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Crit­i­cism of effec­tive altruism

TagLast edit: 7 Jul 2023 11:01 UTC by Amber Dawn

Criticism of effective altruism collects critical discussion of effective altruism ideas (as opposed to criticism of effective altruist organizations, causes, culture, or specific pieces of effective altruist work).

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.

Related entries

criticism of effective altruist causes | criticism of effective altruist organizations | criticism of effective altruism culture | criticism of longtermism and existential risk studies | criticism of work in effective altruism | effective altruism | red teaming | scalably using labour | social and intellectual movements | working at EA vs non-EA orgs

EA is about max­i­miza­tion, and max­i­miza­tion is perilous

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

The mo­ti­vated rea­son­ing cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

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

A cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

Ben Kuhn3 Dec 2013 1:39 UTC
29 points
5 comments12 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

The case against “EA cause ar­eas”

nadavb17 Jul 2021 6:37 UTC
144 points
24 comments13 min readEA link

The case of the miss­ing cause pri­ori­ti­sa­tion research

weeatquince16 Aug 2020 0:21 UTC
309 points
88 comments16 min readEA link

Michael Niel­sen’s “Notes on effec­tive al­tru­ism”

Pablo3 Jun 2022 8:20 UTC
219 points
49 comments5 min readEA link
(michaelnotebook.com)

Why I left EA

Lila19 Feb 2017 17:42 UTC
48 points
59 comments2 min readEA link

Cri­tiques of EA that I want to read

abrahamrowe19 Jun 2022 22:22 UTC
463 points
85 comments11 min readEA link

Win­ners of the EA Crit­i­cism and Red Team­ing Contest

Lizka1 Oct 2022 1:50 UTC
226 points
41 comments19 min readEA link

Milan Griffes on EA blindspots

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

Notic­ing the skulls, longter­mism edition

Davidmanheim5 Oct 2021 7:08 UTC
70 points
75 comments2 min readEA link

The EA Com­mu­nity and Long-Term Fu­ture Funds Lack Trans­parency and Accountability

Evan_Gaensbauer23 Jul 2018 0:39 UTC
73 points
56 comments12 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ists are already in­sti­tu­tion­al­ists and are do­ing far more than un­work­able longter­mism—A re­sponse to “On the Differ­ences be­tween Eco­mod­ernism and Effec­tive Altru­ism”

jackva21 Feb 2023 18:08 UTC
78 points
3 comments12 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

Im­prov­ing EA events: start early & in­vest in con­tent and stewardship

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸12 Dec 2022 19:43 UTC
32 points
3 comments16 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism is an Ide­ol­ogy, not (just) a Question

Fods1228 Jun 2019 7:18 UTC
166 points
46 comments16 min readEA link
(thegodlesstheist.com)

Ob­jec­tions to Value-Align­ment be­tween Effec­tive Altruists

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

(Cross­post) Is Effec­tive Altru­ism just a gi­ant meme?

cryptopsyfan694205 Oct 2024 23:33 UTC
−18 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

Some blindspots in ra­tio­nal­ity and effec­tive altruism

Remmelt21 Mar 2021 18:01 UTC
54 points
6 comments14 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

Effec­tive al­tru­ism is self-recommending

BenHoffman23 Apr 2017 6:11 UTC
57 points
48 comments28 min readEA link

Towards a Weaker Longtermism

Davidmanheim8 Aug 2021 8:31 UTC
106 points
72 comments3 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Some Thoughts on Effec­tive Altruism

Sebastian Schwiecker18 Sep 2020 10:05 UTC
31 points
26 comments1 min readEA link

Ben Hoff­man & Holden Karnofsky

Milan_Griffes20 Mar 2021 4:07 UTC
0 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Drown­ing chil­dren are rare

BenHoffman28 May 2019 17:33 UTC
−9 points
36 comments5 min readEA link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Is­sues with cen­tral­ised grantmaking

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

The EA com­mu­nity does not own its donors’ money

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

Four cat­e­gories of effec­tive al­tru­ism critiques

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

Row­ing and Steer­ing the Effec­tive Altru­ism Movement

jtm9 Jan 2022 17:28 UTC
146 points
14 comments17 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism: Not as bad as you think

JamesÖz24 Nov 2022 13:11 UTC
169 points
18 comments10 min readEA link
(jamesozden.substack.com)

Effec­tive Altru­ism, Be­fore the Memes Started

Nicholas / Heather Kross13 Oct 2021 2:51 UTC
38 points
23 comments10 min readEA link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

Progress stud­ies vs. longter­mist EA: some differences

Max_Daniel31 May 2021 21:35 UTC
84 points
27 comments3 min readEA link

The Fu­ture Might Not Be So Great

Jacy30 Jun 2022 13:01 UTC
142 points
118 comments34 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Democratis­ing Risk—or how EA deals with critics

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

Emilia Wil­son: Univer­sal­ised cri­tiques of EA (light­ning talk)

EA Global3 Nov 2017 7:43 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Re­view of The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does

Richard Y Chappell🔸2 May 2023 15:45 UTC
215 points
54 comments10 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

Where is the So­cial Jus­tice in EA?

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

Do­ing EA Better

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

[Link] The Op­ti­mizer’s Curse & Wrong-Way Reductions

Chris Smith4 Apr 2019 13:28 UTC
94 points
61 comments1 min readEA link

Who is Un­com­fortable Cri­tiquing Who, Around EA?

Ozzie Gooen24 Feb 2023 5:55 UTC
150 points
15 comments11 min readEA link

Why Not EA? [pa­per draft]

Richard Y Chappell🔸9 May 2023 19:03 UTC
48 points
71 comments2 min readEA link
(www.dropbox.com)

Blog up­date: Reflec­tive altruism

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

Open Wallets, Empty Hearts [linkpost]

Benjamin M.23 Nov 2024 23:49 UTC
34 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(www.thenewatlantis.com)

Billion­aire philan­thropy (Part 7: Donor dis­cre­tion)

Matrice Jacobine25 Nov 2024 8:38 UTC
35 points
17 comments1 min readEA link
(reflectivealtruism.com)

Mis­con­cep­tions about effec­tive al­tru­ism (80,000 Hours)

Aaron Gertler 🔸7 Aug 2020 1:26 UTC
29 points
0 comments9 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

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

Thread for dis­cussing crit­i­cal re­view of Do­ing Good Bet­ter in the Lon­don Re­view of Books

Benjamin_Todd21 Sep 2015 2:27 UTC
13 points
20 comments8 min readEA link

How the Wealthy Use “Char­ity” to Screw Every­one Else with Amy Schiller—Fac­tu­ally! - #238 (by Adam Conover)

Joseph Quevedo5 Jan 2024 2:54 UTC
0 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Rho­dri Davies on why he’s not an EA

Sanjay18 Aug 2022 11:50 UTC
105 points
19 comments2 min readEA link
(whyphilanthropymatters.com)

EA and the United Nations

Lisa G30 Mar 2022 9:09 UTC
37 points
11 comments8 min readEA link

Does it mat­ter that some EAs think black peo­ple are stupi­der than white peo­ple?

britomart14 Jan 2023 12:14 UTC
−46 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

Open Let­ter to Young EAs

Leif Wenar11 Oct 2024 16:15 UTC
14 points
44 comments1 min readEA link

Mo­ti­va­tion gaps: Why so much EA crit­i­cism is hos­tile and lazy

titotal22 Apr 2024 11:49 UTC
211 points
44 comments19 min readEA link
(titotal.substack.com)

Re­view of Past Grants: The $100,000 Grant for a Video Game?

