“We are always in triage. I fervently hope that one day we will be able to save everyone. In the meantime, it is irresponsible to pretend that we aren’t making life and death decisions with the allocation of our resources. Pretending there is no choice only makes our decisions worse."—Holly Elmore
Over the course of Week 1, 2, 3 we aim to introduce you to the core principles of effective altruism: opportunities to do good, tradeoffs we face in our altruistic efforts, and tools for finding unusually high-impact opportunities.
On effective altruism
On scope sensitivity