Effective Altruism,
in their own words.
A movement that began with charity math. Keep scrolling to see where the reasoning goes — every line below is a real, verbatim quote from its forums.
It started reasonably enough. Do the most good you can. Measure it. Give where a dollar goes furthest — bed nets, vaccines, deworming.
Then you follow the logic a little further. And a little further. And it keeps going.
This is effective altruism.
Two ways to go deeper
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