Nicolae3 Jun 2024 14:28 UTC
210 points
64 comments2 min readEA link

Pa­trick Col­li­son on Effec­tive Altruism

SamuelKnoche23 Jun 2020 9:04 UTC
98 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Some pre­limi­nar­ies and a claim

Milan_Griffes25 Feb 2021 5:01 UTC
−36 points
33 comments3 min readEA link

Anony­mous EA comments

RobBensinger7 Feb 2017 21:42 UTC
42 points
91 comments2 min readEA link

Open EA Global

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

Alice Crary’s philo­soph­i­cal-in­sti­tu­tional cri­tique of EA: “Why one should not be an effec­tive al­tru­ist”

ben.smith25 Feb 2021 20:06 UTC
21 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Leif We­nar’s The Deaths of Effec­tive Altruism

Earthling27 Mar 2024 15:35 UTC
46 points
58 comments1 min readEA link
(www.wired.com)

Pod­cast In­ter­view with David Thorstad on Ex­is­ten­tial Risk, The Time of Per­ils, and Billion­aire Philanthropy

Nick_Anyos4 Jun 2023 8:52 UTC
38 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(critiquesofea.podbean.com)

Pitch­ing EA to some­one who be­lieves cer­tain goods can’t be as­signed a value

Nick Corvino21 Jul 2021 20:05 UTC
18 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

EA cap­i­tal al­lo­ca­tion is an in­ner ring

Milan_Griffes19 Mar 2021 4:06 UTC
−57 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

The New Hu­man­i­tar­ian: ‘GiveDirectly loses $900,000 in DRC mo­bile cash fraud’

altacc21 Nov 2023 10:35 UTC
4 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.thenewhumanitarian.org)

Wealth re­dis­tri­bu­tion: are we on the same page?

dEAsign3 Oct 2023 21:34 UTC
10 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Cri­tique of the no­tion that im­pact fol­lows a power-law distribution

Sarah Weiler14 Mar 2024 10:28 UTC
88 points
89 comments18 min readEA link

Tran­script of Twit­ter Dis­cus­sion on EA from June 2022

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

Keep­ing ev­ery­one mo­ti­vated: a case for effec­tive ca­reers out­side of the high­est im­pact EA organizations

FJehn22 Aug 2019 6:43 UTC
39 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

Les­sons from my time in Effec­tive Altruism

richard_ngo15 Jan 2021 21:54 UTC
291 points
24 comments8 min readEA link

Avoid­ing Group­think in In­tro Fel­low­ships (and Diver­sify­ing Longter­mism)

seanrson14 Sep 2021 21:00 UTC
67 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Reflec­tion on Bostrom’s com­ments as a woman in EA

lilly13 Jan 2023 10:07 UTC
59 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Let’s make EA eas­ier to cri­tique!

freedomandutility7 Apr 2022 23:35 UTC
17 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

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)

Cap­i­tal­ism, power and episte­mol­ogy: a cri­tique of EA

Matthew_Doran22 Aug 2022 14:20 UTC
13 points
19 comments23 min readEA link

A Sys­tem­atic Re­sponse to FTX/​SBF-Based Crit­i­cisms of EA

Alex Strasser26 Sep 2023 7:21 UTC
37 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(gospeldemands.com)

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

Thoughts on Ke­nan Malik’s re­cent EA Article

JWS 🔸10 Oct 2023 18:28 UTC
45 points
10 comments11 min readEA link

The Bulwark’s Ar­ti­cle On Effec­tive Altru­ism Is a Short Circuit

Omnizoid27 Sep 2023 1:36 UTC
21 points
5 comments9 min readEA link

Bet­ter mod­els for EA de­vel­op­ment: a net­work of com­mu­ni­ties, not a global community

konrad18 Sep 2018 9:33 UTC
33 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

In­visi­ble im­pact loss (and why we can be too er­ror-averse)

Lizka6 Oct 2022 15:08 UTC
137 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

EA will likely get more at­ten­tion soon

Julia_Wise🔸12 May 2022 2:01 UTC
225 points
28 comments2 min readEA link

Four Con­cerns Re­gard­ing Longtermism

Pat Andriola6 Jun 2022 5:42 UTC
82 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

The ITN frame­work, cost-effec­tive­ness, and cause prioritisation

John G. Halstead6 Oct 2019 5:26 UTC
144 points
20 comments14 min readEA link

Disagree­ing about what’s effec­tive isn’t dis­agree­ing with effec­tive altruism

Robert_Wiblin16 Jul 2015 7:00 UTC
18 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

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

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

Re­marks about Longter­mism in­spired by Tor­res’s ‘Against Longter­mism’

carboniferous_umbraculum2 Feb 2022 16:20 UTC
43 points
0 comments24 min readEA link

List of im­por­tant ways we may be wrong

D0TheMath8 Jan 2022 16:30 UTC
32 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism or­ga­ni­za­tions should avoid us­ing “po­lariz­ing tech­niques”

Joey🔸12 Jun 2023 13:41 UTC
172 points
23 comments4 min readEA link

Linkpost: “Bet­ter vaguely right than pre­cisely wrong in effec­tive al­tru­ism: the prob­lem of marginal­ism”

Joseph Lemien10 Aug 2023 18:47 UTC
19 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.cambridge.org)

How should Effec­tive Altru­ists think about Leftist Ethics?

AppliedDivinityStudies27 Nov 2021 13:25 UTC
82 points
20 comments4 min readEA link

In Con­tinued Defense Of Effec­tive Altru­ism — Scott Alexander

Pablo29 Nov 2023 10:37 UTC
163 points
30 comments1 min readEA link
(www.astralcodexten.com)

Ben Kuhn on the effec­tive al­tru­ist movement

admin323 Jul 2014 7:53 UTC
4 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

Think­ing about how we re­spond to crit­i­cisms of EA

weeatquince19 Aug 2016 9:42 UTC
5 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Free Riding

sbehmer27 Mar 2020 19:12 UTC
124 points
39 comments11 min readEA link

Sam Har­ris and Will MacAskill: Pod­cast tran­script (2020)

Aaron Gertler 🔸3 Jul 2021 21:48 UTC
30 points
0 comments68 min readEA link

Em­piri­cal cri­tique of EA from an­other direction

tonz22 Aug 2022 9:13 UTC
2 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Un­flat­ter­ing as­pects of Effec­tive Altruism

NunoSempere15 Mar 2024 10:47 UTC
191 points
53 comments1 min readEA link

Fo­cus­ing on bad crit­i­cism is dan­ger­ous to your epistemics

Lizka15 Mar 2024 23:57 UTC
70 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

Utili­tar­i­anism and the re­place­abil­ity of de­sires and attachments

MichaelStJules27 Jul 2024 1:57 UTC
33 points
11 comments12 min readEA link

Fred­die DeBoer Is Wrong About Effec­tive Altruism

Omnizoid23 Dec 2023 6:02 UTC
29 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

Re­view of ITN Critiques

DirectedEvolution9 Oct 2019 8:27 UTC
76 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

EA and Global Poverty. Let’s Gather Evidence

Nathan Young5 Apr 2022 19:20 UTC
42 points
35 comments2 min readEA link

Ar­gu­ments for util­i­tar­i­anism are im­pos­si­bil­ity ar­gu­ments un­der un­bounded prospects

