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Crit­i­cism of the effec­tive al­tru­ism community

TagLast edit: 15 Oct 2024 16:56 UTC by Eevee🔹

Criticism of the effective altruism community includes criticism of behaviors, norms, and dynamics in the effective altruism community, as opposed to criticism of effective altruist causes, organizations, philosophy, or work in effective altruism.

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Bad Omens in Cur­rent Com­mu­nity Building

Theo Hawking12 May 2022 15:41 UTC
581 points
132 comments18 min readEA link

My highly per­sonal skep­ti­cism brain­dump on ex­is­ten­tial risk from ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence.

NunoSempere23 Jan 2023 20:08 UTC
435 points
116 comments14 min readEA link
(nunosempere.com)

EA Ve­gan Ad­vo­cacy is not truth­seek­ing, and it’s ev­ery­one’s problem

Elizabeth29 Sep 2023 4:04 UTC
123 points
39 comments22 min readEA link
(acesounderglass.com)

Free-spend­ing EA might be a big prob­lem for op­tics and epistemics

George Rosenfeld12 Apr 2022 20:30 UTC
563 points
186 comments8 min readEA link

Milan Griffes on EA blindspots

Gavin18 Mar 2022 16:17 UTC
79 points
52 comments2 min readEA link

The mo­ti­vated rea­son­ing cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

Linch14 Sep 2021 20:43 UTC
285 points
59 comments23 min readEA link

I’m less ap­prov­ing of the EA com­mu­nity now than be­fore the FTX collapse

throwaway79016 Dec 2022 19:40 UTC
225 points
96 comments2 min readEA link

Do­ing EA Better

ConcernedEAs17 Jan 2023 20:09 UTC
261 points
382 comments70 min readEA link

Blog up­date: Reflec­tive altruism

David Thorstad14 May 2023 11:07 UTC
169 points
22 comments9 min readEA link

EA Cul­ture and Causes: Less is More

Allen Bell16 Aug 2022 14:04 UTC
81 points
10 comments14 min readEA link

Why defen­sive writ­ing is bad for com­mu­nity epistemics

Emrik8 Oct 2022 23:38 UTC
76 points
28 comments8 min readEA link

“Big tent” effec­tive al­tru­ism is very im­por­tant (par­tic­u­larly right now)

Luke Freeman20 May 2022 3:39 UTC
342 points
77 comments6 min readEA link

Democratis­ing Risk—or how EA deals with critics

CarlaZoeC28 Dec 2021 15:05 UTC
273 points
311 comments4 min readEA link

The EA com­mu­nity does not own its donors’ money

Nick Whitaker18 Jan 2023 18:59 UTC
635 points
116 comments4 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on Vox’s “How effec­tive al­tru­ism let SBF hap­pen”

Richard Y Chappell🔸12 Dec 2022 16:05 UTC
144 points
35 comments2 min readEA link

My lo­cal EA group has an un­friendly and im­per­sonal vibe (via r/​Effec­tiveAltru­ism)

Tyner15 Jul 2022 22:27 UTC
61 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(old.reddit.com)

Shut­ting Down the Light­cone Offices

Habryka15 Mar 2023 1:46 UTC
243 points
68 comments17 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Abuse in LessWrong and ra­tio­nal­ist com­mu­ni­ties in Bloomberg News

whistleblower677 Mar 2023 20:36 UTC
115 points
137 comments7 min readEA link
(www.bloomberg.com)

Please don’t crit­i­cize EAs who “sell out” to OpenAI and Anthropic

Eevee🔹5 Mar 2023 21:17 UTC
−4 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

Maybe longter­mism isn’t for everyone

Eevee🔹10 Feb 2023 16:48 UTC
39 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

Case Study of EA Global Re­jec­tion + Crit­i­cisms/​Solutions

Constance Li23 Sep 2022 11:38 UTC
231 points
157 comments24 min readEA link

How can we im­prove In­fo­haz­ard Gover­nance in EA Biose­cu­rity?

