Seattle Effective Altruists

Seattle, WA

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What we're about

Effective Altruism is a growing social movement founded on the desire to make the world as good a place as it can be, the use of evidence and reason to find out how to do so, and the audacity to actually takes steps towards a better world.

Sign up to meet other people interested in EA, discuss different causes, and make yourself more effective.

We post monthly meetups here, however our Facebook group is more active: https://www.facebook.com/groups/22161213135... (https://www.facebook.com/groups/221612131358071/), feel free to join it as well.

Through our Facebook group you can also find out about rationality reading meetups as well as social meetups.

Want to read more about Effective Altruism? Start here: http://www.effectivealtruism.org/

Or download the EA Handbook: http://www.careyryan.com/files/EA_Handbook.pdf

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EA Book Club Discussion: Animal Consciousness

Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 7:00 PM UTC

EA Book Club Discussion: Animal Consciousness

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For this installment of the EA book club/reading group we'll be learning about and discussing animal consciousness. I'm not too familiar with this field, so hopefully others will be able to suggest materials for us to read. Here are some to get us started:

(1) The Wikipedia page on animal consciousness has a good overview, but there are probably more up-to-date sources out there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_consciousness

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