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Crit­i­cism of the effec­tive al­tru­ism community

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

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Bad Omens in Cur­rent Com­mu­nity Building

Theo HawkingMay 12, 2022, 3:41 PM
582 points
132 comments18 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)

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

ElizabethSep 29, 2023, 4:04 AM
124 points
39 comments22 min readEA link
(acesounderglass.com)

Milan Griffes on EA blindspots

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

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

George RosenfeldApr 12, 2022, 8:30 PM
562 points
186 comments8 min readEA link

The mo­ti­vated rea­son­ing cri­tique of effec­tive altruism

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

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

throwaway790Dec 16, 2022, 7:40 PM
225 points
96 comments2 min readEA link

Do­ing EA Better

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

EA Cul­ture and Causes: Less is More

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

Blog up­date: Reflec­tive altruism

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

Why defen­sive writ­ing is bad for com­mu­nity epistemics

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

Democratis­ing Risk—or how EA deals with critics

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

The EA com­mu­nity does not own its donors’ money

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

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

Luke FreemanMay 20, 2022, 3:39 AM
343 points
77 comments6 min readEA link

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

Amber DawnFeb 9, 2023, 3:05 PM
104 points
55 comments6 min readEA link

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

yanni kyriacosMar 25, 2024, 12:01 AM
22 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

How can we im­prove In­fo­haz­ard Gover­nance in EA Biose­cu­rity?

Nadia MontazeriAug 5, 2023, 12:03 PM
168 points
27 comments4 min readEA link

Case Study of EA Global Re­jec­tion + Crit­i­cisms/​Solutions

Constance LiSep 23, 2022, 11:38 AM
232 points
157 comments24 min readEA link

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

Richard Y Chappell🔸Dec 12, 2022, 4:05 PM
144 points
35 comments2 min readEA link

EA cul­ture is spe­cial; we should pro­ceed with intentionality

James LinMay 21, 2022, 9:55 PM
85 points
7 comments10 min readEA link

Re­vis­it­ing EA’s me­dia policy

ArepoDec 3, 2022, 4:55 PM
239 points
65 comments6 min readEA link

Shut­ting Down the Light­cone Offices

HabrykaMar 15, 2023, 1:46 AM
243 points
71 comments17 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

Abuse in LessWrong and ra­tio­nal­ist com­mu­ni­ties in Bloomberg News

whistleblower67Mar 7, 2023, 8:36 PM
115 points
137 comments7 min readEA link
(www.bloomberg.com)

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

TynerJul 15, 2022, 10:27 PM
62 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(old.reddit.com)

Maybe longter­mism isn’t for everyone

Eevee🔹Feb 10, 2023, 4:48 PM
39 points
17 comments1 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)

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

Eevee🔹Mar 5, 2023, 9:17 PM
−4 points
21 comments2 min readEA link

Against “longter­mist” as an identity

LizkaMay 13, 2022, 7:17 PM
166 points
23 comments6 min readEA link

The Effec­tive Altru­ism culture

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

Against the “smarts fetish”

Magnus VindingApr 8, 2022, 7:54 AM
140 points
38 comments7 min readEA link

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

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

EA is a global com­mu­nity—but should it be?

DavidmanheimNov 18, 2022, 8:23 AM
200 points
72 comments10 min readEA link

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

EA is about max­i­miza­tion, and max­i­miza­tion is perilous

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

Tak­ing pri­ori­ti­sa­tion within ‘EA’ seriously

CEvansAug 18, 2023, 5:50 PM
102 points
3 comments20 min readEA link

Four cat­e­gories of effec­tive al­tru­ism critiques

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

Some im­por­tant ques­tions for the EA Leadership

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

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

IzoJul 22, 2022, 4:12 AM
31 points
12 comments4 min readEA link

[Question] Is the EA com­mu­nity re­ally ad­vo­cat­ing prin­ci­ples over con­clu­sions ?

Solal 🔸Dec 11, 2024, 4:31 PM
73 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

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

James FodorNov 14, 2022, 12:43 PM
452 points
55 comments4 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

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

Push back on ob­scure futurism

ImpromptourJun 17, 2023, 9:38 AM
−10 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Does EA un­der­stand how to apol­o­gize for things?

