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This is a '''timeline of the [[wikipedia:effective altruism|effective altruism]] movement'''.
 
This is a '''timeline of the [[wikipedia:effective altruism|effective altruism]] movement'''.
  
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| {{dts|1971}} || || [[wikipedia:Peter Singer|Peter Singer]] writes his essay "[[wikipedia:Famine, Affluence, and Morality|Famine, Affluence, and Morality]]". It would be published the following year in ''[[wikipedia:Philosophy and Public Affairs|Philosophy and Public Affairs]]''.  It argues that affluent persons are [[wikipedia:morality|morally]] obligated to donate far more resources to [[wikipedia:humanitarian aid|humanitarian]] causes than is considered normal in [[wikipedia:Western culture|Western culture]]s.  The essay was inspired by the [[wikipedia:starvation|starvation]] of [[wikipedia:Bangladesh Liberation War|Bangladesh Liberation War]] [[wikipedia:refugee|refugee]]s, and uses their situation as an example, although Singer's argument is general in scope and not limited to the example of Bangladesh. The essay is anthologized widely as an example of Western ethical thinking.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cottingham|first=John|title=Western philosophy: an anthology|year=1996|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|isbn=978-0-631-18627-4|pages=461ff|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=imkTo_sNrKcC&pg=PT473}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Shafer-Landau|first=Russ|title=Ethical theory: an anthology|year=2007|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|isbn=978-1-4051-3320-3|pages=523ff|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=By9nCkAvS6EC&pg=PT523}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Pojman|first=Louis P.|title=Moral philosophy: a reader|year=2003|publisher=Hackett|isbn=978-0-87220-661-8|pages=344ff|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ILa7WmdUXIMC&pg=PA344}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Wellman|first=Carl|title=Rights and Duties: Welfare rights and duties of charity|year=2002|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-93987-4|pages=227ff|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OHHZF5kyURUC&pg=PA227}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Chadwick|first=Ruth F.|title=Applied ethics: critical concepts in philosophy. Politics|year=2002|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-20837-6|pages=272ff|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yk5miXMJH-cC&pg=PA272|author2=Doris Schroeder}}</ref>
 
| {{dts|1971}} || || [[wikipedia:Peter Singer|Peter Singer]] writes his essay "[[wikipedia:Famine, Affluence, and Morality|Famine, Affluence, and Morality]]". It would be published the following year in ''[[wikipedia:Philosophy and Public Affairs|Philosophy and Public Affairs]]''.  It argues that affluent persons are [[wikipedia:morality|morally]] obligated to donate far more resources to [[wikipedia:humanitarian aid|humanitarian]] causes than is considered normal in [[wikipedia:Western culture|Western culture]]s.  The essay was inspired by the [[wikipedia:starvation|starvation]] of [[wikipedia:Bangladesh Liberation War|Bangladesh Liberation War]] [[wikipedia:refugee|refugee]]s, and uses their situation as an example, although Singer's argument is general in scope and not limited to the example of Bangladesh. The essay is anthologized widely as an example of Western ethical thinking.<ref>{{cite book|last=Cottingham|first=John|title=Western philosophy: an anthology|year=1996|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|isbn=978-0-631-18627-4|pages=461ff|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=imkTo_sNrKcC&pg=PT473}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Shafer-Landau|first=Russ|title=Ethical theory: an anthology|year=2007|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|isbn=978-1-4051-3320-3|pages=523ff|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=By9nCkAvS6EC&pg=PT523}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Pojman|first=Louis P.|title=Moral philosophy: a reader|year=2003|publisher=Hackett|isbn=978-0-87220-661-8|pages=344ff|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ILa7WmdUXIMC&pg=PA344}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Wellman|first=Carl|title=Rights and Duties: Welfare rights and duties of charity|year=2002|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-93987-4|pages=227ff|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OHHZF5kyURUC&pg=PA227}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Chadwick|first=Ruth F.|title=Applied ethics: critical concepts in philosophy. Politics|year=2002|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-20837-6|pages=272ff|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yk5miXMJH-cC&pg=PA272|author2=Doris Schroeder}}</ref>
 
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| {{dts|1996}} || || In the 1996 book ''[[wikipedia:Living High and Letting Die|Living High and Letting Die]]'', the philosopher [[wikipedia:Peter Unger|Peter Unger]] wrote that it was morally praiseworthy and perhaps even morally required for people in academia who could earn substantially greater salaries in the business world to leave academia, earn the greater salaries, and donate most of the extra money to charity.<ref name="Unger">{{cite book|last1=Unger|first1=Peter|title=Living High and Letting Die|date=1996|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0198026811}}<!--|accessdate=20 April 2016--></ref>
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| {{dts|1996}} || || The philosopher [[wikipedia:Peter Unger|Peter Unger]]'s book ''[[wikipedia:Living High and Letting Die|Living High and Letting Die]]'' is published. In the book, Unger writes that it is morally praiseworthy and perhaps even morally required for people in academia who could earn substantially greater salaries in the business world to leave academia, earn the greater salaries, and donate most of the extra money to charity.<ref name="Unger">{{cite book|last1=Unger|first1=Peter|title=Living High and Letting Die|date=1996|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0198026811}}<!--|accessdate=20 April 2016--></ref>
 
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| {{dts|2000}} || || The [[wikipedia:Machine Intelligence Research Institute|Machine Intelligence Research Institute]] is founded. At the time it is called the "Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence".<ref name=transparency>{{cite web|url = https://intelligence.org/transparency/|title = Transparency and Financials|publisher = Machine Intelligence Research Institute|accessdate = February 19, 2017}}</ref> || Artificial intelligence
 
| {{dts|2000}} || || The [[wikipedia:Machine Intelligence Research Institute|Machine Intelligence Research Institute]] is founded. At the time it is called the "Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence".<ref name=transparency>{{cite web|url = https://intelligence.org/transparency/|title = Transparency and Financials|publisher = Machine Intelligence Research Institute|accessdate = February 19, 2017}}</ref> || Artificial intelligence
 
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| {{dts|2002}} || Formation || The [[wikipedia:Schistosomiasis Control Initiative|Schistosomiasis Control Initiative]] (SCI) is founded in 2002. SCI would become a [[wikipedia:GiveWell|GiveWell]] top charity.<ref>[http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/schisto/aboutus "About us" on SCI website]</ref> || Global health
 
| {{dts|2002}} || Formation || The [[wikipedia:Schistosomiasis Control Initiative|Schistosomiasis Control Initiative]] (SCI) is founded in 2002. SCI would become a [[wikipedia:GiveWell|GiveWell]] top charity.<ref>[http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/schisto/aboutus "About us" on SCI website]</ref> || Global health
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| {{dts|2003}} || Publication || Philosopher {{W|Nick Bostrom}}'s paper "Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development" is published in ''{{W|Utilitas}}''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nickbostrom.com/astronomical/waste.html |title=Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development |accessdate=April 23, 2019 |first=Nick |last=Bostrom}}</ref> The argument would become influential in the effective altruism movement.
 
