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The best Effective Altruism newsletters

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Andy Masley

Substack
blog.andymasley.com· irregular· Published yesterday

Andy Masley's Substack-style blog mixes personal reflections on AI, aesthetics and culture with long philosophical arguments about whether machines can think and understand, plus essays defending effective altruism. Readers get carefully reasoned, first-person essays that explain his positions and the logic behind them.

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goodthoughts.blog· irregular· Published 16 days ago

A consequentialist philosophy newsletter defending effective altruism against social media mockery and examining tensions like the rigor-reach dilemma in hits-based giving. It offers careful, argumentative essays on moral philosophy and decision theory, plus occasional experiments such as AI-generated animated philosophy lectures.

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