Can anyone give any outside-view reason to think EA is “unusually good at ‘epistemics’ / thinking about things”, or that “the community isn’t corrupted too badly by random founder effects and information cascades”?
I have some evidence that it isn’t: a commonly cited argument for the importance of AI research says nothing like what ~20-80% effective altruists think it does.
I have some evidence that it isn’t: a commonly cited argument for the importance of AI research says nothing like what ~20-80% effective altruists think it does.