Effective Altruism Books
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Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference 4.18 avg rating β 7,712 ratings
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The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
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Peter Singer
4.15 avg rating β 6,711 ratings 
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The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically
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Peter Singer
3.80 avg rating β 3,720 ratings 6. 
80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good
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Benjamin Todd
3.93 avg rating β 2,018 ratings 
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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty 4.28 avg rating β 23,741 ratings
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The End of Animal Farming: How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System 4.06 avg rating β 517 ratings
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Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
by:
Joshua D. Greene
4.02 avg rating β 3,255 ratings 18. 
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Max Tegmark
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 26,829 ratings 20. 
The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress
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Peter Singer
4.04 avg rating β 600 ratings 21. 
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
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Kevin Simler
3.97 avg rating β 8,133 ratings 22. 
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The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty
by:
Peter Singer
4.15 avg rating β 6,711 ratings 
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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
by:
Cal Newport
4.16 avg rating β 180,869 ratings 
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The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don't
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Julia Galef
4.10 avg rating β 6,536 ratings 30. 
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help 3.91 avg rating β 2,864 ratings
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Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications
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Magnus Vinding
4.30 avg rating β 117 ratings 35. 
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character 4.27 avg rating β 213,212 ratings
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
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Steven Pinker
4.16 avg rating β 29,269 ratings 
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How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach
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Tobias Leenaert
4.36 avg rating β 1,160 ratings 41. 
Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
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Richard Meadows
4.28 avg rating β 403 ratings 
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
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Daron AcemoΔlu
4.09 avg rating β 59,213 ratings 43. 
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values
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Brian Christian
4.35 avg rating β 4,511 ratings 
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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
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Michael Pollan
4.27 avg rating β 82,444 ratings 51. 
Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering
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Kyle Johannsen
4.32 avg rating β 19 ratings 
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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
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Stuart Russell
4.05 avg rating β 4,711 ratings 57. 
Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
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Peter Singer
3.93 avg rating β 4,794 ratings 58. 
Avoiding the Worst: How to Prevent a Moral Catastrophe
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Tobias Baumann
4.25 avg rating β 59 ratings 59. 
Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence
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Peter K. Unger
3.89 avg rating β 161 ratings 
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Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing: An Introduction to Existential Risks
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Γmile P. Torres
3.82 avg rating β 28 ratings 66. 
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business 3.90 avg rating β 3,700 ratings
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Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity
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Olle HΓ€ggstrΓΆm
4.10 avg rating β 31 ratings 68. 
Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter
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Peter Singer
3.93 avg rating β 4,794 ratings 69. 
Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism
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Melanie Joy
4.09 avg rating β 7,095 ratings 70. 
Why Cooperate?: The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods
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Scott Barrett
3.75 avg rating β 24 ratings 71. 
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty 4.28 avg rating β 23,741 ratings
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Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients.
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Jeremy N. Smith
4.12 avg rating β 808 ratings 74. 
Reinventing Philanthropy: A Framework for More Effective Giving
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Eric Friedman
3.39 avg rating β 18 ratings 75. 
The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
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Thomas Metzinger
4.10 avg rating β 3,210 ratings 75. 
How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything
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Mike Berners-Lee
3.91 avg rating β 2,868 ratings 75. 
Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World
by:
Matthieu Ricard
4.24 avg rating β 955 ratings 
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Good Thinking: Seven Powerful Ideas That Influence the Way We Think
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Denise Cummins
3.69 avg rating β 54 ratings 81. 
The Reversal Test: Eliminating Status Quo Bias in Applied Ethics
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Nick Bostrom
4.50 avg rating β 8 ratings 82. 
The Well-Balanced World Changer: A Field Guide for Staying Sane While Doing Good
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Sarah Cunningham
3.53 avg rating β 51 ratings 83. 
Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals
by:
Hal Herzog
3.87 avg rating β 4,415 ratings 83. 
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
by:
Elinor Ostrom
4.21 avg rating β 1,200 ratings 83. 
The Tango of Ethics: Intuition, Rationality and the Prevention of Suffering 4.39 avg rating β 18 ratings
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Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime
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Aubrey de Grey
4.07 avg rating β 764 ratings 88. 
The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter
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Peter Singer
4.09 avg rating β 3,988 ratings 89. 
Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics
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Peter Singer
3.97 avg rating β 383 ratings 
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
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Brian Christian
4.13 avg rating β 34,095 ratings 91. 
Effective Altruism and the Human Mind: The Clash Between Impact and Intuition
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Stefan Schubert
4.47 avg rating β 32 ratings 93. 
Change of Heart: What Psychology Can Teach Us About Spreading Social Change
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Nick Cooney
4.14 avg rating β 391 ratings 
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A Taste of Irrationality: Sample chapters from Predictably Irrational and Upside of Irrationality
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Dan Ariely
4.18 avg rating β 685 ratings 96. 
The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics 4.39 avg rating β 70 ratings
