EA 101
This economics principle encourages us to donate money where it can make the most impact.
This concept advocates the moral consideration of distant future events.
What is Longtermism?
This term describes working to make a lot of money while donating a significant portion
What is earning to give?
This recent pandemic forced much of the global population into quarantine.
What is Covid-19?
This basketball player recently played the first game of his career with his father.
Who is Bronny James
This Princeton Professor and Philosopher is often credited as a leader in the EA community.
Who is Peter Singer?
Work in this field seeks to identify and mitigate risks and concerns associated with biological research, such as in gene editing.
What is bioethics?
What is EA Global?
This tropical disease is carried by mosquitoes and causes around 600k deaths each year.
What is malaria?
This movie is currently the highest grossing film of 2024
What is Inside Out 2
This moral dilemma is used to illustrate trade-offs between helping the few or the many.
What is a trolley problem?
This predictive system (although illegal in many major countries) uses financial incentive to encourage accurate forecasts about future events.
What is a Price Market?
This online platform helps users find EA related careers and provides career planning services.
What is 80,000 hours?
The World Bank defines this term as not having enough income to meet the most basic human needs including food, water, shelter, and education.
An outbreak of this disease was recently traced to an ingredient in a McDonald's quarter pounder.
What is E Coli?
This philosophical framework asserts that decisions should be made based on total expected wellbeing minus suffering created.
What is utilitarianism?
Name four major existential risks
(Evaluated by host)
This type of analysis is used to decide which fields are more deserving of effort.
What is cause-prioritization?
This field is an often overlooked aspect of global health that has recently been getting more attention from organizations such as Family Empowerment Media.
What is Family Planning.
This artist recently announced that he is releasing a new album, his first full project since 2021.
Who is Tyler the Creator
It was here that Effective Altruism was coined and formally founded.
What is the University of Oxford?
This person wrote "The Precipice," a deep dive into humanity's future and risks that we should mitigate.
Who is Toby Ord?
This concept encourages working a role where your output could not be easily matched by someone else in that role.
What is replaceability?
This disease, which had a 30% mortality rate, was eradicated in 1979.
What is smallpox?
What is Colorado, BYU, and Texas Tech.