Inside effective altruism, where the far future counts a lot more than the present

Even during an actual pandemic, Flynn's focus struck many Oregonians as far-fetched and foreign. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he ended up losing the 2022 primary to the more politically experienced Democrat, Andrea Salinas. But despite Flynn's lackluster showing, he made history as effective altruism's first political candidate to run for office. Since its birth in the late 2000s, effective altruism has aimed to answer the question "How can those with means have the most impact on the world in a quantifiable way?"--and supplied clear methodologies for calculating the answer. Directing money to organizations that use evidence-based approaches is the one technique EA is most known for.