Nadia Montazeri5 Aug 2023 12:03 UTC
167 points
27 comments4 min readEA link

Against “longter­mist” as an identity

Lizka13 May 2022 19:17 UTC
166 points
23 comments6 min readEA link

In (mild) defence of the so­cial/​pro­fes­sional over­lap in EA

Amber Dawn9 Feb 2023 15:05 UTC
104 points
55 comments6 min readEA link

Re­vis­it­ing EA’s me­dia policy

Arepo3 Dec 2022 16:55 UTC
239 points
65 comments6 min readEA link

EA cul­ture is spe­cial; we should pro­ceed with intentionality

James Lin21 May 2022 21:55 UTC
85 points
7 comments10 min readEA link

Be skep­ti­cal of EAs giv­ing ad­vice on things they’ve never ac­tu­ally been suc­cess­ful in themselves

yanni kyriacos25 Mar 2024 0:01 UTC
22 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Push back on ob­scure futurism

Impromptour17 Jun 2023 9:38 UTC
−10 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

EA is about max­i­miza­tion, and max­i­miza­tion is perilous

Holden Karnofsky2 Sep 2022 17:13 UTC
486 points
59 comments7 min readEA link

Want­ing to dye my hair a lit­tle more be­cause Buck dyes his hair

Izo22 Jul 2022 4:12 UTC
31 points
12 comments4 min readEA link

If you fail, you will still be loved and can be happy; a love let­ter to all EAs

howdoyousay?24 Jul 2022 10:09 UTC
70 points
7 comments5 min readEA link

Smug­gled as­sump­tions in “de­clin­ing epistemic qual­ity”

Wil Perkins16 Jan 2023 17:26 UTC
28 points
44 comments2 min readEA link

I’m a 22-year-old woman in­volved in Effec­tive Altru­ism. I’m sad, dis­ap­pointed, and scared.

Maya D2 Dec 2022 4:04 UTC
304 points
172 comments7 min readEA link

Against the “smarts fetish”

Magnus Vinding8 Apr 2022 7:54 UTC
139 points
38 comments7 min readEA link

The FTX crisis high­lights a deeper cul­tural prob­lem within EA—we don’t suffi­ciently value good governance

Fods1214 Nov 2022 12:43 UTC
452 points
55 comments4 min readEA link

Tech­noc­racy vs pop­ulism (in­clud­ing thoughts on the democratis­ing risk pa­per and its re­sponses)

freedomandutility29 Dec 2021 3:08 UTC
68 points
27 comments3 min readEA link

Tak­ing pri­ori­ti­sa­tion within ‘EA’ seriously

CEvans18 Aug 2023 17:50 UTC
102 points
3 comments20 min readEA link

Are you re­ally in a race? The Cau­tion­ary Tales of Szilárd and Ellsberg

HaydnBelfield19 May 2022 8:42 UTC
482 points
44 comments18 min readEA link

Does EA un­der­stand how to apol­o­gize for things?

titotal15 Jan 2023 19:14 UTC
159 points
48 comments3 min readEA link

EA is be­com­ing in­creas­ingly in­ac­cessible, at the worst pos­si­ble time

Ann Garth 🔸22 Jul 2022 15:40 UTC
77 points
13 comments15 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Nick Bostrom’s “Apol­ogy for an Old Email”

pseudonym12 Jan 2023 4:55 UTC
16 points
96 comments1 min readEA link
(nickbostrom.com)

EA is a global com­mu­nity—but should it be?

Davidmanheim18 Nov 2022 8:23 UTC
200 points
72 comments10 min readEA link

A liber­tar­ian so­cial­ist’s view on how EA can improve

freedomandutility30 Dec 2022 13:07 UTC
143 points
32 comments7 min readEA link

Four cat­e­gories of effec­tive al­tru­ism critiques

jtm9 Apr 2022 15:48 UTC
99 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

The Effec­tive Altru­ism culture

PabloAMC 🔸17 Apr 2022 1:23 UTC
35 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

The priv­ilege of na­tive English speak­ers in reach­ing high-sta­tus, in­fluen­tial po­si­tions in EA

