On caring

Nate Soares

Effective Altruism Forum, October 6, 2014

Abstract

The paper presents the strategy of the London branch of a social movement called Effective Altruism (EA), a community of individuals who seek to find ways to benefit as many people as possible and as effectively as possible, including through organized efforts such as donating money. The strategy is focused on activities that will coordinate and support people in London who are interested in EA, by organizing different types of events and providing resources. The document includes a list of the activities that will be conducted and the metrics that will be used to measure the strategy’s effectiveness – AI-generated abstract.

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Saving a person’s life feels great, and it would probably feel just about as good to save one life as it would feel to save the world. It surely wouldn’t be many billion times more of a high to save the world, because your hardware can’t express a feeling a billion times bigger than the feeling of saving a person’s life. But even though the altruistic high from saving someone’s life would be shockingly similar to the altruistic high from saving the world, always remember that behind those similar feelings there is a whole world of difference.