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Effective Altruism Summit: Day 3
This week is roughly divided into "effective altruism days" and "rationality days"; Tuesday was technically an effective altruism day, although I learnt a lot about rationality!…
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Effective Altruism Summit: Day 2
Just a short post for Day 2, as we did applied rationality training which I will write about as a whole after we have completed all…
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Effective Altruism Summit: Day 1
I am living in a house in the San Francisco Bay Area with 75 other effective altruists. If our hosts had simply shut us in and…
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The iTunes of charitable giving
When I took the pledge to give 1% of my income to charities fighting global poverty, I suddenly found myself thrust into a giant research project.…
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Giving Cheerfully
I have just come across Julia Wise's blog "Giving Gladly". She is spending a lot of time thinking how best to live as an effective altruist.…
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ENOUGH FOOD FOR EVERYONE. PERIOD.
The Life You Can Save has recently joined the Enough Food For Everyone IF campaign. The name is often abbreviated to "the IF campaign", but I…
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Personal Best
As Co-Director of The Life You Can Save, I am trying very hard to stop eating sugar (metaphorically speaking) – I am trying to cut back…
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“But I’m not doing enough!” Dealing with guilt as an effective altruist.
Peter Singer’s message is a powerful one. So powerful, in fact, that it makes many people feel that there is no limit to what they should…
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How to live on $1.50 a day
The Live Below the Line Challenge takes lots of planning. The challenge is designed to raise funds and awareness toward ending global poverty, by asking folks…
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Launch of new website and TED talk
Welcome to our new website! We would like to launch our new blog by featuring the recent TED talk given by our founder, Peter Singer, about…