MichaelStJules7 Oct 2023 21:09 UTC
39 points
48 comments1 min readEA link

A Challenge to Effec­tive Altru­ism’s Premises

Fuggazi Nominei8 Jan 2024 15:53 UTC
−19 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

If you don’t have good ev­i­dence one thing is bet­ter than an­other, don’t pre­tend you do

Robert_Wiblin21 Dec 2015 19:19 UTC
49 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

Devel­op­ment RCTs Are Good Actually

ozymandias28 Mar 2024 13:37 UTC
83 points
6 comments10 min readEA link

Var­i­ance of the an­nual con­flict and epi­demic/​pan­demic deaths as a frac­tion of the global population

Vasco Grilo🔸10 Sep 2024 17:02 UTC
16 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

There are no peo­ple to be effec­tively al­tru­is­tic for on a dead planet: EA fund­ing of pro­jects with­out con­duct­ing En­vi­ron­men­tal Im­pact Assess­ments (EIAs), Health and Safety Assess­ments (HSAs) and Life Cy­cle Assess­ments (LCAs) = catastrophe

Deborah W.A. Foulkes26 May 2022 23:46 UTC
12 points
22 comments8 min readEA link

Alice Crary’s Bad Crit­i­cisms Of Effec­tive Altru­ism

Omnizoid8 Sep 2024 17:37 UTC
3 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

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

[Question] What are ex­am­ples of EA work be­ing re­viewed by non-EA re­searchers?

Aaron Gertler 🔸24 Mar 2020 6:04 UTC
63 points
17 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

The “TESCREAL” Bungle

ozymandias3 Jun 2024 22:42 UTC
112 points
15 comments13 min readEA link
(asteriskmag.com)

Un­pack­ing Martin Sandbu’s re­cent(ish) take on EA

JWS 🔸20 Jan 2024 1:16 UTC
68 points
2 comments15 min readEA link

[Question] Con­soli­da­tion of EA crit­i­cism?

Joseph Lemien29 Sep 2024 16:51 UTC
25 points
14 comments2 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)

How EA is per­ceived is cru­cial to its fu­ture trajectory

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

Against neglectedness

Arepo1 Nov 2017 23:09 UTC
14 points
18 comments12 min readEA link

Sur­vey: do you think in­finite ethics is a se­ri­ous prob­lem?

Hmash9 Aug 2022 22:09 UTC
8 points
9 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

“Ex­is­ten­tial Risk” is badly named and leads to nar­row fo­cus on as­tro­nom­i­cal waste

freedomandutility22 Aug 2022 20:25 UTC
38 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

So­phie’s Choice as a time trav­eler: a cri­tique of strong longter­mism and why we should fund more de­vel­op­ment.

SaludCinderella8 Apr 2022 23:44 UTC
17 points
6 comments8 min readEA link

We need more nu­ance re­gard­ing fund­ing gaps

Joey🔸12 Feb 2022 16:57 UTC
275 points
29 comments6 min readEA link

Pop­u­la­tion Ethics Without Ax­iol­ogy: A Framework

Lukas_Gloor2 Aug 2022 15:59 UTC
81 points
18 comments26 min readEA link

20 Cri­tiques of AI Safety That I Found on Twitter

Daniel Kirmani23 Jun 2022 15:11 UTC
14 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

In defence of epistemic modesty

Gregory Lewis🔸29 Oct 2017 19:15 UTC
140 points
51 comments37 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

NYT—What if Char­ity Shouldn’t be Optimized

jackva7 Dec 2024 22:05 UTC
19 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.nytimes.com)

Is effec­tive al­tru­ism re­ally to blame for the OpenAI de­ba­cle?

Garrison23 Nov 2023 0:44 UTC
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

Toby Ord’s The Scourge, Reviewed

ColdButtonIssues30 Aug 2022 21:01 UTC
59 points
25 comments4 min readEA link

If you want to dis­agree with effec­tive al­tru­ism, you need to dis­agree one of these three claims

Benjamin_Todd25 Sep 2016 15:01 UTC
31 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

A so­cial­ist’s view on liberal pro­gres­sive crit­i­cisms of EA

freedomandutility21 Nov 2022 23:54 UTC
150 points
18 comments4 min readEA link

The per­spec­tives on effec­tive al­tru­ism we don’t hear

Jess_Whittlestone30 Dec 2014 12:04 UTC
35 points
33 comments5 min readEA link

A pod­cast epi­sode ex­plor­ing cri­tiques of effec­tive al­tru­ism (with Michael Niel­sen and Ajeya Co­tra)

spencerg1 Sep 2022 16:13 UTC
14 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(clearerthinkingpodcast.com)

Phil Tor­res’ ar­ti­cle: “The Danger­ous Ideas of ‘Longter­mism’ and ‘Ex­is­ten­tial Risk’”

Ben_Eisenpress6 Aug 2021 7:19 UTC
6 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

EA risks fal­ling into a “meta trap”. But we can avoid it.

Peter Wildeford25 Aug 2015 15:22 UTC
110 points
65 comments6 min readEA link

I am tak­ing a break from the EA com­mu­nity. Here are a few words about why.

eaforumthrowaway2021121011 Dec 2021 4:49 UTC
14 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Just Say No to Utili­tar­i­anism

Arjun Panickssery3 Jun 2022 16:58 UTC
3 points
15 comments1 min readEA link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

The case for build­ing more and bet­ter epistemic in­sti­tu­tions in the effec­tive al­tru­ism com­mu­nity

stefan.torges29 Mar 2020 17:01 UTC
131 points
22 comments6 min readEA link

EA Cul­ture and Causes: Less is More

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

The Case for Short­ter­mism—by Robert Wright

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)16 Aug 2022 20:00 UTC
24 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(nonzero.substack.com)

Peter Singer on the 80K podcast

Jon_Behar18 Dec 2019 17:17 UTC
31 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Help me find the crux be­tween EA/​XR and Progress Studies

jasoncrawford2 Jun 2021 18:47 UTC
119 points
37 comments3 min readEA link

A Crit­i­cal Re­view of Open Philan­thropy’s Bet On Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Reform

NunoSempere16 Jun 2022 16:40 UTC
302 points
97 comments26 min readEA link

The Motte and Bailey for Ex­pected Value

freedomandutility12 Dec 2022 11:54 UTC
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

The Folly of “EAs Should”

Davidmanheim6 Jan 2021 7:04 UTC
75 points
47 comments4 min readEA link

Fred­die deBoer: Effec­tive Altru­ism Has a Novelty Problem

Jack Cunningham10 Aug 2022 18:10 UTC
11 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(freddiedeboer.substack.com)

EAs un­der­es­ti­mate un­cer­tainty in cause prioritisation

freedomandutility23 Aug 2022 14:04 UTC
119 points
20 comments2 min readEA link

Another cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

EA Handbook5 Jan 2014 8:00 UTC
2 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

A new me­dia out­let fo­cused in part on philanthropy

teddyschleifer12 Mar 2022 17:21 UTC
47 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Com­mon re­sponses to earn­ing to give

Ben Kuhn10 Jun 2013 4:00 UTC
1 point
1 comment5 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Criticisms

Gavin Palmer (heroLFG.com)11 Aug 2022 16:07 UTC
1 point
1 comment5 min readEA link

[Link] What opinions do you hold that you would be re­luc­tant to ex­press in front of a group of effec­tive al­tru­ists? Anony­mous form.

arikr10 Sep 2019 19:38 UTC
64 points
62 comments1 min readEA link

EAA is rel­a­tively over­in­vest­ing in cor­po­rate welfare reforms

kato6 Jan 2022 2:47 UTC
68 points
27 comments5 min readEA link

The mar­ket­ing gap and a plea for moral inclusivity

MichaelPlant8 Jul 2017 11:34 UTC
40 points
46 comments8 min readEA link

What 80,000 Hours learned by in­ter­view­ing peo­ple we re­spect ‘anony­mously’

80000_Hours18 Jun 2020 12:50 UTC
55 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Don’t we need poli­ti­cal ac­tion rather than char­ity?

