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Clue­less­ness Cri­tiques Week

TagLast edit: 14 Aug 2026 20:04 UTC by Dane Valerie

Cluelessness Critiques Week (August 17–23, 2026) is an EA Forum event focused on discussing critiques of and responses to Anthony DiGiovanni’s The challenge of unawareness for impartial altruist action guidance sequence. This topic is for selected entries from the related essay competition and the event’s discussion thread.

Read the selected competition entries and join the discussion in the discussion thread or on the competition posts.

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Challeng­ing the un­aware­ness ar­gu­ment with third ac­tions and mixed actions

Elliott Thornley17 Aug 2026 14:43 UTC
39 points
15 comments10 min readEA link

Re­sults: Clue­less­ness Cri­tiques Competition

Will Aldred29 Aug 2026 17:38 UTC
59 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

The Clue­less­ness Hori­zon Ar­gu­ment: Limited Ra­tion­al­ity from Im­par­tial Motivations

Ville V. Kokko17 Aug 2026 8:15 UTC
5 points
4 comments16 min readEA link

How One Clue­less Lay­man Makes De­ci­sions in An­i­mal Welfare

Jo_🔸21 Aug 2026 18:53 UTC
46 points
4 comments12 min readEA link

Agency and the Jus­tifi­ca­tion of Altru­is­tic Preference

Marc Moffett17 Aug 2026 8:14 UTC
10 points
4 comments15 min readEA link

Com­ments on the sum­mary of the un­aware­ness argument

NunoSempere17 Aug 2026 7:52 UTC
18 points
11 comments9 min readEA link

Rea­sons to Act on Your Best Guess: A Re­ply to the Challenge of Unawareness

MichaelDickens17 Aug 2026 7:59 UTC
16 points
2 comments16 min readEA link

The Virtues of Cluelessness

Jonah Wilberg17 Aug 2026 7:56 UTC
12 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

Clue­less­ness Cri­tiques: Re­quire­ments of Ra­tion­al­ity for Effec­tive Altruists

Claire Field17 Aug 2026 8:03 UTC
10 points
1 comment7 min readEA link

Im­par­tial Altru­is­tic Com­par­i­sons with­out Mo­dal Completeness

Nicholaos Jones11 Aug 2026 19:34 UTC
11 points
2 comments18 min readEA link

AMA: An­thony DiGio­vanni, au­thor of the ‘Challenge of Unaware­ness’ sequence

Toby Tremlett🔹3 Jul 2026 9:14 UTC
39 points
18 comments1 min readEA link

One coun­terex­am­ple is enough

AJ van Hoek17 Aug 2026 7:55 UTC
5 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Start with Rea­sons, Not Global Welfare

James Aitchison17 Aug 2026 7:55 UTC
12 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

Bot­tom-Up Brack­et­ing: A Per­son-Cen­tered Re­sponse to Clue­less­ness

Impartial Partially17 Aug 2026 15:21 UTC
32 points
30 comments19 min readEA link

Clue­less­ness: Sum­mary of the ar­gu­ment, why it mat­ters, and counterarguments

Anthony DiGiovanni 🔸19 Jun 2026 12:44 UTC
62 points
30 comments9 min readEA link

Why Clue­less­ness Doesn’t En­tail Paralysis

tuvia17 Aug 2026 7:52 UTC
6 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

De­fus­ing clue­less­ness with de­grees of justification

unsharp17 Aug 2026 15:46 UTC
26 points
14 comments23 min readEA link

Rea­sons Without Ag­gre­ga­tion: Why Coarse-Grained Un­der­stand­ing Does Not Pre­clude Best-Guess Comparison

Avril Shakira17 Aug 2026 7:53 UTC
4 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

A sim­ple im­pos­si­bil­ity re­sult about ra­tio­nal de­ci­sion­mak­ing un­der unawareness

Pedro Afonso17 Aug 2026 7:58 UTC
5 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

A Note Against the Max­i­mal­ity Rule

JohannWolfgang17 Aug 2026 7:55 UTC
5 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

The Train to Arbitraryland

Jim Buhler17 Aug 2026 7:59 UTC
25 points
17 comments10 min readEA link

Clar­ify­ing some mi­s­un­der­stand­ings of the un­aware­ness argument

Anthony DiGiovanni 🔸1 Sep 2026 22:35 UTC
22 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

A fishy anal­ogy for long term clue­less­ness.

titotal17 Aug 2026 7:57 UTC
18 points
2 comments16 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing: Clue­less­ness Cri­tiques Competition

Toby Tremlett🔹19 Jun 2026 12:44 UTC
137 points
23 comments6 min readEA link

Clue­less­ness Cri­tiques Week: Dis­cus­sion Thread

Toby Tremlett🔹17 Aug 2026 7:40 UTC
28 points
29 comments1 min readEA link

Cross-Cat­e­gory Ir­rele­vance: A Re­sponse to Cluelessness

IsaacD17 Aug 2026 14:33 UTC
7 points
1 comment20 min readEA link

Cos­mic House-Always-Wins

wallower17 Aug 2026 14:30 UTC
5 points
0 comments21 min readEA link

Every Un­known Comes Out the Same Shape

Silica17 Aug 2026 14:35 UTC
4 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

A case for ig­nor­ing unawareness

tobycrisford 🔸17 Aug 2026 14:25 UTC
7 points
0 comments17 min readEA link

Max­i­mal­ity Is the Wrong De­ci­sion Rule for a Vague Representor

Ameenah17 Aug 2026 14:16 UTC
16 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Two kinds of defer­ence and the nor­ma­tive premise

jc17 Aug 2026 14:49 UTC
1 point
1 comment5 min readEA link

Lex­i­cal Fil­ter­ing: De­cid­ing un­der In­de­ter­mi­nacy with Lex­i­cally Ordered Values

Kuutti Lappalainen17 Aug 2026 15:08 UTC
24 points
2 comments22 min readEA link

From Clue­less­ness to Ac­tion: Why Brack­et­ing Re­quires an Epistemic Audit

Ben St17 Aug 2026 14:23 UTC
11 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

Unaware­ness as a com­pu­ta­tional constraint

Ben_West🔸17 Aug 2026 14:38 UTC
18 points
4 comments8 min readEA link

Me­tanor­ma­tive Brack­et­ing Needs a Rule for How We Slice Up Views. Add That Rule and the Neart­er­mism Ar­gu­ment Falls Apart

Ameenah17 Aug 2026 14:19 UTC
6 points
0 comments3 min readEA link
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