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Crit­i­cism of effec­tive altruism

TagLast edit: Jul 7, 2023, 11:01 AM 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.

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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 | criticism of work in effective altruism | effective altruism | red teaming | scalably using labour | social and intellectual movements | working at EA vs non-EA orgs

The mo­ti­vated rea­son­ing cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

LinchSep 14, 2021, 8:43 PM
285 points
59 comments23 min readEA link

EA is about max­i­miza­tion, and max­i­miza­tion is perilous

Holden KarnofskySep 2, 2022, 5:13 PM
494 points
59 comments7 min readEA link

A cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

Ben KuhnDec 3, 2013, 1:39 AM
30 points
5 comments12 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

The case against “EA cause ar­eas”

nadavbJul 17, 2021, 6:37 AM
144 points
24 comments13 min readEA link

The case of the miss­ing cause pri­ori­ti­sa­tion research

weeatquinceAug 16, 2020, 12:21 AM
309 points
88 comments16 min readEA link

Why I left EA

LilaFeb 19, 2017, 5:42 PM
48 points
59 comments2 min readEA link

Michael Niel­sen’s “Notes on effec­tive al­tru­ism”

PabloJun 3, 2022, 8:20 AM
219 points
49 comments5 min readEA link
(michaelnotebook.com)

Cri­tiques of EA that I want to read

abrahamroweJun 19, 2022, 10:22 PM
463 points
85 comments11 min readEA link

Win­ners of the EA Crit­i­cism and Red Team­ing Contest

LizkaOct 1, 2022, 1:50 AM
226 points
41 comments19 min readEA link

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

Evan_GaensbauerJul 23, 2018, 12:39 AM
73 points
56 comments12 min readEA link

Notic­ing the skulls, longter­mism edition

DavidmanheimOct 5, 2021, 7:08 AM
70 points
75 comments2 min readEA link

Milan Griffes on EA blindspots

technicalitiesMar 18, 2022, 4:17 PM
79 points
53 comments2 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism is self-recommending

BenHoffmanApr 23, 2017, 6:11 AM
57 points
48 comments28 min readEA link

Some blindspots in ra­tio­nal­ity and effec­tive altruism

RemmeltMar 21, 2021, 6:01 PM
54 points
6 comments14 min readEA link

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

James FodorJun 28, 2019, 7:18 AM
166 points
46 comments16 min readEA link
(thegodlesstheist.com)

Pre-an­nounc­ing a con­test for cri­tiques and red teaming

LizkaMar 25, 2022, 11:52 AM
173 points
27 comments2 min readEA link

Ob­jec­tions to Value-Align­ment be­tween Effec­tive Altruists

CarlaZoeCJul 15, 2020, 4:07 PM
225 points
49 comments17 min readEA link

A liber­tar­ian so­cial­ist’s view on how EA can improve

freedomandutilityDec 30, 2022, 1:07 PM
143 points
32 comments7 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”

jackvaFeb 21, 2023, 6:08 PM
78 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

(Cross­post) Is Effec­tive Altru­ism just a gi­ant meme?

cryptopsyfan69420Oct 5, 2024, 11:33 PM
−18 points
5 comments4 min readEA link

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

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸Dec 12, 2022, 7:43 PM
32 points
3 comments16 min readEA link

Four cat­e­gories of effec­tive al­tru­ism critiques

jtmApr 9, 2022, 3:48 PM
99 points
11 comments3 min readEA link

Towards a Weaker Longtermism

DavidmanheimAug 8, 2021, 8:31 AM
106 points
72 comments3 min readEA link

Is­sues with cen­tral­ised grantmaking

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

Row­ing and Steer­ing the Effec­tive Altru­ism Movement

jtmJan 9, 2022, 5:28 PM
146 points
14 comments17 min readEA link

Ben Hoff­man & Holden Karnofsky

Milan GriffesMar 20, 2021, 4:07 AM
0 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

NYT—What if Char­ity Shouldn’t be Optimized

jackvaDec 7, 2024, 10:05 PM
50 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(www.nytimes.com)

[Linkpost] Some Thoughts on Effec­tive Altruism

Sebastian SchwieckerSep 18, 2020, 10:05 AM
31 points
26 comments1 min readEA link

Drown­ing chil­dren are rare

BenHoffmanMay 28, 2019, 5:33 PM
−9 points
36 comments5 min readEA link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

The EA com­mu­nity does not own its donors’ money

Nick WhitakerJan 18, 2023, 6:59 PM
636 points
116 comments4 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism: Not as bad as you think

JamesÖzNov 24, 2022, 1:11 PM
169 points
18 comments10 min readEA link
(jamesozden.substack.com)

Why Not EA? [pa­per draft]

Richard Y Chappell🔸May 9, 2023, 7:03 PM
48 points
71 comments2 min readEA link
(www.dropbox.com)

Do­ing EA Better

ConcernedEAsJan 17, 2023, 8:09 PM
261 points
383 comments70 min readEA link

Who is Un­com­fortable Cri­tiquing Who, Around EA?

Ozzie GooenFeb 24, 2023, 5:55 AM
150 points
15 comments11 min readEA link

Billion­aire philan­thropy (Part 7: Donor dis­cre­tion)

Matrice JacobineNov 25, 2024, 8:38 AM
35 points
17 comments1 min readEA link
(reflectivealtruism.com)

Re­view of The Good It Promises, the Harm It Does

Richard Y Chappell🔸May 2, 2023, 3:45 PM
215 points
55 comments10 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

The Fu­ture Might Not Be So Great

JacyJun 30, 2022, 1:01 PM
145 points
118 comments34 min readEA link
(www.sentienceinstitute.org)

Where is the So­cial Jus­tice in EA?

LiaHApr 5, 2022, 4:29 AM
38 points
35 comments4 min readEA link

Mis­con­cep­tions about effec­tive al­tru­ism (80,000 Hours)

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

Effec­tive Altru­ism, Be­fore the Memes Started

Nicholas / Heather KrossOct 13, 2021, 2:51 AM
38 points
23 comments10 min readEA link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

Emilia Wil­son: Univer­sal­ised cri­tiques of EA (light­ning talk)

EA GlobalNov 3, 2017, 7:43 AM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Democratis­ing Risk—or how EA deals with critics

CarlaZoeCDec 28, 2021, 3:05 PM
273 points
311 comments4 min readEA link

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

Chris SmithApr 4, 2019, 1:28 PM
94 points
61 comments1 min readEA link

Progress stud­ies vs. longter­mist EA: some differences

Max_DanielMay 31, 2021, 9:35 PM
84 points
27 comments3 min readEA link

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

AlimiOct 3, 2023, 7:49 AM
8 points
12 comments7 min readEA link

Open Wallets, Empty Hearts [linkpost]

Benjamin M.Nov 23, 2024, 11:49 PM
34 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(www.thenewatlantis.com)

