r/EffectiveAltruism↗
Effective Altruists on Reddit
Effective altruism is a growing social movement founded on the imperative to make the world as good a place as it can be, the use of evidence and reason to find out how to do so, and the audacity to actually try.
38k subscribers113 posts / mo in Sep 202695 authors / mosince 2012
r/EffectiveAltruism has 38k members (+14% over the last 12 months). It gets about 113 posts a month from 95 people. Top topics: CharityDonations, AI Dangers & Ethics and Enterprise Architecture Careers.
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Topics and brands on r/EffectiveAltruism
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- CharityDonations0.7%
- AI Dangers & Ethics0.7%
- Enterprise Architecture Careers0.5%
- Pain and Suffering0.2%
- Future of AI0.2%
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- Substack
- 80,000 Hours
- Giving What We Can
- Gofund
- Vox
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