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| {{dts|2004|8}} || Formation || The [[wikipedia:Against Malaria Foundation|Against Malaria Foundation]] (AMF) is founded. AMF would become a [[wikipedia:GiveWell|GiveWell]] top charity.<ref name=history>{{cite web|url = https://www.againstmalaria.com/History.aspx|title = History|publisher = Against Malaria Foundation|accessdate = February 19, 2017}}</ref> || Global health
 
| {{dts|2004|8}} || Formation || The [[wikipedia:Against Malaria Foundation|Against Malaria Foundation]] (AMF) is founded. AMF would become a [[wikipedia:GiveWell|GiveWell]] top charity.<ref name=history>{{cite web|url = https://www.againstmalaria.com/History.aspx|title = History|publisher = Against Malaria Foundation|accessdate = February 19, 2017}}</ref> || Global health
 
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| {{dts|2005}} || Formation || [[wikipedia:Future of Humanity Institute|Future of Humanity Institute]] is founded by [[wikipedia:Nick Bostrom|Nick Bostrom]].<ref name=newyorker>{{cite journal|journal=[[wikipedia:The New Yorker|The New Yorker]]|first=Raffi|last=Khatchadourian|title=The Doomsday Invention|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/doomsday-invention-artificial-intelligence-nick-bostrom|pages=64–79|date=23 November 2015|volume=XCI|number=37|issn=0028-792X|publisher=Condé Nast}}</ref>
 
| {{dts|2005}} || Formation || [[wikipedia:Future of Humanity Institute|Future of Humanity Institute]] is founded by [[wikipedia:Nick Bostrom|Nick Bostrom]].<ref name=newyorker>{{cite journal|journal=[[wikipedia:The New Yorker|The New Yorker]]|first=Raffi|last=Khatchadourian|title=The Doomsday Invention|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/doomsday-invention-artificial-intelligence-nick-bostrom|pages=64–79|date=23 November 2015|volume=XCI|number=37|issn=0028-792X|publisher=Condé Nast}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2006}} || Formation|| The [[wikipedia:Nonprofit Marketplace Initiative|Nonprofit Marketplace Initiative]] is founded. They would be a major funder of [[wikipedia:GiveWell|GiveWell]] from 2008 to 2014.
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| {{dts|2006|6}} || Publication || Brian Tomasik's collection of essays on utilitarianism is first posted to his website at utilitarian-essays.com.
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| {{dts|2006|12}} || Community || [[wikipedia:Seth Baum|Seth Baum]] starts a utilitarian community blog Felicifia.com.<ref>{{cite web |title=Felificia Blog Post List |url=http://utilitarianism.wikia.com/wiki/Felificia_Blog_Post_List |website=Utilitarianism Wiki |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180716035556/http://utilitarianism.wikia.com/wiki/Felificia_Blog_Post_List |archivedate=2018-07-16 |deadurl=no |language=en}}</ref> He had previously had a personal blog under the same name.
 
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| {{Dts|2007}} || Formation || GiveWell is founded by two former [[wikipedia:Bridgewater Associates|Bridgewater Associates]] investment analysts, [[wikipedia:Holden Karnofsky|Holden Karnofsky]] and Elie Hassenfeld.<ref name=AboutGivewell>{{cite web |url=http://www.givewell.org/about |title=About |publisher=GiveWell |date= |accessdate=2011-09-13}}</ref><ref name=illingworth>Patricia Illingworth, Thomas Pogge, Leif Wenar. ''Giving Well: The Ethics of Philanthropy'', Oxford University Press US, 2011. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-GpuK9OsvN0C&pg=PA124 Pg. 124]</ref><ref>[[wikipedia:Peter Singer|Peter Singer]]. ''The Life You Can Save: Acting Now To End World Poverty'', Random House, 2009. Ch. 6, [https://books.google.com/books?id=gGn4cdxEgvEC&pg=PA81 Pg. 81-104]</ref> || Global health
 
| {{Dts|2007}} || Formation || GiveWell is founded by two former [[wikipedia:Bridgewater Associates|Bridgewater Associates]] investment analysts, [[wikipedia:Holden Karnofsky|Holden Karnofsky]] and Elie Hassenfeld.<ref name=AboutGivewell>{{cite web |url=http://www.givewell.org/about |title=About |publisher=GiveWell |date= |accessdate=2011-09-13}}</ref><ref name=illingworth>Patricia Illingworth, Thomas Pogge, Leif Wenar. ''Giving Well: The Ethics of Philanthropy'', Oxford University Press US, 2011. [https://books.google.com/books?id=-GpuK9OsvN0C&pg=PA124 Pg. 124]</ref><ref>[[wikipedia:Peter Singer|Peter Singer]]. ''The Life You Can Save: Acting Now To End World Poverty'', Random House, 2009. Ch. 6, [https://books.google.com/books?id=gGn4cdxEgvEC&pg=PA81 Pg. 81-104]</ref> || Global health
 
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| {{Dts|2007}} (late) || Controversy || In late 2007, GiveWell's founders promoted the organization on several internet blogs and forums, including [[wikipedia:MetaFilter|MetaFilter]], using [[wikipedia:astroturfing|astroturfing]].<ref name="nytimes1">{{cite news |title=Founder of a Nonprofit Is Punished by Its Board for Engaging in an Internet Ruse  |author= Stephanie Strom |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/us/08givewell.html|newspaper=[[wikipedia:The New York Times|The New York Times]] |date=8 January 2008 |accessdate=13 September 2011}}</ref> || Global health
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| {{Dts|2007}} (late) || Controversy || GiveWell's founders promote the organization on several internet blogs and forums, including [[wikipedia:MetaFilter|MetaFilter]], using [[wikipedia:astroturfing|astroturfing]].<ref name="nytimes1">{{cite news |title=Founder of a Nonprofit Is Punished by Its Board for Engaging in an Internet Ruse  |author= Stephanie Strom |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/us/08givewell.html|newspaper=[[wikipedia:The New York Times|The New York Times]] |date=8 January 2008 |accessdate=13 September 2011}}</ref> || Global health
 
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| {{Dts|2010|12|24}} || Publication || Scott Alexander publishes "Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others{{nbsp}}&hellip;" on [[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lesswrong.com/lw/3gj/efficient_charity_do_unto_others/ |title=Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others... |first=Scott |last=Alexander |publisher=[[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]] |accessdate=February 26, 2017 |date=December 24, 2010}}</ref>
 
| {{Dts|2010|12|24}} || Publication || Scott Alexander publishes "Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others{{nbsp}}&hellip;" on [[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lesswrong.com/lw/3gj/efficient_charity_do_unto_others/ |title=Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others... |first=Scott |last=Alexander |publisher=[[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]] |accessdate=February 26, 2017 |date=December 24, 2010}}</ref>
 
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| {{Dts|2011}} || Formation || The [[wikipedia:Open Philanthropy Project|Open Philanthropy Project]] begins as GiveWell Labs.
 
| {{Dts|2011}} || Formation || The [[wikipedia:Open Philanthropy Project|Open Philanthropy Project]] begins as GiveWell Labs.
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| {{dts|2011|2}} || Formation || Giving What We Can soft-launches.<ref name=history-of-term/>
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| {{dts|2011|8}} || || The leaders of Giving What We Can and 80,000 Hours decide to incorporate as a charity under an umbrella organization.<ref name=history-of-term/>
 
