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Timeline of effective altruism

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| {{dts|2011|11}} || || The directors of Giving What We Can and 80,000 Hours decide to aggregate views about what to call the effective altruism movement, and to decide on the name by vote. Those who voted include William MacAskill, Toby Ord, and Nick Beckstead, as well as others who were associated with the movement.<ref name=history-of-term/>
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| {{dts|2011|11|27}} || || The r/smartgiving subreddit is created. This is the original subreddit about effective altruism before r/EffectiveAltruism is created (?).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/smartgiving/about/moderators |title=moderators - r/smartgiving |accessdate=June 15, 2019 |quote=a community for 7 years [Sun Nov 27 16:20:59 2011 UTC]}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2011|12|5}} || || Voting takes place regarding what to name the umbrella organization for Giving What We Can and 80,000 Hours. The name "Centre for Effective Altruism" wins. The term "effective altruism" was not planned to catch on for the name of the movement (although in the end it did).<ref name=history-of-term>{{cite web|url=http://www.effective-altruism.com/ea/5w/the_history_of_the_term_effective_altruism/ |title=The history of the term 'effective altruism' |last = MacAskill | first = William |date = March 11, 2014 |accessdate = April 11, 2015 |publisher = The Effective Altruism Forum}}</ref>
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| {{Dts|2012|6}} || || GiveWell announces a close partnership with [[wikipedia:Good Ventures|Good Ventures]], the philanthropic foundation tasked with giving away [[wikipedia:Facebook|Facebook]] co-founder [[wikipedia:Dustin Moskovitz|Dustin Moskovitz]]'s wealth. Good Ventures has been one of GiveWell's main funders since then as well as a major donor to GiveWell-recommended charities.<ref name=goodventures-partnership>{{cite web|url=http://blog.givewell.org/2012/06/28/givewell-and-good-ventures/|title = GiveWell and Good Ventures|author = Holden|date = 2012-06-28}}</ref>
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| {{Dts|2012|9|17}} || || The r/EffectiveAltruism subreddit is created.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/EffectiveAltruism/about/moderators |title=moderators - r/EffectiveAltruism |accessdate=June 15, 2019 |quote=a community for 6 years [Mon Sep 17 19:00:22 2012 UTC]}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2012|11|27}} || || The first post on Paul Christiano's effective altruism blog, ''Rational Altruist'', is published.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://rationalaltruist.com/2012/11/27/cost-of-carbon-emissions/ |title=Cost of carbon emissions |date=February 24, 2013 |publisher=Rational Altruist |accessdate=April 14, 2019}}</ref>
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| 2013 || Project || [[wikipedia:Sentience Politics|Sentience Politics]], an "anti-speciesist political think-tank", is founded as a subdivision of the Effective Altruism Foundation.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Our Organization |url=https://sentience-politics.org/about/ |website=Sentience Politics |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617041413/https://sentience-politics.org/about/ |archivedate=2018-06-17 |deadurl=no |quote=Sentience Politics was founded as a project of the Effective Altruism Foundation (EAF) in 2013.}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2013|4|18}} || || The <code>effective-altruism.com</code> domain name is registered.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=effective-altruism.com |title=Showing results for: effective-altruism.com |publisher=ICANN WHOIS |accessdate=June 15, 2019 |quote=Creation Date: 2013-04-18T19:13:28Z}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2013|5}} || Publication || Nick Beckstead's PhD thesis, "On the Overwhelming Importance of Shaping the Far Future", is submitted.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nickbeckstead.com/research |title=Research |author=Nick Beckstead |accessdate=April 23, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2013|5|20}} || || {{W|Peter Singer}}'s [[wikipedia:TED (conference)|TED talk]], entitled "The why and how of effective altruism", is published.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Diuv3XZQXyc |title=Peter Singer: The why and how of effective altruism |publisher=YouTube |accessdate=June 14, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2013|6|25}} || || The Effective Altruism Blog launches around this time. The blog is "an invite-only blog that [has] a handful of posts",<ref name="vipul-analytics-post" /> and is hosted at <code>www.effective-altruism.com</code> (the location the Effective Altruism Forum would later take).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.effective-altruism.com/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130625033236/http://www.effective-altruism.com/ |archivedate=June 25, 2013 |deadurl=yes |title=Effective Altruism {{!}} Doing the most good}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.effective-altruism.com/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231232437/http://www.effective-altruism.com/ |archivedate=December 31, 2013 |title=The Effective Altruism Blog}}</ref>