Luke Freeman17 May 2021 1:13 UTC
11 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

[Question] Has this EA cri­tique ar­ti­cle been dis­cussed/​re­sponded to?

Noah Starbuck1 May 2022 15:44 UTC
8 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Crit­i­cism of EA Crit­i­cisms: Is the real dis­agree­ment about cause prio?

Akash2 Sep 2022 12:15 UTC
30 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Crit­i­cal Re­view of ‘The Precipice’: A Re­assess­ment of the Risks of AI and Pandemics

Fods1211 May 2020 11:11 UTC
111 points
32 comments26 min readEA link

“EA” doesn’t have a tal­ent gap. Differ­ent causes have differ­ent gaps.

Kat Woods20 May 2018 22:07 UTC
46 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

Virtue sig­nal­ing is some­times the best or the only met­ric we have

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸28 Apr 2022 4:51 UTC
61 points
11 comments5 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)

EA Pro­jects I’d Like to See

finm13 Mar 2022 18:12 UTC
153 points
42 comments27 min readEA link
(www.finmoorhouse.com)

What is In­ter­sec­tion­al­ity The­ory? What does it mean for EA?

John Bridge 🔸27 Mar 2022 20:41 UTC
28 points
42 comments5 min readEA link

Ju­lia Galef and An­gus Deaton: pod­cast dis­cus­sion of RCT is­sues (ex­cerpts)

Aaron Gertler 🔸4 Jan 2021 21:35 UTC
29 points
5 comments9 min readEA link
(rationallyspeakingpodcast.org)

It’s Time to Fix How Effec­tive Altru­ism Is Perceived

Evan_Gaensbauer26 Jul 2022 2:17 UTC
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Four prac­tices where EAs ought to course-correct

kbog30 Jul 2019 5:48 UTC
52 points
43 comments11 min readEA link

Re­sponses to “The Logic of Effec­tive Altru­ism”

EA Handbook1 Jul 2015 7:00 UTC
14 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

Longter­mist EA needs more Phase 2 work

Owen Cotton-Barratt20 Apr 2022 14:42 UTC
241 points
34 comments5 min readEA link

The dan­gers of high salaries within EA organisations

JamesÖz10 Jun 2022 7:54 UTC
38 points
35 comments8 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism is worse than tra­di­tional philan­thropy in the way it ex­cludes the ex­treme poor in the global south.

Jaime Sevilla17 Dec 2022 14:44 UTC
56 points
29 comments2 min readEA link
(dear-humanity.org)

Isn’t this a con­flict of in­ter­est and self-deal­ing on the part of CEA/​EVF lead­er­ship?

Tony Sinclair14 Dec 2022 22:56 UTC
1 point
14 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are some po­ten­tial co­or­di­na­tion failures in our com­mu­nity?

EdoArad12 Dec 2020 8:00 UTC
28 points
28 comments1 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

Meth­ods for im­prov­ing un­cer­tainty anal­y­sis in EA cost-effec­tive­ness models

Froolow29 Aug 2022 18:07 UTC
127 points
8 comments37 min readEA link

My new ar­ti­cle on EA and the sys­temic change objection

tdsyme15 Feb 2019 18:27 UTC
11 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

Ques­tion­ing the Foun­da­tions of EA

Wei Dai27 Aug 2022 20:44 UTC
101 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

Some quick notes on “effec­tive al­tru­ism”

Jonas V24 Mar 2021 15:30 UTC
208 points
89 comments3 min readEA link

Why defen­sive writ­ing is bad for com­mu­nity epistemics

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

What I learned from the crit­i­cism contest

Gavin1 Oct 2022 13:39 UTC
170 points
32 comments6 min readEA link

Re­source for crit­i­cisms and red teaming

Lizka1 Jun 2022 18:58 UTC
60 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

The ca­reer co­or­di­na­tion problem

MathiasKB🔸16 Mar 2019 19:28 UTC
60 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

The Phil Tor­res es­say in Aeon at­tack­ing Longter­mism might be good

timunderwood21 Oct 2021 0:32 UTC
22 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Defend­ing Philan­thropy Against Democracy

Cullen 🔸6 Oct 2019 7:20 UTC
40 points
23 comments5 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing the Effec­tive Altru­ism Network

Kerry_Vaughan31 Aug 2016 19:44 UTC
26 points
8 comments13 min readEA link

[Question] What con­crete steps have been taken af­ter Kath­leen Forths Suicide?

anonymousness30 Nov 2022 13:37 UTC
11 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

The com­mu­nity’s con­cep­tion of value drift­ing is some­times too narrow

Mati_Roy4 Sep 2020 2:00 UTC
38 points
22 comments3 min readEA link

A New­comer’s Cri­tique of EA—Un­der­pri­ori­tiz­ing Sys­tems Change?

Sam Battis12 Nov 2022 23:04 UTC
27 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

Con­cerns over EA’s pos­si­ble ne­glect of experts

JackM16 Dec 2022 22:10 UTC
34 points
16 comments2 min readEA link

Em­piri­cal data on value drift

Joey🔸22 Apr 2018 23:31 UTC
146 points
69 comments5 min readEA link

A crit­i­cal re­view of GiveWell’s 2022 cost-effec­tive­ness model

Froolow25 Aug 2022 15:35 UTC
227 points
20 comments38 min readEA link

Sum­mary of “The Most Good We Can Do or the Best Per­son We Can Be?”—a Cri­tique of EA

EdoArad28 Nov 2020 7:41 UTC
14 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

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

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

An Eval­u­a­tion of An­i­mal Char­ity Eval­u­a­tors

eaanonymous12342 Sep 2022 4:33 UTC
91 points
4 comments43 min readEA link

EA is risk-constrained

EdoArad24 Jun 2020 7:54 UTC
70 points
23 comments1 min readEA link

Or­ga­ni­za­tions pri­ori­tis­ing neat sig­nals of EA al­ign­ment might sys­tem­at­i­cally miss good can­di­dates

evanprice15 Apr 2022 11:33 UTC
55 points
10 comments4 min readEA link

The Effec­tive Altru­ism move­ment is not above con­flicts of interest

sphor16 Dec 2022 15:05 UTC
80 points
25 comments6 min readEA link
(medium.com)

Ob­jec­tions to effec­tive altruism

EA Handbook29 Dec 2020 8:00 UTC
4 points
2 comments7 min readEA link
(www.effectivealtruism.org)

Tyler Cowen on effec­tive al­tru­ism (De­cem­ber 2022)

peterhartree13 Jan 2023 9:39 UTC
76 points
11 comments20 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

