Criticism of effective altruism collects critical discussion of effective altruism ideas (as opposed to criticism of effective altruist organizations, causes, or culture).
Further reading
Kuhn, Ben (2013) A critique of effective altruism, Ben Kuhn’s Blog, December 2.
McMahan, Jeff (2016) Philosophical critiques of effective altruism, The Philosophers’ Magazine, vol. 73, pp. 92–99.
Nielsen, Michael (2022) Notes on effective altruism, Michael’s Notebook, June 2.
Rowe, Abraham (2022) Critiques of EA that I want to read, Effective Altruism Forum, June 19.
Wiblin, Robert & Keiran Harris (2019) Vitalik Buterin on effective altruism, better ways to fund public goods, the blockchain’s problems so far, and how it could yet change the world, 80,000 Hours, September 3.
Zhang, Linchuan (2021) The motivated reasoning critique of effective altruism, Effective Altruism Forum, September 14.
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criticism of effective altruist causes | criticism of effective altruist organizations | criticism of effective altruism culture | criticism of longtermism and existential risk studies | effective altruism | red teaming | scalably using labour | social and intellectual movements | working at EA vs non-EA orgs
Hi all! I recommend using the Criticism of the effective altruism community tag for posts that primarily criticize (or discuss criticism of) the EA community, behaviors, and dynamics, but using the Criticism of effective altruism tag for criticisms of core ideas in EA, since many criticisms of the community are not criticisms of EA itself. I created the “Criticism of the EA community” tag a while ago but have noticed that many people are still not using it.