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Your most important decision
Foundations
A definition of impact
Future generations & their moral significance
Effective altruism
Global priorities
Why problem selection is crucial
The case for reducing existential risks
This could be the most important century
Our current list of pressing problems
Solutions
The best solutions are far more effective
Leverage
What is leverage, and how to get it?
Our list of high-impact careers
Personal fit
Fit is more important than you think
Strategy
What is career capital?
How much to explore?
Coordination and impact
Balancing impact and doing what you love
Three career stages
Conclusion
How much do careers differ in impact?
Read the full guide →
Top areas to work on
Positively shaping the development of AI
Global priorities research
Building effective altruism
Reducing the risk of catastrophic pandemics
Nuclear security
Improving institutional decision making
Extreme climate change
Other promising areas
Mitigating great power conflict
Global governance
Space governance
See all →
Go to problems hub →
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#112 – Carl Shulman on the common-sense case for existential risk work and its practical implications
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September
#111 – Mushtaq Khan on using institutional economics to predict effective government reforms
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August
#110 – Holden Karnofsky on building aptitudes and kicking ass
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#109 – Holden Karnofsky on the most important century
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#108 – Chris Olah on working at top AI labs without an undergrad degree
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#107 – Chris Olah on what the hell is going on inside neural networks
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July
#106 – Cal Newport on an industrial revolution for office work
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#105 – Alexander Berger on improving global health and wellbeing in clear and direct ways
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June
#104 – Pardis Sabeti on the Sentinel system for detecting and stopping pandemics
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#103 – Max Roser on building the world's first great source of COVID-19 data at Our World in Data
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#102 – Tom Moynihan on why prior generations missed some of the biggest priorities of all
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May
#101 – Robert Wright on using cognitive empathy to save the world
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#100 – Having a successful career with depression, anxiety and imposter syndrome
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#99 – Leah Garcés on turning adversaries into allies to change the chicken industry
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#98 – Christian Tarsney on future bias and a possible solution to moral fanaticism
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April
#97 – Mike Berkowitz on keeping the U.S. a liberal democratic country
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Launching a new resource: ‘Effective Altruism: An Introduction’
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#96 – Nina Schick on disinformation and the rise of synthetic media
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March
#95 – Kelly Wanser on whether to deliberately intervene in the climate
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#94 – Ezra Klein on aligning journalism, politics, and what matters most
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#93 – Andy Weber on rendering bioweapons obsolete & ending the new nuclear arms race
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#79 – A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing global problems as puzzles
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2019
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Rob Wiblin on human nature, new technology, and living a happy, healthy & ethical life
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