“The job in­ter­view pro­cess is bor­der­line preda­tory”

Anonymous2513 Jan 2023 17:23 UTC
6 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

Red Team­ing CEA’s Com­mu­nity Build­ing Work

AnonymousEAForumAccount1 Sep 2022 14:42 UTC
296 points
68 comments66 min readEA link

Fund­ing by Vot­ing: Ig­no­rance and Ir­ra­tional­ity

pradyuprasad19 Jan 2023 23:11 UTC
51 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Gover­nance: still a non-issue

Arturo Macias22 Jan 2023 11:50 UTC
−19 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Pro­tect Our Fu­ture’s Crypto Politics

Radical Empath Ismam29 Jan 2023 21:07 UTC
67 points
19 comments5 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

Be­ware sur­pris­ing and sus­pi­cious convergence

Gregory Lewis🔸24 Jan 2016 19:11 UTC
219 points
21 comments15 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

Towards More Mo­du­lar Value/​Im­pact Estimates

Charlie_Guthmann3 Nov 2022 19:33 UTC
17 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Crit­i­cism Thread: What things should OpenPhil im­prove on?

anonymousEA204 Feb 2023 8:16 UTC
85 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Epistemic health is a com­mu­nity issue

ConcernedEAs2 Feb 2023 15:59 UTC
12 points
11 comments9 min readEA link

The Strange Shortage of Mo­ral Optimizers

Richard Y Chappell🔸7 Jun 2022 15:23 UTC
89 points
26 comments5 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

An­nounc­ing a con­test: EA Crit­i­cism and Red Teaming

Lizka1 Jun 2022 18:58 UTC
276 points
64 comments13 min readEA link

Select Challenges with Crit­i­cism & Eval­u­a­tion Around EA

Ozzie Gooen10 Feb 2023 23:36 UTC
111 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(quri.substack.com)

Cross-post: Think twice be­fore talk­ing about ‘tal­ent gaps’ – clar­ify­ing nine mis­con­cep­tions, by 80,000 Hours.

80000_Hours12 Nov 2018 20:52 UTC
52 points
7 comments9 min readEA link

Selec­tive truth-tel­ling: con­cerns about EA lead­er­ship com­mu­ni­ca­tion.

tcelferact15 Nov 2022 19:45 UTC
90 points
45 comments5 min readEA link

Deal­ing with Net­work Con­straints (My Model of EA Ca­reers)

Raemon28 Feb 2019 1:34 UTC
49 points
12 comments2 min readEA link

Bad Omens in Cur­rent Com­mu­nity Building

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

Against An­thropic Shadow

tobycrisford 🔸3 Jun 2022 17:49 UTC
49 points
13 comments13 min readEA link

A Spe­cial Is­sue on Effec­tive Altru­ism in the Ge­orge­town Jour­nal of Law and Public Policy

Artūrs Kaņepājs6 Feb 2024 7:29 UTC
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.law.georgetown.edu)

EA’s Image Problem

Tom_Davidson11 Oct 2015 13:44 UTC
28 points
60 comments9 min readEA link

Sav­ing the world sucks

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

“Do­ing Good Best” isn’t the EA ideal

Davidmanheim16 Sep 2022 12:06 UTC
128 points
17 comments6 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism’s billion­aires aren’t taxed enough. But they’re try­ing.

Luke Freeman24 Aug 2022 9:45 UTC
56 points
51 comments1 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

Con­spir­acy The­o­ries, Left Fu­tur­ism, and the At­tack on TESCREAL

jacquesthibs5 Jul 2023 22:56 UTC
52 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(medium.com)

Ten­sions be­tween differ­ent ap­proaches to do­ing good

JamesÖz19 Mar 2023 18:14 UTC
110 points
5 comments11 min readEA link

Pre­fer be­liefs to cre­dence probabilities

Noah Scales1 Sep 2022 2:04 UTC
3 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

80,000 Hours: Anony­mous con­trib­u­tors on flaws of the EA community

Aaron Gertler 🔸4 Mar 2020 0:32 UTC
46 points
7 comments12 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Dis­cus­sion on Erik Hoel’s “Why I am not an effec­tive al­tru­ist”

Robert Hoglund17 Aug 2022 3:42 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Open Let­ter to EA

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

The Ra­tional Utili­tar­ian Love Move­ment (A His­tor­i­cal Ret­ro­spec­tive)

CBiddulph3 Nov 2022 7:11 UTC
0 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(ratutilove.substack.com)

What Peter Singer Got Wrong (And Where Give Well Could Im­prove)

LiaH14 Oct 2022 16:15 UTC
4 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] EA’s ab­stract moral epistemology

Stijn20 Oct 2020 14:11 UTC
13 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

Op­ti­mism, AI risk, and EA blind spots

Justis28 Sep 2022 17:21 UTC
87 points
21 comments8 min readEA link

Scien­tific Char­ity Movement

Jeff Kaufman 🔸23 Jul 2016 14:33 UTC
40 points
6 comments7 min readEA link

Feed­back from where?

Milan_Griffes11 Mar 2021 5:05 UTC
−15 points
27 comments4 min readEA link

EA should in­vest more in exploration

Michael_PJ5 Feb 2017 17:11 UTC
23 points
27 comments7 min readEA link

How to crit­i­cise Effec­tive Altruism

Toby Tremlett🔹3 Jun 2021 11:24 UTC
30 points
2 comments4 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

If tech progress might be bad, what should we tell peo­ple about it?

Robert_Wiblin16 Feb 2016 10:26 UTC
21 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What is the state of the art in EA cost-effec­tive­ness mod­el­ling?

Froolow4 Jun 2022 12:08 UTC
26 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Crit­i­cism of EA and longtermism

St. Ignorant2 Sep 2022 7:23 UTC
2 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

Re­sponse to Tor­res’ ‘The Case Against Longter­mism’

HaydnBelfield8 Mar 2021 18:09 UTC
138 points
73 comments5 min readEA link

New Publi­ca­tion: Effec­tive Altru­ism and Reli­gion

dominicroser25 Jan 2022 9:22 UTC
74 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets are Some­what Over­rated Within EA

Francis1 Sep 2022 2:17 UTC
16 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

My Ex­pe­rience with My De­bate Policy

Elliot Temple24 Oct 2022 18:21 UTC
11 points
18 comments15 min readEA link
(criticalfallibilism.com)

I went to the Progress Sum­mit. Here’s What I Learned.

