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Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 7,896 ratings — published 2015
The Precipice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,025 ratings — published 2020
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,886 ratings — published 2009
80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,030 ratings — published 2016
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,824 ratings — published 2015
What We Owe the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.82 — 6,429 ratings — published 2022
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.85 — 21,006 ratings — published 2014
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,935 ratings — published 2015
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,429 ratings — published 2011
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,953 ratings — published 2019
Famine, Affluence, and Morality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,265 ratings — published 1972
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,857 ratings — published 2021
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,914 ratings — published 2020
Effective Altruism Handbook (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.05 — 145 ratings — published 2015
How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,191 ratings — published 2017
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.36 — 201,963 ratings — published 2018
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.08 — 22,238 ratings — published 2015
Practical Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,534 ratings — published 1979
The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.07 — 525 ratings — published 2018
Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,965 ratings — published 2016
Animal Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,317 ratings — published 1975
Reasons and Persons (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,894 ratings — published 1984
Global Catastrophic Risks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.97 — 273 ratings — published 2008
Avoiding the Worst: How to Prevent a Moral Catastrophe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.29 — 63 ratings — published
Moral Uncertainty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.13 — 78 ratings — published
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.58 — 6,509 ratings — published 2016
Rationality: From AI to Zombies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,781 ratings — published 2015
The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.02 — 621 ratings — published 1981
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.83 — 35,703 ratings — published 2023
Effective Altruism. Philosophical Issues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.40 — 15 ratings — published
The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 7 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.23 — 894 ratings — published 2005
Effective Altruism: How Can We Best Help Others? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.26 — 46 ratings — published 2018
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.38 — 18,507 ratings — published 2015
Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.53 — 1,275 ratings — published 2023
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 3,742 ratings — published 1985
Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.30 — 122 ratings — published 2020
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.20 — 32,366 ratings — published 2018
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.17 — 589,403 ratings — published 2011
Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.87 — 165 ratings — published 1996
Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.63 — 799 ratings — published
How to Launch a High-Impact Nonprofit (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.68 — 93 ratings — published
The Replacing Guilt Series (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.40 — 296 ratings — published
What Should We Do?: Essays on Cause Prioritization and Fundamental Values (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.67 — 6 ratings — published
Essays on Reducing Suffering (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 5 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.80 — 40 ratings — published
The Rationalist's Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity's Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.84 — 418 ratings — published 2019
Can Biotechnology Abolish Suffering? (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.04 — 48 ratings — published
Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.75 — 10,728 ratings — published 2024
Questioning Beneficence: Four Philosophers on Effective Altruism and Doing Good (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.23 — 562 ratings — published 2024
The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does: Critical Essays on Effective Altruism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.27 — 48 ratings — published
“Effective altruism is about asking "How can I make the biggest difference I can?" and using evidence and careful reasoning to try to find an answer. It takes a scientific approach to doing good. Just as science consists of the honest and impartial attempt to work out what's true, and a committment to believe the truth whatever that turns out to be. As the phrase suggests, effective altruism consists of the honest and impartial attempt to work out what's best for the world, and a commitment to do what's best, whatever that turns out to be.”
― Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
― Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
“Another common recommendation is to turn lights off when you leave a room, but lighting accounts for only 3% of household energy use, so even if you used no lighting at all in your house you would save only a fraction of a metric ton of carbon emissions. Plastic bags have also been a major focus of concern, but even on very generous estimates, if you stopped using plastic bags entirely you'd cut out 10kg CO2eq per year, which is only 0.4% of your total emissions. Similarly, the focus on buying locally produced goods is overhyped: only 10% of the carbon footprint of food comes from transportation whereas 80% comes from production, so what type of food you buy is much more important than whether that food is produced locally or internationally. Cutting out red meat and dairy for one day a week achieves a greater reduction in your carbon footprint than buying entirely locally produced food. In fact, exactly the same food can sometimes have higher carbon footprint if it's locally grown than if it's imported: one study found that the carbon footprint from locally grown tomatoes in northern Europe was five times as great as the carbon footprint from tomatoes grown in Spain because the emissions generated by heating and lighting greenhouses dwarfed the emissions generated by transportation.”
― Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
― Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