Blog up­date: Reflec­tive altruism

David ThorstadMay 14, 2023, 11:07 AM
169 points
22 comments9 min readEA link

EA and the United Nations

Lisa GMar 30, 2022, 9:09 AM
38 points
11 comments8 min readEA link

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

EarthlingMar 27, 2024, 3:35 PM
46 points
58 comments1 min readEA link
(www.wired.com)

Anony­mous EA comments

RobBensingerFeb 7, 2017, 9:42 PM
42 points
91 comments2 min readEA link

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

britomartJan 14, 2023, 12:14 PM
−46 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

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

FJehnAug 22, 2019, 6:43 AM
39 points
13 comments4 min readEA link

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

altaccNov 21, 2023, 10:35 AM
4 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.thenewhumanitarian.org)

Let’s make EA eas­ier to cri­tique!

freedomandutilityApr 7, 2022, 11:35 PM
17 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Open Let­ter to Young EAs

Leif WenarOct 11, 2024, 4:15 PM
14 points
44 comments1 min readEA link

Wealth re­dis­tri­bu­tion: are we on the same page?

dEAsignOct 3, 2023, 9:34 PM
10 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Reflec­tion on Bostrom’s com­ments as a woman in EA

lillyJan 13, 2023, 10:07 AM
59 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Some pre­limi­nar­ies and a claim

Milan GriffesFeb 25, 2021, 5:01 AM
−36 points
33 comments3 min readEA link

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

Sarah WeilerMar 14, 2024, 10:28 AM
88 points
89 comments18 min readEA link

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

Nick CorvinoJul 21, 2021, 8:05 PM
18 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

EA cap­i­tal al­lo­ca­tion is an in­ner ring

Milan GriffesMar 19, 2021, 4:06 AM
−57 points
15 comments3 min readEA link

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

Nick_AnyosJun 4, 2023, 8:52 AM
38 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(critiquesofea.podbean.com)

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

titotalApr 22, 2024, 11:49 AM
212 points
44 comments19 min readEA link
(titotal.substack.com)

Tran­script of Twit­ter Dis­cus­sion on EA from June 2022

Zvi Jun 6, 2022, 1:47 PM
83 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

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

Benjamin_ToddSep 21, 2015, 2:27 AM
13 points
20 comments8 min readEA link

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

NicolaeJun 3, 2024, 2:28 PM
202 points
64 comments2 min readEA link

Open EA Global

Scott AlexanderSep 1, 2022, 4:26 AM
436 points
154 comments5 min readEA link

Avoid­ing Group­think in In­tro Fel­low­ships (and Diver­sify­ing Longter­mism)

seanrsonSep 14, 2021, 9:00 PM
67 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Pa­trick Col­li­son on Effec­tive Altruism

SamuelKnocheJun 23, 2020, 9:04 AM
98 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Les­sons from my time in Effec­tive Altruism

richard_ngoJan 15, 2021, 9:54 PM
291 points
24 comments8 min readEA link

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

Joseph QuevedoJan 5, 2024, 2:54 AM
0 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Rho­dri Davies on why he’s not an EA

SanjayAug 18, 2022, 11:50 AM
105 points
19 comments2 min readEA link
(whyphilanthropymatters.com)

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

ben.smithFeb 25, 2021, 8:06 PM
21 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Fo­cus­ing on bad crit­i­cism is dan­ger­ous to your epistemics

LizkaMar 15, 2024, 11:57 PM
70 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

Another cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

EA HandbookJan 5, 2014, 8:00 AM
2 points
0 comments5 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

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

80000_HoursNov 12, 2018, 8:52 PM
52 points
7 comments9 min readEA link

Think­ing about how we re­spond to crit­i­cisms of EA

weeatquinceAug 19, 2016, 9:42 AM
5 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Ben Kuhn on the effec­tive al­tru­ist movement

admin3Jul 23, 2014, 7:53 AM
4 points
0 comments11 min readEA link

EA and Global Poverty. Let’s Gather Evidence

Nathan YoungApr 5, 2022, 7:20 PM
42 points
35 comments2 min readEA link

Toby Ord’s The Scourge, Reviewed

ColdButtonIssuesAug 30, 2022, 9:01 PM
59 points
25 comments4 min readEA link

The dan­gers of high salaries within EA organisations

JamesÖzJun 10, 2022, 7:54 AM
38 points
35 comments8 min readEA link

Em­piri­cal data on value drift

Joey🔸Apr 22, 2018, 11:31 PM
151 points
69 comments5 min readEA link

How EA is per­ceived is cru­cial to its fu­ture trajectory

Gidi KadoshJul 23, 2022, 3:24 AM
162 points
22 comments14 min readEA link

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

James FodorMay 11, 2020, 11:11 AM
111 points
32 comments26 min readEA link

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

Kat WoodsMay 20, 2018, 10:07 PM
46 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

Towards More Mo­du­lar Value/​Im­pact Estimates

Charlie_GuthmannNov 3, 2022, 7:33 PM
17 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

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

Robert_WiblinJul 16, 2015, 7:00 AM
18 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

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

carboniferous_umbraculumFeb 2, 2022, 4:20 PM
43 points
0 comments24 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism’s odd at­ti­tude to men­tal health

MichaelPlantApr 29, 2022, 8:57 AM
103 points
25 comments2 min readEA link

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

SaludCinderellaApr 8, 2022, 11:44 PM
17 points
6 comments8 min readEA link

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

Ben_EisenpressAug 6, 2021, 7:19 AM
6 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

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

eaforumthrowaway20211210Dec 11, 2021, 4:49 AM
14 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

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

stefan.torgesMar 29, 2020, 5:01 PM
131 points
22 comments6 min readEA link

EA Cul­ture and Causes: Less is More

Allen BellAug 16, 2022, 2:04 PM
81 points
10 comments14 min readEA link

The mar­ket­ing gap and a plea for moral inclusivity

MichaelPlantJul 8, 2017, 11:34 AM
40 points
46 comments8 min readEA link

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

Tony SinclairDec 14, 2022, 10:56 PM
1 point
14 comments1 min readEA link

Some quick notes on “effec­tive al­tru­ism”

Jonas VMar 24, 2021, 3:30 PM
209 points
89 comments3 min readEA link

Re­source for crit­i­cisms and red teaming

LizkaJun 1, 2022, 6:58 PM
61 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

Defend­ing Philan­thropy Against Democracy

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

Con­cerns over EA’s pos­si­ble ne­glect of experts

JackMDec 16, 2022, 10:10 PM
34 points
16 comments2 min readEA link

EA is risk-constrained

EdoAradJun 24, 2020, 7:54 AM
70 points
23 comments1 min readEA link

The Strange Shortage of Mo­ral Optimizers

Richard Y Chappell🔸Jun 7, 2022, 3:23 PM
89 points
26 comments5 min readEA link
(rychappell.substack.com)

