Awesome Effective Altruism - a curated list of EA resources

By Henry Stanley 🔸 @ 2018-08-24T21:04 (+12)

In the tech world, there's been a trend of making "awesome X" lists - essentially lists of great resources on a topic.

There didn't seem to be an active one on effective altruism, so I thought I'd make one! You can find it here.

I'm keen to get people to contribute. If you're comfortable using GitHub, just submit a pull request. If not, comment here on the change you want made and I'll make it!

I'm particularly interested in something like "essential effective altruism resources" – the things that you think ought to be required reading for every EA.

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Update: can you believe that effectivealtruism.rocks wasn't already registered?! 😱

undefined @ 2018-08-25T11:47 (+9)

There is this list of essential EA resources: https://www.effectivealtruism.org/resources/

undefined @ 2018-08-25T00:17 (+6)

Great idea! For the section on existential risk, my suggestion would be https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Existential-Risks-2017-01-23.pdf It has a government and diplomacy point of view, but I found it much more readable than other material I have encountered on the topic. I'm not an expert in this area though, so if someone has a better suggestion for an accessible introduction, go for it.

HenryStanley @ 2018-08-25T12:25 (+6)

Thanks, that's been added.

HenryStanley @ 2018-08-25T13:12 (+5)

I'm also interested in any slightly unorthodox resources - like, someone coming to the movement for the first time might also want to see criticisms, unusual points of view within the movement (e.g. negative utilitarianism), etc.

undefined @ 2018-08-26T17:40 (+1)

Suggestion to add:

Global development

Non-human animal welfare

Long-term and existential risks

undefined @ 2018-08-26T02:31 (+1)

Sheon Han made something called Awesome Effective Altruism about a year ago, although I don't see it anymore. Is this related to that?

EDIT: looks like someone made a copy of it at https://github.com/ShriSamson/awesome-effective-altruism

undefined @ 2018-08-26T04:35 (+1)

Sheon Han's repository was made private. There are more more discussion threads here.

undefined @ 2018-08-25T05:54 (+1)

Other long term EA-aligned organizations include Future of Life Institute, Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters, AI Impacts, Berkeley Existential Risk Institute, etc.

HenryStanley @ 2018-08-25T13:11 (+6)

Thanks, have added 'em.