Timeline of effective altruism
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This is a timeline of the effective altruism movement.
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Date | Event type | Event | Cause area |
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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 | In the 1996 book Living High and Letting Die, the philosopher 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.[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 |
August 2004 | Formation | The Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) is founded. AMF would become a GiveWell top charity.[9] | Global health |
2005 | Formation | Future of Humanity Institute is founded by Nick Bostrom.[10] | |
2007 | Formation | GiveWell is founded by two former Bridgewater Associates investment analysts, Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld.[11][12][13] | Global health |
2007 (late) | Controversy | In late 2007, GiveWell's founders promoted the organization on several internet blogs and forums, including MetaFilter, using astroturfing.[14] | Global health |
December 24, 2010 | Publication | Scott Alexander publishes "Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others …" on LessWrong.[15] | |
2011 | Formation | The Open Philanthropy Project begins as GiveWell Labs. | |
October 2011 | Formation | 80,000 Hours is founded.[16] | |
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.[17] This was a largely internal name, but those who had followed a similar approach increasingly converged upon the name.[17] | ||
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.[18] | ||
June 30, 2013 to July 6, 2013 | Conference | The Effective Altruism Summit 2013 takes place.[19] | |
March 2014 | Formation | The Future of Life Institute is founded. | |
August 2, 2014 | Conference | The Effective Altruism Summit 2014 begins on this day, continuing onto the following day. Speakers would include Peter Thiel.[20] | |
2014 | Publication | Nick Bostrom's book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies is published. | Artificial intelligence |
2015 | Conference | Effective Altruism Global 2015 takes place. | |
2015 | Publication | Peter Singer publishes The Most Good You Can Do, a book on effective altruism.[21] | |
July 28, 2015 | Publication | William MacAskill's book Doing Good Better is published. | |
August 2016 | Conference | Effective Altruism Global 2016 takes place. | |
2016 (late, or early 2017) | EA Ventures closes down. | ||
July 2, 2017 | The Centre for Effective Altruism takes over primary responsibility of the Effective Altruism Forum. Previously, the forum was run by volunteers.[22] | ||
October 17, 2018 | The open beta of the new Effective Altruism Forum is announced (on the old Effective Altruism Forum).[23] | ||
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 [24][25] |
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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).
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What the timeline is still missing
- TODO incorporate from here
- TODO do all GiveWell top charities
- TODO more links from effective altruism
- TODO more links from Bostrom's page
- TODO felicifia see e.g. [1]. It looks like there were several versions of the site: felicifia.org, felicifia.com, and a blogger blog
- Good Done Right conference: [2], [3], [4]
- around March--June 2018: talk about operations bottlenecks in EA orgs
- Controversies:
- EA Global serving meat in one of the years
- Gleb Tsipursky
- gender diversity post on EA forum
- https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/jmbP9rwXncfa32seH/after-one-year-of-applying-for-ea-jobs-it-is-really-really
- Toby Ord's book on existential risk
Also see discussion page.
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References
- ↑ Cottingham, John (1996). Western philosophy: an anthology. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 461ff. ISBN 978-0-631-18627-4.
- ↑ Shafer-Landau, Russ (2007). Ethical theory: an anthology. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 523ff. ISBN 978-1-4051-3320-3.
- ↑ Pojman, Louis P. (2003). Moral philosophy: a reader. Hackett. pp. 344ff. ISBN 978-0-87220-661-8.
- ↑ Wellman, Carl (2002). Rights and Duties: Welfare rights and duties of charity. Taylor & Francis. pp. 227ff. ISBN 978-0-415-93987-4.
- ↑ Chadwick, Ruth F.; Doris Schroeder (2002). Applied ethics: critical concepts in philosophy. Politics. Taylor & Francis. pp. 272ff. ISBN 978-0-415-20837-6.
- ↑ Unger, Peter (1996). Living High and Letting Die. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198026811.
- ↑ "Transparency and Financials". Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
- ↑ "About us" on SCI website
- ↑ "History". Against Malaria Foundation. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
- ↑ Khatchadourian, Raffi (23 November 2015). "The Doomsday Invention". The New Yorker. Condé Nast. XCI (37): 64–79. ISSN 0028-792X.
- ↑ "About". GiveWell. Retrieved 2011-09-13.
- ↑ Patricia Illingworth, Thomas Pogge, Leif Wenar. Giving Well: The Ethics of Philanthropy, Oxford University Press US, 2011. Pg. 124
- ↑ Peter Singer. The Life You Can Save: Acting Now To End World Poverty, Random House, 2009. Ch. 6, Pg. 81-104
- ↑ Stephanie Strom (8 January 2008). "Founder of a Nonprofit Is Punished by Its Board for Engaging in an Internet Ruse". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
- ↑ Alexander, Scott (December 24, 2010). "Efficient Charity: Do Unto Others...". LessWrong. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
- ↑ "Our Mission and History". 80,000 Hours. Retrieved 2012-10-25.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 MacAskill, William (March 11, 2014). "The history of the term 'effective altruism'". The Effective Altruism Forum. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
- ↑ Holden (2012-06-28). "GiveWell and Good Ventures".
- ↑ "Effective Altruism Summit 2013 - June 30 to July 6, San Francisco". Retrieved February 26, 2017.
- ↑ "Effective Altruism Summit 2014 - August 2-3, San Francisco". Retrieved February 26, 2017.
- ↑ Kristof, Nicholas (April 4, 2015). "The Trader Who Donates Half His Pay". New York Times. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
- ↑ Julia Wise. "Changes to the EA Forum". EA Forum. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
- ↑ Julia Wise. "Open beta of the new EA Forum now available". EA Forum. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
- ↑ "Wayback Machine effective-altruism.com". Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Julia Wise (October 15, 2018). "Forum moving to open beta this week". EA Forum. Retrieved April 14, 2019.