Alix Pham20 Dec 2023 21:07 UTC
140 points
36 comments4 min readEA link

Some im­por­tant ques­tions for the EA Leadership

Gideon Futerman16 Nov 2022 17:10 UTC
243 points
113 comments3 min readEA link

The Cul­ture of Fear in Effec­tive Altru­ism Is Much Worse than Com­monly Recognized

Evan_Gaensbauer6 Feb 2022 23:30 UTC
29 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Is­sues with cen­tral­ised grantmaking

MathiasKB🔸4 Apr 2022 10:45 UTC
149 points
56 comments3 min readEA link

Longter­mist slo­gans that need to be retired

Michael_Wiebe9 May 2022 1:07 UTC
5 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

Pre-an­nounc­ing a con­test for cri­tiques and red teaming

Lizka25 Mar 2022 11:52 UTC
173 points
27 comments2 min readEA link

The EA fo­rum post-writ­ing al­gorithm (95% > 100 karma, n> 100)

One-time pad22 Jul 2022 16:42 UTC
29 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

Choos­ing causes re Flynn for Oregon

Zach Stein-Perlman18 May 2022 3:59 UTC
50 points
25 comments2 min readEA link

Another FTX post: sug­ges­tions for change

SaraAzubuike11 Nov 2022 17:47 UTC
54 points
31 comments2 min readEA link

EA is more than longtermism

frances_lorenz3 May 2022 15:18 UTC
160 points
99 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] What should we do about the pro­lifer­a­tion of on­line EA com­mu­nity spaces?

Eevee🔹19 Aug 2022 0:58 UTC
16 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Jobs at EA-or­ga­ni­za­tions are over­paid, here is why

Cynwit8 Jun 2022 17:20 UTC
16 points
37 comments3 min readEA link

Norms and fea­tures for the Forum

Gavin16 May 2022 9:38 UTC
62 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

Use “care” with care.

ricoh_aficio9 Feb 2017 6:38 UTC
31 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

Ob­jec­tions to Value-Align­ment be­tween Effec­tive Altruists

CarlaZoeC15 Jul 2020 16:07 UTC
225 points
49 comments17 min readEA link

Re­vis­it­ing the karma system

Arepo29 May 2022 14:19 UTC
61 points
84 comments1 min readEA link

Death to 1 on 1s

Armando Ochoa21 May 2022 8:12 UTC
5 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

SBF’s com­ments on ethics are no sur­prise to virtue ethicists

c.trout1 Dec 2022 4:21 UTC
10 points
31 comments16 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Does Sam make me want to re­nounce the ac­tions of the EA com­mu­nity? No. Does your re­ac­tion? Ab­solutely.

GoodEAGoneBad18 Nov 2022 10:30 UTC
116 points
55 comments3 min readEA link

Be­fore There Was Effec­tive Altru­ism, There Was Effec­tive Philanthropy

ColdButtonIssues26 Jun 2022 18:09 UTC
133 points
7 comments12 min readEA link

EA is In­suffi­ciently Value Neu­tral in Practice

Gordon Seidoh Worley4 Aug 2022 20:00 UTC
−3 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

What might FTX mean for effec­tive giv­ing and EA funding

Jack Lewars15 Nov 2022 13:24 UTC
204 points
26 comments9 min readEA link

[Question] What moral philoso­phies be­sides util­i­tar­i­anism are com­pat­i­ble with effec­tive al­tru­ism?

Eevee🔹16 Apr 2022 19:53 UTC
19 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

The FTX Si­tu­a­tion: Wait for more in­for­ma­tion be­fore propos­ing solutions

D0TheMath13 Nov 2022 20:28 UTC
109 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

It’s OK not to go into AI (for stu­dents)

ruthgrace14 Jul 2022 15:16 UTC
59 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

Crowd­sourced Crit­i­cisms: What does EA think about EA?

