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• Relevant features of the world  (3)
  • Methods for achieving goals  (6)
    • Capacity-building  (2)
      • Growing the effective altruism community  (1)
        • Excited altruism vs obligatory altruism
      • Improving the accuracy of beliefs
    • Career choice  (2)
      • Career choice framework  (4)
        • Career capital
        • Job satisfaction
        • Personal fit
        • Role impact
      • Promising career approaches  (4)
        • Advocacy careers
        • Direct work
        • Earning to give
        • Research careers
    • Consumption decisions  (3)
      • Budgeting for yourself and others
      • Consuming animal products
      • Environmental consumption
    • Doing research
    • Funding projects  (3)
      • Funding high-impact for-profits
      • Issues relating to effective funding  (5)
        • Giving publicly
        • Lessons from the history of philanthropy
        • Philanthropic coordination
        • Philanthropic diversification
        • Timing of philanthropy
      • Unusual funding models
    • Influencing others  (2)
      • Improving institutions  (4)
        • Improving policy
        • Influencing charities
        • Influencing for-profits  (1)
          • Socially responsible investing  (2)
            • Divestment
            • Impact investing
        • Systemic change
      • Influencing individuals
  • Important general features of the world  (4)
    • Capacity to feel pleasure and pain
    • Fundamental physical features of the world  (2)
      • Possibility of an infinite universe
      • The simulation argument
    • Future considerations  (2)
      • The long-term future  (3)
        • Kinds of possible futures
        • Number of future people
        • The likelihood of extinction  (1)
          • The Fermi paradox
      • Transformative technologies  (2)
        • Artificial intelligence  (1)
          • Superintelligence
        • Interstellar colonization
    • Variation in cost-effectiveness  (2)
      • Diminishing returns  (2)
        • Room for more funding
        • Talent constraints vs. funding constraints
      • Market efficiency of philanthropy
  • Promising areas  (4)
    • Animal welfare  (4)
      • Factory farming
      • Logic of the larder
      • The meat-eater problem
      • Wild animal suffering
    • Existential risks  (4)
      • Global catastrophic risks
      • Natural existential risks
      • Non-extinction existential risks
      • Technological existential risks  (5)
        • Existential risks from artificial intelligence
        • Existential risks from biotechnology
        • Existential risks from fundamental physics research
        • Existential risks from nuclear war
        • Unknown existential risks
    • Global poverty  (4)
      • Aid and paternalism
      • Aid effectiveness
      • Economic poverty
      • The global burden of disease
    • Other promising areas  (4)
      • Improving mental health and happiness
      • Improving rationality and decision making
      • Promising policy reforms  (4)
        • Criminal justice reform
        • Immigration reform
        • Land use reform
        • Macroeconomic stabilization
      • Promising research areas  (2)
        • Life sciences research  (3)
          • Anti-aging research
          • Research into animal product alternatives
          • Research into neglected tropical diseases
        • Prioritization research
• Ethical decision-making  (2)
  • Idealized ethical decision-making  (3)
    • Epistemology  (5)
      • Beliefs
      • Credences  (1)
        • Credal resilience
      • Bayes' rule
      • Evidence  (1)
        • Epistemic disagreement
      • Risk and uncertainty
    • Decision theory  (3)
      • Acts, states, and outcomes
      • Expected value theory  (2)
        • Bounded and unbounded theories
        • Causal and evidential approaches
      • Alternatives to expected value theory  (1)
        • Risk aversion
    • Ethics  (4)
      • Metaethics
      • Moral theories  (4)
        • Consequentialism
        • Deontology
        • Virtue ethics
        • Other moral theories
      • Moral uncertainty
      • Theories of value  (3)
        • Well-being
        • Moral patienthood
        • Non-wellbeing sources of value
  • Practical ethical decision-making  (3)
    • Problems, interventions, and focus areas
    • Practical decision-making frameworks  (2)
      • Frameworks for selecting focus areas  (2)
        • Formal frameworks for selecting focus areas  (1)
          • Three-factor framework for focus area selection
        • Informal frameworks for selecting focus areas  (3)
          • Importance, tractability, neglectedness framework
          • Neutrality in focus area selection
          • Differential progress
      • Frameworks for selecting interventions  (2)
        • Cost-benefit analysis
        • Cost-effectiveness analysis
    • Practical decision-making considerations  (5)
      • General heuristics  (5)
        • Relationship between overheads and effectiveness
        • Counterfactual considerations  (2)
          • Opportunity cost
          • Replaceability
        • Crucial considerations
        • Thinking at the margin
        • Thinking globally
      • Measuring and comparing value  (3)
        • Measuring healthy life years
        • Value of information
        • Discounting the future
      • Assessing and assimilating evidence  (4)
        • Cognitive biases
        • Randomized controlled trials
        • Using models  (2)
          • Uncertainty about models
          • Uncertainty within models
        • Tested interventions vs. speculative interventions
      • Coordination  (6)
        • Moral cooperation
        • Moral trade
        • Game theory
        • Group decision-making
        • Unilateralist’s curse
        • Comparative advantage
      • Indirect effects  (3)
        • Information hazards
        • Long-term indirect effects
        • Naive consequentialism vs. sophisticated consequentialism
• Assorted recommendations  (3)
  • Focus area recommendations  (4)
    • 80,000 Hours’ focus area recommendations
    • A flowchart for focus area selection
    • Other approaches to focus area selection
    • The Open Philanthropy Project’s focus area selection
  • Intervention recommendations  (3)
    • Global poverty recommendations  (4)
      • Malaria control
      • Deworming
      • Micronutrient programs
      • Cash transfers
    • Existential risk recommendations  (1)
      • Allocating risk-mitigation work over time
    • Animal welfare recommendations
  • Charity recommendations  (2)
    • Animal charity evaluators' recommendations
    • GiveWell’s recommendations