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RIT Effective Altruism is a club for discussing the foundations and applications of the "Effective Altruism" movement.
The basic premise of Effective Altruism is trying to figure out how to do "the most good".
The movement has a heavy focus on philosophy and research, and generally applying methods of rationality to problems, the most common framework used to assess the importance of an issue is looking at how large, tractable, and neglected it is. We apply ideas from fields ranging from economics to psychology to ethics, to try and solve them.
Effective Altruism is based on the idea that while helping others is good, not all forms of this are equal, and it is morally imperative to use evidence and reason to do good in the best ways possible. This is usually focused on charitable giving, but also relates to career choice, politics, and consumer decisions as well.
While giving your time and resources to one good cause versus another may feel the same to you, there can be a difference in impact on the scale of hundreds or even thousands for some uses versus others.
The biggest specific subareas of interest within Effective Altruism are global health and development, factory farming, and the long term future.

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