Against An­thropic Shadow

tobycrisford 🔸Jun 3, 2022, 5:49 PM
49 points
13 comments13 min readEA link

EA’s Image Problem

Tom_DavidsonOct 11, 2015, 1:44 PM
28 points
60 comments9 min readEA link

The ITN frame­work, cost-effec­tive­ness, and cause prioritisation

John G. HalsteadOct 6, 2019, 5:26 AM
145 points
20 comments14 min readEA link

List of im­por­tant ways we may be wrong

D0TheMathJan 8, 2022, 4:30 PM
32 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

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

80000_HoursJun 18, 2020, 12:50 PM
55 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and Free Riding

sbehmerMar 27, 2020, 7:12 PM
124 points
39 comments11 min readEA link

Sam Har­ris and Will MacAskill: Pod­cast tran­script (2020)

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jul 3, 2021, 9:48 PM
30 points
0 comments68 min readEA link

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

Aaron Gertler 🔸Mar 24, 2020, 6:04 AM
63 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

20 Cri­tiques of AI Safety That I Found on Twitter

Daniel KirmaniJun 23, 2022, 3:11 PM
14 points
13 comments1 min readEA link

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

Benjamin_ToddSep 25, 2016, 3:01 PM
31 points
7 comments7 min readEA link

A so­cial­ist’s view on liberal pro­gres­sive crit­i­cisms of EA

freedomandutilityNov 21, 2022, 11:54 PM
150 points
18 comments4 min readEA link

Peter Singer on the 80K podcast

Jon_BeharDec 18, 2019, 5:17 PM
31 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

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

jasoncrawfordJun 2, 2021, 6:47 PM
119 points
37 comments3 min readEA link

The Motte and Bailey for Ex­pected Value

freedomandutilityDec 12, 2022, 11:54 AM
6 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

A new me­dia out­let fo­cused in part on philanthropy

teddyschleiferMar 12, 2022, 5:21 PM
47 points
14 comments1 min readEA link

Com­mon re­sponses to earn­ing to give

Ben KuhnJun 10, 2013, 4:00 AM
1 point
1 comment5 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Criticisms

Gavin Palmer (heroLFG.com)Aug 11, 2022, 4:07 PM
1 point
1 comment5 min readEA link

EAA is rel­a­tively over­in­vest­ing in cor­po­rate welfare reforms

katoJan 6, 2022, 2:47 AM
68 points
27 comments5 min readEA link

Don’t we need poli­ti­cal ac­tion rather than char­ity?

Luke FreemanMay 17, 2021, 1:13 AM
11 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

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

peterhartreeNov 17, 2022, 12:16 PM
46 points
9 comments7 min readEA link
(brief.bismarckanalysis.com)

Re­sponses to “The Logic of Effec­tive Altru­ism”

EA HandbookJul 1, 2015, 7:00 AM
14 points
0 comments12 min readEA link

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

EdoAradDec 12, 2020, 8:00 AM
28 points
28 comments1 min readEA link

My new ar­ti­cle on EA and the sys­temic change objection

tdsymeFeb 15, 2019, 6:27 PM
11 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

Ques­tion­ing the Foun­da­tions of EA

Wei DaiAug 27, 2022, 8:44 PM
101 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

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

FroolowAug 25, 2022, 3:35 PM
227 points
20 comments38 min readEA link

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

HaydnBelfieldMay 19, 2022, 8:42 AM
487 points
44 comments18 min readEA link

An Eval­u­a­tion of An­i­mal Char­ity Eval­u­a­tors

eaanonymous1234Sep 2, 2022, 4:33 AM
100 points
6 comments43 min readEA link

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

evanpriceApr 15, 2022, 11:33 AM
55 points
10 comments4 min readEA link

Ob­jec­tions to effec­tive altruism

EA HandbookDec 29, 2020, 8:00 AM
4 points
2 comments7 min readEA link
(www.effectivealtruism.org)

Red Team­ing CEA’s Com­mu­nity Build­ing Work

AnonymousEAForumAccountSep 1, 2022, 2:42 PM
296 points
68 comments66 min readEA link

Be­ware sur­pris­ing and sus­pi­cious convergence

Gregory Lewis🔸Jan 24, 2016, 7:11 PM
219 points
21 comments15 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing a con­test: EA Crit­i­cism and Red Teaming

LizkaJun 1, 2022, 6:58 PM
276 points
64 comments13 min readEA link

Selec­tive truth-tel­ling: con­cerns about EA lead­er­ship com­mu­ni­ca­tion.

tcelferactNov 15, 2022, 7:45 PM
92 points
45 comments5 min readEA link

Deal­ing with Net­work Con­straints (My Model of EA Ca­reers)

RaemonFeb 28, 2019, 1:34 AM
49 points
12 comments2 min readEA link

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

konradSep 18, 2018, 9:33 AM
33 points
3 comments8 min readEA link

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

LizkaOct 6, 2022, 3:08 PM
137 points
15 comments8 min readEA link

Four Con­cerns Re­gard­ing Longtermism

Pat AndriolaJun 6, 2022, 5:42 AM
82 points
15 comments7 min readEA link

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

Ben KuhnMay 14, 2022, 2:13 AM
181 points
27 comments4 min readEA link

How should Effec­tive Altru­ists think about Leftist Ethics?

AppliedDivinityStudiesNov 27, 2021, 1:25 PM
82 points
20 comments4 min readEA link

Em­piri­cal cri­tique of EA from an­other direction

tonzAug 22, 2022, 9:13 AM
2 points
0 comments6 min readEA link

Re­view of ITN Critiques

DirectedEvolutionOct 9, 2019, 8:27 AM
77 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

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

Robert_WiblinDec 21, 2015, 7:19 PM
49 points
7 comments1 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. FoulkesMay 26, 2022, 11:46 PM
12 points
22 comments8 min readEA link

Against neglectedness

ArepoNov 1, 2017, 11:09 PM
14 points
18 comments12 min readEA link

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

HmashAug 9, 2022, 10:09 PM
8 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

A di­gres­sion about area-spe­cific work in LatAm

Jaime SevillaDec 17, 2022, 2:59 PM
46 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

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

freedomandutilityAug 22, 2022, 8:25 PM
38 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Pop­u­la­tion Ethics Without Ax­iol­ogy: A Framework

Lukas_GloorAug 2, 2022, 3:59 PM
81 points
18 comments26 min readEA link

In defence of epistemic modesty

Gregory Lewis🔸Oct 29, 2017, 7:15 PM
140 points
51 comments37 min readEA link

What might FTX mean for effec­tive giv­ing and EA funding

Jack LewarsNov 15, 2022, 1:24 PM
204 points
26 comments9 min readEA link

Is effec­tive al­tru­ism re­ally to blame for the OpenAI de­ba­cle?