Hmash8 Aug 2022 22:59 UTC
32 points
19 comments13 min readEA link

com­mu­nity build­ing solely as a tool for im­pact cre­ates toxic communities

ruthgrace1 Sep 2022 3:45 UTC
45 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

In­ter­est­ing vs. Im­por­tant Work—A Place EA is Pri­ori­tiz­ing Poorly

Davidmanheim28 Jul 2022 10:08 UTC
115 points
52 comments5 min readEA link

A bet­ter so­ciety short­cuts away the “longterm con­se­quences ver­sus rules” dilemma

kbog14 Dec 2022 5:46 UTC
14 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

How we failed

Jan_Kulveit23 Mar 2022 10:08 UTC
120 points
16 comments5 min readEA link

Open EA Global

Scott Alexander1 Sep 2022 4:26 UTC
434 points
154 comments5 min readEA link

(Self-)Crit­i­cism Doesn’t Solve Prob­lems. We Do.

Evan_Gaensbauer4 Jul 2022 8:05 UTC
5 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

21 crit­i­cisms of EA I’m think­ing about

Peter Wildeford1 Sep 2022 19:28 UTC
209 points
26 comments9 min readEA link

“Call off the EAs”: Too Much Ad­ver­tis­ing?

tae 🔸19 Aug 2022 23:49 UTC
78 points
30 comments1 min readEA link

The availa­bil­ity bias in job hunting

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸30 Apr 2022 14:53 UTC
105 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

EA is Not Reli­gious Enough (EA should em­u­late peak Quak­erism)

Lawrence Newport1 Oct 2022 10:55 UTC
110 points
25 comments8 min readEA link
(precedents.substack.com)

The phrase “hard-core EAs” does more harm than good

Helen4 Jan 2022 0:11 UTC
59 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

The biggest risk of free-spend­ing EA is not op­tics or mo­ti­vated cog­ni­tion, but grift

Ben Kuhn14 May 2022 2:13 UTC
179 points
27 comments4 min readEA link

EAGx ap­pli­ca­tion com­mu­nity norms we’d like to see

ES23 Dec 2022 17:27 UTC
126 points
18 comments6 min readEA link

Samo Burja: What the col­lapse of FTX means for effec­tive altruism

peterhartree17 Nov 2022 12:16 UTC
46 points
9 comments7 min readEA link
(brief.bismarckanalysis.com)

Keep EA high-trust

Michael_PJ22 Dec 2022 14:58 UTC
156 points
45 comments4 min readEA link

How about we don’t all get COVID in Lon­don?

Aaron Bergman10 Apr 2022 23:16 UTC
66 points
34 comments4 min readEA link

Don’t Over-Op­ti­mize Things

Owen Cotton-Barratt16 Jun 2022 16:28 UTC
53 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Where is the So­cial Jus­tice in EA?

LiaH5 Apr 2022 4:29 UTC
38 points
35 comments4 min readEA link

EA should taboo “EA should”

Lizka29 Mar 2022 9:07 UTC
210 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] What is the new EA ques­tion?

ChanaMessinger2 Mar 2022 20:40 UTC
95 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

I think EA will make it through stronger

lincolnq16 Nov 2022 2:02 UTC
65 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Per­ils of op­ti­miz­ing in so­cial contexts

Owen Cotton-Barratt16 Jun 2022 17:23 UTC
124 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Big EA and Its In­finite Money Printer

Arjun Panickssery29 Apr 2022 17:57 UTC
71 points
13 comments7 min readEA link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

Tran­script of Twit­ter Dis­cus­sion on EA from June 2022

Zvi 6 Jun 2022 13:47 UTC
83 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What spe­cific changes should we as a com­mu­nity make to the effec­tive al­tru­ism com­mu­nity? [Stage 1]

Nathan Young5 Dec 2022 9:04 UTC
58 points
172 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism’s odd at­ti­tude to men­tal health

MichaelPlant29 Apr 2022 8:57 UTC
103 points
25 comments2 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on Wytham Abbey

nikos10 Jan 2023 18:30 UTC
82 points
51 comments4 min readEA link

My Thoughts on Bostrom’s “Apol­ogy for an Old Email”

𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆12 Jan 2023 21:35 UTC
157 points
35 comments1 min readEA link

On Liv­ing Without Idols

Rockwell13 Jan 2023 23:35 UTC
544 points
24 comments6 min readEA link

Now that we trust se­nior EAs less...

freedomandutility15 Jan 2023 21:46 UTC
−17 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

EA’s don’t quan­tify much or very well

Noah Scales17 Dec 2022 9:47 UTC
17 points
4 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] What do you think the effec­tive al­tru­ism move­ment sucks at?

