Altruismo Eficaz – Combinando empatía y racionalidad para multiplicar nuestro impacto. 3 Ways to Be an Effective Altruist. Expert Reviewed Three Methods:Maximizing Your Potential Impact on the WorldDonating EffectivelyIdentifying Other Ways to Make a DifferenceQuestions and Answers Effective altruism is a philosophy that encourages people to make doing the most good they can one of their important goals in life.
Effective altruists make educated, logical decisions about which charities to support. While many people donate to charities on the basis of on an emotional response, also known as “warm glow” giving, effective altruists rely on rigorously screened evidence to select charities that use money effectively and provide programs that produce results. In addition, effective altruists know that the more money that they earn, the more money they can give, so some of them may choose high income jobs and live modestly in order to have even more money to donate to effective charities. Ad Steps Method 1 of 3: Maximizing Your Potential Impact on the World Method 2 of 3: Donating Effectively.
(Publicly) Introducing the Local Effective Altruism Network. Local EA groups play an invaluable role.
They’re where much outreach and fundraising happens. They make people aware of effective altruism and strengthen their commitment to it. There are dozens of local EA groups around the world from Auckland to Vancouver, with hundreds of truly dedicated people working on them. As part of their common mission, these groups share knowledge and resources with one another, though a Facebook group, mailing list, conference calls, newsletter, wiki and other such channels.
A small but growing team under .impact has been working on connecting, supporting and growing this network of groups. Our broad team includes many other such volunteers from groups around the world who want to use the experience and skills that they’ve built up to help EA outreach elsewhere. We also have a small team coordinating work, providing support themselves, and doing what’s required to run LEAN as a lean organization. -- Tom Ash, currently serving as project lead. How to Become an Effective Altruist. Altruism is the unselfish desire to help others without any thought of what you might get back in return.
It is fundamentally linked with empathy. If you can imagine what it would feel like to be in someone else’s situation, you are more likely to help them. Empathy opens the mind to both the joy and suffering of others. Effective Altruism is a philosophy and social movement that combines empathy with logic and reason, to determine the most effective ways to make the world a better place. A world where everyone is healthy, happy, fulfilled and free. Peter Singer, the author of The Most Good You Can Do, is described as the world’s most influential living philosopher.
Doing Good Better: How Can I Make The Biggest Difference? Effective Altruism: The World is One Family "अयं बन्धुरयं नेति गणना लघुचेतसाम् | उदारचरितानां तु वसुधैव कुटुम्बकम् || " "Discrimination saying 'this one is a relative; this other one is a stranger' is for the mean-minded.
For those who're known as magnanimous, the entire world constitutes but a family. " - The Hindu book Mahōpaniṣad, VI.71. As an active member of the Effective Altruism (EA) movement, I believe in the idea that we should do the most good for the world that we can given our limited time, energy, and resources. The movement has been gaining momentum with the publication of Doing Good Better, a new Amazon bestseller, and the start of EA Global this weekend, a series of conferences featuring luminaries such as Elon Musk and Peter Singer. EA asks us to think critically, strategically, and rationally about issues such as what global causes to prioritize, which careers will enable us to achieve the most social good, and which charities can reduce the most suffering per dollar spent.
Talking about effective altruism - Effective Altruism Wiki. Tips on talking about effective altruism Edit Lead by example Edit Actions speak louder than words.
The best way of influencing those around you is when they can see that you are donating time and money to a cause you believe in passionately – and that doing so is making the world a better place. The EA Pitch Guide - Google Docs. Starting a Chapter is not as scary as you think! You’ll probably have come across a few posts recently about starting a Giving What We Can Chapter.
It’s a highly effective action you can take and it doesn’t take very much of your time. You might be thinking that you have to know a lot about Giving What We Can and Effective Altruism though. Maybe have a lot of contacts in the movement and your own community? Certainly be very outgoing? Actually no. If you’re anything like me, setting up your own chapter really does sound daunting! I won’t tell you how to do it, I’m at the very early stages.
What I will say though is how easy it is to start, how it isn’t as scary as you first think and how wonderful it has been so far. Spreading EA messages to friends - including giving the hard sell. I’ve long argued that word of mouth is a powerful way of spreading effective altruism and that there should be systematic efforts to encourage this.
And, as detailed below, last year’s EA survey showed that a good number of people got involved through it. I’d be interested in people’s thoughts on all this. Below, I raise a few questions, make some scattered observations, and describe a pretty extreme hard and widely targeted sell I’ve tried recently. How We Run Discussions at Stanford EA - Effective Altruism Forum. Stanford EA holds weekly discussion-focused meetings, with an average turnout of around 15 people.
