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Effective Altruism
Now, Here’s Something You Can Get Behind
Let’s start off with a link to their site:
They have a link on their site regarding their intro. Here’s a snippet from this long article:
“Effective altruism is a project that aims to find the best ways to help others, and put them into practice.
It’s both a research field, which aims to identify the world’s most pressing problems and the best solutions to them, and a practical community that aims to use those findings to do good.
This project matters because, while many attempts to do good fail, some are enormously effective. For instance, some charities help 100 or even 1,000 times as many people as others, when given the same amount of resources.
This means that by thinking carefully about the best ways to help, we can do far more to tackle the world’s biggest problems.”
So, they don’t just want to do good for the world. They want to do the most good possible with the fewest dollars. Now, that’s my kind of thinking. It’s like optimizing a math solution or a computer algorithm, except that you are doing it in the real world. Bravo!!
