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Effective Altruism's Implicit Epistemology

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Cross-posted to the EA Forum

Cross-posted to the EA Forum The future might be very big, and we might be able to do a lot, right now, to shape it. You might have heard of a community of people who take this idea pretty seriously — effective altruists, or ‘EAs’. If you first heard of EA a few years ago, and haven’t really followed it since, then you might be pretty surprised at where we’ve ended up. Currently, EA consists of a variety of professional organizations, research institutes, and grantmaking bodies, all with (sometimes subtly) different approaches to doing the most good possible. Organizations which…

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