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

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

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

Smug­gled as­sump­tions in “de­clin­ing epistemic qual­ity”

Wil PerkinsJan 16, 2023, 5:26 PM
28 points
44 comments2 min readEA link

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

Maya DDec 2, 2022, 4:04 AM
305 points
172 comments7 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

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

Alix PhamDec 20, 2023, 9:07 PM
148 points
38 comments4 min readEA link

Pre-an­nounc­ing a con­test for cri­tiques and red teaming

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

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

One-time padJul 22, 2022, 4:42 PM
29 points
15 comments6 min readEA link

Choos­ing causes re Flynn for Oregon

Zach Stein-PerlmanMay 18, 2022, 3:59 AM
50 points
25 comments2 min readEA link

Another FTX post: sug­ges­tions for change

SaraAzubuikeNov 11, 2022, 5:47 PM
54 points
31 comments2 min readEA link

EA is more than longtermism

frances_lorenzMay 3, 2022, 3:18 PM
160 points
99 comments5 min readEA link

[Question] What is the new EA ques­tion?

ChanaMessingerMar 2, 2022, 8:40 PM
95 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

Jobs at EA-or­ga­ni­za­tions are over­paid, here is why

CynwitJun 8, 2022, 5:20 PM
16 points
37 comments3 min readEA link

Norms and fea­tures for the Forum

technicalitiesMay 16, 2022, 9:38 AM
62 points
16 comments3 min readEA link

Use “care” with care.

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

Ob­jec­tions to Value-Align­ment be­tween Effec­tive Altruists

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

Re­vis­it­ing the karma system

ArepoMay 29, 2022, 2:19 PM
61 points
84 comments1 min readEA link

Death to 1 on 1s

Armando OchoaMay 21, 2022, 8:12 AM
5 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

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

c.troutDec 1, 2022, 4:21 AM
10 points
31 comments16 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

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

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

Be­fore There Was Effec­tive Altru­ism, There Was Effec­tive Philanthropy

ColdButtonIssuesJun 26, 2022, 6:09 PM
134 points
7 comments12 min readEA link

EA is In­suffi­ciently Value Neu­tral in Practice

Gordon Seidoh WorleyAug 4, 2022, 8:00 PM
−3 points
13 comments4 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

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

Eevee🔹Apr 16, 2022, 7:53 PM
19 points
10 comments1 min readEA link

The FTX Si­tu­a­tion: Wait for more in­for­ma­tion be­fore propos­ing solutions

D0TheMathNov 13, 2022, 8:28 PM
109 points
17 comments2 min readEA link

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

ruthgraceJul 14, 2022, 3:16 PM
59 points
18 comments2 min readEA link

Crowd­sourced Crit­i­cisms: What does EA think about EA?

HmashAug 8, 2022, 10:59 PM
32 points
19 comments13 min readEA link

com­mu­nity build­ing solely as a tool for im­pact cre­ates toxic communities

ruthgraceSep 1, 2022, 3:45 AM
45 points
2 comments2 min readEA link

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

DavidmanheimJul 28, 2022, 10:08 AM
115 points
52 comments5 min readEA link

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

kbogDec 14, 2022, 5:46 AM
14 points
3 comments7 min readEA link

How we failed

Jan_KulveitMar 23, 2022, 10:08 AM
120 points
16 comments5 min readEA link

Open EA Global

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

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

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

21 crit­i­cisms of EA I’m think­ing about

Peter WildefordSep 1, 2022, 7:28 PM
209 points
26 comments9 min readEA link

“Call off the EAs”: Too Much Ad­ver­tis­ing?

tae 🔸Aug 19, 2022, 11:49 PM
78 points
30 comments1 min readEA link

The availa­bil­ity bias in job hunting

Vaidehi Agarwalla 🔸Apr 30, 2022, 2:53 PM
105 points
4 comments7 min readEA link

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

Eevee🔹Aug 19, 2022, 12:58 AM
16 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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

HelenJan 4, 2022, 12:11 AM
59 points
11 comments3 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

EAGx ap­pli­ca­tion com­mu­nity norms we’d like to see

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

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)

Keep EA high-trust

Michael_PJDec 22, 2022, 2:58 PM
156 points
45 comments4 min readEA link

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

Aaron BergmanApr 10, 2022, 11:16 PM
66 points
34 comments4 min readEA link

Don’t Over-Op­ti­mize Things

Owen Cotton-BarrattJun 16, 2022, 4:28 PM
53 points
7 comments4 min readEA link

Where is the So­cial Jus­tice in EA?

