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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 — 8,056 ratings — published 2015
The Precipice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 5,208 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 — 6,995 ratings — published 2009
80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,282 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 3.79 — 3,891 ratings — published 2015
What We Owe the Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 6,622 ratings — published 2022
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 21,547 ratings — published 2014
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 2,993 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 — 25,008 ratings — published 2011
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,129 ratings — published 2019
Famine, Affluence, and Morality (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,335 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 4.08 — 7,175 ratings — published 2021
Effective Altruism Handbook (ebook)
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avg rating 4.01 — 149 ratings — published 2015
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.33 — 5,299 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 — 205,637 ratings — published 2018
How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,215 ratings — published 2017
Practical Ethics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 3,602 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 — 534 ratings — published 2018
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 22,866 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 — 5,117 ratings — published 2016
Reasons and Persons (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,972 ratings — published 1984
Animal Liberation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 11,513 ratings — published 1975
Global Catastrophic Risks (Hardcover)
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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 CLOTH (Hardcover)
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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 — 6,687 ratings — published 2016
Rationality: From AI to Zombies (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,809 ratings — published 2015
The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.01 — 646 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 — 37,010 ratings — published 2023
Effective Altruism. Philosophical Issues (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.38 — 16 ratings — published
The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 7 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.23 — 904 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.38 — 18,838 ratings — published 2015
Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.52 — 1,477 ratings — published 2023
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 3,771 ratings — published 1985
Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 124 ratings — published 2020
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 32,939 ratings — published 2018
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 609,572 ratings — published 2011
Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 168 ratings — published 1996
Questioning Beneficence (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.62 — 877 ratings — published
How to Launch a High-Impact Nonprofit (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.68 — 99 ratings — published
The Replacing Guilt Series (ebook)
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avg rating 4.38 — 305 ratings — published
What Should We Do?: Essays on Cause Prioritization and Fundamental Values (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.67 — 6 ratings — published
Essays on Reducing Suffering (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.81 — 42 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 — 430 ratings — published 2019
Can Biotechnology Abolish Suffering? (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.98 — 49 ratings — published
Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 13,541 ratings — published 2024
Effective Altruism: An Introduction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.83 — 6 ratings — published
Effective Altruism and the Human Mind: The Clash Between Impact and Intuition (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 41 ratings — published
“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
“What now matters most is how we respond to various risks to the survival of humanity. We are creating some of these risks, and discovering how we could respond to these and other risks. If we reduce these risks, and humanity survives the next few centuries, our descendants or successors could end these risks by spreading through this galaxy.
Life can be wonderful as well as terrible, and we shall increasingly have the power to make life good. Since human history may be only just beginning, we can expect that future humans, or supra-humans, may achieve some great goods that we cannot now even imagine. In Nietzsche’s words, there has never been such a new dawn and clear horizon, and such an open sea.
If we are the only rational beings in the Universe, as some recent evidence suggests, it matters even more whether we shall have descendants or successors during the billions of years in which that would be possible. Some of our successors might live lives and create worlds that, though failing to justify past suffering, would give us all, including some of those who have suffered, reasons to be glad that the Universe exists.”
― On What Matters: Volume 3
Life can be wonderful as well as terrible, and we shall increasingly have the power to make life good. Since human history may be only just beginning, we can expect that future humans, or supra-humans, may achieve some great goods that we cannot now even imagine. In Nietzsche’s words, there has never been such a new dawn and clear horizon, and such an open sea.
If we are the only rational beings in the Universe, as some recent evidence suggests, it matters even more whether we shall have descendants or successors during the billions of years in which that would be possible. Some of our successors might live lives and create worlds that, though failing to justify past suffering, would give us all, including some of those who have suffered, reasons to be glad that the Universe exists.”
― On What Matters: Volume 3