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| {{dts|2011|10}} || Formation || [[wikipedia:80,000 Hours|80,000 Hours]] is founded.<ref name="80k-history">{{cite web | url = http://80000hours.org/our-mission-and-history | title = Our Mission and History | accessdate = 2012-10-25 | publisher = 80,000 Hours}}</ref>
 
| {{dts|2011|10}} || Formation || [[wikipedia:80,000 Hours|80,000 Hours]] is founded.<ref name="80k-history">{{cite web | url = http://80000hours.org/our-mission-and-history | title = Our Mission and History | accessdate = 2012-10-25 | publisher = 80,000 Hours}}</ref>
 
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| {{dts|2011}} (late) || || According to William MacAskill, the name "effective altruism" was settled upon in late 2011 when the "Centre for Effective Altruism" (CEA) was chosen as the name for an umbrella organisation that would cover both Giving What We Can and 80,000 Hours.<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> This was a largely internal name, but those who had followed a similar approach increasingly converged upon the name.<ref name=history-of-term/>
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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}} || Formation || Animal Charity Evaluators is founded. || Animal welfare
 
| {{dts|2012}} || Formation || Animal Charity Evaluators is founded. || Animal welfare
 
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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>
 
| {{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|3|10}} || || The effective altruism page on the English Wikipedia is created.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Effective_altruism&dir=prev&action=history |title=Effective altruism: Revision history - Wikipedia |accessdate=June 17, 2019 |publisher=[[wikipedia:English Wikipedia|English Wikipedia]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/481316948591334 |title=Holly asked for a Wikipedia article on effective... - Patrick Brinich-Langlois |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</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|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>
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| {{dts|2013|7}}{{snd}}{{dts|2013|8}} || || Peter Hurford makes three posts on the community blog LessWrong about existential risk reduction and the far future, and why he is skeptical of such efforts.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/XiN948y5QDgNbuTXP/why-i-m-skeptical-about-unproven-causes-and-you-should-be |title=Why I'm Skeptical About Unproven Causes (And You Should Be Too) - LessWrong 2.0 |accessdate=June 17, 2019 |publisher=[[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/iELiEEZERCXJS9DT4/how-does-miri-know-it-has-a-medium-probability-of-success |title=How does MIRI Know it Has a Medium Probability of Success? - LessWrong 2.0 |accessdate=June 17, 2019 |publisher=[[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tX93igpzE5spGkpmp/where-i-ve-changed-my-mind-on-my-approach-to-speculative |title=Where I've Changed My Mind on My Approach to Speculative Causes - LessWrong 2.0 |accessdate=June 17, 2019 |publisher=[[wikipedia:LessWrong|LessWrong]]}}</ref> Hurford would continue the discussion in the following years.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/762175333838826 |title=Peter Hurford - [Am I insufficiently taking into account the far... |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/cuB3GApHqLFXG36C6/i-am-nate-soares-ama#ymE4KARDG6jnaM4z2 |title=I am Nate Soares, AMA! - EA Forum |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/GA7ytcMeRQe5b27ge/ask-miri-anything-ama#33ppDDtGRkejcTkdz |title=Ask MIRI Anything (AMA) - EA Forum |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2013|11|25}} || || "The Elitist Philanthropy of So-Called Effective Altruism", written by {{W|Charity Navigator}} president and CEO Ken Berger and Charity Navigator consultant Robert M. Penna, is published in the ''{{W|Stanford Social Innovation Review}}''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_elitist_philanthropy_of_so_called_effective_altruism |title=The Elitist Philanthropy of So-Called Effective Altruism (SSIR) |date=November 25, 2013 |accessdate=June 16, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/598813233508371 |title=Blog post by the CEO of Charity Navigator (no... - Alexander Berger |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref> {{W|William MacAskill}} responds in "What Charity Navigator Gets Wrong About Effective Altruism".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ssir.org/articles/entry/what_charity_navigator_gets_wrong_about_effective_altruism |title=What Charity Navigator Gets Wrong About Effective Altruism (SSIR) |date=December 3, 2013 |accessdate=June 16, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/602536243136070 |title=My response went live: - William MacAskill |accessdate=June 16, 2019}}</ref>
 
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| {{dts|2014|3}} || Formation || The [[wikipedia:Future of Life Institute|Future of Life Institute]] is founded.
 
| {{dts|2014|3}} || Formation || The [[wikipedia:Future of Life Institute|Future of Life Institute]] is founded.
 
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| {{Dts|2014|8|2}} || 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>
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| {{dts|2014|3|24}} || || Vipul Naik posts on the Effective Altruism Facebook group arguing for "the view that people earning modest incomes (say, under $30,000/year) who are interested in effective altruism would be better served by concentrating on using their money to build a savings buffer first, rather than start donating early on in their life." The post results in a large discussion with more than 100 comments.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/effective.altruists/permalink/655328167856877/?hc_location=ufi |title=Effective Altruism |publisher=Facebook |author=Vipul Naik |accessdate=June 15, 2019}}</ref> A related discussion about personal runways takes place in November 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/960924703963887 |title=Robert Wiblin - Agree? "I've noticed some people in the community... |accessdate=June 15, 2019 |quote= }}</ref>
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| {{dts|2014|5|2}} || Survey || The 2014 survey of effective altruists is announced. This is the first such annual survey.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Mn4fDHSdRWsDDJkqc/2014-survey-of-effective-altruists |author=Tom Ash |title=2014 survey of effective altruists |publisher=EA Forum |accessdate=April 22, 2019}}</ref> The survey results would be released in March 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/839711549418537 |title=Peter Hurford - It's my great pleasure to announce that, after... |accessdate=June 16, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/z5swaf6342AbG93Mp/the-2014-survey-of-effective-altruists-results-and-analysis |title=The 2014 Survey of Effective Altruists: Results and Analysis |publisher=EA Forum |first=Peter |last=Hurford |accessdate=June 16, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2014|6}} || || Raising for Effective Giving launches.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/701082776614749 |title=A new EA org. (H/T Robert Wiblin) - Pablo Stafforini |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2014|7}}{{snd}}{{dts|2014|8}} || || The {{W|Ice Bucket Challenge}} goes viral on social media. {{W|William MacAskill}} writes a commentary critical of the challenge.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://qz.com/249649/the-cold-hard-truth-about-the-ice-bucket-challenge/ |title=The cold, hard truth about the ice bucket challenge |publisher=Quartz |author=William MacAskill |accessdate=May 12, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/E3t6adWgDXm3pNoYh/assessing-ea-outreach-s-media-coverage-in-2014 |title=Assessing EA Outreach's media coverage in 2014 |publisher=EA Forum |author=William MacAskill |accessdate=May 12, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/730629333660093 |title=My follow-up article on the ice bucket challenge. - William MacAskill |accessdate=June 16, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/728647300524963 |title=My latest Quartz article: "Via the ice bucket... - William MacAskill |accessdate=June 16, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2014|7|7}}{{snd}}{{dts|2014|7|9}} || Conference || The Good Done Right conference takes place.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/kNJNziSDZbeWE4nXs/good-done-right-a-conference-on-effective-altruism |title=Good Done Right: a conference on effective altruism - EA Forum |accessdate=April 22, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2014|7|27}}{{snd}}{{dts|2014|8|1}} || Conference || The Effective Altruism Retreat takes place. The Retreat precedes the Summit, and is intended to "[provide] a more intimate setting for attendees to discuss, to learn, and to form lasting connections with each other and with the community" in contrast to the conference-style Summit.<ref name="ea-summit-2014-lw" />
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| {{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|8}} || || A large discussion takes place on the Effective Altruism Facebook group about attitudes toward animal rights in the effective altruism movement.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/725327480856945 |title=Topher Brennan - Attitudes towards animal rights in the EA... |accessdate=June 17, 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>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/741818209207872 |title=Ryan Carey - Hi Effective Altruists! I'm proud to say that the Effective Altruism Forum has now gone live!... |accessdate=June 16, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/733121530077540 |title=Ryan Carey - Hi effective altruists! I'm pleased to announce that... |date=August 23, 2014 |accessdate=June 16, 2019}}</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>
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| {{dts|2014|10|22}} || || Discussion takes place about activism and effective altruism.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/762885347101158 |title=Jay Shooster - Were Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, and Mandela... |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref>
 
