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| {{dts|2014|3}} || Formation || The [[wikipedia:Future of Life Institute|Future of Life Institute]] is founded.
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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>
| {{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 = 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|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|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>|-| {{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>|-| {{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>|-| {{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|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|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>
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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.
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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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