Effective Altruism

Movement·Founded 2011 CE·No adherent count is meaningful. The nearest hard number is the Giving What We Can register: 11,153 people from 118 countries have taken the 10% pledge, with a further 1,601 on time-limited trial pledges.

Effective Altruism

The Centre for Effective AltruismGiving What We Can — the 10% PledgeThe recordTIME: Effective Altruist Leaders Were Warned About Sam Bankman-Fried

Branch
Overview Belief 3How to Live 1Practice 1Stories & Scripture 1 You × Effective Altruism Discussion

Stories

the narratives it tells itself
November 2022. FTX collapsed, and with it the largest funder the movement had ever had. What followed inside effective altruism was a year of public self-examination that its own writers described in the language of a crisis of faith. Read it in full — context →

The Scriptures

the texts that carry the stories — and everything else

Peter Singer, Famine, Affluence, and Morality (1972)

William MacAskill, Doing Good Better (2015)

Toby Ord, The Precipice (2020)

William MacAskill, What We Owe the Future (2022)

Numbers count Panfaith activity only — never real-world adherence.

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