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How can I can most effectively turn my time and money into making the world better? Julia and I have been into effective altruism since ~2009. In 2022 I switched from earning to give to trying to identify future pandemics earlier.

• Prioritizing Work
  April 30, 2025
• Spending on Ourselves
  April 20, 2025
• Voluntary Salary Reduction
  January 14, 2025
• How Much to Give is a Pragmatic Question
  December 23, 2024
• Historical Net Worth
  December 07, 2024
• Signaling with Small Orange Diamonds
  November 07, 2024
• Advisors for Smaller Major Donors?
  November 06, 2024
• Appealing to the Public
  October 22, 2024
• Start an Upper-Room UV Installation Company?
  October 18, 2024
• FarmKind's Illusory Offer
  August 09, 2024
• Spending Update 2024
  April 16, 2024
• Pandemic Identification Simulator
  April 08, 2024
• Trying to Do More Good
  April 04, 2024
• Legality as a Career Harm Assessment Heuristic
  March 26, 2024
• A Strange ACH Corner Case
  February 09, 2024
• Sequencing Swabs
  January 31, 2024
• When Does Altruism Strengthen Altruism?
  January 21, 2024
• Out-of-distribution Bioattacks
  December 02, 2023
• Accounting for Foregone Pay
  November 25, 2023
• Post-EAG Music Party
  November 17, 2023
• AMA: Earning to Give
  November 07, 2023
• Public Weights?
  November 01, 2023
• Computational Approaches to Pathogen Detection
  October 31, 2023
• Revisiting Guide Dogs and Blindness Prevention
  October 12, 2023
• My Mid-Career Transition into Biosecurity
  October 02, 2023
• Weighing Animal Worth
  September 28, 2023
• Commonsense Good, Creative Good
  September 27, 2023
• Biosecurity Culture, Computer Security Culture
  August 30, 2023
• Prevalence to Relative Abundance
  April 25, 2023
• GWWC Reporting Attrition Visualization
  April 19, 2023
• Run Posts By Orgs
  March 28, 2023
• Books: Lend, Don't Give
  March 22, 2023
• Write a Book?
  March 15, 2023
• Milk EA, Casu Marzu EA
  February 27, 2023
• Consent Isn't Always Enough
  February 24, 2023
• Make CoI Policies Public
  February 09, 2023
• When Did EA Start?
  January 25, 2023
• GWWC Pledge History
  January 24, 2023
• GWWC's Handling of Conflicting Funding Bars
  January 11, 2023
• GWWC Should Require Public Charity Evaluations
  January 09, 2023
• CEA Disambiguation
  December 19, 2022
• Historical Notes on Charitable Funds
  December 04, 2022
• Our 2022 Giving
  December 02, 2022
• If Professional Investors Missed This...
  November 16, 2022
• Mildly Against Donor Lotteries
  November 01, 2022
• Consider Applying to the Future Fellowship at MIT
  October 25, 2022
• Research Deprioritizing External Communication
  October 06, 2022
• Case Rates to Sequencing Reads
  September 20, 2022
• Hiring Programmers in Academia
  July 24, 2022
• Spending Update 2022
  July 19, 2022
• Passing Up Pay
  July 11, 2022
• Leaving Google, Joining the Nucleic Acid Observatory
  June 10, 2022
• Revisiting "Why Global Poverty"
  June 01, 2022
• Increasing Demandingness in EA
  April 28, 2022
• US Taxes: Adjust Withholding When Donating?
  April 12, 2022
• EA Dinner Covid Logistics
  December 11, 2021
• Issues with Giving Multiplier
  September 29, 2021
• GiveWell Donation Matching
  September 21, 2021
• Limits of Giving
  March 03, 2021
• When I left Google
  February 28, 2021
• Giving Tuesday 2020
  November 30, 2020
• EA Relationship Status
  September 18, 2020
• Leaving Things For Others
  April 12, 2020
• Why I'm Not Vegan
  April 09, 2020
• Credit Cards for Giving
  January 04, 2020
• Offset Norms
  December 23, 2019
• One Million Dollars
  December 18, 2019
• Voluntourism
  December 16, 2019
• Getting Ready for the FB Donation Match
  November 27, 2019
• Mosquito Net Fishing
  November 13, 2019
• Jacy Reese (born Jacy Anthis)?
  October 26, 2019
• Candy for Nets
  September 29, 2019
• Long-term Donation Bunching?
  September 27, 2019
• Effective Altruism and Everyday Decisions
  September 16, 2019
• Answering some questions about EA
  September 12, 2019
• Appeals to Consequences
  July 19, 2019
• There's Lots More To Do
  May 29, 2019
• Value of Working in Ads?
  April 09, 2019
• Simultaneous Shortage and Oversupply
  January 25, 2019
• College and Earning to Give
  December 16, 2018
• Facebook Donation Match
  November 20, 2018
• Short Term Handling of Donation Money
  May 03, 2018
• Thoughts on Existential Risk
  March 11, 2018
• 2017 Donations
  December 23, 2017
• What should "counterfactual donation" mean?
