The evolution of effective altruism

International | A muddled mission How effective altruism conquered the world And how the 21st century’s most important social movement might yet end it |14 min read THE STARTING-point for effective altruism was a simple assumption, that “suffering and death from lack of food, shelter, and medical care are bad.” Yet adherents fear they may be hastening an ending, too, when humanity’s “cosmic endowm...