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Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,009 ratings — published 2015
The Precipice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,160 ratings — published 2020
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,953 ratings — published 2009
80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 45 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,188 ratings — published 2016
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics, and Economics)
by (shelved 42 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,875 ratings — published 2015
What We Owe the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,580 ratings — published 2022
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.85 — 21,422 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 — 2,980 ratings — published 2015
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,860 ratings — published 2011
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,088 ratings — published 2019
Famine, Affluence, and Morality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,311 ratings — published 1972
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,080 ratings — published 2021
Effective Altruism Handbook (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.03 — 148 ratings — published 2015
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.33 — 5,200 ratings — published 2020
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 4.35 — 204,653 ratings — published 2018
How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,203 ratings — published 2017
Practical Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,583 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 — 533 ratings — published 2018
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.08 — 22,676 ratings — published 2015
Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,082 ratings — published 2016
Reasons and Persons (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,955 ratings — published 1984
Animal Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,451 ratings — published 1975
Global Catastrophic Risks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.97 — 278 ratings — published 2008
Avoiding the Worst: How to Prevent a Moral Catastrophe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.26 — 66 ratings — published
Moral Uncertainty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.12 — 81 ratings — published
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.57 — 6,639 ratings — published 2016
Rationality: From AI to Zombies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,801 ratings — published 2015
The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.01 — 641 ratings — published 1981
Effective Altruism: How Can We Best Help Others? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.19 — 48 ratings — published 2018
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.84 — 36,675 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 — 900 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.38 — 18,758 ratings — published 2015
Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,419 ratings — published 2023
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,764 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 4.19 — 32,825 ratings — published 2018
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.17 — 603,879 ratings — published 2011
Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.86 — 166 ratings — published 1996
Questioning Beneficence (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.62 — 857 ratings — published
How to Launch a High-Impact Nonprofit (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.69 — 98 ratings — published
The Replacing Guilt Series (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.38 — 299 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 3.83 — 429 ratings — published 2019
Can Biotechnology Abolish Suffering? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.98 — 49 ratings — published
Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.76 — 12,956 ratings — published 2024
Effective Altruism: An Introduction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.83 — 6 ratings — published
Effective Altruism and the Human Mind: The Clash Between Impact and Intuition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.38 — 40 ratings — published
“... the reality is that we do not live in a world in which most people are strongly dedicated to the aim of reducing suffering for all sentient beings — at least not in terms of their actual behavior. However, most people probably are willing to support policies that reduce suffering if only the cost is sufficiently low to them personally, which suggests that a promising strategy for those who are most dedicated to reducing suffering is to tap into this vast reservoir of potential support, making marginal pushes in just the right places such that our efforts inspire broad support rather than broad hostility.”
― Reasoned Politics
― Reasoned Politics
“You know what? This isn't about your feelings. A human life, with all its joys and all its pains, adding up over the course of decades, is worth far more than your brain's feelings of comfort or discomfort with a plan. Does computing the expected utility feel too cold-blooded for your taste? Well, that feeling isn't even a feather in the scales, when a life is at stake. Just shut up and multiply.”
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