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Magnus Vinding: A Short Critique of 'The Effective Altruism Handbook'
http://magnusvinding.blogspot.com/2015/05/a-critique-of-effective-altruist.html
Sunday, May 24, 2015. A Short Critique of 'The Effective Altruism Handbook'. Today I read the recently published. I had been looking forward to reading it, hoping to read something that I would both agree with and learn from. Unfortunately, the main lesson I learned was that there is a big problem with the effective altruism movement in its current form. The problem is actually well exemplified by my personal experience with donating based on GiveWell’s recommendations. I came upon. The answer is no, and...
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Résumé - Brian Tomasik
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Essays on Reducing Suffering. I'm a software engineer with interests in machine learning, math, finance, and philanthropy. I formerly worked on Microsoft's Bing search engine, improving the relevance of its results. 2015 ‑ present). Built from scratch a machine-learning model to predict the value of homes in Seattle. The model's accuracy was within a few percentage points of Zillow's predictions. And Essays on Reducing Suffering. 2013 ‑ 2015). I've written over 130 essays for my website. I built and main...
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Other Writings - Brian Tomasik
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Essays on Reducing Suffering. This page collects texts I've written over the years, starting in middle school and continuing to the present. Note that I don't necessarily endorse things I wrote in the past. For example, pieces older than 2005 ignore animal suffering. Which I now think is among the most important issues. Approval of new FASB standards (2008) ( pdf. Accounting ethics case study (2008) ( pdf. Action alerts I've done. Making money and making change (2007) ( pdf. Bugs Around My House. Investi...
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Résumé - Brian Tomasik
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Essays on Reducing Suffering. I'm a software engineer with interests in machine learning, math, finance, and philanthropy. I formerly worked on Microsoft's Bing search engine, improving the relevance of its results. 2015 ‑ present). Built from scratch a machine-learning model to predict the value of homes in Seattle. The model's accuracy was within a few percentage points of Zillow's predictions. And Essays on Reducing Suffering. 2013 ‑ 2015). I've written over 130 essays for my website. I built and main...
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Magnus Vinding: May 2015
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Sunday, May 24, 2015. A Short Critique of 'The Effective Altruism Handbook'. Today I read the recently published. I had been looking forward to reading it, hoping to read something that I would both agree with and learn from. Unfortunately, the main lesson I learned was that there is a big problem with the effective altruism movement in its current form. The problem is actually well exemplified by my personal experience with donating based on GiveWell’s recommendations. I came upon. The answer is no, and...
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