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

EA should taboo “EA should”

LizkaMar 29, 2022, 9:07 AM
210 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

I think EA will make it through stronger

lincolnqNov 16, 2022, 2:02 AM
65 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

Per­ils of op­ti­miz­ing in so­cial contexts

Owen Cotton-BarrattJun 16, 2022, 5:23 PM
124 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

Big EA and Its In­finite Money Printer

Arjun PanicksseryApr 29, 2022, 5:57 PM
71 points
13 comments7 min readEA link
(arjunpanickssery.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

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

Nathan YoungDec 5, 2022, 9:04 AM
58 points
172 comments1 min readEA link

Effec­tive al­tru­ism’s odd at­ti­tude to men­tal health

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

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

Evan_GaensbauerFeb 6, 2022, 11:30 PM
29 points
9 comments1 min readEA link

Is­sues with cen­tral­ised grantmaking

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

Longter­mist slo­gans that need to be retired

Michael_WiebeMay 9, 2022, 1:07 AM
5 points
21 comments1 min readEA link

Reflec­tions on Wytham Abbey

nikosJan 10, 2023, 6:30 PM
82 points
51 comments4 min readEA link

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

𝕮𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖗𝖆Jan 12, 2023, 9:35 PM
157 points
35 comments1 min readEA link

On Liv­ing Without Idols

RockwellJan 13, 2023, 11:35 PM
544 points
24 comments6 min readEA link

Now that we trust se­nior EAs less...

freedomandutilityJan 15, 2023, 9:46 PM
−17 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

EA’s don’t quan­tify much or very well

Noah ScalesDec 17, 2022, 9:47 AM
17 points
4 comments4 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

EA, Sex­ual Harass­ment, and Abuse

whistleblower9Feb 3, 2023, 3:00 PM
267 points
459 comments2 min readEA link
(time.com)

I No Longer Feel Com­fortable in EA

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

Pro­posal: Create A New Longter­mism Organization

Brian LuiFeb 7, 2023, 5:59 AM
25 points
37 comments6 min readEA link

On Loyalty

Nathan YoungFeb 20, 2023, 10:29 AM
56 points
19 comments15 min readEA link

Con­sider not sleep­ing around within the community

Patrick Sue DominFeb 22, 2023, 9:21 AM
161 points
201 comments4 min readEA link

How has FTX’s col­lapse im­pacted EA?

AnonymousEAForumAccountOct 17, 2023, 5:02 PM
248 points
65 comments14 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

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

Nathan YoungMar 15, 2023, 12:40 PM
241 points
175 comments4 min readEA link
(time.com)

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)

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

Nathan YoungMar 29, 2023, 3:23 PM
133 points
16 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

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

mako yassOct 5, 2022, 4:41 AM
32 points
25 comments2 min readEA link

Im­pact Eval­u­a­tion in EA

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

Why Altru­ists Can’t Have Nice Things

lincolnqJun 21, 2023, 3:43 AM
182 points
68 comments7 min readEA link

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

AnonymousEAForumAccountJul 24, 2024, 3:24 AM
141 points
53 comments12 min readEA link

My ex­pe­rience at the con­tro­ver­sial Man­i­fest 2024

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

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

RobBensingerApr 1, 2024, 2:28 AM
166 points
45 comments3 min readEA link

Sav­ing the world sucks

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

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

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

Lawrence NewportOct 1, 2022, 10:55 AM
110 points
25 comments8 min readEA link
(precedents.substack.com)

Hu­man Bio­di­ver­sity (Part 4: As­tral Codex Ten)

Evan_GaensbauerNov 3, 2024, 4:20 AM
−8 points
26 comments1 min readEA link
(reflectivealtruism.com)

Effec­tive Asper­sions: How the Non­lin­ear In­ves­ti­ga­tion Went Wrong

TracingWoodgrainsDec 19, 2023, 12:00 PM
346 points
213 comments31 min readEA link

Be less trust­ing of in­tu­itive ar­gu­ments about so­cial phe­nom­ena

Nathan_BarnardDec 18, 2022, 1:11 AM
43 points
20 comments4 min readEA link

EA crit­i­cism: not yet a religion

dotsamSep 1, 2022, 9:50 PM
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

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

The Need for the Hu­man­i­ties in EA

Zohar AtkinsNov 14, 2022, 3:25 PM
0 points
3 comments8 min readEA link
(whatiscalledthinking.substack.com)

It is called Effec­tive Altru­ism, not Altru­is­tic Effectiveness

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

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

Mars RobertsonAug 30, 2023, 9:44 AM
1 point
5 comments2 min readEA link

NY Times on the FTX im­plo­sion’s im­pact on EA

DirectedEvolutionNov 14, 2022, 3:51 AM
293 points
19 comments3 min readEA link
(www.nytimes.com)

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

Étienne Fortier-DuboisMay 15, 2022, 4:38 PM
165 points
51 comments15 min readEA link
(classicalfuturist.substack.com)

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

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

Nathan YoungSep 1, 2022, 10:44 PM
0 points
1 comment2 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)

Do bet­ter, please …

Rohit is a Strange LoopJan 15, 2023, 11:32 AM
16 points
67 comments4 min readEA link

Far­mKind’s Illu­sory Offer

Jeff Kaufman 🔸Aug 9, 2024, 11:32 AM
96 points
51 comments1 min readEA link

Thread for Sense-Mak­ing on Re­cent Mur­ders and How to Sanely Respond

Matrice JacobineJan 31, 2025, 9:53 PM
2 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

I am tired.

