254. Charity & Effective Altruism

There are 1.5 million non-profit organizations in the US. Effective Altruists try to direct people towards the good ones, but many don’t agree with their picks - maybe the problem is bigger than “picking a good charity.”

Links for the Curious -
1. The New Organon: or True Directions Concerning the Interpretation of Nature (Bacon, F., 1620) - https://www.earlymoderntexts.com/asse...
2. The Preacher’s Son: Joel Osteen and the making of Lakewood Church (Blunt, K., 2018) - https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news...
3. Wealth (Carnegie, A., 1889) - https://www1.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/rb...
4. Rating for Kids Wish Network (Charity Navigator, 2024) - https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/...
5. Major UN report discusses existential risk and future generations (summary) (finm & ab, 2021) - https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/p...
6. How Many Taxpayers Itemize Under Current Law? (Fíonta, 2019) - https://taxfoundation.org/blog/standa...
7. 2020 update on GiveWell’s moral weights (Givewell, 2020) - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h...
8. GiveWell | Charity Reviews and Research (Givewell, 2024) - https://www.givewell.org/
9. 2023 Data Overview (Giving USA, 2021) - https://givingusa.org/giving-usa-limi...
10. The Utopia of Rules (Graeber, D., 2015) - https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra...
11. America’s 50 worst charities rake in nearly $1 billion for corporate fundraisers (Hundly & Taggart, 2013) - https://www.tampabay.com/news/nation/...
12. 2017 Financial Statements for Lakewood Church & Joel Osteen Ministries (Lakewood Church, 2017) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documen...
13. Some Texas religious leaders live in lavish, tax-free estates thanks to obscure law (Lamm, E. D., Jay Root, Stephanie, 2021) - https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news...
14. A preacher for Trump’s America: Joel Osteen and the prosperity gospel (Luce, E., 2019) - https://www.ft.com/content/3990ce66-6...
15. Sam Bankman-Fried and the effective altruism delusion (McBain, S., 2023) - https://www.newstatesman.com/long-rea...
16. Megachurch preacher buys wife a $200,000 Lamborghini, tells parishioners ‘Don’t confuse what I do with who I am’ (Niemietz, B., 2018) - https://www.nydailynews.com/2018/12/1...
17. Nas Daily FTX video reupload , 2022) -    • Nas Daily FTX video reupload  
18. The Internet Classics Archive | Phaedrus by Plato (Plato, 370AD) - https://classics.mit.edu/Plato/phaedr...
19. PreachersNSneakers Instagram (PreachersNSneakers, 2024) -   / preachersnsneakers  
20. Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy and How It Can Do Better (Reich, R., 2020) - https://press.princeton.edu/books/har...
23. Citations Needed: Episode 162: How the ‘Data-Driven’ Label Sanitizes Cruel Austerity Politics (Shirazi & Johnson, 2022) - https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ep...
24. Is effective altruism growing? An update on the stock of funding vs people (Todd, B., 2021) - https://80000hours.org/2021/07/effect...
25. Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo (Torres, É. P., 2021) - https://aeon.co/essays/why-longtermis...
26. Scientific Charity Movement (Wikipedia, 2024) - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...