Evan_Gaensbauer30 Jan 2023 6:38 UTC
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

EA logic cre­ates men­tal suffer­ing. Here is how the mis­ery trap might be fixed.

Davidh9630 Jan 2023 14:26 UTC
−6 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

EA, Sex­ual Harass­ment, and Abuse

whistleblower93 Feb 2023 15:00 UTC
267 points
459 comments2 min readEA link
(time.com)

I No Longer Feel Com­fortable in EA

disgruntled_ea5 Feb 2023 20:45 UTC
2 points
29 comments1 min readEA link

Pro­posal: Create A New Longter­mism Organization

Brian Lui7 Feb 2023 5:59 UTC
25 points
37 comments6 min readEA link

On Loyalty

Nathan Young20 Feb 2023 10:29 UTC
56 points
19 comments15 min readEA link

Con­sider not sleep­ing around within the community

Patrick Sue Domin22 Feb 2023 9:21 UTC
161 points
201 comments4 min readEA link

How has FTX’s col­lapse im­pacted EA?

AnonymousEAForumAccount17 Oct 2023 17:02 UTC
241 points
65 comments14 min readEA link

Red-team­ing con­test: de­mo­graph­ics and power struc­tures in EA

TheOtherHannah31 Aug 2022 4:36 UTC
110 points
14 comments33 min readEA link

Learn­ing from non-EAs who seek to do good

Siobhan_M8 Dec 2022 0:22 UTC
261 points
22 comments7 min readEA link

Time Ar­ti­cle Dis­cus­sion—“Effec­tive Altru­ist Lead­ers Were Re­peat­edly Warned About Sam Bankman-Fried Years Be­fore FTX Col­lapsed”

Nathan Young15 Mar 2023 12:40 UTC
241 points
175 comments4 min readEA link
(time.com)

Effec­tive Altru­ism and the strate­gic am­bi­guity of ‘do­ing good’

Jeroen De Ryck 🔹17 Jul 2023 19:24 UTC
80 points
10 comments2 min readEA link
(medialibrary.uantwerpen.be)

Some up­dates to my think­ing in light of the FTX col­lapse by Owen Cot­ton Bar­ratt [Link Post]

Nathan Young29 Mar 2023 15:23 UTC
133 points
16 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

[Question] Can we ac­tu­ally con­firm that a ve­gan diet is com­pat­i­ble with high in­tel­lec­tual out­put?

mako yass5 Oct 2022 4:41 UTC
32 points
25 comments2 min readEA link

Im­pact Eval­u­a­tion in EA

callum26 Oct 2023 23:18 UTC
140 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

The Power of Dom­i­nant Logic: How the EA Com­mu­nity is Main­stream­ing Global Apartheid

Alimi3 Oct 2023 7:49 UTC
8 points
12 comments7 min readEA link

Why Altru­ists Can’t Have Nice Things

lincolnq21 Jun 2023 3:43 UTC
182 points
68 comments7 min readEA link

We need an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion into how EA lead­er­ship has han­dled SBF and FTX

AnonymousEAForumAccount24 Jul 2024 3:24 UTC
141 points
52 comments12 min readEA link

My ex­pe­rience at the con­tro­ver­sial Man­i­fest 2024

Maniano17 Jun 2024 18:07 UTC
51 points
246 comments6 min readEA link

Why hasn’t EA done an SBF in­ves­ti­ga­tion and post­mortem?

