“New Spanish-language book on ‘classical EA’” by Pablo Melchor 🔸

21/08/2025 11 min
“New Spanish-language book on ‘classical EA’” by Pablo Melchor 🔸

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Episode Synopsis

My new book, Altruismo racional, is now on presale. It is my attempt at presenting a compelling case for a particular strand of "classical EA"[1]: one that emphasizes caring deeply about global health and poverty, a rational approach to giving, the importance of cost-effectiveness, and the 🔸10% Pledge. In this post, I provide some context on my reasons for writing this book and what I hope to achieve. If “new EA-themed book in Spanish” was all you needed to know, feel free to skip to How you can help or preorder now. Why write a book Imagine you wake up one morning and discover the world has changed in a few peculiar ways. There has been no 10th anniversary edition of Peter Singer's The Life You Can Save—it was last edited more than a decade ago and has been out of print for years. Will MacAskill has not written [...] ---Outline:(00:54) Why write a book(03:18) What the book is about(04:54) Why this particular topic(06:32) Expected impact  Dream scenario(08:39) How you can help(08:42) Buy the book for yourself or others(09:05) Preorder if the current availability works for you(09:46) Or get notified by email as soon as your preferred format is available in your country(10:02) A note on bulk purchases(10:36) Help me reach more people(11:01) Acknowledgements ---
First published:
August 20th, 2025

Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ak3McTxHTojjn6sqH/new-spanish-language-book-on-classical-ea
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