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I have read a bit about effective altruism, but none of the ideas seem very new. (Good, yes, but not new).
I know that I am probably missing some good ideas/concepts, because a lot of very intelligent people are thinking about EA. But all of the entry points to reading about EA review familiar ideas, and I don't have a good way to find any original ideas that might not be widely written about.
Have you come across any EA ideas that you found surprising, new, or interesting? Could you provide a summary and/or a link?
In the last decade the cool thing for a smart kid was to be a New Atheist. EA is an ideological framework that can fit into that slot. That's a big deal and it allows a group of different organisations to come together and profit from each other.
If you look at GiveWell, the idea of actually finding out the evidence of the effect of a donation is new. What's new is the depth towards which GiveWell researched other organisations.
Concerns over wild animal suffering are surprising/new elements of EA but they aren't central to the movement.