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The Effec(cid:2462)ve Altruism Handbook The Effec(cid:2462)ve Altruism Handbook EditedbyRyanCarey Publishedin2015bythe CentreForEffectiveAltruism Oxford,Oxfordshire UnitedKingdon centreforeffectivealtruism.org Newandreprintedessaysinthiscompilation arethepropertyoftheoriginalauthororpublisher andarepublishedherewiththeirkindpermission. ThanksalsotoPeterOrr,whohelpedsubstantiallyby copyeditingthisbook. iv Contents Introduction viii I WHATISEFFECTIVEALTRUISM? 1 TheDrowningChildandtheExpandingCircle PeterSinger 3 2 WhatisEffectiveAltruism? WilliamMacAskill 11 3 ScopeNeglect EliezerYudkowsky 14 4 Tradeoffs JuliaWise 19 II CHARITYEVALUATION 5 EfficientCharity: DoUntoOthers ScottAlexander 25 6 “Efficiency”MeasuresMissthePoint DanPallotta 32 7 HowNottoBea“WhiteinShiningArmor” HoldenKarnofsky 35 8 EstimationIstheBestWeHave KatjaGrace 39 9 OurUpdatedTopCharities ElieHassenfeld 42 III CAREERCHOICE 10 Don’tGetaJobataCharity: WorkonWallStreet WilliamMacAskill 67 Contents 11 HighImpactScience CarlShulman 71 12 HowtoAssesstheImpactofaCareer BenTodd 76 IV CAUSESELECTION 13 YourDollarGoesFurtherOverseas GiveWell 83 14 TheHasteConsideration MattWage 85 15 PreventingHumanExtinction NickBeckstead,PeterSinger&MattWage 88 16 Speciesism PeterSinger 95 17 FourFocusAreasofEffectiveAltruism LukeMuehlhauser 99 V ORGANIZATIONS 18 GiveWell GiveWell 109 19 GivingWhatWeCan MichelleHutchinson,ExecutiveDirector 114 20 TheLifeYouCanSave CharlieBresler,ExecutiveDirector 117 21 80,000Hours BenTodd,Co-founderandExecutiveDirector 120 22 CharityScience XiomaraKikauka,Co-founder 124 23 EffectiveAltruismFoundation AdrianoMannino,PresidentandJonasVollmer,Execu- tiveDirector 127 24 TheMachineIntelligenceResearchInstitute LukeMuehlhauser,ExecutiveDirector 131 25 AnimalCharityEvaluators JonBockman,ExecutiveDirector 134 Afterword 139 Introduc(cid:2462)on PeterSingerandWilliamMacAskill Welcome to the effective altruism community! You’re about to find out about what we think is the world’s most exciting andimportantnewsocialmovement. What is effec(cid:2462)ve altruism? Effectivealtruismisagrowingcommunitybasedaroundthe ideaofaimingtodothemostgoodthatonecan. Itinvolves: 1. Being open to all the possible ways to do good and pursuingthepathwiththebiggestpositiveimpact; 2. Using evidence to figure out how to do the most good; and 3. Choosingtomakealtruismasignificantpartofone’slife. What does that mean? You have approximately 80,000 working hours in your life. Whilethismightfeellikealot,it’snotmuchwhencompared to the scale of the problems in the world, such as extreme viii

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The label “effective altruism” became official when the Centre for Effective Altruism was founded in December 2011.TheuseofthetermincreasedconsiderablywhenPeter
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