Re:Ftx.com Has Probably Collapsed
by hither_shores on Thursday November 10, 2022 @12:23AM
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If by "EA the organization" you mean the Center for Effective Altruism, it came out of the Oxford philosophy department.
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No, Oxford is incidental to the story. The term was used to mean roughly those ideas at least half a decade before CEA was founded. Some history is here: https://jacyanthis.com/some-early-history-of-effective-altru...