CEA strategic update, March 2017 (what we learned at YC and more)
CEA have now officially completed Y Combinator (YC) and so in this month’s update I wanted to share with you what we learned and achieved as a result in Q1 and the sorts of things CEA is planning to prioritise and why in Q2.
CEA update, April 2017
Effective altruism: an elucidation and a defence
By John Halstead,[1] Stefan Schubert,[2] Joseph Millum,[3] Mark Engelbert,[4] Hayden Wilkinson,[5] and James Snowden[6]
Hard-to-reverse decisions destroy option value
Summary: Some strategic decisions available to the effective altruism movement may be difficult to reverse. One example is making the movement’s brand explicitly political. Another is growing large. Under high uncertainty, there is often reason to avoid or delay such hard-to-reverse decisions.
Understanding cause-neutrality
The term “cause-neutrality” has been used for at least four concepts. The first aim of this article is to define those concepts.
CEA update, February 2017
This blog post is part of our series of monthly strategic updates so that those that want to can stay up to date with what we are working on and why. Previously Will MacAskill has posted these updates on the Effective Altruism Forum. I (Tara) am taking over writing the updates moving forward and will post them here on our blog.