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| {{dts|2014}} || Publication || [[wikipedia:Nick Bostrom|Nick Bostrom]]'s book ''[[wikipedia:Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies|Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies]]'' is published. || Artificial intelligence
 
| {{dts|2014}} || Publication || [[wikipedia:Nick Bostrom|Nick Bostrom]]'s book ''[[wikipedia:Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies|Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies]]'' is published. || Artificial intelligence
 
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| {{Dts|2015}} || Conference || [[wikipedia:Effective Altruism Global|Effective Altruism Global]] 2015 takes place.
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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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| {{dts|2015}} || 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>
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| {{dts|2015|2|25}} || || A discussion takes place on the Effective Altruism Facebook group about "seeming cool".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/829549873768038 |title=Robert Wiblin - John recently wrote that effective altruists... |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref>
 
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| {{Dts|2016|8}} || Conference || [[wikipedia:Effective Altruism Global|Effective Altruism Global]] 2016 takes place.
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| {{dts|2015|3|31}} || || ''How To Be Great At Doing Good: Why Results Are What Count and How Smart Charity Can Change the World'', a book about effective altruism by {{W|Nick Cooney}}, is published.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Great-Doing-Good-ebook/dp/B00SZ6378S |title=Amazon.com: How To Be Great At Doing Good: Why Results Are What Count and How Smart Charity Can Change the World eBook: Nick Cooney: Kindle Store |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/860866710636354 |title=Jacy Reese - The second book on effective altruism is out! :) It... |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2015|4}} || || A {{W|Coursera}} course on effective altruism, taught by {{W|Peter Singer}}, is created around this time.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/850791891643836 |title=Peter Singer is running a MOOC on Effective... - William MacAskill |publisher=Facebook |author=William MacAskill |accessdate=June 15, 2019}}</ref> The course seems to open in June of the same year.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/886432601413098 |title=Tyler Alterman - The Effective Altruism Coursera course is now open: |accessdate=June 15, 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 = wikipedia: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|4|23}} || Publication || The Effective Altruism Handbook is published. The handbook collects together essays and blog posts that have been written about effective altruism.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/rCHqLDBBrP9e5Ln6N/effective-altruism-handbook-now-online |title=Effective Altruism Handbook - Now Online |publisher=EA Forum |author=Ryan Carey |accessdate=May 12, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Altruism-Handbook-Ryan-Carey/dp/1534935770 |title=The Effective Altruism Handbook |publisher=Amazon |date=April 23, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/858971920825833 |title=Ryan Carey - I'm really excited that the Effective Altruism... |accessdate=June 15, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2015|4|27}} || || {{W|Nick Bostrom}}'s TED talk, entitled "What happens when our computers get smarter than we are?" is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/861258943930464 |title=Ryan Carey - Nick Bostrom's TED talk, released today, already has... |accessdate=June 15, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnT1xgZgkpk |title=What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? {{!}} Nick Bostrom - YouTube |accessdate=June 15, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2015|7}} || || Reanalyses of a Miguel and Kremer 2004 (a randomized trial of deworming) are published, leading to a long discussion on the Effective Altruism Facebook group<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/905727689483589 |title=Robert Wiblin - Bad news for the effectiveness of mass deworming... |accessdate=June 15, 2019}}</ref> and a response from GiveWell.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.givewell.org/2015/07/24/new-deworming-reanalyses-and-cochrane-review/ |title=New deworming reanalyses and Cochrane review - The GiveWell Blog |publisher=[[wikipedia:GiveWell|GiveWell]] |date=November 14, 2015 |accessdate=June 15, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2015|7|7}}{{snd}}{{dts|2015|9|21}} || || 80,000 Hours publishes an article entitled "Effective altruists love systemic change" countering the common critique of effective altruism that effective altruism does not work on systemic change.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/897768053612886 |title=Robert Wiblin - Many people say we here don't work on or care... |accessdate=June 15, 2019}}</ref> Scott Alexander publishes "Beware Systemic Change" on his blog, ''Slate Star Codex''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/22/beware-systemic-change/ |title=Beware Systemic Change |date=July 30, 2016 |publisher=Slate Star Codex |accessdate=June 15, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/940020336054324 |title=Claire Zabel - "I think effective altruism has an important moral... |accessdate=June 15, 2019}}</ref> Slightly earlier: <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/869892879733737 |title=Tyler Alterman - [Speaker searching] EA often gets accused for... |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2015|7|13}} || || {{W|Eliezer Yudkowsky}} posts on the Effective Altruism Facebook group arguing against the use of flow-through effects. In the discussion thread, {{W|Holden Karnofsky}} of GiveWell responds.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/900417833347908 |title=Flow-through is not a good defense of any EA... - Eliezer Yudkowsky |accessdate=June 16, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2015|7|28}} || Publication || {{W|William MacAskill}}'s book ''{{W|Doing Good Better}}'' is published.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/908514712538220 |title=Today is the launch day for Doing Good Better!... - William MacAskill |accessdate=June 15, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{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|2016|8|5}}{{snd}}{{dts|2016|8|7}} || Conference || EA Global: San Francisco 2016 takes place.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eaglobal.org/events/ea-global-2016/ |title=EA Global: San Francisco 2016 - EA Global |publisher=EA Global |accessdate=April 14, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2015|8}} || || Discussion takes place online after EA Global, about how the conference organizers decided to serve meat at the last minute.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/effective.altruists/permalink/914246908631667/ |title=Doing good through our food choices at EA Global in years to come |date=August 10, 2015 |publisher=Facebook |author=Jacy Reese |accessdate=May 12, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://theunitofcaring.tumblr.com/post/126310876481/preference-accommodation-problems |publisher=The Unit of Caring |title=preference accommodation problems |accessdate=May 12, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/ben.s.kuhn/posts/10207486405387446 |title=Ben Kuhn - Is it just me or has effective altruism gotten a lot... |accessdate=May 12, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/li.van.nostrand/posts/10102521759141265 |title=My solution to the EA summit food dilemma: serve... - Elizabeth Van Nostrand |accessdate=May 12, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://acesounderglass.com/2015/08/10/food-choices-at-ea-global/ |title=Food Choices at EA Global |date=August 10, 2015 |publisher=Aceso Under Glass |accessdate=May 12, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jefftk.com/p/meat-at-ea-global |title=Meat at EA Global |author=Jeff Kaufman |date=August 10, 2015 |accessdate=May 12, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2015|11|27}} || || 80,000 Hours publishes its first (?) about "talent gaps" vs funding gaps.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://80000hours.org/2015/11/why-you-should-focus-more-on-talent-gaps-not-funding-gaps/ |title=Why you should focus more on talent gaps, not funding gaps - 80,000 Hours |publisher=80,000 Hours |date=April 18, 2019 |accessdate=June 16, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/437177563005273/posts/968250416564649 |title=Robert Wiblin - Benjamin Todd just wrote something lengthy and... |accessdate=June 16, 2019}}</ref> In subsequent years this would lead to much discussion among effective altruists.
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| {{dts|2015|11|29}} || Movement growth || Vipul Naik posts on the Effective Altruism Facebook group countering some claims that have been made about the effective altruism movement's growth.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/effective.altruists/permalink/969102686479422/ |title=Effective Altruism |author=Vipul Naik |date=November 29, 2015 |publisher=Facebook |accessdate=June 15, 2019}}</ref>
 