GarrisonNov 23, 2023, 12:44 AM
13 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(garrisonlovely.substack.com)

The per­spec­tives on effec­tive al­tru­ism we don’t hear

Jess_WhittlestoneDec 30, 2014, 12:04 PM
35 points
33 comments5 min readEA link

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

spencergSep 1, 2022, 4:13 PM
14 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(clearerthinkingpodcast.com)

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

Peter WildefordAug 25, 2015, 3:22 PM
111 points
65 comments6 min readEA link

Just Say No to Utili­tar­i­anism

Arjun PanicksseryJun 3, 2022, 4:58 PM
3 points
15 comments1 min readEA link
(arjunpanickssery.substack.com)

The Case for Short­ter­mism—by Robert Wright

Miquel Banchs-Piqué (prev. mikbp)Aug 16, 2022, 8:00 PM
24 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(nonzero.substack.com)

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

NunoSempereJun 16, 2022, 4:40 PM
302 points
97 comments26 min readEA link

The Folly of “EAs Should”

DavidmanheimJan 6, 2021, 7:04 AM
75 points
47 comments4 min readEA link

Fred­die deBoer: Effec­tive Altru­ism Has a Novelty Problem

Jack CunninghamAug 10, 2022, 6:10 PM
11 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(freddiedeboer.substack.com)

EAs un­der­es­ti­mate un­cer­tainty in cause prioritisation

freedomandutilityAug 23, 2022, 2:04 PM
119 points
20 comments2 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.

arikrSep 10, 2019, 7:38 PM
64 points
62 comments1 min readEA link

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

Noah StarbuckMay 1, 2022, 3:44 PM
8 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

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

AkashSep 2, 2022, 12:15 PM
30 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

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

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸Apr 28, 2022, 4:51 AM
62 points
11 comments5 min readEA link

EA Pro­jects I’d Like to See

finmMar 13, 2022, 6:12 PM
153 points
42 comments27 min readEA link
(www.finmoorhouse.com)

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

John Bridge 🔸Mar 27, 2022, 8:41 PM
28 points
42 comments5 min readEA link

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

Aaron Gertler 🔸Jan 4, 2021, 9:35 PM
29 points
5 comments9 min readEA link
(rationallyspeakingpodcast.org)

It’s Time to Fix How Effec­tive Altru­ism Is Perceived

Evan_GaensbauerJul 26, 2022, 2:17 AM
10 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Four prac­tices where EAs ought to course-correct

kbogJul 30, 2019, 5:48 AM
52 points
43 comments11 min readEA link

Longter­mist EA needs more Phase 2 work

Owen Cotton-BarrattApr 20, 2022, 2:42 PM
241 points
34 comments5 min readEA link

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

Jaime SevillaDec 17, 2022, 2:44 PM
57 points
29 comments2 min readEA link
(dear-humanity.org)

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

Evan_GaensbauerJul 4, 2022, 8:05 AM
5 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Meth­ods for im­prov­ing un­cer­tainty anal­y­sis in EA cost-effec­tive­ness models

FroolowAug 29, 2022, 6:07 PM
127 points
8 comments37 min readEA link

Why defen­sive writ­ing is bad for com­mu­nity epistemics

EmrikOct 8, 2022, 11:38 PM
76 points
28 comments8 min readEA link

What I learned from the crit­i­cism contest

technicalitiesOct 1, 2022, 1:39 PM
171 points
32 comments6 min readEA link

The ca­reer co­or­di­na­tion problem

MathiasKB🔸Mar 16, 2019, 7:28 PM
60 points
9 comments2 min readEA link

The Phil Tor­res es­say in Aeon at­tack­ing Longter­mism might be good

timunderwoodOct 21, 2021, 12:32 AM
22 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Im­prov­ing the Effec­tive Altru­ism Network

Kerry_VaughanAug 31, 2016, 7:44 PM
26 points
8 comments13 min readEA link

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

anonymousnessNov 30, 2022, 1:37 PM
11 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

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

Mati_RoySep 4, 2020, 2:00 AM
38 points
22 comments3 min readEA link

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

Sam BattisNov 12, 2022, 11:04 PM
27 points
10 comments8 min readEA link

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

EdoAradNov 28, 2020, 7:41 AM
14 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

The Effec­tive Altru­ism move­ment is not above con­flicts of interest

sphorDec 16, 2022, 3:05 PM
80 points
25 comments6 min readEA link
(medium.com)

Tyler Cowen on effec­tive al­tru­ism (De­cem­ber 2022)

peterhartreeJan 13, 2023, 9:39 AM
76 points
11 comments20 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

“The job in­ter­view pro­cess is bor­der­line preda­tory”

Anonymous25Jan 13, 2023, 5:23 PM
6 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

Fund­ing by Vot­ing: Ig­no­rance and Ir­ra­tional­ity

pradyuprasadJan 19, 2023, 11:11 PM
51 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Gover­nance: still a non-issue

Arturo MaciasJan 22, 2023, 11:50 AM
−19 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Pro­tect Our Fu­ture’s Crypto Politics

Radical Empath IsmamJan 29, 2023, 9:07 PM
67 points
19 comments5 min readEA link

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

Evan_GaensbauerJan 30, 2023, 6:38 AM
9 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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

Davidh96Jan 30, 2023, 2:26 PM
−6 points
1 comment5 min readEA link

Crit­i­cism Thread: What things should OpenPhil im­prove on?

anonymousEA20Feb 4, 2023, 8:16 AM
85 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Epistemic health is a com­mu­nity issue

ConcernedEAsFeb 2, 2023, 3:59 PM
12 points
11 comments9 min readEA link

Select Challenges with Crit­i­cism & Eval­u­a­tion Around EA

Ozzie GooenFeb 10, 2023, 11:36 PM
111 points
5 comments6 min readEA link
(quri.substack.com)

Bad Omens in Cur­rent Com­mu­nity Building

Theo HawkingMay 12, 2022, 3:41 PM
582 points
132 comments18 min readEA link

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

Artūrs KaņepājsFeb 6, 2024, 7:29 AM
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(www.law.georgetown.edu)

Sav­ing the world sucks

Defective AlturismJan 12, 2024, 9:28 AM
−9 points
2 comments3 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

“Do­ing Good Best” isn’t the EA ideal

DavidmanheimSep 16, 2022, 12:06 PM
128 points
17 comments6 min readEA link

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

Luke FreemanAug 24, 2022, 9:45 AM
56 points
51 comments1 min readEA link
(www.vox.com)

Con­spir­acy The­o­ries, Left Fu­tur­ism, and the At­tack on TESCREAL

jacquesthibsJul 5, 2023, 10:56 PM
52 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(medium.com)

Ten­sions be­tween differ­ent ap­proaches to do­ing good

JamesÖzMar 19, 2023, 6:14 PM
111 points
5 comments11 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism and the strate­gic am­bi­guity of ‘do­ing good’

Jeroen De Ryck 🔹Jul 17, 2023, 7:24 PM
80 points
10 comments2 min readEA link
(medialibrary.uantwerpen.be)

Cap­i­tal­ism, power and episte­mol­ogy: a cri­tique of EA

Matthew_DoranAug 22, 2022, 2:20 PM
14 points
19 comments23 min readEA link

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

Alex StrasserSep 26, 2023, 7:21 AM
37 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(gospeldemands.com)

