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Re:Can “effective altruism” maximise the bang for each chari... by Bernicus on Friday June 01, 2018 @12:18PM (#17206866)
Just to clarify, Rob is the Director of Research at the nonprofit, 80,000 Hours, whose aim is to help people have high impact careers. There is no organisation called Effective Altruism. Effective altruism is a social movement in the same way that environmentalism is a social movement, made up of many individuals, nonprofits and even for profits, working on different things, of which 80,000 Hours is just one. The podcast is excellent though and I second your recommendation.

http://www.robwiblin.com/ https://80000hours.org/podcast/

Re:Can “effective altruism” maximise the bang for each chari... by tonfa on Friday June 01, 2018 @02:01PM (#17208164)
Technically, there kinda is an EA foundation: https://ea-foundation.org/

Tho for me it's mostly an umbrella org, that allows to easily donate to orgs following the EA movement (since many of them are not registered in Europe, I wouldn't be able to get tax deductions otherwise).

Re:Can “effective altruism” maximise the bang for each chari... by ajonnav on Friday June 01, 2018 @05:39PM (#17210639)
Yes you are right; I meant to say the Center for Effective Altruism.