Effective Altruism for Christians

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We should collectively place our sins on 10^100 shrimp and sacrifice them

Christian EAs be like "remember when Jesus said 'for I was at risk of malaria and you didn't contribute 10% of your salary to buy mosquito nets' or something pretty close to that"

Liz's youtube channel is great! Strong recommend for those interested in philosophy and applied ethics.

This was a fantastic conference with excellent talks and networking. Lead poisoning is very, very bad, quite solvable and highly neglected.

Latest video: can Christians be Effective Altruists? youtu.be/EA0dFZ9RQt4

Switzerland will soon require stores to label products from animals subject to painful mutilations without pain relief. Prediction: this will lead industry to end the cruel practices, as they know they can't justify them to informed consumers. I hope other nations copy this.

As an EA organizer, I've gotten more mileage out of this infographic than any other

My favorite visualization of global income info is Dollar Street. You can scroll along it and see pictures and videos of families and their homes for every income level around the world gapminder.org/dollar-street

Whenever I see some weird Nietzschean critic of EA who's like "Morality is just a thin veneer over ruthless status games, EAs are trying to hide that" I just shake my head and say "They don't know about love" 😭💔

Join me, @KelseyTuoc, @matthew_loftus and more at Foggy Bottom at noon on March 7 to rally for PEPFAR. PEPFAR is America at our best. And it reminds the world of what we do, that no other superpower could or would. pepfarreport.org/event

“I’ve seen [too many people die of AIDS] during my years as a medical missionary,” writes @matthew_loftus, “A sense of helplessness hits me every time.” “I’ve been reminded of [that] over the past few weeks as I have considered the future of PEPFAR.” christianitytoday.com/2025/03/seen-f…

Rubio was right in 2019. Now PEPFAR needs *real* waivers from the aid freeze. Lifesaving programs still have their funding suspended or have been sent termination letters. Without PEPFAR ~1400 babies would be born HIV+ every day. Half would die before age 2. This Friday…

Trying to think about the state of the Effective Altruist movement and realizing Elon killing USAID probably overwhelms the total amount of good ever achieved by all EA global health donations. PEPFAR alone is $7B/yr, 10x total EA spending, & all USAID spending is only ~$30B/yr

How many people killed by the PEPFAR spending freeze so far? pepfar.impactcounter.com

Waiting for @JDVance (and the British right wing media?) to say that the Pope too had misunderstood the message of Christ….

PEPFAR is one of the most popular, bipartisan US foreign aid programs. The State Department says it has saved 25million lives, but there isn't much public, independent verification. Last week I invited some friends to a weekend hackatjon to see if PEPFAR's numbers held up.

The #OrdoAmoris has an important exception. Aquinas writes: "in certain cases one ought, for instance, to succor a stranger, in extreme necessity, rather than one's own father, if he is not in such urgent need" (ST II-II, Q.31 A.3, C) christandcounterfactuals.substack.com/p/the-ordo-amo…

“Tradeoffs exist” is not a sufficient condition for something to be “zero sum”