Thoughts on Ke­nan Malik’s re­cent EA Article

JWS 🔸Oct 10, 2023, 6:28 PM
45 points
10 comments11 min readEA link

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

OmnizoidSep 27, 2023, 1:36 AM
21 points
5 comments9 min readEA link

EA will likely get more at­ten­tion soon

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

Effec­tive al­tru­ism or­ga­ni­za­tions should avoid us­ing “po­lariz­ing tech­niques”

Joey🔸Jun 12, 2023, 1:41 PM
172 points
23 comments4 min readEA link

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

JosephAug 10, 2023, 6:47 PM
19 points
1 comment2 min readEA link
(www.cambridge.org)

In Con­tinued Defense Of Effec­tive Altru­ism — Scott Alexander

PabloNov 29, 2023, 10:37 AM
163 points
30 comments1 min readEA link
(www.astralcodexten.com)

Un­flat­ter­ing as­pects of Effec­tive Altruism

NunoSempereMar 15, 2024, 10:47 AM
191 points
53 comments1 min readEA link

Blog up­date: Reflec­tive altruism

David ThorstadDec 15, 2024, 4:05 PM
103 points
12 comments11 min readEA link

Utili­tar­i­anism and the re­place­abil­ity of de­sires and attachments

MichaelStJulesJul 27, 2024, 1:57 AM
34 points
11 comments12 min readEA link

Fred­die DeBoer Is Wrong About Effec­tive Altruism

OmnizoidDec 23, 2023, 6:02 AM
29 points
4 comments11 min readEA link

Ar­gu­ments for util­i­tar­i­anism are im­pos­si­bil­ity ar­gu­ments un­der un­bounded prospects

MichaelStJulesOct 7, 2023, 9:09 PM
39 points
48 comments1 min readEA link

A Challenge to Effec­tive Altru­ism’s Premises

Fuggazi NomineiJan 8, 2024, 3:53 PM
−19 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Devel­op­ment RCTs Are Good Actually

ozymandiasMar 28, 2024, 1:37 PM
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🔸Sep 10, 2024, 5:02 PM
16 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

Alice Crary’s Bad Crit­i­cisms Of Effec­tive Altru­ism

OmnizoidSep 8, 2024, 5:37 PM
2 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

Émile P. Tor­res’s his­tory of dishon­esty and harassment

anonymous-for-obvious-reasonsMay 1, 2024, 12:47 PM
250 points
95 comments40 min readEA link

The “TESCREAL” Bungle

ozymandiasJun 3, 2024, 10:42 PM
112 points
15 comments13 min readEA link
(asteriskmag.com)

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

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

[Question] Con­soli­da­tion of EA crit­i­cism?

JosephSep 29, 2024, 4:51 PM
25 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

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

NunoSempereJan 23, 2023, 8:08 PM
435 points
116 comments14 min readEA link
(nunosempere.com)

We need more nu­ance re­gard­ing fund­ing gaps

Joey🔸Feb 12, 2022, 4:57 PM
280 points
30 comments6 min readEA link

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

freedomandutilityDec 29, 2021, 3:08 AM
68 points
27 comments3 min readEA link

Crit­i­cism of EA Crit­i­cism Contest

Zvi Jul 14, 2022, 2:20 PM
101 points
34 comments31 min readEA link

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

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

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

DovJun 20, 2023, 5:24 PM
−11 points
4 comments14 min readEA link

Hubris and cold­ness within EA (my ex­pe­rience)

James GoughNov 13, 2022, 2:54 PM
94 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism in the gar­den of ends

tyleraltermanAug 31, 2022, 8:47 PM
289 points
45 comments23 min readEA link

How to crit­i­cise Effec­tive Altruism

Toby Tremlett🔹Jun 3, 2021, 11:24 AM
31 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

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

Elijah HooleNov 27, 2022, 5:42 AM
−12 points
3 comments1 min readEA link
(www.thehindu.com)

Three jour­neys for effec­tive altruism

Zachary Robinson🔸Oct 22, 2024, 3:45 PM
129 points
3 comments13 min readEA link

Be Proud To Be An Effec­tive Altru­ist

OmnizoidJun 14, 2024, 5:01 PM
111 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

What “Effec­tive Altru­ism” Means to Me

Richard Y Chappell🔸Jun 14, 2024, 6:13 PM
57 points
18 comments7 min readEA link
(www.goodthoughts.blog)

EA is be­com­ing in­creas­ingly in­ac­cessible, at the worst pos­si­ble time

Ann Garth 🔸Jul 22, 2022, 3:40 PM
78 points
13 comments15 min readEA link

My ex­pe­rience at the con­tro­ver­sial Man­i­fest 2024

ManianoJun 17, 2024, 6:07 PM
53 points
246 comments6 min readEA link

How EA can be bet­ter at communications

blehrerMar 2, 2024, 6:49 PM
97 points
19 comments2 min readEA link
(www.bryanlehrer.com)

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

trurlSep 2, 2022, 3:22 AM
7 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

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

PhibMar 8, 2024, 5:47 PM
39 points
16 comments1 min readEA link
(venturebeat.com)

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

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

EA should in­vest more in exploration

Michael_PJFeb 5, 2017, 5:11 PM
23 points
27 comments7 min readEA link

Philo­soph­i­cal Cri­tiques of Effec­tive Altru­ism by Prof Jeff McMahan

Robert_WiblinMay 3, 2016, 9:05 PM
50 points
9 comments12 min readEA link

Some im­por­tant ques­tions for the EA Leadership

Gideon FutermanNov 16, 2022, 5:10 PM
243 points
113 comments3 min readEA link

My (Lazy) Longter­mism FAQ

Devin KalishOct 24, 2022, 4:44 PM
30 points
6 comments27 min readEA link

EA: Re­nais­sance or Di­as­pora?

TimothyTelleenLawtonOct 26, 2024, 10:59 PM
51 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Open Let­ter to EA

Oscar GalvinOct 19, 2022, 2:14 PM
13 points
7 comments24 min readEA link
(seethroughnews.org)

[Question] How Is EA Ra­tional?

Elliot TempleOct 13, 2022, 4:21 PM
1 point
25 comments1 min readEA link

Use “care” with care.

ricoh_aficioFeb 9, 2017, 6:38 AM
31 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Crit­i­cism of Crit­i­cism of Crit­i­cism, ACX

ClaireZabelAug 4, 2022, 7:25 PM
69 points
8 comments2 min readEA link
(astralcodexten.substack.com)

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

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

EA over­looks the ‘Why’

Joseph SarvaryJan 3, 2025, 6:47 PM
0 points
2 comments7 min readEA link

The Bioethi­cists are (Mostly) Alright

Devin KalishJan 7, 2022, 4:02 PM
155 points
61 comments16 min readEA link

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

GoodEAGoneBadNov 18, 2022, 10:30 AM
124 points
55 comments3 min readEA link

Park­in­son’s Law and the Ide­ol­ogy of Statistics

BenquoJan 4, 2025, 3:50 PM
2 points
7 comments8 min readEA link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Pre­fer be­liefs to cre­dence probabilities

Noah ScalesSep 1, 2022, 2:04 AM
3 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

late en­try for the EA crit­i­cism contest

eigenrobotNov 17, 2022, 4:52 AM
67 points
9 comments1 min readEA link
(eigenrobot.substack.com)

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

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸Oct 11, 2024, 4:22 AM
293 points
29 comments3 min readEA link

Ac­cept­ing the Inevita­bil­ity of Am­bi­tious Ego­ism (”AE”)

Dem0sthenesAug 17, 2022, 2:38 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link

Marginal Revolu­tion: Effec­tive Altru­ists and Fi­nance Theory

incredibleutilityOct 29, 2024, 2:32 PM
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(marginalrevolution.com)

Feed­back from where?