  November 24, 2017
• Guardedness in EA
  September 28, 2017
• PayPal Giving Fund
  September 26, 2017
• Kids and Global Warming
  September 21, 2017
• Superintelligence Risk Project: Conclusion
  September 15, 2017
• Rejoining Google
  August 17, 2017
• Yudkowsky and MIRI
  July 27, 2017
• Funding Constraints for EA Orgs
  July 26, 2017
• More Giving vs Doing
  July 21, 2017
• Conversation with an AI Researcher
  July 20, 2017
• Thinking about going back to earning to give
  July 19, 2017
• Superintelligence Risk Project Update II
  July 18, 2017
• Conversation with Bryce Wiedenbeck
  July 14, 2017
• Examples of Superintelligence Risk
  July 13, 2017
• Technical Distance to AGI
  July 11, 2017
• Superintelligence Risk Project Update
  July 10, 2017
• Conversation with Michael Littman
  July 09, 2017
• Conversation with Dario Amodei
  July 04, 2017
• Superintelligence Risk Project
  July 03, 2017
• Looking into AI Risk
  June 26, 2017
• Should I run for office?
  June 21, 2017
• What's Next?
  June 20, 2017
• What should income mean in pledging?
  January 21, 2017
• Transcript: making sense of long-term indirect effects
  January 17, 2017
• Leaving Google, Joining Wave
  January 3, 2017
• EA Volunteering
  December 22, 2016
• Estimating the Value of Mobile Money
  December 20, 2016
• More Meta Funding Thoughts
  December 11, 2016
• EA Global Videos 2016
  December 10, 2016
• Details Behind the InIn Document
  October 24, 2016
• Participating in Donation Matching
  October 21, 2016
• Responsible Transparency Consumption
  October 02, 2016
• Conversation with Gleb of Intentional Insights
  August 16, 2016
• Earning to Give Transcript
  August 08, 2016
• Scientific Charity Movement
  July 17, 2016
• Giving Game Writeup
  June 07, 2016
• Poorly Organized Thoughts on Funding
  June 05, 2016
• Giving vs Doing
  November 29, 2015
• EA Global Videos
  November 16, 2015
• Thoughtful Non-consumption
  November 09, 2015
• Anti-Capitalist Effective Altruism
  August 26, 2015
• Pluralism in Effective Altruism
  August 16, 2015
• Dismissing Causes
  August 12, 2015
• Why Global Poverty?
  August 11, 2015
• Meat at EA Global
  August 10, 2015
• Effectiveness: Gaussian?
  August 08, 2015
• My Country is the World
  August 07, 2015
• Applying the 'Best Tradeoff' Argument Generally
  May 18, 2015
• The Counterfactual Validity of Donation Matching
  March 02, 2015
• Ethics Trading
  January 24, 2015
• The Privilege of Earning To Give
  January 14, 2015
• 2014 Donations
  December 22, 2014
• Effective Altruism at Your Work
  November 11, 2014
• A Very Hard Problem
  October 05, 2014
• Lawyering to Give
  September 25, 2014
• Disability Weights
  September 17, 2014
• Persistent Idealism
  August 25, 2014
• Adding Up Small Benefits
  July 26, 2014
• Giving Half
  July 15, 2014
• Counterfactual Trust
  July 11, 2014
• Optimizing Looks Weird
  June 25, 2014
• Relative and Absolute Benefit
  June 17, 2014
• Misleading Slavery Footprints
  May 21, 2014
• How To Move More Nets?
  March 16, 2014
• Multiple Cause-Neutral Charity Evaluators
  November 26, 2013
• Eating Just Peanut Butter
  November 19, 2013
• OK to Have Kids?
  October 22, 2013
• History of Earning to Give III: John Wesley
  October 01, 2013
• Altruism isn't about sacrifice
  September 04, 2013
• Flow Through Effects Conversation
  August 31, 2013
• History of Earning to Give II
  August 25, 2013
• Rationing with small reserves
  August 22, 2013
• Would I pay for someone else to?
  August 21, 2013
• My Effective Altruism Timeline
  August 10, 2013
• Saving lives for seven cents each
  August 09, 2013
• Donating and Tax Breaks
  August 04, 2013
• Money vs Talent: Ratios
  August 03, 2013
• It's not fair to settle for "good"
  July 30, 2013
• Prioritizing By Happiness
  July 06, 2013
• Charity Navigator Pushing for Results
  June 19, 2013
• Identifying the Worst Charities
  June 13, 2013
• All-Pay Auction for Charity
  June 12, 2013
• Good Charity as Neither Tragedy nor Farce
  June 08, 2013
• Arguing About Banking
  June 03, 2013
• Haiti and Disaster Relief
  May 28, 2013
• The Complexity of Donation Numbers
  May 22, 2013
• Talent or Money?
  May 20, 2013
• Keeping Choices Donation Neutral
  May 11, 2013
• Vegetarian Survey Proposal
  May 07, 2013
• Helping Specific People
  May 01, 2013
• Measuring Veg Conversion By Comments
  April 17, 2013
• Vegetarian Years for $11?
  April 15, 2013
• Pay other people to go vegetarian for you?
  April 11, 2013
• Taking Charity Seriously: Toby Ord talk
  April 09, 2013
• What Rate of Return Should You Expect?