RobBensinger1 Apr 2024 2:28 UTC
166 points
45 comments3 min readEA link

Sav­ing the world sucks

Defective Alturism12 Jan 2024 9:28 UTC
−9 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Émile P. Tor­res’s his­tory of dishon­esty and harassment

anonymous-for-obvious-reasons1 May 2024 12:47 UTC
249 points
95 comments40 min readEA link

Hu­man Bio­di­ver­sity (Part 4: As­tral Codex Ten)

Evan_Gaensbauer3 Nov 2024 4:20 UTC
0 points
23 comments1 min readEA link
(reflectivealtruism.com)

EA crit­i­cism: not yet a religion

dotsam1 Sep 2022 21:50 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

EA, 30 + 14 Rapes, and My Not-So-Good Ex­pe­rience with EA.

There_is_a_problem18 Feb 2023 3:39 UTC
3 points
52 comments2 min readEA link

Be less trust­ing of in­tu­itive ar­gu­ments about so­cial phe­nom­ena

Nathan_Barnard18 Dec 2022 1:11 UTC
43 points
20 comments4 min readEA link

Open Let­ter to EA

Oscar Galvin19 Oct 2022 14:14 UTC
13 points
7 comments24 min readEA link
(seethroughnews.org)

EA may look like a cult (and it’s not just op­tics)

nadavb1 Oct 2022 13:07 UTC
77 points
18 comments3 min readEA link

The Need for the Hu­man­i­ties in EA

Zohar Atkins14 Nov 2022 15:25 UTC
0 points
3 comments8 min readEA link
(whatiscalledthinking.substack.com)

NY Times on the FTX im­plo­sion’s im­pact on EA

DirectedEvolution14 Nov 2022 3:51 UTC
293 points
19 comments3 min readEA link
(www.nytimes.com)

Is­sue with AI al­ign­ment—di­ver­sity of opinions as com­pete­tive ad­van­tage? (as op­posed to echo cham­bers)

Mars Robertson30 Aug 2023 9:44 UTC
1 point
5 comments2 min readEA link

What we are for? Com­mu­nity, Cor­rec­tion and Scale [wip]

Nathan Young1 Sep 2022 22:44 UTC
0 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Why I care so much about Diver­sity, Equity and In­clu­sion in EA

Ulrik Horn13 Mar 2024 3:18 UTC
11 points
35 comments9 min readEA link

Effec­tive Asper­sions: How the Non­lin­ear In­ves­ti­ga­tion Went Wrong

TracingWoodgrains19 Dec 2023 12:00 UTC
346 points
213 comments31 min readEA link

Guided by the Beauty of One’s Philoso­phies: Why Aes­thet­ics Matter

Étienne Fortier-Dubois15 May 2022 16:38 UTC
165 points
51 comments15 min readEA link
(classicalfuturist.substack.com)

[Linkpost] [Sum­mary] The Guardian: Is the effec­tive al­tru­ism move­ment in trou­ble? (FTX re­lated opinion piece)

David Varga16 Nov 2022 12:10 UTC
27 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(www.theguardian.com)

Cri­tique: Cost-Benefit of Weirdness

Mike Elias29 Aug 2022 15:59 UTC
2 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

Do bet­ter, please …

Rohit is a Strange Loop15 Jan 2023 11:32 UTC
16 points
67 comments4 min readEA link

Far­mKind’s Illu­sory Offer

Jeff Kaufman 🔸9 Aug 2024 11:32 UTC
98 points
51 comments1 min readEA link

It is called Effec­tive Altru­ism, not Altru­is­tic Effectiveness

Timon Renzelmann20 Dec 2023 15:41 UTC
27 points
14 comments4 min readEA link

I am tired.