Nick Corvino14 Dec 2022 22:41 UTC
70 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Rea­sons to eat meat

kbog21 Apr 2019 20:37 UTC
43 points
43 comments3 min readEA link

Find­ing be­fore fund­ing: Why EA should prob­a­bly in­vest more in research

Falk Lieder17 Aug 2022 8:48 UTC
102 points
11 comments10 min readEA link

Book Re­view: What We Owe The Fu­ture (Erik Hoel)

ErikHoel23 Aug 2022 15:04 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(erikhoel.substack.com)

do­ing more good vs. do­ing the most good possible

ruthgrace2 Jan 2022 16:27 UTC
32 points
21 comments4 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Towards Ineffec­tive Altruism

CBiddulph23 May 2022 6:34 UTC
13 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Misquot­ing and Schol­ar­ship Norms

Elliot Temple29 Nov 2022 18:45 UTC
−13 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(curi.us)

Na­tive lan­guages in the EA com­mu­nity (and is­sues with as­sess­ing promis­ing­ness)

Lizka27 Dec 2021 2:01 UTC
72 points
11 comments4 min readEA link

Port­fo­lios, Lo­cal­ity, and Ca­reer—Three Cri­tiques of Effec­tive Altruism

Philip Apps29 Aug 2022 7:19 UTC
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

[Linkpost] A Re­sponse to Re­becca Ack­er­mann’s “In­side Effec­tive Altru­ism” Editorial

stecas25 Oct 2022 16:48 UTC
56 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Suffer­ing re­lief vs life extension

drbrake19 Nov 2018 16:55 UTC
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Feel­ing Deeply Un­safe! At the Disco: Mi­sog­yny in EA

Fearful22 Aug 2022 16:10 UTC
−12 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Stop Over­re­act­ing re: FTX /​ SBF

MattBall16 Nov 2022 23:40 UTC
51 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Why we need more meta

Benjamin_Todd26 Sep 2015 22:40 UTC
27 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

Why aren’t we talk­ing about per­sonal de­vel­op­ment?

DirectedEvolution29 Feb 2020 20:23 UTC
37 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Ends vs. Means: To what ex­tent should we be will­ing to sac­ri­fice nu­ance and epistemic hu­mil­ity when com­mu­ni­cat­ing with peo­ple out­side EA?

ddavies12 Jul 2020 14:26 UTC
13 points
2 comments2 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

Crit­i­cism of EA Crit­i­cism Contest

Zvi 14 Jul 2022 14:20 UTC
101 points
34 comments31 min readEA link

Philos­o­phy event se­ries in­tro­duc­ing EA at the Univer­sity of Zurich

Eleos Arete Citrini4 Jan 2022 12:49 UTC
19 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Thoughts on Na­dia As­parouhova (nee Egh­bal) es­say on EA ideas, Ideas machines

Ben Yeoh25 May 2022 21:58 UTC
5 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Disagree­ables and Asses­sors: Two In­tel­lec­tual Archetypes

Ozzie Gooen5 Nov 2021 9:01 UTC
91 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

[Up­dated] What’s the the­ory of change of “Come to the bay over the sum­mer!”?

Luise8 Jun 2022 18:22 UTC
41 points
30 comments8 min readEA link

The Values-to-Ac­tions De­ci­sion Chain: a lens for im­prov­ing coordination

Remmelt30 Jun 2018 9:26 UTC
33 points
33 comments11 min readEA link

Should you still use the ITN frame­work? [Red Team­ing Con­test]

frib14 Jul 2022 4:02 UTC
32 points
12 comments9 min readEA link

EA should seek out more crit­i­cism of key EA concepts

freedomandutility30 Aug 2022 15:14 UTC
7 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Con­tra Ari Ne’eman On Effec­tive Altruism

ozymandias24 Jun 2022 16:37 UTC
98 points
6 comments7 min readEA link
(thingofthings.substack.com)

In­ter­ro­gat­ing Impact

SebastianSchmidt21 Nov 2020 11:16 UTC
34 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

Will Maskill Gave Up on Utili­tar­i­anism (and the rest of us are soon to fol­low)

johnburidan11 Jul 2022 2:10 UTC
−1 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Les­sons from the Grass­roots and Reflec­tions on EA

Keerthana Gopalakrishnan12 Jul 2022 5:12 UTC
19 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(keerthanapg.com)

Effec­tive al­tru­ism is similar to the AI al­ign­ment prob­lem and suffers from the same difficul­ties [Crit­i­cism and Red Team­ing Con­test en­try]

turchin19 Jun 2022 9:01 UTC
16 points
30 comments9 min readEA link

Fal­li­bil­ism, Bias, and the Rule of Law

Elliot Temple17 Oct 2022 23:59 UTC
14 points
6 comments13 min readEA link
(criticalfallibilism.com)

Get­ting on a differ­ent train: can Effec­tive Altru­ism avoid col­laps­ing into ab­sur­dity?

Peter McLaughlin7 Oct 2022 10:52 UTC
187 points
61 comments18 min readEA link

Why Wast­ing EA Money is Bad

Jordan Arel22 Sep 2022 1:45 UTC
47 points
20 comments5 min readEA link

But­ton for con­tro­ver­sial posts

SaraAzubuike27 Jul 2022 4:21 UTC
14 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Pro­posed im­prove­ments to EAG(x) ad­mis­sions process

ES30 Jan 2023 6:10 UTC
62 points
29 comments3 min readEA link

“One should love one’s neigh­bor more than one­self.”

Barracuda13 Jun 2022 0:35 UTC
−3 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

“Defec­tive Altru­ism” by Nathan J. Robin­son in Cur­rent Affairs

Peter_Layman26 Sep 2022 14:27 UTC
2 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(www.currentaffairs.org)

EA & Peter Singer do not pro­mote the most good—here is why

Davidh9628 Aug 2022 17:35 UTC
−14 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Why the EA aver­sion to lo­cal al­tru­is­tic ac­tion?

Locke10 Jun 2022 23:01 UTC
9 points
12 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Why al­tru­ism at all?

Singleton12 Jul 2020 22:04 UTC
−2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Hob­bit Manifesto

Clay Cube30 Aug 2022 20:24 UTC
8 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

[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)

EAGx ap­pli­ca­tion com­mu­nity norms we’d like to see

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

We care about WALYs not QALYs

Benjamin_Todd13 Nov 2015 19:21 UTC
21 points
18 comments1 min readEA link

Game: I Find Three Er­rors in Your Fa­vorite Text

Elliot Temple11 Nov 2022 17:56 UTC
15 points
29 comments2 min readEA link

Zvi’s Thoughts on the Sur­vival and Flour­ish­ing Fund (SFF)

Zvi 15 Dec 2021 2:44 UTC
81 points
8 comments65 min readEA link

Thoughts on the “Meta Trap”

Rohin Shah20 Dec 2016 21:36 UTC
10 points
48 comments11 min readEA link

Ex­is­ten­tial risk pes­simism and the time of perils

David Thorstad12 Aug 2022 14:42 UTC
177 points
67 comments20 min readEA link

EA needs out­siders with a greater di­ver­sity of skills

Lotte_de_Lint2 Jun 2021 8:40 UTC
71 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

Belonging

Barracuda10 Jun 2022 7:27 UTC
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

No, CS ma­jors didn’t de­lude them­selves that the best way to save the world is to do CS research

Robert_Wiblin15 Dec 2015 17:13 UTC
20 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Bernard Willi­ams: Ethics and the limits of impartiality

peterhartree7 Sep 2022 11:26 UTC
4 points
8 comments6 min readEA link
(notes.pjh.is)

Nar­ra­tion: The case against “EA cause ar­eas”

D0TheMath24 Jul 2021 20:39 UTC
12 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

The or­di­nal util­ity ar­gu­ment against effec­tive al­tru­ism

Barracuda12 Jun 2022 13:20 UTC
8 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Reflec­tions for In­tro­duc­tions to Altruism

Philip Windred11 Sep 2022 10:23 UTC
6 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Style Writ­ing Prej­u­dice At EA

Trev Prew4 Sep 2022 8:06 UTC
−5 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] Where can I find good crit­i­cisms of EA made by non-EAs?

oh543212 Jun 2022 0:03 UTC
26 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

What is EA not?

pleaselistencarefullyasourmenuoptionshaverecentlychanged23 Jul 2022 13:13 UTC
4 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

Effec­tive means to com­bat autocracies

Junius Brutus28 Aug 2022 17:35 UTC
32 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Ig­nor­ing “Small” Errors

Elliot Temple1 Dec 2022 16:56 UTC
1 point
7 comments1 min readEA link
(criticalfallibilism.com)

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

Carnegie Coun­cil MisUn­der­stands Longtermism

Jeff A30 Sep 2022 2:57 UTC
6 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(www.carnegiecouncil.org)

The big prob­lem with how we do outreach

Lila26 Dec 2015 19:36 UTC
18 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

In (Praise?) of Ineffec­tive Altuism

Edward Farrelly10 Nov 2022 9:47 UTC
−7 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

More to ex­plore on ‘What do you think?’

