After the epic downfall of its most prominent backer, Silicon Valley’s favorite philanthropic philosophy — Effective Altruism ...

“Effective altruism posits that making money by (almost) any means necessary is OK because you … are so brilliant that you absolutely should have all the power implied by billions of dollars ...

Effective altruism is both a social movement and research agenda aimed at maximising the good done with one’s time and money. It counted 6,500 active members in 2019.

We conducted a large-scale field experiment in Granada, Spain, to assess the motivating effect on blood donation of matching each attempt to donate with a charitable contribution pledge for children ...

Culture. Pathological Altruism: The Road to Hell Really Is Often Paved With Good Intentions Argues New Study. Ronald Bailey | 6.19.2013 9:31 AM ...

I went to effective altruism’s first post-Sam Bankman-Fried conference. Here’s what I saw. EA faces a reckoning after the fall of a major donor, but its rank-and-file members haven’t given up.

The concept of altruism has been around for a long time, and for almost as long researchers have argued over the meaning of it. Some have suggested that true altruism doesn't even exist.

Effective altruism wants people to consider information security as a career: According to 80,000 Hours, a project started by EA leader William McCaskill, “securing the most advanced AI systems ...

SBF Faces Prison, but ‘Effective Altruism’ Lives On Proponents of the movement funded the Biden administration’s executive order hindering AI development. By ...

Schadenfreude is a survival emotion that activates pleasure circuits and decreases pain. So does altruism, if you make it accessible.