The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically

The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1-211

  Singer, Peter ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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202. ONE Annual Report, 2011, and ONE Annual Report, 2012, www.one.org/ international/annualreport/.
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206. Hans Kristensen and Robert Norris, "Global Nuclear Weapons Inventories 1945-2013," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 69 (2013): 75-81.
207. Binyamin Appelbaum, "As U.S. Agencies Put More Value on a Life, Businesses Fret," New York Times, February 16, 2011.
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210. Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), 103.
211. Bostrom, "Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority," 18-19.
212. Nick Beckstead argues for a similar position in "The Overwhelming Importance of Shaping the Far Future" (PhD diss., Rutgers University, 2013).
213. Nick Bostrom, Existential Risk FAQ, version 1.2 (2013), no. 9, http://www. existential-risk.org/faq.html.
214. Henry Sidgwick, The Methods of Ethics, 7th ed. (London: Macmillan 1907), 415.
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217. Bostrom, "Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority," 19.
218. A. Pollack, "Scientists Create a Live Polio Virus," New York Times, July 2, 2002.
219. Michael Selgelid, "Governance of Dual-Use Research: An Ethical Dilemma," Bulletin of the World Health Organization 87 (2009): 720-23.
220. Luke Muehlhauser, Facing the Intelligence Explosion, chap. 13, available at: intelligenceexplosion.com/2012/intelligence-explosion.
221. http://www.existential-risk.org/faq. html#10.