EA Handbook9 Jul 2022 23:00 UTC
7 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Guer­rilla Foun­da­tion Re­sponse to EA Fo­rum Discussion

PaoloFresia15 Dec 2020 17:57 UTC
23 points
8 comments9 min readEA link

The Im­por­tance of In­ter­causal Impacts

Sebastian Joy 樂百善24 Aug 2022 10:41 UTC
61 points
2 comments8 min readEA link

Cri­tique: Cost-Benefit of Weirdness

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

Idea: Pay ex­perts to provide de­tailed cri­tiques /​ analy­ses of EA ideas

Aryeh Englander7 Jun 2022 13:45 UTC
24 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

The Case for Education

SamuelKnoche14 Aug 2020 17:26 UTC
24 points
10 comments10 min readEA link

Do­ing good can­not be mea­sured in lives saved: the psy­cholog­i­cal value of community

Alex Berg24 Jul 2022 12:51 UTC
11 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Why I am prob­a­bly not a longtermist

Denise_Melchin23 Sep 2021 17:24 UTC
241 points
47 comments8 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism, the Prin­ci­ple of Ex­plo­sion and Epistemic Fragility

Eigengender15 Aug 2022 1:45 UTC
19 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing EA with More, Bet­ter De­bates | Recorded Dis­cus­sion be­tween Elliot and Emrik

Elliot Temple22 Nov 2022 21:15 UTC
17 points
2 comments4 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

In­ves­ti­gat­ing Ide­ol­ogy: want to earn money, help EA and/​or me? Then check this out; it may be a mighty ne­glected cause

Dov12 Aug 2022 5:52 UTC
3 points
6 comments22 min readEA link

Sasha Chapin on bad so­cial norms in EA

Charlie Rogers-Smith18 Nov 2021 12:18 UTC
51 points
22 comments5 min readEA link

Ch­ester­ton Fences and EA’s X-risks

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

Effec­tive Altru­ism Risks Per­pet­u­at­ing a Harm­ful Worldview

Theo Cox20 Aug 2022 1:10 UTC
−4 points
9 comments20 min readEA link

The Out­side Crit­ics of Effec­tive Altruism

RyanCarey5 Jan 2015 18:37 UTC
12 points
72 comments3 min readEA link

Multi-Fac­tor De­ci­sion Mak­ing Math

Elliot Temple30 Oct 2022 16:46 UTC
2 points
13 comments37 min readEA link
(criticalfallibilism.com)

Effec­tive vs Altruism

Liat Zvi16 Sep 2022 9:37 UTC
2 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Go­ing more meta on EA criticism

Nick Whitaker27 Jul 2022 14:59 UTC
79 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

some con­cerns with clas­si­cal utilitarianism

nil14 Nov 2020 9:29 UTC
32 points
17 comments19 min readEA link

Hubris and cold­ness within EA (my ex­pe­rience)

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

Effec­tive al­tru­ism in the gar­den of ends

tyleralterman31 Aug 2022 20:47 UTC
289 points
45 comments23 min readEA link

Sam Bankman-Fried, the FTX col­lapse, and the limits of effec­tive al­tru­ism [The Hindu]

Elijah Hoole27 Nov 2022 5:42 UTC
−12 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.thehindu.com)

Pre­sent-day good in­ten­tions aren’t suffi­cient to make the longterm fu­ture good in expectation

trurl2 Sep 2022 3:22 UTC
7 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

EA Lead­ers Fo­rum: Sur­vey on EA pri­ori­ties (data and anal­y­sis)

Aaron Gertler 🔸12 Nov 2019 1:14 UTC
126 points
50 comments16 min readEA link

Philo­soph­i­cal Cri­tiques of Effec­tive Altru­ism by Prof Jeff McMahan

Robert_Wiblin3 May 2016 21:05 UTC
50 points
9 comments12 min readEA link

Some im­por­tant ques­tions for the EA Leadership

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

My (Lazy) Longter­mism FAQ

Devin Kalish24 Oct 2022 16:44 UTC
30 points
6 comments27 min readEA link

[Question] How Is EA Ra­tional?

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

Use “care” with care.

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

[Linkpost] Crit­i­cism of Crit­i­cism of Crit­i­cism, ACX

ClaireZabel4 Aug 2022 19:25 UTC
69 points
8 comments2 min readEA link
(astralcodexten.substack.com)

The Bioethi­cists are (Mostly) Alright

Devin Kalish7 Jan 2022 16:02 UTC
153 points
61 comments16 min readEA link

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

We all teach: here’s how to do it better

Michael Noetel 🔸30 Sep 2022 2:06 UTC
172 points
12 comments24 min readEA link

late en­try for the EA crit­i­cism contest

eigenrobot17 Nov 2022 4:52 UTC
67 points
9 comments1 min readEA link
(eigenrobot.substack.com)

Ac­cept­ing the Inevita­bil­ity of Am­bi­tious Ego­ism (”AE”)

Dem0sthenes17 Aug 2022 14:38 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

EA crit­i­cism con­test: Why I am not an effec­tive altruist

ErikHoel16 Aug 2022 17:16 UTC
13 points
23 comments2 min readEA link
(erikhoel.substack.com)

Or­ga­nized Cause Evaluation

Elliot Temple28 Nov 2022 20:31 UTC
5 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(curi.us)

The to­tal­i­tar­ian im­pli­ca­tions of Effec­tive Altruism

Ed_Talks14 Jun 2022 16:52 UTC
11 points
14 comments1 min readEA link
(edtalks.substack.com)

A Cri­tique of Longter­mism by Pop­u­lar YouTube Science Chan­nel, Sabine Hossen­felder: “Elon Musk & The Longter­mists: What Is Their Plan?”

Ram Aditya29 Oct 2022 17:31 UTC
61 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

EA in the main­stream me­dia: if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu

Jack Lewars30 Jul 2022 16:55 UTC
196 points
57 comments2 min readEA link

Pos­si­ble up­com­ing LeftTube video about EA

Nicholas / Heather Kross29 Dec 2022 22:03 UTC
13 points
6 comments1 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

Book cri­tique of Effec­tive Altruism

Manuel Del Río Rodríguez 🔹17 Jan 2023 22:48 UTC
70 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

Do­ing EA Bet­ter: Pream­ble, Sum­mary, and Introduction

ConcernedEAs25 Jan 2023 18:26 UTC
1 point
25 comments8 min readEA link

Di­ag­nos­ing EA Re­search- Are stake­holder-en­gaged meth­ods the solu­tion?

