The link to your argument regarding international aid is broken, so I’ll post this here. While I am all for effective altruism in principle, the claim that the particular aid organizations that Give Well, and other promote do the most good is patently false. I live and work in West Africa and I see every day the devastating economic harm that organizations like the Against Malaria Foundation wreak on communities. Effective Altruism as a movement has failed to actually be effective because it promote charities that do more harm than good. Here’s a video as to why: Stop Giving Well
I see every day the devastating economic harm that organizations like the Against Malaria Foundation wreak on communities.
Make a series of videos about that instead then if it’s so prevalent. It would serve to undermine GiveWell far more and strengthen your credibility.
Your video against GiveWell does not address or debunk any of GiveWell’s evidence. It’s a philosophical treatise on GiveWell’s methods not an evidence-based treatise. Arguing by analogy based on your own experience is not evidence. I’ve been robbed 3 times living in Vancouver and yet zero times in Africa, despite living in Namibia/South Africa for most of my life. This does not however entail that Vancouver is more dangerous. I in fact have near-zero evidence to back up the claim that Vancouver is more dangerous
The link to your argument regarding international aid is broken, so I’ll post this here. While I am all for effective altruism in principle, the claim that the particular aid organizations that Give Well, and other promote do the most good is patently false. I live and work in West Africa and I see every day the devastating economic harm that organizations like the Against Malaria Foundation wreak on communities. Effective Altruism as a movement has failed to actually be effective because it promote charities that do more harm than good. Here’s a video as to why: Stop Giving Well
Make a series of videos about that instead then if it’s so prevalent. It would serve to undermine GiveWell far more and strengthen your credibility.
Your video against GiveWell does not address or debunk any of GiveWell’s evidence. It’s a philosophical treatise on GiveWell’s methods not an evidence-based treatise. Arguing by analogy based on your own experience is not evidence. I’ve been robbed 3 times living in Vancouver and yet zero times in Africa, despite living in Namibia/South Africa for most of my life. This does not however entail that Vancouver is more dangerous. I in fact have near-zero evidence to back up the claim that Vancouver is more dangerous
All of your methodology objections (and far stronger anti-EA arguments) were systematically raised in Iason Gabriel’s piece on criticisms of effective altruism. And all of these criticisms were systematically responded to and found lacking by Halstead et al’s defense paper
I’d highly recommend reading both of these. They are both pretty bad ass.