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I worry that the effective altruism movement scares people off because it seems hard.  As one friend put it, "It sounds very dreary, l...

This week, while everybody was watching videos of a meteor in Russia, a larger asteroid passed by the earth. It might hit us next time it...

I was interested to hear a friend advocate a tool against world poverty that I hadn't thought of: immigration. The World Bank  estimat...

I was interested to see this end-of-year charity contest : you tell how you would allocate money between GiveWell's top charities, and t...

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I'm a social worker in a jail. Today one of the inmates showed an untrained but intricate drawing to my colleague. "This is amaz...