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| {{Dts|2013|6|30}} to {{Dts|2013|7|6}} || Conference || The Effective Altruism Summit 2013 takes place.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130802184339/http://www.effectivealtruismsummit.com |title=Effective Altruism Summit 2013 - June 30 to July 6, San Francisco |accessdate=February 26, 2017}}</ref>
| {{Dts|2014|8|2}}{{snd}}{{dts|2014|8|3}} || Conference || The Effective Altruism Summit 2014 begins on this day, continuing onto the following day. Speakers would include [[wikipedia:Peter Thiel|Peter Thiel]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.effectivealtruismsummit.com/ |title=Effective Altruism Summit 2014 - August 2-3, San Francisco |accessdate=February 26, 2017}}</ref><ref name="ea-summit-2014-lw">{{cite web |url=https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Q9j8RYyTyZzzhiq2L/effective-altruism-summit-2014 |title=Effective Altruism Summit 2014 |author=Ben_LandauTaylor |publisher=LessWrong 2.0 |accessdate=April 22, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2014|9|10}} || || The Effective Altruism Forum launches, with the forum software based on that of LessWrong (which was itself based on that of Reddit).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://effective-altruism.com/ea/7b/welcome_to_the_effective_altruism_forum/ |title=Welcome to the Effective Altruism Forum |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150130082844/effective-altruism.com/ea/7b/welcome_to_the_effective_altruism_forum/ |archivedate=January 30, 2015 |author=Ryan Carey |date=September 10, 2014 |publisher=Effective Altruism Forum |deadurl=yes}}</ref><ref name="vipul-analytics-post">{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/QXpWsT7iHMsmbvq3X/effective-altruism-forum-web-traffic-from-google-analytics |title=Effective Altruism Forum web traffic from Google Analytics |author=Vipul Naik |date=December 31, 2016 |publisher=Effective Altruism Forum}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2014|10|3}} || || EA Profiles and the EA Donation Registry launch on the Effective Altruism Hub.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/5kFwcwDawAHZx6Tqd/introducing-ea-profiles |title=Introducing EA Profiles |author=Tom Ash |publisher=EA Forum |accessdate=April 24, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ktsPJuhvTvgG3nkKn/introducing-an-ea-donation-registry |title=Introducing an EA Donation Registry |author=Tom Ash |publisher=EA Forum |accessdate=April 24, 2019}}</ref>
| {{Dts|2015|7|31}}{{snd}{{dts|2015|8|2}} || Conference || [[wikipedia:Effective Altruism Global|Effective Altruism Global]] 2015 takes place. Effective Altruism Global was previously called the Effective Altruism Summit.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/GBW6NrBKzAAKB2LJ5/save-the-date-for-ea-global-in-august |title=Save the date for EA Global in August! |publisher=EA Forum |author=Kerry Vaughan |accessdate=May 12, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2015|4|7}} || Publication || Peter Singer publishes ''[[wikipedia:The Most Good You Can Do|The Most Good You Can Do]]'', a book on effective altruism.<ref name=kristof>{{cite web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/opinion/sunday/nicholas-kristof-the-trader-who-donates-half-his-pay.html|title = The Trader Who Donates Half His Pay|last = Kristof|first = Nicholas|authorlink = Nicholas Kristof|date = April 4, 2015|accessdate = April 11, 2015|publisher = ''[[wikipedia:New York Times|New York Times]]''}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Most-Good-You-Can-Effective/dp/0300180276 |title=The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically: Peter Singer: 9780300180275: Amazon.com: Books |accessdate=June 14, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2015|2|27}} || || Effective Altruism Ventures launches. EA Ventures provides funding an expertise/guidance to effective altruist projects.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/TFDTKfemMnGbKp3YG/announcing-effective-altruism-ventures |title=Announcing Effective Altruism Ventures |author=Kerry Vaughan |publisher=EA Forum |accessdate=May 12, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eaventures.org/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150916110420/http://www.eaventures.org/ |archivedate=September 16, 2015 |title=Effective Altruism Ventures |deadurl=yes}}</ref> EA Ventures would post a request for projects in June 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/eQpAPSbfejeud8fkj/ea-ventures-request-for-projects-update |title=EA Ventures Request for Projects + Update |publisher=EA Forum |author=Kerry Vaughan |accessdate=May 12, 2019}}</ref>
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