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| {{dts|2016}} (late, or early 2017) || || EA Ventures closes down.
 
| {{dts|2016}} (late, or early 2017) || || EA Ventures closes down.
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| {{dts|2016|10|24}} || || The blog post "Concerns with Intentional Insights" is published. The blog post raises concerns about astroturfing and other dubious practices used by Intentional Insights, an effective altruism-aligned organization led by Gleb Tsipursky.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://effective-altruism.com/ea/12z/concerns_with_intentional_insights/ |title=Concerns with Intentional Insights |date=October 24, 2016 |publisher=EA Forum}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2017|6}} || Project || Wild-Animal Suffering Research is split off from Sentience Politics as a separate organization under the Effective Altruism Foundation. Sentience Politics shifts gears to focus exclusively on political campaigns in Switzerland, and gains independence from EAF.<ref>{{cite web|title=Update on the future of Sentience Politics|url=https://ea-foundation.org/blog/update-on-the-future-of-sentience-politics/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622150519/https://ea-foundation.org/blog/update-on-the-future-of-sentience-politics/<!--https://archive.is/EsjUs-->|archivedate=2018-06-22|deadurl=no|website=Effective Altruism Foundation|date=2 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Introducing the Wild-Animal Suffering Research Project|url=https://was-research.org/blog/introducing-wild-animal-suffering-research-project/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622125314/https://was-research.org/blog/introducing-wild-animal-suffering-research-project/<!--https://archive.is/CSH6o-->|archivedate=2018-06-22|deadurl=no|website=Wild-Animal Suffering Research|date=20 July 2017}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2017|7|2}} || || The Centre for Effective Altruism takes over primary responsibility of the Effective Altruism Forum. Previously, the forum was run by volunteers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/bwoqzGiz9NNgowsGt/changes-to-the-ea-forum |title=Changes to the EA Forum |publisher=EA Forum |author=Julia Wise |accessdate=April 14, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2017|8|11}}{{snd}}{{dts|2017|8|13}} || || EA Global San Francisco 2017 takes place.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sf.eaglobal.org/2017 |title=EA Global San Francisco 2017 - Bizzabo |accessdate=April 14, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2017}} (late) || || The Global Priorities Institute (GPI) launches. GPI does academic research on cause prioritization.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://causeprioritization.org/Global_Priorities_Institute |title=Global Priorities Institute - Cause Prioritization Wiki |accessdate=May 12, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2018|5|2}} || || The second edition of the Effective Altruism Handbook is released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/MQWAsdm8MSzYNkD9X/announcing-the-effective-altruism-handbook-2nd-edition |title=Announcing the Effective Altruism Handbook, 2nd edition |publisher=EA Forum |author=Max Dalton |accessdate=May 12, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2018|6|8}}{{snd}}{{dts|2018|6|10}} || || EA Global: San Francisco 2018 takes place.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eaglobal.org/events/ea-global-2018-san-francisco/ |title=EA Global: San Francisco 2018 - EA Global |publisher=EA Global |accessdate=April 14, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2018|10|17}} || || The open beta of the new Effective Altruism Forum is announced (on the old Effective Altruism Forum).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/qeAEB4cKmbLxYcaHj/open-beta-of-the-new-ea-forum-now-available |author=Julia Wise |title=Open beta of the new EA Forum now available |publisher=EA Forum |accessdate=April 14, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2018|10}} (between 21st and 28th) || || The Effective Altruism Forum begins redirecting to the new forum, i.e. http://effective-altruism.com/ begins redirecting to https://forum.effectivealtruism.org <ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701000000*/http://effective-altruism.com/ |title=Wayback Machine effective-altruism.com |publisher=Wayback Machine}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/azp95f9kctPubF5gz/forum-moving-to-open-beta-this-week |title=Forum moving to open beta this week |publisher=EA Forum |author=Julia Wise |date=October 15, 2018 |accessdate=April 14, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2019|1|25}} || Project || Wild-Animal Suffering Research and Utility Farm merge to form the Wild Animal Initiative.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.wildanimalinitiative.org/blog/announcing-wai|title = Announcing WIld Animal Initiative|date = January 25, 2019|accessdate = March 29, 2019}} Cross-posted to https://was-research.org/blog/announcing-wild-animal-initiative/ on the Wild-Animal Suffering Research blog and to https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/jzikTHMSpckYg9ZPp/announcing-wild-animal-initiative on the Effective Altruism Forum. See also the associated discussion on Reddit at https://www.reddit.com/r/EffectiveAltruism/comments/ajr27e/announcing_wild_animal_initiative_wildanimal/</ref>
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| {{dts|2019|2|26}} || || The blog post "After one year of applying for EA jobs: It is really, really hard to get hired by an EA organisation" is published on the Effective Altruism Forum by a pseudonymous effective altruist. The blog post details the experience of the author applying to 20 positions at effective altruist (and related) organizations and being rejected.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/jmbP9rwXncfa32seH/after-one-year-of-applying-for-ea-jobs-it-is-really-really |author=EA Applicant |date=February 26, 2019 |title=After one year of applying for EA jobs: It is really, really hard to get hired by an EA organisation |publisher=Effective Altruism Forum |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref> The post becomes the most upvoted post in the history of the forum (both by score and by number of votes)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/?view=top |title=EA Forum Reader |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref> and results in a discussion with over 170 comments. The post also causes a number of others to write follow-up posts on the forum about careers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/EP6X362Q3ziibA99e/show-a-framework-for-shaping-your-talent-for-direct-work |first1=Ryan |last1=Carey |first2=Tegan |last2=McCaslin |publisher=Effective Altruism Forum |date=March 12, 2019 |title=SHOW: A framework for shaping your talent for direct work |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/G2Pfpkcwv3bJNF8o9/ea-is-vetting-constrained |author=EA person |date=March 9, 2019 |title=EA is vetting-constrained |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/oNY76m8DDWFiLo7nH/what-to-do-with-people |first=Jan |last=Kulveit |title=What to do with people? |publisher=EA Forum |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/Lms9WjQawfqERwjBS/the-career-and-the-community |first=Richard |last=Ngo |date=March 21, 2019 |title=The career and the community |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/HPpZvPEHF2Nw2YECN/effective-altruism-and-meaning-in-life |author=extra_ordinary |date=March 18, 2019 |title=Effective Altruism and Meaning in Life |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yAFXfuwsebEhNgLTf/getting-people-excited-about-more-ea-careers-a-new-community |first=Sebastian |last=Oehm |date=March 10, 2019 |title=Getting People Excited About More EA Careers: A New Community Building Challenge |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9qdFwfpq6qXNGF4ZL/a-list-of-things-for-people-to-do |author=casebash |date=March 8, 2019 |title=A List of Things For People To Do |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/vMpuXz2zqS8iHya7i/ea-jobs-provide-scarce-non-monetary-goods |first=Milan |last=Griffes |date=March 20, 2019 |title=EA jobs provide scarce non-monetary goods |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/btgGxzFaHaPZr7RQm/a-guide-to-improving-your-odds-at-getting-a-job-in-ea |first=Joey |last=Savoie |date=March 19, 2019 |title=A guide to improving your odds at getting a job in EA |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/HwBsTZEzGyAjQLoe7/identifying-talent-without-credentialing-in-ea |first=Ben |last=West |date=March 11, 2019 |title=Identifying Talent without Credentialing In EA |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/pGk6mA7oSepCJ73hi/unsolicited-career-advice |author=ConcernedNetizen |date=March 4, 2019 |title=Unsolicited Career Advice |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/PagT8Fg6HZu6KjHDb/request-for-comments-ea-projects-evaluation-platform |first=Jan |last=Kulveit |date=March 20, 2019 |title=Request for comments: EA Projects evaluation platform |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/uWWsiBdnHXcpr7kWm/can-the-ea-community-copy-teach-for-america-looking-for-task |author=alexrjl |date=February 21, 2019 |title=Can the EA community copy Teach for America? (Looking for Task Y) |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/HBKb3Y5mvb69PRHvP/dealing-with-network-constraints-my-model-of-ea-careers |first=Raymond |last=Arnold |date=February 28, 2019 |title=Dealing with Network Constraints (My Model of EA Careers) |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/kWuSkLswMSQasDemf/task-y-representing-ea-in-your-field |first=Toon |last=Alfrink |date=March 24, 2019 |title=Task Y: representing EA in your field |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/YHyvjYSEQtp3nfd6c/thoughts-on-80-000-hours-research-that-might-help-with-job |author=Ardenlk |date=April 16, 2019 |title=Thoughts on 80,000 Hours' research that might help with job-search frustrations |accessdate=June 17, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2019|6|21}}{{snd}}{{dts|2019|6|23}} || || EA Global: San Francisco 2019 is scheduled to take place.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.eaglobal.org/events/sf2019/ |title=EA Global: San Francisco 2019 - EA Global |publisher=EA Global |accessdate=April 14, 2019}}</ref>
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| {{dts|2019|9|12}} || Publication || ''Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues'', edited by Hilary Greaves and Theron Pummer, is planned for publication.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/effective-altruism-9780198841364?cc=au&lang=en& |publisher=Oxford University Press |title=Effective Altruism |accessdate=June 15, 2019}}</ref>
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=== Google Scholar ===
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The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar as of May 27, 2021.
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{| class="sortable wikitable"
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! Year
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! effective altruism
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! effective altruism charity
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! effective altruism utilitarianism
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! effective altruism psychology
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! effective altruism economics
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| 1980 || 960 || 348 || 229 || 1,260 || 1,330
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| 1985 || 1,220 || 420 || 338 || 1,580 || 1,560
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| 1990 || 1,770 || 767 || 524 || 2,380 || 2,840
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| 1995 || 2,260 || 1,110 || 713 || 3,600 || 4,050
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| 2000 || 4,800 || 2,160 || 1,300 || 5,820 || 7,180
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| 2002 || 6,170 || 2,560 || 1,440 || 7,260 || 8,920
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|-
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| 2004 || 6,550 || 3,010 || 1,610 || 7,970 || 9,400
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|-
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| 2006 || 7,720 || 3,540 || 1,770 || 9,390 || 12,000
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| 2008 || 9,140 || 3,860 || 2,110 || 11,600 || 14,500
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| 2010 || 11,100 || 5,330 || 2,510 || 13,000 || 16,700
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| 2012 || 16,500 || 6,340 || 3,170 || 15,500 || 20,500 
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| 2014 || 16,700 || 7,450 || 4,310 || 19,600 || 18,700 
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| 2016 || 17,300 || 8,090 || 3,750 || 20,200 || 20,100 
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| 2017 || 17,600 || 8,210 || 3,940 || 20,100 || 20,000 
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| 2018 || 18,200 || 8,460 || 3,800 || 20,900 || 17,300 
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| 2019 || 18,700 || 7,740 || 3,980 || 21,400 || 21,200 
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| 2020 || 19,900 || 8,060 || 3,790 || 18,800 || 21,900   
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The initial version of the timeline was written by [[User:Issa|Issa Rice]] (and probably also some editors on Wikipedia, who wrote the parts Issa quoted from other Wikipedia articles; unfortunately the version on Wikipedia was deleted so it's hard to check where the quotes came from).
  