These are based around sheets with a list of questions and relevant background; you can see examples of previous ones here. (Thanks to Kelsey Piper for writing these!) At one point we planned to consistently provide a page of background on the other side of the sheet; we've partially stopped doing so, as the background didn't seem to really guide the conversation. The Value of Starting a Giving What We Can/EA Chapter - Effective Altruism Forum. I think most of us in the EA movement have a sense that EA chapters are valuable, but its often hard to tell how valuable they are.
Well, in this blog post, I am going to argue that they are incredibly valuable. So much so, that starting a Giving What We Can/EA chapter could be one of the most effective things you can do with your time. Some rough calculations show that establishing even a relatively small chapter at a university could result in producing 100,000 USD for effective charities. Similar calculations lead me to think that time starting a community based chapter can be worth 110 USD/hour of work. These are both incredible results, and I hope they inspire many of you to start up a new chapter! The Importance of Chapters Chapters are important because they represent a natural way for Giving What We Can and EA to grow. The Value of Starting a Giving What We Can/EA Chapter - Effective Altruism Forum. Tips on talking about effective altruism. I noticed that, over the past few years, I have collected a number of tips and introspective thoughts on how best to talk about effective altruism.
I have written this up and I posted the list of tips below. I hope this is helpful to someone. I have also posted a slightly longer article inclduing these tips on the EA Wiki at: There is also an EA pitch guide now on the Wiki at: Lead by example Actions speak louder than words. How to Run a Local Effective Altruism Group in a Minimal Amount of Time - Effective Altruism Wiki. Starting a local group is very high value and very easy.
This page is aimed at non-students living in a city that does not already have an effective altruism group, who may not have much time to put into growing a group but who will be in the same city for a prolonged period of time. Building a group – first event☁ Edit Create a Facebook event for a social event. Invite friends of yours who you think might be interested. How to Run a Local Effective Altruism Group in a Minimal Amount of Time - Effective Altruism Wiki. How I run a growing effective altruism group in a big city in less than 30 minutes a month. Starting a local group is really easy to do, a lot of fun and you meet some amazing people. And of course you can have a huge huge impact on the world by encouraging people to do good and to think more carefully about how they do good.
I started organising regular EA social events in London in the summer of 2013. I had for a while been helping organise irregular GWWC events, then, one day, I thought why not try something a little different. I arranged an evening at a pub with a friend, created an EA social Facebook event and invited anyone who I thought might be interested. It went well and I have been creating infrequent social events ever since. I recently came to the rather surprising realisation that the EA London group was growing quite fast. Now perhaps it is just chance that the group has grown of late, some twist of fate or flimsy whim of the gods. The rest of the article from hereon in has been cross-posted to the EA Wikipedia so that others can add their advice.
Telofy’s Introduction to Effective Altruism. This is an introduction that I first published on my own blog but was asked to publish here as well for archival purposes. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to it! Overview. Effective Altruism. List of Introductory EA Presentations. Lessons from running Harvard Effective Altruism - Effective Altruism Forum. During my last two years at Harvard, I co-ran Harvard Effective Altruism, bringing it from a membership of one to an organizational board of ten students and scores more who routinely attended our talks.
In the hope that some of these tips will help other students start groups of their own, here are some lessons I learned. A couple caveats apply to these notes. First, my sample size is small—I only ran one group! Second, my lessons might not generalize: HEA probably faced a different set of problems at Harvard than we would have at other schools, and I faced different personal problems than someone with a different skillset might have. So interpret these notes with caution. Notes: Cross-posted from benkuhn.net. How to host an effective altruism meetup. Resources for Running Giving Games. Introduction to Effective Altruism. Effective Altruism. We’re proud to be part of the nascent “effective altruist” movement. Effective altruism has been discussed elsewhere (see Peter Singer’s TED talk and Wikipedia); this post gives our take on what it is and isn’t. What is effective altruism? To us, “effective altruism” means trying to do as much good as possible with each dollar and each hour that we have.
It’s a way of thinking about morality that insists on maximization of good accomplished, and not just satisficing of rules and guidelines. To us, this implies Focusing on how one’s actions are likely to affect the world, rather than on how they affect oneself and one’s feelings. Effective Altruism. Introduction to Effective Altruism. Overview Effective altruism is about doing the most good in the world.
That includes figuring out what exactly that means and how it can be achieved. Central to the movement are the following ideas: Top charities are up to 1,000 times more cost-effective than others and make it extremely easy to have a great positive impact.Hence, it is typically more important where you give than what you give, and empirical, scientific research needs to guide these giving decisions, not personal bias or geographic proximity.Failing to give or failing to give effectively incurs tremendous avoidable suffering.
The EA Pitch Guide.