Figuring Good Out - February

Bitton

Figuring Good Out - February

1 min readMar 9, 2015

Last month there were only two contributions on the topic of explaining effective altruism. Hopefully, we can get that number back up to 6 this March. Let me know if I missed your post and you want it to be included.

In February:

I wrote about a possible motte-and-bailey-esque issue with effective altruism.

weeatquince listed some tips for talking about effective altruism.

For March, I tried to choose a topic that I think might get more interest: selflessness.

As usual, feel free to offer feedback and topic suggestions in the comments!

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RyanCarey

11y

Here are a bunch of essays have been written, promoting helpful norms surrounding the way we think about selflessness, and that draw a positive out of a potentially sombre topic:

Peter Wildeford

11y

An off-the-forum submission.

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