Title: Theory / Unimportant / Human / Philosophy / Singer / Most good you can do

Question: Things effective altruist do
Answer: Living modestly and donating a large part of their income—often much more than the traditional tenth,—to the most effective charities;
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Answer2: Researching and discussing with others which charities are the most effective or drawing on research done by other independent evaluators;
Answer3: Choosing the career in which they can earn most, not in order to be able to live affluently but so that they can do more good;
Answer4: Talking to others, in person or online, about giving, so that the idea of effective altruism will spread;
Answer5: Giving part of their body—blood, bone marrow, or even a kidney—to a stranger.

Name: Effective altruism
Definition: which applies evidence and reason to working out the most effective ways to improve the world.
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DefType: a philosophy and social movement

Question: What effective altruism is not about
Answer: motive
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Answer2: any sacrifice/cost for the EA

Question: Why should we consider earning to give.
Answer: Because it gives at least a baseline about how much good you can do. You can then compare other option to this one, and check if it actually does more good

Question: Why would it still be ok to do a job causing direct damage
Answer: As a consequentialist, you may still do more good than damage. Someone as good as you may replace you in your job, doing the domage, and you can compensate by giving what you can, which the other one wouldn't do.
Answer2: If you can't compensate anymore, as an insider, you're more credible as a Whistle blower

Question: Example of Trolley dilemn in real life
Answer: Double-spy were able to make German trust that London was more south than it actually is. Allowing bom to kill people in a low density part of the country instead of a high-density

Name: Give directly
Definition: A charity allowing people to give directly to extremly poor people

Question: Advantage of give directly over other charity
Answer: It avoids the risk that a big part of the given money does not actually help, but is used by the charity itself
Answer2: It allows people in need to decide what they need the most
Answer3: Feedback on the use of the money is built in the way the charity is constructed
Answer4: it allows to use quickly the money

Name: Empathic concern
Definition: the tendency to experience feelings of warmth, compassion, and concern for other people
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Name: Personal distress
Definition: one’s own feelings of personal unease and discomfort in reaction to the emotions of others;
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Name: Perspective taking
Definition: the tendency to adopt the point of view of other people
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Name: Fantasy
Definition: the tendency to imagine oneself experiencing the feelings and performing the actions of fictitious characters
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Smaller0: being consistant in utilitarian choice
Greater0: empathy
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Smaller to greater: is shown to be correlated with the inverse of

Name: Utilitarian
Definition: Someone juding action to be right or wrong on the basis of their consequences
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Name: Altruistic arbitrage
Definition: the difference in what you can get for donations to different charities
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Question: Why people giving to charity with no or very low effect is still bad ?
Answer: Because it's tax deductible, thus remove money from where state would have been more efficient

Name: quality-adjusted life- year
Abbreviation: QALY

Question: How to decide whether it's better to give medicine to cure something(e.g. blindness) or to add live years
Answer: Assume that you know your life expectancy. That curing this thing will cost you a known number of year in expectancy. For which number of year do you accept the cure. This give the value of year with this thing compared to a value of year without

Question: If an association think about many actions which may do good, how to test which is the best
Answer: Randomized trial, as in medicine. Try each method with different people, and see what works

Question: Why to avoid giving to an effective program to big association which have a lot of different program.
Answer: Because they'll also keep doing innefective program. And more money you give to the effective program, the more money they have for inneffective program

Question: What are the limit to testing the efficiency of an altruistic program
Answer: Some people may believe it's unethical to test, because it means not doing anything for a group
Answer2: In some case, testing need to send searcher in area where it's expensive to go. Thus it's a high cost.
Answer3: If a program is at a village scale, it means twice as many village should be considered to check whether there is a difference
Answer4: It's only possible to test program with thousands of people, not program on a whole country
Answer5: Givers may reject this because cost of research does not directly help