I’ve noticed lots of the EA criticisms I’ve read are either:
Uncharitable
A post on EA forum, made by an EA-adjacent person
I want to find things that aren’t this; criticisms of EA made by people who aren’t part of the “EA community” that seem more reasonable. Are there any good people/articles to look into?
An example of the kind of thing I’m looking for is: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156248637927143&id=722677142. LeCun seems pretty unconvinced of AI Safety, and his criticisms seem pretty reasonable and not uncharitable.
Although it’s against longtermism and not EA, this recent blog post by Boaz Barak (a computer science professor at Harvard) might qualify.
Yep this is also what I’m looking for, thanks!
Although a little old (2015), this lead essay by Peter Singer in the Boston Review has a set of 11 response essays from notable academics and writers, who differ in both disciplinary background and degree of support for EA.
I think there’s probably better and more recent critiques, but it’s a good spread to start with.
This is excellent, thank you.
No worries! There’s also this, very recently:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/JBAPssaYMMRfNqYt7/michael-nielsen-s-notes-on-effective-altruism