  April 06, 2013
• The Unintuitive Power Laws of Giving
  April 01, 2013
• Effective Altruism terms
  March 27, 2013
• Joining Giving What We Can
  March 15, 2013
• Summaries of Earning to Give
  March 11, 2013
• How Good Is Earning To Give, Relatively?
  March 02, 2013
• Give to multiple charities?
  February 26, 2013
• Sins of Omission and Commission
  February 14, 2013
• Sustained Committment to Giving
  February 11, 2013
• Donation Matching
  February 04, 2013
• Debt Relief Is Bad Means Testing
  January 22, 2013
• Underselling Donation
  November 23, 2012
• Talking about Volunteering and Donating
  November 20, 2012
• Founder Stories and Low-Paid CEOs
  November 15, 2012
• Cryonics as a Charity
  November 10, 2012
• Taking Care of Our Own
  November 08, 2012
• Charity Variance: Vision
  November 05, 2012
• Socially Acceptable Charity Requests
  November 03, 2012
• Make Your Giving Public
  September 21, 2012
• History of "Earning to Give"
  September 18, 2012
• Doing things for charity
  September 13, 2012
• Objecting to Situations
  September 11, 2012
• SmartGiving Imagery
  August 28, 2012
• Professional Philanthropy
  August 15, 2012
• Think Globally, Act Globally
  July 16, 2012
• Why the SmartGiving Subreddit Isn't Interested in Your Charity
  July 13, 2012
• Asking for sustainability
  July 06, 2012
• All vs Most
  June 28, 2012
• Do my actions reveal me to be selfish?
  June 25, 2012
• Balancing Costs to Ourselves with Benefits to Others
  June 22, 2012
• Altruistic Kidney Donation
  June 17, 2012
• Debate between 80,000 hours and a socialist
  June 07, 2012
• Metacharities
  June 05, 2012
• The Trouble With Charity Navigator
  May 29, 2012
• Buying out a KMart
  May 24, 2012
• Who Counts?
  April 30, 2012
• Government Share of Donations
  April 25, 2012
• SmartGiving and Food Choices
  April 11, 2012
• Peter Singer and Tyler Cowen transcript
  April 06, 2012
• Replaceability: thinking on the margin
  April 03, 2012
• Sending Clothing to Africa
  March 27, 2012
• Leaving CogoLabs, Joining Google
  March 22, 2012
• What is the ROI of a tribute gift?
  March 20, 2012
• Animal Welfare Charity Evaluation: Update
  March 18, 2012
• A Name for a Movement?
  March 12, 2012
• More Animal Welfare Charity Evaluation
  March 07, 2012
• Single Issue Charities
  March 02, 2012
• GiveWell and Money Moved
  January 13, 2012
• Dead Child Currency
  January 09, 2012
• Giving: is money better than options?
  January 05, 2012
• Charles Gray, World Equity Man
  December 11, 2011
• New GiveWell Top Charities: AMF, SCI
  December 01, 2011
• Setting Up a Giving Subreddit
  November 28, 2011
• Keeping Yourself Giving
  November 25, 2011
• Personal Consumption Changes As Charity
  November 13, 2011
• Estimating Charity Effectiveness: Vegan Outreach
  November 10, 2011
• How Many People Will There Be?
  October 24, 2011
• Transfer of Feelings; Vaccination as Housefire
  October 18, 2011
• What About Non-Work Time?
  October 17, 2011
• Giving For Yourself, Giving For Others
  October 16, 2011
• Local Action and Remote Donation
  October 15, 2011
• Occupy [Place] and Inequality
  October 13, 2011
• Future People and Giving
  October 07, 2011
• Found a startup; limit dance organizing
  October 06, 2011
• Charities and Waste
  September 09, 2011
• How Much Should You Give?
  August 09, 2011
• Professional Giving Advocate
  August 05, 2011
• Belief Listing Project: Giving
  July 27, 2011
• Donate Money, Not Time or Stuff
  March 11, 2011
• Diversity In Giving
  January 19, 2011
• Perhaps We Need A "Day of Proselytizing"
  December 16, 2010
• Leaving BBN, Joining Adverplex, Risk-neutral Giving
  December 07, 2010
• Abstracting Compassion
  December 05, 2010
• Why I think Oxfam Is a Good Choice
  November 04, 2010
• External Perceptions
  October 13, 2010
• Housing Debt
  September 16, 2010
• What Discount Rate do we Apply to Giving?
  August 24, 2010
• Should We Buy a House?
  August 22, 2010
• Should we treat inexpensive diseases first?
  August 11, 2010
• Does only 10% of the fairtrade premium go to producers?
  July 23, 2010
• Things not to do, even in pursuit of greater good
  July 22, 2010
• How we spend money
  July 19, 2010
• Why it makes sense to pick one charity
  July 14, 2010
• The make-food-organic Charity
  July 13, 2010
• Why I don't Buy Organic
  July 12, 2010
• Living Frugally So We Can Give Away More
  July 06, 2010
• Give-Well and Deciding who to Give To
  July 05, 2010
• Giving
  January 3, 2009