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Effective Altruism (EA) is a philanthropic movement trying to invest in causes that do the most possible good per unit investment.

The basic concept behind EA is that you would really struggle to donate 100 times more money to charity than you currently do--but (assuming you are approximately utilitarian), spending a little time researching who to donate to could have an impact on roughly this order of magnitude.

Concepts

Despite a broad diversity of ideas within the EA community on which areas are most pressing, there are a handful of criteria that are generally agreed make an area potentially impactful to work on (either directly or through donation). These are:...

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