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* TODO more links from Bostrom's page
 
* TODO more links from Bostrom's page
 
* TODO felicifia see e.g. [https://www.facebook.com/groups/eahangout/permalink/1648289805257937/]. It looks like there were several versions of the site: felicifia.org, [https://web.archive.org/web/20070901222628/http://www.felicifia.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=89 felicifia.com], and a [https://web.archive.org/web/20070821002318/http://felicifia.blogspot.com:80/2006/09/new-users-start-here.html blogger blog]
 
* TODO felicifia see e.g. [https://www.facebook.com/groups/eahangout/permalink/1648289805257937/]. It looks like there were several versions of the site: felicifia.org, [https://web.archive.org/web/20070901222628/http://www.felicifia.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=89 felicifia.com], and a [https://web.archive.org/web/20070821002318/http://felicifia.blogspot.com:80/2006/09/new-users-start-here.html blogger blog]
* Good Done Right conference: [https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/ea-conference/], [http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2014/04/call-for-registration-good-done-right-a-conference-on-effective-altruism/], [https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/history/]
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* Good Done Right conference: [https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/ea-conference/], [http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2014/04/call-for-registration-good-done-right-a-conference-on-effective-altruism/], [https://www.centreforeffectivealtruism.org/history/], [http://www.stafforini.com/blog/good-done-right/ pablo's page] might be the most complete
 
* around March--June 2018: talk about operations bottlenecks in EA orgs
 
* around March--June 2018: talk about operations bottlenecks in EA orgs
 
* Controversies:
 
* Controversies:
 
** EA Global serving meat in one of the years
 
** EA Global serving meat in one of the years
** Gleb Tsipursky
 
 
** gender diversity post on EA forum
 
** gender diversity post on EA forum
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* https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/jmbP9rwXncfa32seH/after-one-year-of-applying-for-ea-jobs-it-is-really-really
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* Toby Ord's book on existential risk
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* Tabs i had open:
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** https://eaforum.issarice.com/posts.php?id=PoYi6fynNfHScf7qB
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** https://eaforum.issarice.com/posts.php?id=gNHFRWyo58cTQ8pe8
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** https://eaforum.issarice.com/?view=old&offset=50&before=2016-12-31&after=2016-01-01
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* debates about giving now vs later
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* debates about earning to give vs direct work
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* discussions about EA projects evaluation, angel group, etc.
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* https://eaforum.issarice.com/posts/8XdAvioKZjAnzbogf/apology ?
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* https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/xrNDqL8SpHpeXZdw7/new-website-on-careers-for-optimal-philanthropy
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* https://www.facebook.com/groups/eahangout/permalink/5254515027968712/ https://jacyanthis.com/some-early-history-of-effective-altruism https://ea.greaterwrong.com/posts/ZbdNFuEP2zWN5w2Yx/ryancarey-s-shortform/comment/ag9TgbFENCmj34vDk
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Latest revision as of 12:34, 22 June 2023

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This is a timeline of the effective altruism movement.