Milan GriffesMar 11, 2021, 5:05 AM
−15 points
27 comments4 min readEA link

What About Deon­tol­ogy? Ethics of So­cial Belong­ing and Con­for­mity in Effec­tive Altruism

Maksens DjabaliJan 8, 2025, 2:02 PM
7 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

It is called Effec­tive Altru­ism, not Altru­is­tic Effectiveness

Timon RenzelmannDec 20, 2023, 3:41 PM
27 points
14 comments4 min readEA link

EA crit­i­cism con­test: Why I am not an effec­tive altruist

ErikHoelAug 16, 2022, 5:16 PM
13 points
23 comments2 min readEA link
(erikhoel.substack.com)

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

alexis schoenlaubOct 13, 2024, 9:33 AM
6 points
4 comments6 min readEA link

Or­ga­nized Cause Evaluation

Elliot TempleNov 28, 2022, 8:31 PM
5 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(curi.us)

EA’s Biggest Missed Op­por­tu­nity: Mark Zuckerberg

TrappistJan 16, 2025, 12:36 PM
17 points
8 comments7 min readEA link

The to­tal­i­tar­ian im­pli­ca­tions of Effec­tive Altruism

Ed_TalksJun 14, 2022, 4:52 PM
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 AdityaOct 29, 2022, 5:31 PM
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 LewarsJul 30, 2022, 4:55 PM
196 points
57 comments2 min readEA link

Pos­si­ble up­com­ing LeftTube video about EA

Nicholas / Heather KrossDec 29, 2022, 10:03 PM
13 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Scien­tific Char­ity Movement

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Jul 23, 2016, 2:33 PM
40 points
6 comments7 min readEA link

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

joshcmorrisonJan 2, 2023, 7:21 PM
153 points
78 comments5 min readEA link

New blog: Some doubts about effec­tive altruism

David ThorstadDec 20, 2022, 7:34 PM
124 points
36 comments4 min readEA link

Op­ti­mism, AI risk, and EA blind spots

JustisSep 28, 2022, 5:21 PM
87 points
21 comments8 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?

ddaviesJul 12, 2020, 2:26 PM
13 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

Book cri­tique of Effec­tive Altruism

Manuel Del Río Rodríguez 🔹Jan 17, 2023, 10:48 PM
70 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

Why aren’t we talk­ing about per­sonal de­vel­op­ment?

DirectedEvolutionFeb 29, 2020, 8:23 PM
37 points
3 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] What are your Qs for Leif We­nar?

EarthlingMar 27, 2024, 8:12 PM
27 points
25 comments1 min readEA link

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

Robert HoglundAug 17, 2022, 3:42 AM
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Why we need more meta

Benjamin_ToddSep 26, 2015, 10:40 PM
27 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

Stop Over­re­act­ing re: FTX /​ SBF

MattBallNov 16, 2022, 11:40 PM
52 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Feel­ing Deeply Un­safe! At the Disco: Mi­sog­yny in EA

FearfulAug 22, 2022, 4:10 PM
−12 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Suffer­ing re­lief vs life extension

drbrakeNov 19, 2018, 4:55 PM
5 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

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

stecasOct 25, 2022, 4:48 PM
56 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Do­ing EA Bet­ter: Pream­ble, Sum­mary, and Introduction

ConcernedEAsJan 25, 2023, 6:26 PM
1 point
25 comments8 min readEA link

On Leif We­nar’s Ab­surdly Un­con­vinc­ing Cri­tique Of Effec­tive Altru­ism

OmnizoidApr 4, 2024, 3:25 PM
104 points
20 comments14 min readEA link

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

Jack_SJan 27, 2023, 2:38 PM
28 points
0 comments18 min readEA link

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

VictorWOct 31, 2024, 2:58 PM
21 points
24 comments21 min readEA link

[Question] EA’s ab­stract moral epistemology

StijnOct 20, 2020, 2:11 PM
13 points
15 comments1 min readEA link

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

LiaHOct 14, 2022, 4:15 PM
4 points
3 comments6 min readEA link

I No Longer Feel Com­fortable in EA

disgruntled_eaFeb 5, 2023, 8:45 PM
2 points
29 comments1 min readEA link

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

Kyle J. LuccheseFeb 8, 2023, 10:35 PM
41 points
43 comments4 min readEA link
(www.amazon.com)

What I wish I had said about FTX

AppliedDivinityStudiesOct 31, 2024, 2:54 PM
162 points
17 comments5 min readEA link

New EA Pod­cast: Cri­tiques of EA

Nick_AnyosFeb 13, 2023, 10:55 PM
47 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

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

Philip AppsAug 29, 2022, 7:19 AM
2 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

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

LizkaDec 27, 2021, 2:01 AM
72 points
11 comments4 min readEA link

2 issues

TarkanFeb 22, 2023, 9:13 PM
−1 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Misquot­ing and Schol­ar­ship Norms

Elliot TempleNov 29, 2022, 6:45 PM
−13 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(curi.us)

Mone­tary and so­cial in­cen­tives in longter­mist careers

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸Sep 23, 2023, 9:03 PM
140 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Should AI X-Risk Wor­ri­ers Short the Mar­ket?

postlibertarianNov 4, 2024, 4:16 PM
14 points
1 comment6 min readEA link

No, se­ri­ously, it’s vir­tu­ous to re­pair the world.

HonoreDBDec 11, 2024, 5:34 PM
13 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(outlandishclaims.substack.com)

Reli­able Sources: The Story of David Gerard

TracingWoodgrainsJul 10, 2024, 7:50 PM
170 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

[Linkpost] Towards Ineffec­tive Altruism

CBiddulphMay 23, 2022, 6:34 AM
13 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

do­ing more good vs. do­ing the most good possible

ruthgraceJan 2, 2022, 4:27 PM
32 points
21 comments4 min readEA link

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

ErikHoelAug 23, 2022, 3:04 PM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(erikhoel.substack.com)

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

Falk LiederAug 17, 2022, 8:48 AM
102 points
11 comments10 min readEA link

Red-team­ing con­test: de­mo­graph­ics and power struc­tures in EA

TheOtherHannahAug 31, 2022, 4:36 AM
110 points
14 comments33 min readEA link

Learn­ing from non-EAs who seek to do good

Siobhan_MDec 8, 2022, 12:22 AM
264 points
22 comments7 min readEA link

Rea­sons to eat meat

kbogApr 21, 2019, 8:37 PM
43 points
43 comments3 min readEA link

What mis­takes has the AI safety move­ment made?