MeganNelson 🔸12 Jan 2023 22:17 UTC
234 points
42 comments1 min readEA link

Some core as­sump­tions of effec­tive al­tru­ism, ac­cord­ing to me

peterhartree29 Jul 2022 9:05 UTC
90 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

EA’s Cul­ture and Think­ing are Severely Limit­ing its Impact

Peter Elam26 Jul 2022 11:10 UTC
96 points
48 comments22 min readEA link

Re­act­ing to failure: how fun­ders can en­courage more am­bi­tious projects

Someone28 Sep 2022 16:37 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Ch­ester­ton Fences and EA’s X-risks

jehan2 Sep 2022 11:56 UTC
78 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

If EA Com­mu­nity-Build­ing Could Be Net-Nega­tive, What Fol­lows?

joshcmorrison2 Jan 2023 19:21 UTC
153 points
78 comments5 min readEA link

My emo­tional re­ac­tion to the cur­rent fund­ing situation

Sam Brown11 Sep 2022 22:07 UTC
125 points
13 comments5 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Non-perfor­ma­tive speech in EA

eaanon202215 Nov 2022 0:07 UTC
21 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

EA and mul­ti­cul­tural en­vi­ron­ments. Per­sonal hot-takes.

Ivan Madan3 May 2023 18:54 UTC
7 points
1 comment3 min readEA link

Truth­seek­ing is the ground in which other prin­ci­ples grow

Elizabeth27 May 2024 1:11 UTC
104 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

A di­gres­sion about area-spe­cific work in LatAm

Jaime Sevilla17 Dec 2022 14:59 UTC
46 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Speak the truth, even if your voice trembles

RobertM14 Jan 2023 6:10 UTC
92 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

Em­brac­ing Selfishness

ryanbloom14 Jan 2023 21:36 UTC
10 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(ryan-bloom.com)

[Question] How Is EA Ra­tional?

Elliot Temple13 Oct 2022 16:21 UTC
1 point
25 comments1 min readEA link

How EA is per­ceived is cru­cial to its fu­ture trajectory

Gidi Kadosh23 Jul 2022 3:24 UTC
162 points
22 comments14 min readEA link

Be wary of en­act­ing norms you think are unethical

RobBensinger18 Jan 2023 6:07 UTC
147 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Ap­pear­ance of impropriety

Muireall18 Jan 2023 3:22 UTC
16 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

If ev­ery­one makes the same crit­i­cism, the op­po­site crit­i­cism is more likely to be true

MichaelDickens17 Dec 2022 0:30 UTC
45 points
12 comments2 min readEA link

Con­formism in EA

monadica18 Jan 2023 20:35 UTC
−1 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

(In­cor­rectly) Overem­pha­siz­ing Effec­tive Careers

Davidmanheim23 Jan 2023 20:03 UTC
43 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

EA is too re­li­ant on per­sonal connections

sawyer🔸1 Sep 2022 14:26 UTC
230 points
27 comments8 min readEA link

Hubris and cold­ness within EA (my ex­pe­rience)

James Gough13 Nov 2022 14:54 UTC
94 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

EA move­ment course cor­rec­tions and where you might disagree

michel29 Oct 2022 3:32 UTC
79 points
4 comments15 min readEA link

The Wages of North-At­lantic Bias

Sach Wry19 Aug 2022 12:34 UTC
8 points
2 comments17 min readEA link

EA’s weird­ness makes it un­usu­ally sus­cep­ti­ble to bad behavior

OutsideView5 Feb 2023 6:01 UTC
208 points
69 comments4 min readEA link

The Guardian calls EA “cultish” and ac­cuses the late FHI of “Eu­gen­ics on Steroids”

Damin Curtis🔹28 Apr 2024 13:44 UTC
13 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(www.theguardian.com)

My ten­ta­tive best guess on how EAs and Ra­tion­al­ists some­times turn crazy

Habryka21 Jun 2023 4:11 UTC
160 points
39 comments1 min readEA link

What ac­tu­ally is “value-al­ign­ment”?

ConcernedEAs7 Feb 2023 16:02 UTC
3 points
9 comments5 min readEA link

Sum­mary and thoughts on Denise Melchin’s post “Do­ing good is as good as it ever was”

Sharmake19 Sep 2022 20:57 UTC
4 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

How To Prevent EA From Ever Turn­ing Into a Cult

Anonymous5630 Jun 2022 6:37 UTC
65 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

Fol­low-up: Crowd­sourced Criticisms

Hmash1 Sep 2022 21:56 UTC
6 points
0 comments9 min readEA link