What is Effective Altruism?
In a previous post I discussed consequentialism and how consequentialist ethics are outcome based. Effective altruism is all about being good at doing good. It's not enough to feel good about doing good but in order to be good at doing good you have to measure the impact of your ethical decisions and try to continuously improve upon it.
What is the Effective Altruism Global conference?
Effective Altruism Global is an annual conference for people who are interested in evidence based social improvements. To anyone who is a consequentialist and also in a position to give back, this conference might be for you.
Anyone who might be interested in using Steemit for altruistic purposes might want to have a look at this video:
If the video intrigues you then you might want to go to the conference and represent Steem. In my opinion Steem should be part of the discussion at this conference.
An idea for Steemit? Reputation based reward networks
This is a concept I invented and blogged about a while back which could put into practice effective altruism using the mechanics of Steemit. I'll list the five steps which make a reputation lottery work below:
Reputation lotteries can leverage greed to encourage effective altruism
- In order to enter the lottery you must be able to prove you did the specified act of altruism. This can easily be shown by a blockchain transaction for example.
- For every altruistic interaction you shall receive points which can be traded in for lottery tickets.
- The more lottery tickets you have the greater your chance to win the rewards.
- All who enter the lottery are guaranteed to receive a permanent badge of honor for having participated whether they win or not. This would encourage the participants to continue playing into the future.
- Participants can be human or machine.
UPDATE: Anyone who liked the idea for reputation lotteries should have a look at this post exclusively on that topic: https://steemit.com/steem/@dana-edwards/reputation-lotteries-can-leverage-greed-to-encourage-effective-altruism
UPDATE #2:
This post is certified as from the original author by way of public keys posted at these locations: http://darkai.org/?p=527
and https://steemit.com/steemit/@dana-edwards/private-communication-with-me-via-pgp-for-those-who-know-and-understand
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