Full timeline

Date Event type Event Cause area
1971 Peter Singer writes his essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality". It would be published the following year in Philosophy and Public Affairs. It argues that affluent persons are morally obligated to donate far more resources to humanitarian causes than is considered normal in Western cultures. The essay was inspired by the starvation of Bangladesh Liberation War refugees, and uses their situation as an example, although Singer's argument is general in scope and not limited to the example of Bangladesh. The essay is anthologized widely as an example of Western ethical thinking.[1][2][3][4][5]
1996 The philosopher Peter Unger's book Living High and Letting Die is published. In the book, Unger writes that it is morally praiseworthy and perhaps even morally required for people in academia who could earn substantially greater salaries in the business world to leave academia, earn the greater salaries, and donate most of the extra money to charity.[6]
2000 The Machine Intelligence Research Institute is founded. At the time it is called the "Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence".[7] Artificial intelligence
2002 Formation The Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI) is founded in 2002. SCI would become a GiveWell top charity.[8] Global health
2003 Publication Philosopher Nick Bostrom's paper "Astronomical Waste: The Opportunity Cost of Delayed Technological Development" is published in Utilitas.[9] The argument would become influential in the effective altruism movement.
August 2004 Formation The Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) is founded. AMF would become a GiveWell top charity.[10] Global health
2005 Formation Future of Humanity Institute is founded by Nick Bostrom.[11]
2006 Formation The Nonprofit Marketplace Initiative is founded. They would be a major funder of GiveWell from 2008 to 2014.
June 2006 Publication Brian Tomasik's collection of essays on utilitarianism is first posted to his website at utilitarian-essays.com.
December 2006 Community Seth Baum starts a utilitarian community blog Felicifia.com.[12] He had previously had a personal blog under the same name.
2007 Formation GiveWell is founded by two former Bridgewater Associates investment analysts, Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld.[13][14][15] Global health
2007 (late) Controversy GiveWell's founders promote the organization on several internet blogs and forums, including MetaFilter, using astroturfing.[16] Global health
December 24, 2010 Publication Scott Alexander publishes "Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others …" on LessWrong.[17]
2011 Formation The Open Philanthropy Project begins as GiveWell Labs.
February 2011 Formation Giving What We Can soft-launches.[18]
August 2011 The leaders of Giving What We Can and 80,000 Hours decide to incorporate as a charity under an umbrella organization.[18]
October 2011 Formation 80,000 Hours is founded.[19]
November 2011 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.[18]
November 27, 2011 The r/smartgiving subreddit is created. This is the original subreddit about effective altruism before r/EffectiveAltruism is created (?).[20]
December 5, 2011 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).[18]
2012 Formation Animal Charity Evaluators is founded. Animal welfare
June 2012 GiveWell announces a close partnership with Good Ventures, the philanthropic foundation tasked with giving away Facebook co-founder 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.[21]
September 17, 2012 The r/EffectiveAltruism subreddit is created.[22]
November 27, 2012 The first post on Paul Christiano's effective altruism blog, Rational Altruist, is published.[23]
2013 Project Sentience Politics, an "anti-speciesist political think-tank", is founded as a subdivision of the Effective Altruism Foundation.[24]
March 10, 2013 The effective altruism page on the English Wikipedia is created.[25][26]
April 18, 2013 The effective-altruism.com domain name is registered.[27]
May 2013 Publication Nick Beckstead's PhD thesis, "On the Overwhelming Importance of Shaping the Far Future", is submitted.[28]
May 20, 2013 Peter Singer's TED talk, entitled "The why and how of effective altruism", is published.[29]
June 25, 2013 The Effective Altruism Blog launches around this time. The blog is "an invite-only blog that [has] a handful of posts",[30] and is hosted at www.effective-altruism.com (the location the Effective Altruism Forum would later take).[31][32]
June 30, 2013 to July 6, 2013 Conference The Effective Altruism Summit 2013 takes place.[33]
July 2013 – August 2013 Peter Hurford makes three posts on the community blog LessWrong about existential risk reduction and the far future, and why he is skeptical of such efforts.[34][35][36] Hurford would continue the discussion in the following years.[37][38][39]
November 25, 2013 "The Elitist Philanthropy of So-Called Effective Altruism", written by Charity Navigator president and CEO Ken Berger and Charity Navigator consultant Robert M. Penna, is published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review.[40][41] William MacAskill responds in "What Charity Navigator Gets Wrong About Effective Altruism".[42][43]
March 2014 Formation The Future of Life Institute is founded.
March 24, 2014 Vipul Naik posts on the Effective Altruism Facebook group arguing for "the view that people earning modest incomes (say, under $30,000/year) who are interested in effective altruism would be better served by concentrating on using their money to build a savings buffer first, rather than start donating early on in their life." The post results in a large discussion with more than 100 comments.[44] A related discussion about personal runways takes place in November 2015.[45]
May 2, 2014 Survey The 2014 survey of effective altruists is announced. This is the first such annual survey.[46] The survey results would be released in March 2015.[47][48]
June 2014 Raising for Effective Giving launches.[49]
July 2014 – August 2014 The Ice Bucket Challenge goes viral on social media. William MacAskill writes a commentary critical of the challenge.[50][51][52][53]
July 7, 2014 – July 9, 2014 Conference The Good Done Right conference takes place.[54]
July 27, 2014 – August 1, 2014 Conference The Effective Altruism Retreat takes place. The Retreat precedes the Summit, and is intended to "[provide] a more intimate setting for attendees to discuss, to learn, and to form lasting connections with each other and with the community" in contrast to the conference-style Summit.[55]
August 2, 2014 – August 3, 2014 Conference The Effective Altruism Summit 2014 begins on this day, continuing onto the following day. Speakers would include Peter Thiel.[56][55]
August 2014 A large discussion takes place on the Effective Altruism Facebook group about attitudes toward animal rights in the effective altruism movement.[57]
September 10, 2014 The Effective Altruism Forum launches, with the forum software based on that of LessWrong (which was itself based on that of Reddit).[58][59][60][30]
October 3, 2014 EA Profiles and the EA Donation Registry launch on the Effective Altruism Hub.[61][62]
October 22, 2014 Discussion takes place about activism and effective altruism.[63]
2014 Publication Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is published. Artificial intelligence
February 27, 2015 Effective Altruism Ventures launches. EA Ventures provides funding an expertise/guidance to effective altruist projects.[64][65] EA Ventures would post a request for projects in June 2015.[66]
February 25, 2015 A discussion takes place on the Effective Altruism Facebook group about "seeming cool".[67]
March 31, 2015 How To Be Great At Doing Good: Why Results Are What Count and How Smart Charity Can Change the World, a book about effective altruism by Nick Cooney, is published.[68][69]
April 2015 A Coursera course on effective altruism, taught by Peter Singer, is created around this time.[70] The course seems to open in June of the same year.[71]
April 7, 2015 Publication Peter Singer publishes The Most Good You Can Do, a book on effective altruism.[72][73]
April 23, 2015 Publication The Effective Altruism Handbook is published. The handbook collects together essays and blog posts that have been written about effective altruism.[74][75][76]
April 27, 2015 Nick Bostrom's TED talk, entitled "What happens when our computers get smarter than we are?" is released.[77][78]
July 2015 Reanalyses of a Miguel and Kremer 2004 (a randomized trial of deworming) are published, leading to a long discussion on the Effective Altruism Facebook group[79] and a response from GiveWell.[80]
July 7, 2015 – September 21, 2015 80,000 Hours publishes an article entitled "Effective altruists love systemic change" countering the common critique of effective altruism that effective altruism does not work on systemic change.[81] Scott Alexander publishes "Beware Systemic Change" on his blog, Slate Star Codex.[82][83] Slightly earlier: [84]
July 13, 2015 Eliezer Yudkowsky posts on the Effective Altruism Facebook group arguing against the use of flow-through effects. In the discussion thread, Holden Karnofsky of GiveWell responds.[85]
July 28, 2015 Publication William MacAskill's book Doing Good Better is published.[86]
July 31, 2015 – August 2, 2015 Conference Effective Altruism Global 2015 takes place. Effective Altruism Global was previously called the Effective Altruism Summit.[87]
August 5, 2016 – August 7, 2016 Conference EA Global: San Francisco 2016 takes place.[88]
August 2015 Discussion takes place online after EA Global, about how the conference organizers decided to serve meat at the last minute.[89][90][91][92][93][94]
November 27, 2015 80,000 Hours publishes its first (?) about "talent gaps" vs funding gaps.[95][96] In subsequent years this would lead to much discussion among effective altruists.
November 29, 2015 Movement growth Vipul Naik posts on the Effective Altruism Facebook group countering some claims that have been made about the effective altruism movement's growth.[97]
2016 (late, or early 2017) EA Ventures closes down.
October 24, 2016 The blog post "Concerns with Intentional Insights" is published. The blog post raises concerns about astroturfing and other dubious practices used by Intentional Insights, an effective altruism-aligned organization led by Gleb Tsipursky.[98]
June 2017 Project Wild-Animal Suffering Research is split off from Sentience Politics as a separate organization under the Effective Altruism Foundation. Sentience Politics shifts gears to focus exclusively on political campaigns in Switzerland, and gains independence from EAF.[99][100]
July 2, 2017 The Centre for Effective Altruism takes over primary responsibility of the Effective Altruism Forum. Previously, the forum was run by volunteers.[101]
August 11, 2017 – August 13, 2017 EA Global San Francisco 2017 takes place.[102]
2017 (late) The Global Priorities Institute (GPI) launches. GPI does academic research on cause prioritization.[103]
May 2, 2018 The second edition of the Effective Altruism Handbook is released.[104]
June 8, 2018 – June 10, 2018 EA Global: San Francisco 2018 takes place.[105]
October 17, 2018 The open beta of the new Effective Altruism Forum is announced (on the old Effective Altruism Forum).[106]
October 2018 (between 21st and 28th) The Effective Altruism Forum begins redirecting to the new forum, i.e. http://effective-altruism.com/ begins redirecting to https://forum.effectivealtruism.org [107][108]
January 25, 2019 Project Wild-Animal Suffering Research and Utility Farm merge to form the Wild Animal Initiative.[109]
February 26, 2019 The blog post "After one year of applying for EA jobs: It is really, really hard to get hired by an EA organisation" is published on the Effective Altruism Forum by a pseudonymous effective altruist. The blog post details the experience of the author applying to 20 positions at effective altruist (and related) organizations and being rejected.[110] The post becomes the most upvoted post in the history of the forum (both by score and by number of votes)[111] and results in a discussion with over 170 comments. The post also causes a number of others to write follow-up posts on the forum about careers.[112][113][114][115][116][117][118][119][120][121][122][123][124][125][126][127]
June 21, 2019 – June 23, 2019 EA Global: San Francisco 2019 is scheduled to take place.[128]
September 12, 2019 Publication Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues, edited by Hilary Greaves and Theron Pummer, is planned for publication.[129]

