Avoiding Caffeine Tolerance

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Utilitarianism Isn't About Doing Bad Things for the Greater Good. It's About Doing the Most Good

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The United States Is Weird

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Should Patient Philanthropists Invest Differently?

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Two Types of Scientific Misconceptions You Can Easily Disprove

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Most Theories Can't Explain Why Game of Thrones Went Downhill

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Philanthropists Probably Shouldn't Mission-Hedge AI Progress

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The Review Service Vortex of Death

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Index Funds That Vote Are Active, Not Passive

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A Preliminary Model of Mission-Correlated Investing

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How I Estimate Future Investment Returns

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Can Good Writing Be Taught?

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Existential Risk Reduction Is Naive (And That's a Good Thing)

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Altruistic Investors Care About Other Altruists' Portfolios

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Should Earners-to-Give Work at Startups Instead of Big Companies?

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Obvious Investing Facts

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Future Funding/Talent/Capacity Constraints Matter, Too

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Low-Hanging (Monetary) Fruit for Wealthy EAs

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Do I Read My Own Citations?

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Summaries Are Important

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Argumentative Tactics I Would Like to Stop Seeing

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My Experience Trying to Force Myself to Do Deep Work

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Mission Hedgers Want to Hedge Quantity, Not Price

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How Do AI Timelines Affect Giving Now vs. Later?

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Metaculus Questions Suggest Money Will Do More Good in the Future

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Reverse-Engineering the Philanthropic Discount Rate

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How Can We Increase the Frequency of Rare Insights?

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Investment Strategies for Donor-Advised Funds

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A Comparison of Donor-Advised Fund Providers

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More Evidence on Concentrated Stock Selection

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The True Cost of Leveraged ETFs

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Investors Can Simulate Leverage via Concentrated Stock Selection

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Asset Allocation and Leverage for Altruists with Constraints

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Uncorrelated Investments for Altruists

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If Causes Differ Astronomically in Cost-Effectiveness, Then Personal Fit In Career Choice Is Unimportant

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Donor-Advised Funds vs. Taxable Accounts for Patient Donors

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The Risk of Concentrating Wealth in a Single Asset

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"Disappointing Futures" Might Be As Important As Existential Risks

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Mission Hedging via Momentum Investing

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Giving Now vs. Later for Existential Risk: An Initial Approach

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Should We Prioritize Long-Term Existential Risk?

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The Importance of Unknown Existential Risks

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Estimating the Philanthropic Discount Rate

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Do Theoretical Models Accurately Predict Optimal Leverage?

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How Much Leverage Should Altruists Use?

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Correction on Giving Now vs. Later

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Are All Actions Impermissible Under Kantian Deontology?

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New Page: Convert Credences into a Bet

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What Are the Best TV Shows (According to IMDb Episode Ratings)?

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High School Science Experiments

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How Can Donors Incentivize Good Predictions on Important but Unpopular Topics?

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Should Global Poverty Donors Give Now or Later?

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Why Do Small Donors Give Now, But Large Donors Give Later?

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Where Some People Donated in 2017

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Newcomb's Problem and Efficient Markets

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All Expected Utility Distributions Have One of Two Big Problems

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New Comment System

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An Idea for How Large Donors Can Support Small Charities

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Do Investors Put Too Much Stock in the U.S.?

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Ideas Too Short for Essays

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Good Ventures/Open Phil Should Make Riskier Grants

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Where I Am Donating in 2016

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Dedicated Donors May Not Want to Sign the Giving What We Can Pledge

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Is Preventing Global Poverty Good?

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Why I'm Prioritizing Animal-Focused Values Spreading

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Altruistic Organizations Should Consider Counterfactuals When Hiring

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Why the Open Philanthropy Project Should Prioritize Wild Animal Suffering

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Evaluation Frameworks (or: When Importance / Neglectedness / Tractability Doesn't Apply)

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Quantifying the Far Future Effects of Interventions

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A Complete Quantitative Model for Cause Selection

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GiveWell's Charity Recommendations Require Taking a Controversial Stance on Population Ethics

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Songs of the Day

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On Priors

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How Should a Large Donor Prioritize Cause Areas?

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How Sentient Are Farm Animals?

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The Myth that Reducing Wild Animal Suffering Is Intractable

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Preventing Human Extinction, Now With Numbers!

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Expected Value Estimates You Can (Maybe) Take Literally

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What Would Change My Mind About Where to Donate

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How Valuable Are GiveWell Research Analysts?

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Are GiveWell Top Charities Too Speculative?

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Feedback Loops for Values Spreading

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More on REG's Room for More Funding

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Response to the Global Priorities Project on Human and Animal Interventions

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Cause Prioritization Research I Would Like to See

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Excessive Optimism About Far Future Causes

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A Consciousness Decider Must Itself Be Conscious

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Observations on Consciousness

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Should Altruists Leverage Donations?

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My Cause Selection: Michael Dickens

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Charities I Would Like to See

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On Values Spreading

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Some Writings on Cause Selection

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Is Preventing Human Extinction Good?

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Why Effective Altruists Should Use a Robo-Advisor

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Robin Hanson Emulator

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Meditations on Basic Income Guarantees

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Haskell Is Actually Practical

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Utilitarianism Resources

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Voting to Do the Most Good

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Free Will, Moral Responsibility, and Justice

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Animal Suffering

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Why Utilitarianism?

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Measuring Happiness

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Why We Can See Stars

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Utilitarianism in Five Minutes

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On the Moral Obligation to Prevent Suffering

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The Case for Consequentialism

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Using Utilitarianism to Argue Against Utilitarianism

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Morality in the Real World

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