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Note: Relatability to EA is a function of your own interpretation and confirmation bias.

Editor: Matīss Apinis of Effective Altruism Latvia
matiss.apinis@gmail.com / +371 22391111

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Acknowledgments to Pablo Stafforini, who had collected a large part of these quotes on his website.

To-do list: Restructure categories (cf. personal Trello), reduce document lag.

Table of extant categories:

  1. EA-related
  2. Growing movement
  3. Altruism, empathy and opportunities and audacity to give
  4. Reason, rationality, science, cognitive biases
  5. Ethical obligations and trade-offs
  6. Ethical consideration of non-humans and future persons
  7. Singularity, intelligence explosion and risks
  8. Antispeciesism and wild-animal suffering
  9. Open borders
  10. Global cooperation and moral trade
  11. Human enhancement
  12. Against Malaria Foundation