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.
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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
Explore their words →
Every quote – by topic, by person, searchable. Read what they actually said.
Investigate the connections →
The people, orgs, and money behind the ideas – mapped as a network you can follow.
Every quote links to the post it came from, so you can read it in full. We stripped out anything the author was quoting from someone else, and we read the surrounding post to check they were stating their own view rather than arguing with it. This is a sample of what gets said, not everything.
EA Ideology, Legible · built from public LessWrong / EA Forum / Alignment Forum archives