"We should reward the charities that we believe do the most good, not those that have the best marketing strategy, oth…"

"The challenge for us is this: How can we ensure that, when we try to help others, we do so as effectively as possible?"

"One additional unit of income can do a hundred times as much to the benefit the extreme poor as it can to benefit you…"

"Another common recommendation is to turn lights off when you leave a room, but lighting accounts for only 3% of house…"

"Responding to bereavement by trying to make a difference is certainly both understandable and admirable, but it doesn…"

"When it comes to doing good, fat-tailed distributions seem to be everywhere. It’s not always true that exactly 80 per…"

"Effective altruism is a growing social and intellectual movement at the intersection of academia and the public domai…"

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then He is not omnipotent. Is He able, but not willing? Then He is male…"

"Intelligence...has quietly stripped from our moral valuations that half-supernatural, half-aesthetic halo which is bu…"

"Matter, being fecund in all attributes, is able also to engender evil. I put aside, therefore, O Asclepios and Ammon,…"