Jack_S27 Jan 2023 14:38 UTC
28 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

I No Longer Feel Com­fortable in EA

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

Book Post: The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does: Crit­i­cal Es­says on Effec­tive Altruism

Kyle J. Lucchese8 Feb 2023 22:35 UTC
41 points
43 comments4 min readEA link
(www.amazon.com)

New EA Pod­cast: Cri­tiques of EA

Nick_Anyos13 Feb 2023 22:55 UTC
47 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

2 issues

Tarkan22 Feb 2023 21:13 UTC
−1 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Mone­tary and so­cial in­cen­tives in longter­mist careers

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸23 Sep 2023 21:03 UTC
140 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

New blog: Some doubts about effec­tive altruism

David Thorstad20 Dec 2022 19:34 UTC
124 points
36 comments4 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
263 points
22 comments7 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)

Does EA un­der­stand how to apol­o­gize for things?

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

[Question] What do you think the vi­sion is be­hind our biggest crit­ics?

aprilsun1 Aug 2023 18:49 UTC
29 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Univer­sity EA Groups Need Fixing

Dave Banerjee 🔸3 Aug 2023 21:06 UTC
371 points
110 comments10 min readEA link

“Effec­tive Altru­ism, Longter­mism, and the Prob­lem of Ar­bi­trary Power” by Gwilym David Blunt

WobblyPandaPanda12 Nov 2023 1:21 UTC
22 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.thephilosopher1923.org)

In defence of epistemic mod­esty [dis­til­la­tion]

Luise10 May 2023 9:39 UTC
26 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

[Opz­ionale] Perché prob­a­bil­mente non sono una lungoterminista

EA Italy17 Jan 2023 18:12 UTC
1 point
0 comments8 min readEA link

[Opz­ionale] Ap­profondi­menti e al­tre crit­iche all’al­tru­ismo effi­cace (in in­glese)

EA Italy18 Jan 2023 11:32 UTC
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Dis­cus­sion about AI Safety fund­ing (FB tran­script)

Akash30 Apr 2023 19:05 UTC
104 points
10 comments6 min readEA link

My in­de­pen­dent im­pres­sions on the EA Handbook

VictorW7 Aug 2023 9:09 UTC
15 points
2 comments9 min readEA link

Some Reflec­tions on Philos­o­phy Tube’s “The Rich Have Their Own Ethics: Effec­tive Altru­ism & the Crypto Crash”

Tobias Häberli25 Feb 2023 1:45 UTC
34 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Isn’t on TV.

ColdButtonIssues21 Apr 2022 14:06 UTC
17 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Im­pact Eval­u­a­tion in EA

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

Cri­tiques of EA in an­i­mal ad­vo­cacy—A dis­cus­sion with advocates

Hive25 Aug 2023 15:46 UTC
45 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Large episte­molog­i­cal con­cerns I should maybe have about EA a priori

Luise7 Jun 2023 14:11 UTC
115 points
16 comments8 min readEA link

Do the Hard Thing

Sporkredfox10 Jun 2023 5:26 UTC
7 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

[Question] A util­i­tar­ian ar­gu­ment that not ev­ery life is equally valuable

Gloria Monday15 Nov 2023 14:43 UTC
−18 points
16 comments2 min readEA link

Should we con­tinue dis­miss­ing most ideas about EA (with­out a fair trial)?

Dov20 Jun 2023 17:24 UTC
−11 points
4 comments14 min readEA link

Be Proud To Be An Effec­tive Altru­ist

Omnizoid14 Jun 2024 17:01 UTC
111 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

What “Effec­tive Altru­ism” Means to Me

Richard Y Chappell🔸14 Jun 2024 18:13 UTC
57 points
18 comments7 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

My ex­pe­rience at the con­tro­ver­sial Man­i­fest 2024

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

How EA can be bet­ter at communications

blehrer2 Mar 2024 18:49 UTC
97 points
19 comments2 min readEA link
(www.bryanlehrer.com)

NIST staffers re­volt against ex­pected ap­point­ment of ‘effec­tive al­tru­ist’ AI re­searcher to US AI Safety Institute

Phib8 Mar 2024 17:47 UTC
39 points
16 comments1 min readEA link
(venturebeat.com)

Crit­i­cism is sanc­tified in EA, but, like any in­ter­ven­tion, crit­i­cism needs to pay rent

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸11 Oct 2024 4:22 UTC
291 points
29 comments3 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

How to Ad­dress EA Dilem­mas – What is Miss­ing from EA Values?

alexis schoenlaub13 Oct 2024 9:33 UTC
6 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

[Question] What are your Qs for Leif We­nar?

Earthling27 Mar 2024 20:12 UTC
27 points
25 comments1 min readEA link

On Leif We­nar’s Ab­surdly Un­con­vinc­ing Cri­tique Of Effec­tive Altru­ism

Omnizoid4 Apr 2024 15:25 UTC
104 points
20 comments14 min readEA link

Reli­able Sources: The Story of David Gerard

TracingWoodgrains10 Jul 2024 19:50 UTC
170 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

What mis­takes has the AI safety move­ment made?

EuanMcLean23 May 2024 11:29 UTC
59 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

Walter Veit in­ter­views Richard Yet­ter Chap­pell: Why Not Effec­tive Altru­ism?

Walter Veit24 Jan 2024 14:39 UTC
24 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

Grant­mak­ers should give more feedback

Ariel Pontes22 Jan 2024 13:22 UTC
77 points
23 comments7 min readEA link

Mul­ti­plier Ar­gu­ments are of­ten flawed

AGB 🔸13 Oct 2024 21:25 UTC
183 points
64 comments4 min readEA link

#204 – Mak­ing sense of SBF, and his biggest cri­tiques of effec­tive al­tru­ism (Nate Silver on The 80,000 Hours Pod­cast)

80000_Hours17 Oct 2024 20:41 UTC
22 points
2 comments14 min readEA link

[Question] What wheels do EAs and ra­tio­nal­ists rein­vent?

Arepo17 Oct 2024 4:42 UTC
26 points
62 comments1 min readEA link

Author of Much-Dis­cussed Fo­rum Piece Defend­ing Eu­gen­ics Works for a Magaz­ine with Far-Right Links

David Mathers🔸22 Oct 2024 12:52 UTC
−3 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(investigations.hopenothate.org.uk)

Three jour­neys for effec­tive altruism

Zachary Robinson🔸22 Oct 2024 15:45 UTC
129 points
3 comments13 min readEA link

EA: Re­nais­sance or Di­as­pora?

TimothyTelleenLawton26 Oct 2024 22:59 UTC
51 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

Marginal Revolu­tion: Effec­tive Altru­ists and Fi­nance Theory

CJP29 Oct 2024 14:32 UTC
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(marginalrevolution.com)

EA is bad for men­tal health (and I’m tired of pre­tend­ing it’s not)

VictorW31 Oct 2024 14:58 UTC
14 points
24 comments21 min readEA link

What I wish I had said about FTX

AppliedDivinityStudies31 Oct 2024 14:54 UTC
162 points
17 comments5 min readEA link

Should AI X-Risk Wor­ri­ers Short the Mar­ket?

postlibertarian4 Nov 2024 16:16 UTC
14 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

Yascha Mounk has started a se­ries of es­says on effec­tive altruism

James Herbert11 Nov 2024 16:16 UTC
9 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(yaschamounk.substack.com)

Cut­ting AI Safety down to size

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸9 Nov 2024 23:40 UTC
86 points
5 comments5 min readEA link