Big picture

Numerical and visual data

Google Scholar

The following table summarizes per-year mentions on Google Scholar as of May 27, 2021.

Year effective altruism effective altruism charity effective altruism utilitarianism effective altruism psychology effective altruism economics
1980 960 348 229 1,260 1,330
1985 1,220 420 338 1,580 1,560
1990 1,770 767 524 2,380 2,840
1995 2,260 1,110 713 3,600 4,050
2000 4,800 2,160 1,300 5,820 7,180
2002 6,170 2,560 1,440 7,260 8,920
2004 6,550 3,010 1,610 7,970 9,400
2006 7,720 3,540 1,770 9,390 12,000
2008 9,140 3,860 2,110 11,600 14,500
2010 11,100 5,330 2,510 13,000 16,700
2012 16,500 6,340 3,170 15,500 20,500
2014 16,700 7,450 4,310 19,600 18,700
2016 17,300 8,090 3,750 20,200 20,100
2017 17,600 8,210 3,940 20,100 20,000
2018 18,200 8,460 3,800 20,900 17,300
2019 18,700 7,740 3,980 21,400 21,200
2020 19,900 8,060 3,790 18,800 21,900
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Meta information on the timeline

How the timeline was built

The initial version of the timeline was written by Issa Rice (and probably also some editors on Wikipedia, who wrote the parts Issa quoted from other Wikipedia articles; unfortunately the version on Wikipedia was deleted so it's hard to check where the quotes came from).

Several rows are taken from Timeline of wild animal suffering.


Feedback and comments

Feedback for the timeline can be provided at the following places:

What the timeline is still missing

Also see discussion page.

Timeline update strategy

See also

References

  1. Cottingham, John (1996). Western philosophy: an anthology. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 461ff. ISBN 978-0-631-18627-4. 
  2. Shafer-Landau, Russ (2007). Ethical theory: an anthology. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 523ff. ISBN 978-1-4051-3320-3. 
  3. Pojman, Louis P. (2003). Moral philosophy: a reader. Hackett. pp. 344ff. ISBN 978-0-87220-661-8. 
  4. Wellman, Carl (2002). Rights and Duties: Welfare rights and duties of charity. Taylor & Francis. pp. 227ff. ISBN 978-0-415-93987-4. 
  5. Chadwick, Ruth F.; Doris Schroeder (2002). Applied ethics: critical concepts in philosophy. Politics. Taylor & Francis. pp. 272ff. ISBN 978-0-415-20837-6. 
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