There is one circumstance in which the extremity of do-gooders looks normal, and that is … More
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