MeganNelson 🔸Jan 12, 2023, 10:17 PM
243 points
42 comments1 min readEA link

We Fell For It

Nicholas / Heather KrossFeb 5, 2025, 6:09 PM
−15 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.thinkingmuchbetter.com)

Cri­tique: Cost-Benefit of Weirdness

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

Some core as­sump­tions of effec­tive al­tru­ism, ac­cord­ing to me

peterhartreeJul 29, 2022, 9:05 AM
90 points
9 comments6 min readEA link

Non-perfor­ma­tive speech in EA

eaanon2022Nov 15, 2022, 12:07 AM
21 points
0 comments8 min readEA link

EA and mul­ti­cul­tural en­vi­ron­ments. Per­sonal hot-takes.

Ivan MadanMay 3, 2023, 6:54 PM
7 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

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

Damin Curtis🔹Apr 28, 2024, 1:44 PM
13 points
12 comments1 min readEA link
(www.theguardian.com)

My emo­tional re­ac­tion to the cur­rent fund­ing situation

Sam BrownSep 11, 2022, 10:07 PM
125 points
13 comments5 min readEA link
(www.lesswrong.com)

EA’s Cul­ture and Think­ing are Severely Limit­ing its Impact

Peter ElamJul 26, 2022, 11:10 AM
97 points
48 comments22 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

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

Hubris and cold­ness within EA (my ex­pe­rience)

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

Re­act­ing to failure: how fun­ders can en­courage more am­bi­tious projects

SomeoneSep 28, 2022, 4:37 PM
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Speak the truth, even if your voice trembles

RobertMJan 14, 2023, 6:10 AM
93 points
12 comments5 min readEA link

Em­brac­ing Selfishness

ryanbloomJan 14, 2023, 9:36 PM
10 points
1 comment6 min readEA link
(ryan-bloom.com)

Truth­seek­ing is the ground in which other prin­ci­ples grow

ElizabethMay 27, 2024, 1:11 AM
106 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

Ch­ester­ton Fences and EA’s X-risks

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

Be wary of en­act­ing norms you think are unethical

RobBensingerJan 18, 2023, 6:07 AM
147 points
6 comments1 min readEA link

Ap­pear­ance of impropriety

MuireallJan 18, 2023, 3:22 AM
16 points
2 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

Con­formism in EA

monadicaJan 18, 2023, 8:35 PM
−1 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

(In­cor­rectly) Overem­pha­siz­ing Effec­tive Careers

DavidmanheimJan 23, 2023, 8:03 PM
44 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

EA is too re­li­ant on per­sonal connections

sawyer🔸Sep 1, 2022, 2:26 PM
231 points
27 comments8 min readEA link

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

HabrykaJun 21, 2023, 4:11 AM
160 points
39 comments1 min readEA link

EA move­ment course cor­rec­tions and where you might disagree

michelOct 29, 2022, 3:32 AM
79 points
4 comments15 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

The Wages of North-At­lantic Bias

Sach WryAug 19, 2022, 12:34 PM
8 points
2 comments17 min readEA link

EA’s weird­ness makes it un­usu­ally sus­cep­ti­ble to bad behavior

OutsideViewFeb 5, 2023, 6:01 AM
208 points
69 comments4 min readEA link

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)

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

Benevolent_RainMar 13, 2024, 3:18 AM
11 points
35 comments9 min readEA link

What ac­tu­ally is “value-al­ign­ment”?

ConcernedEAsFeb 7, 2023, 4:02 PM
3 points
9 comments5 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

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

SharmakeSep 19, 2022, 8:57 PM
4 points
2 comments2 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

How To Prevent EA From Ever Turn­ing Into a Cult

Anonymous56Jun 30, 2022, 6:37 AM
65 points
11 comments7 min readEA link

Fol­low-up: Crowd­sourced Criticisms

HmashSep 1, 2022, 9:56 PM
6 points
0 comments9 min readEA link

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

There_is_a_problemFeb 18, 2023, 3:39 AM
3 points
52 comments2 min readEA link