EuanMcLeanMay 23, 2024, 11:29 AM
59 points
3 comments12 min readEA link

The Ra­tional Utili­tar­ian Love Move­ment (A His­tor­i­cal Ret­ro­spec­tive)

CBiddulphNov 3, 2022, 7:11 AM
0 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(ratutilove.substack.com)

Yascha Mounk has started a se­ries of es­says on effec­tive altruism

James HerbertNov 11, 2024, 4:16 PM
9 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(yaschamounk.substack.com)

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

pseudonymJan 12, 2023, 4:55 AM
16 points
96 comments1 min readEA link
(nickbostrom.com)

Does EA un­der­stand how to apol­o­gize for things?

titotalJan 15, 2023, 7:14 PM
159 points
48 comments3 min readEA link

But­ton for con­tro­ver­sial posts

SaraAzubuikeJul 27, 2022, 4:21 AM
14 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Why Wast­ing EA Money is Bad

Jordan ArelSep 22, 2022, 1:45 AM
47 points
20 comments5 min readEA link

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

Peter McLaughlinOct 7, 2022, 10:52 AM
187 points
61 comments18 min readEA link

Pro­posed im­prove­ments to EAG(x) ad­mis­sions process

ESJan 30, 2023, 6:10 AM
62 points
29 comments3 min readEA link

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

BarracudaJun 13, 2022, 12:35 AM
−3 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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

Peter_LaymanSep 26, 2022, 2:27 PM
2 points
4 comments1 min readEA link
(www.currentaffairs.org)

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

Walter VeitJan 24, 2024, 2:39 PM
24 points
1 comment1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

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

Nick CorvinoDec 14, 2022, 10:41 PM
70 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

My Ex­pe­rience with My De­bate Policy

Elliot TempleOct 24, 2022, 6:21 PM
11 points
18 comments15 min readEA link
(criticalfallibilism.com)

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

Davidh96Aug 28, 2022, 5:35 PM
−14 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

Grant­mak­ers should give more feedback

Ariel PontesJan 22, 2024, 1:22 PM
78 points
23 comments7 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism FAQ

OmnizoidDec 16, 2024, 4:26 PM
18 points
1 comment12 min readEA link

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

Aaron Gertler 🔸Mar 4, 2020, 12:32 AM
46 points
7 comments12 min readEA link
(80000hours.org)

Why the EA aver­sion to lo­cal al­tru­is­tic ac­tion?

LockeJun 10, 2022, 11:01 PM
9 points
12 comments4 min readEA link

Cut­ting AI Safety down to size

Holly Elmore ⏸️ 🔸Nov 9, 2024, 11:40 PM
86 points
5 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] Why al­tru­ism at all?

SingletonJul 12, 2020, 10:04 PM
−2 points
1 comment1 min readEA link

Hob­bit Manifesto

Clay CubeAug 30, 2022, 8:24 PM
8 points
9 comments7 min readEA link

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

aprilsunAug 1, 2023, 6:49 PM
29 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

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

David VargaNov 16, 2022, 12:10 PM
27 points
7 comments1 min readEA link
(www.theguardian.com)

Univer­sity EA Groups Need Fixing

Dave Banerjee 🔸Aug 3, 2023, 9:06 PM
372 points
110 comments10 min readEA link

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

WobblyPandaPandaNov 12, 2023, 1:21 AM
22 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.thephilosopher1923.org)

Fal­li­bil­ism, Bias, and the Rule of Law

Elliot TempleOct 17, 2022, 11:59 PM
14 points
6 comments13 min readEA link
(criticalfallibilism.com)

EAGx ap­pli­ca­tion com­mu­nity norms we’d like to see

ESDec 23, 2022, 5:27 PM
126 points
18 comments6 min readEA link

We care about WALYs not QALYs

Benjamin_ToddNov 13, 2015, 7:21 PM
21 points
18 comments1 min readEA link

Game: I Find Three Er­rors in Your Fa­vorite Text

Elliot TempleNov 11, 2022, 5:56 PM
15 points
29 comments2 min readEA link

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

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

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

turchinJun 19, 2022, 9:01 AM
16 points
30 comments9 min readEA link

Thoughts on the “Meta Trap”

Rohin ShahDec 20, 2016, 9:36 PM
10 points
48 comments11 min readEA link

Pre­dic­tion Mar­kets are Some­what Over­rated Within EA

FrancisSep 1, 2022, 2:17 AM
16 points
4 comments3 min readEA link

Eth­i­cal Ve­ganism is Wrong

BenquoJan 28, 2025, 3:22 PM
−38 points
12 comments2 min readEA link
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)

Les­sons from the Grass­roots and Reflec­tions on EA

Keerthana GopalakrishnanJul 12, 2022, 5:12 AM
19 points
1 comment4 min readEA link
(keerthanapg.com)

Mul­ti­plier Ar­gu­ments are of­ten flawed

AGB 🔸Oct 13, 2024, 9:25 PM
189 points
64 comments4 min readEA link

New Publi­ca­tion: Effec­tive Altru­ism and Reli­gion

dominicroserJan 25, 2022, 9:22 AM
74 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

Ex­is­ten­tial risk pes­simism and the time of perils

David ThorstadAug 12, 2022, 2:42 PM
177 points
67 comments20 min readEA link

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

johnburidanJul 11, 2022, 2:10 AM
−1 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

EA needs out­siders with a greater di­ver­sity of skills

Lotte_de_LintJun 2, 2021, 8:40 AM
71 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

Belonging

BarracudaJun 10, 2022, 7:27 AM
2 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

In defence of epistemic mod­esty [dis­til­la­tion]

LuiseMay 10, 2023, 9:39 AM
26 points
3 comments9 min readEA link

In­ter­ro­gat­ing Impact

SebastianSchmidtNov 21, 2020, 11:16 AM
34 points
6 comments4 min readEA link

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

Robert_WiblinDec 15, 2015, 5:13 PM
20 points
7 comments3 min readEA link

Bernard Willi­ams: Ethics and the limits of impartiality

peterhartreeSep 7, 2022, 11:26 AM
4 points
8 comments6 min readEA link
(notes.pjh.is)

Con­tra Ari Ne’eman On Effec­tive Altruism

ozymandiasJun 24, 2022, 4:37 PM
98 points
6 comments7 min readEA link
(thingofthings.substack.com)

[Opz­ionale] Perché prob­a­bil­mente non sono una lungoterminista

EA ItalyJan 17, 2023, 6:12 PM
1 point
0 comments8 min readEA link

Nar­ra­tion: The case against “EA cause ar­eas”

D0TheMathJul 24, 2021, 8:39 PM
12 points
5 comments1 min readEA link
(anchor.fm)

