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Effective Altruism
The use of evidence and comparative cost-effectiveness to maximize the positive impact of limited resources.
8 essays571 pointsEarning to Give and the Case for My Drinking Problem
22414 pointsOn Reallocating Child Support Toward Higher-Impact Intimacy Expenditure
14246 pointsPulling the Plug on My Brother Two Weeks Early Saved Eight Lives
13357 pointsReplaceability and the Case for Sleeping With My Best Friend’s Wife
13418 pointsOverdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive
14286 pointsThe Drowning Child Argument Never Accounted for My Loafers
6237 pointsModel Welfare and Why I Say Please to Claude but Not to My Wife
10413 pointsAgainst Taking My Son To Soccer Practice: A Bayesian, Longtermist, Updateless, Game-Theoretic, Kelly-Optimal Steelman of the Opportunity Cost of Reallocating My Son’s College Fund, My Ex-Wife’s Child Support, and the Proceeds of My Second Divorce Toward Methamphetamine, Escorts, Polymarket Positions, Grandma’s Pain Pills, and an Acausal Trade With Roko’s Basilisk Under Coherent Extrapolated Volition, Short Timelines, and a p(doom) I Will Not Be Updating at This Time (Part 1 of 7)
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22414 pointsOn Reallocating Child Support Toward Higher-Impact Intimacy Expenditure14246 pointsPulling the Plug on My Brother Two Weeks Early Saved Eight Lives13357 pointsReplaceability and the Case for Sleeping With My Best Friend’s Wife13418 pointsOverdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive14286 pointsThe Drowning Child Argument Never Accounted for My Loafers6237 pointsModel Welfare and Why I Say Please to Claude but Not to My Wife10413 pointsAgainst Taking My Son To Soccer Practice: A Bayesian, Longtermist, Updateless, Game-Theoretic, Kelly-Optimal Steelman of the Opportunity Cost of Reallocating My Son’s College Fund, My Ex-Wife’s Child Support, and the Proceeds of My Second Divorce Toward Methamphetamine, Escorts, Polymarket Positions, Grandma’s Pain Pills, and an Acausal Trade With Roko’s Basilisk Under Coherent Extrapolated Volition, Short Timelines, and a p(doom) I Will Not Be Updating at This Time (Part 1 of 7)6