Map of maps of interesting fields
I love seeing cool visualizations (maps) of interesting intellectual fields. I’m also a big fan of making lists! Accordingly, I compiled a bunch of maps of fields that I thought were interesting. Please comment if you know of more such maps, and I’ll include them. Scott Alexander’s map of Effective Altruism (2020) mariekedev’s mindmap of EA…
How much would billionaire philanthropists need to scale up their giving to meet the Giving Pledge in their lifetime?
The idea of creating a billionaire impact list has been floating around for years. Some people might already be working on it, but I haven’t heard anything recently. Here is another feature that could be added to such a list: IIRC, there was a post by @Benjamin_Todd where they estimated the annual donation amount of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the…
All moral decisions in life are on a heavy-tailed distribution
(epistemic status: Written in the spirit of “strong opinions, weakly held” and in a way that is accessible for people who are new to effective altruism. Also, I am pretty sure this idea isn’t original, but I haven’t seen it written up. So please point me there in case I missed something.) Heavy tails explained…
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