The or­di­nal util­ity ar­gu­ment against effec­tive al­tru­ism

BarracudaJun 12, 2022, 1:20 PM
8 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Reflec­tions for In­tro­duc­tions to Altruism

Philip WindredSep 11, 2022, 10:23 AM
6 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Style Writ­ing Prej­u­dice At EA

Trev PrewSep 4, 2022, 8:06 AM
−5 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

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

oh54321Jun 2, 2022, 12:03 AM
26 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

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

EA ItalyJan 18, 2023, 11:32 AM
1 point
0 comments1 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

What is EA not?

pleaselistencarefullyasourmenuoptionshaverecentlychangedJul 23, 2022, 1:13 PM
4 points
1 comment13 min readEA link

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

80000_HoursOct 17, 2024, 8:41 PM
22 points
2 comments14 min readEA link

Effec­tive means to com­bat autocracies

Junius BrutusAug 28, 2022, 5:35 PM
32 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

Dis­cus­sion about AI Safety fund­ing (FB tran­script)

AkashApr 30, 2023, 7:05 PM
104 points
10 comments6 min readEA link

Ig­nor­ing “Small” Errors

Elliot TempleDec 1, 2022, 4:56 PM
1 point
7 comments1 min readEA link
(criticalfallibilism.com)

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

nadavbOct 1, 2022, 1:07 PM
77 points
18 comments3 min readEA link

Re­sponse to Tor­res’ ‘The Case Against Longter­mism’

HaydnBelfieldMar 8, 2021, 6:09 PM
138 points
73 comments5 min readEA link

EA should seek out more crit­i­cism of key EA concepts

freedomandutilityAug 30, 2022, 3:14 PM
7 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

Carnegie Coun­cil MisUn­der­stands Longtermism

Jeff ASep 30, 2022, 2:57 AM
6 points
8 comments1 min readEA link
(www.carnegiecouncil.org)

My in­de­pen­dent im­pres­sions on the EA Handbook

VictorWAug 7, 2023, 9:09 AM
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 HäberliFeb 25, 2023, 1:45 AM
39 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Isn’t on TV.

ColdButtonIssuesApr 21, 2022, 2:06 PM
17 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

The big prob­lem with how we do outreach

LilaDec 26, 2015, 7:36 PM
18 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

Crit­i­cism of EA and longtermism

St. IgnorantSep 2, 2022, 7:23 AM
2 points
0 comments14 min readEA link

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

fribJul 14, 2022, 4:02 AM
32 points
12 comments9 min readEA link

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

RemmeltJun 30, 2018, 9:26 AM
33 points
33 comments11 min readEA link

Im­pact Eval­u­a­tion in EA

callumOct 26, 2023, 11:18 PM
143 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

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

FroolowJun 4, 2022, 12:08 PM
26 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

In (Praise?) of Ineffec­tive Altuism

Edward FarrellyNov 10, 2022, 9:47 AM
−7 points
6 comments6 min readEA link

More to ex­plore on ‘What do you think?’

EA HandbookJul 9, 2022, 11:00 PM
7 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Guer­rilla Foun­da­tion Re­sponse to EA Fo­rum Discussion

PaoloFresiaDec 15, 2020, 5:57 PM
23 points
8 comments9 min readEA link

Cri­tiques of EA in an­i­mal ad­vo­cacy—A dis­cus­sion with advocates

HiveAug 25, 2023, 3:46 PM
45 points
2 comments5 min readEA link

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

LuiseJun 8, 2022, 6:22 PM
41 points
30 comments8 min readEA link

Disagree­ables and Asses­sors: Two In­tel­lec­tual Archetypes

Ozzie GooenNov 5, 2021, 9:01 AM
91 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

The Im­por­tance of In­ter­causal Impacts

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

“Char­ity” as a con­fla­tion­ary al­li­ance term

Jan_KulveitDec 13, 2024, 7:53 AM
75 points
4 comments5 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Cri­tique: Cost-Benefit of Weirdness

Mike EliasAug 29, 2022, 3:59 PM
2 points
3 comments3 min readEA link

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

Aryeh EnglanderJun 7, 2022, 1:45 PM
24 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

The Case for Education

SamuelKnocheAug 14, 2020, 5:26 PM
24 points
10 comments10 min readEA link

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

Robert_WiblinFeb 16, 2016, 10:26 AM
21 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

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

Alex BergJul 24, 2022, 12:51 PM
11 points
0 comments5 min readEA link

Why I am prob­a­bly not a longtermist

Denise_MelchinSep 23, 2021, 5:24 PM
248 points
48 comments8 min readEA link

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

MichaelDickensDec 17, 2022, 12:30 AM
45 points
12 comments2 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism, the Prin­ci­ple of Ex­plo­sion and Epistemic Fragility

EigengenderAug 15, 2022, 1:45 AM
19 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

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

Ben YeohMay 25, 2022, 9:58 PM
5 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

Large episte­molog­i­cal con­cerns I should maybe have about EA a priori

LuiseJun 7, 2023, 2:11 PM
115 points
16 comments8 min readEA link

Do the Hard Thing

SporkredfoxJun 10, 2023, 5:26 AM
7 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

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

Gloria MondayNov 15, 2023, 2:43 PM
−18 points
16 comments2 min readEA link

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

Elliot TempleNov 22, 2022, 9:15 PM
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

DovAug 12, 2022, 5:52 AM
3 points
6 comments22 min readEA link

Sasha Chapin on bad so­cial norms in EA

Charlie Rogers-SmithNov 18, 2021, 12:18 PM
51 points
22 comments5 min readEA link

Ch­ester­ton Fences and EA’s X-risks

jehanSep 2, 2022, 11:56 AM
79 points
4 comments2 min readEA link

[Question] What wheels do EAs and ra­tio­nal­ists rein­vent?

ArepoOct 17, 2024, 4:42 AM
26 points
62 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive Altru­ism Risks Per­pet­u­at­ing a Harm­ful Worldview

Theo CoxAug 20, 2022, 1:10 AM
−4 points
9 comments20 min readEA link

The Out­side Crit­ics of Effec­tive Altruism

RyanCareyJan 5, 2015, 6:37 PM
12 points
72 comments3 min readEA link

Philos­o­phy event se­ries in­tro­duc­ing EA at the Univer­sity of Zurich

Eleos Arete CitriniJan 4, 2022, 12:49 PM
19 points
0 comments4 min readEA link

Multi-Fac­tor De­ci­sion Mak­ing Math

Elliot TempleOct 30, 2022, 4:46 PM
2 points
13 comments37 min readEA link
(criticalfallibilism.com)

Effec­tive vs Altruism

Liat ZviSep 16, 2022, 9:37 AM
2 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Go­ing more meta on EA criticism

Nick WhitakerJul 27, 2022, 2:59 PM
79 points
4 comments5 min readEA link

some con­cerns with clas­si­cal utilitarianism

nilNov 14, 2020, 9:29 AM
32 points
17 comments19 min readEA link