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Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,089 ratings — published 2015
The Precipice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,259 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 — 7,038 ratings — published 2009
80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,381 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 43 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,904 ratings — published 2015
What We Owe the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,688 ratings — published 2022
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.85 — 21,685 ratings — published 2014
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,005 ratings — published 2015
Famine, Affluence, and Morality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,358 ratings — published 1972
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.27 — 25,153 ratings — published 2011
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.03 — 5,186 ratings — published 2019
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.08 — 7,294 ratings — published 2021
Effective Altruism Handbook (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.01 — 148 ratings — published 2015
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.33 — 5,394 ratings — published 2020
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.35 — 206,685 ratings — published 2018
How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,221 ratings — published 2017
Practical Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,625 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 — 535 ratings — published 2018
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.08 — 23,043 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 — 5,148 ratings — published 2016
Animal Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,564 ratings — published 1975
Reasons and Persons (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,983 ratings — published 1984
Global Catastrophic Risks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.97 — 279 ratings — published 2008
Avoiding the Worst: How to Prevent a Moral Catastrophe (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.25 — 67 ratings — published
MORAL UNCERTAINTY CLOTH (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.13 — 82 ratings — published
The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.01 — 654 ratings — published 1981
Effective Altruism: How Can We Best Help Others? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.19 — 48 ratings — published 2018
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.57 — 6,713 ratings — published 2016
Rationality: From AI to Zombies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,822 ratings — published 2015
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.84 — 37,378 ratings — published 2023
Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.28 — 125 ratings — published 2020
Effective Altruism. Philosophical Issues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.35 — 17 ratings — published
The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 7 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.23 — 906 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.38 — 18,959 ratings — published 2015
Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,521 ratings — published 2023
How to Launch a High-Impact Nonprofit (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.69 — 102 ratings — published
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.90 — 3,781 ratings — published 1985
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.19 — 33,043 ratings — published 2018
Can Biotechnology Abolish Suffering? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.98 — 49 ratings — published
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.17 — 615,848 ratings — published 2011
Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.85 — 168 ratings — published 1996
Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,178 ratings — published 2024
Effective Altruism and the Human Mind: The Clash Between Impact and Intuition (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.39 — 41 ratings — published
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 3.60 — 900 ratings — published
The Replacing Guilt Series (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.38 — 307 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 4.81 — 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 3.84 — 432 ratings — published 2019
The Hedonistic Imperative (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as effective-altruism)
avg rating 4.09 — 128 ratings — published 2015
“... 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
“Responding to bereavement by trying to make a difference is certainly both understandable and admirable, but it doesn't give you good reason to raise money for one specific cause of death rather than any other. If that person had died in different circumstances it would have been no less tragic. What we care about when we lose someone close to us is that they suffered or died, not that they died from a specific cause. By all means, the sadness we feel at the loss of a loved one should be harnessed in order to make the world a better place. But we should focus that motivation on preventing death and improving lives per se, rather than preventing death and improving lives in one very specific way. Any other decision would be unfair on those we could have helped more.”
― Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
― Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference