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Crit­i­cism of effec­tive al­tru­ist causes

TagLast edit: 22 Jul 2022 13:44 UTC by Leo

The criticism of effective altruist causes tag covers posts that criticize popular claims about the importance of a given cause area, or an idea within that area. They don’t have to be critical of the area as a whole — just one or more popular ideas related to the area.

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criticism of effective altruism | criticism of effective altruism culture | criticism of effective altruist organizations | criticism of longtermism and existential risk studies

Pre-an­nounc­ing a con­test for cri­tiques and red teaming

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

Re­sponse to Re­cent Crit­i­cisms of Longtermism

ab13 Dec 2021 13:36 UTC
249 points
31 comments28 min readEA link

Why AI is Harder Than We Think—Me­lanie Mitchell

Eevee🔹28 Apr 2021 8:19 UTC
45 points
7 comments2 min readEA link
(arxiv.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

[Linkpost] Eric Sch­witzgebel: Against Longtermism

ag40006 Jan 2022 14:15 UTC
41 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

How much cur­rent an­i­mal suffer­ing does longter­mism let us ig­nore?

Jacob Eliosoff21 Apr 2022 9:10 UTC
40 points
50 comments6 min readEA link

Progress stud­ies vs. longter­mist EA: some differences

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

Su­per­vol­ca­noes tail risk has been ex­ag­ger­ated?

Vasco Grilo🔸6 Mar 2024 8:38 UTC
46 points
9 comments8 min readEA link
(journals.ametsoc.org)

Why I No Longer Pri­ori­tize Wild An­i­mal Welfare

saulius15 Feb 2023 12:11 UTC
321 points
65 comments5 min readEA link

Ben Garfinkel: How sure are we about this AI stuff?

bgarfinkel9 Feb 2019 19:17 UTC
128 points
20 comments18 min readEA link

[ed­ited] Inequal­ity is a (small) prob­lem for EA and eco­nomic growth

Karthik Tadepalli8 Aug 2022 9:42 UTC
99 points
28 comments7 min readEA link

[Question] How much EA anal­y­sis of AI safety as a cause area ex­ists?

richard_ngo6 Sep 2019 11:15 UTC
94 points
20 comments2 min readEA link

Will splashy philan­thropy cause the biose­cu­rity field to fo­cus on the wrong risks?

Tessa A 🔸30 Apr 2019 16:03 UTC
45 points
10 comments2 min readEA link
(thebulletin.org)

Is RP’s Mo­ral Weights Pro­ject too an­i­mal friendly? Four crit­i­cal junctures

NickLaing11 Oct 2024 12:03 UTC
146 points
56 comments5 min readEA link

Democratis­ing Risk—or how EA deals with critics

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

Con­cerns with the Wel­lbe­ing of Fu­ture Gen­er­a­tions Bill

Larks9 Mar 2022 18:12 UTC
126 points
37 comments21 min readEA link

Re. Longter­mism: A re­sponse to the EA fo­rum (part 2)

vadmas1 Mar 2021 18:13 UTC
15 points
4 comments1 min readEA link

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

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

On AI Weapons

kbog13 Nov 2019 12:48 UTC
76 points
10 comments30 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

20 Cri­tiques of AI Safety That I Found on Twitter

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

Biolog­i­cal An­chors ex­ter­nal re­view by Jen­nifer Lin (linkpost)

peterhartree30 Nov 2022 13:06 UTC
36 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(docs.google.com)

Blake Richards on Why he is Skep­ti­cal of Ex­is­ten­tial Risk from AI

Michaël Trazzi14 Jun 2022 19:11 UTC
63 points
14 comments4 min readEA link
(theinsideview.ai)

AI timelines and the­o­ret­i­cal un­der­stand­ing of deep learn­ing

Venky102412 Sep 2021 16:26 UTC
4 points
8 comments2 min readEA link

Farmed an­i­mals may have pos­i­tive lives now or in a few decades?

Vasco Grilo🔸26 Oct 2024 9:18 UTC
24 points
7 comments8 min readEA link

[linkpost] Peter Singer: The Hinge of History

mic16 Jan 2022 1:25 UTC
38 points
8 comments3 min readEA link

Cri­tique of Su­per­in­tel­li­gence Part 2

Fods1213 Dec 2018 5:12 UTC
10 points
12 comments7 min readEA link

Why the ex­pected num­bers of farmed an­i­mals in the far fu­ture might be huge

Fai4 Mar 2022 19:59 UTC
134 points
29 comments16 min readEA link

[Cross-post] Change my mind: we should define and mea­sure the effec­tive­ness of ad­vanced AI

David Johnston6 Apr 2022 0:20 UTC
4 points
0 comments7 min readEA link

Cri­tique of OpenPhil’s macroe­co­nomic policy advocacy

Hauke Hillebrandt24 Mar 2022 22:03 UTC
142 points
39 comments24 min readEA link

Cri­tique of Su­per­in­tel­li­gence Part 3

Fods1213 Dec 2018 5:13 UTC
3 points
5 comments7 min readEA link

Why I’m skep­ti­cal about un­proven causes (and you should be too)

Peter Wildeford7 Aug 2013 4:00 UTC
54 points
1 comment11 min readEA link

The Epistemic Challenge to Longter­mism (Tarsney, 2020)

MichaelA🔸4 Apr 2021 3:09 UTC
79 points
27 comments2 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Pos­si­ble mis­con­cep­tions about (strong) longtermism

JackM9 Mar 2021 17:58 UTC
90 points
43 comments19 min readEA link

A Se­quence Against Strong Longter­mism

vadmas22 Jul 2021 20:07 UTC
20 points
14 comments1 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

The Fermi Para­dox has not been dissolved

Fods1212 Dec 2020 12:02 UTC
107 points
14 comments14 min readEA link

[Question] Why should we *not* put effort into AI safety re­search?

Ben Thompson16 May 2021 5:11 UTC
15 points
5 comments1 min readEA link

Peo­ple in bunkers, “sar­dines” and why biorisks may be over­rated as a global priority

Evan R. Murphy23 Oct 2021 0:19 UTC
22 points
6 comments3 min readEA link

Why Re­search into Wild An­i­mal Suffer­ing Con­cerns me

Jordan_Warner25 Oct 2020 22:26 UTC
19 points
42 comments1 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

Against GDP as a met­ric for timelines and take­off speeds

kokotajlod29 Dec 2020 17:50 UTC
47 points
6 comments14 min readEA link

Up­dat­ing on Nu­clear Power

rileyharris24 Apr 2022 5:35 UTC
5 points
17 comments1 min readEA link

[Link] “The AI Timelines Scam”

Milan_Griffes11 Jul 2019 3:37 UTC
22 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

On how var­i­ous plans miss the hard bits of the al­ign­ment challenge

So8res12 Jul 2022 5:35 UTC
125 points
13 comments29 min readEA link

Thoughts on elec­toral reform

Tobias_Baumann18 Feb 2020 16:23 UTC
85 points
31 comments4 min readEA link

EAA is rel­a­tively over­in­vest­ing in cor­po­rate welfare reforms

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

RCTs in Devel­op­ment Eco­nomics, Their Crit­ics and Their Evolu­tion (Og­den, 2020) [linkpost]

KarolinaSarek🔸6 Apr 2021 12:29 UTC
78 points
5 comments12 min readEA link

Disen­tan­gling “Im­prov­ing In­sti­tu­tional De­ci­sion-Mak­ing”

Lizka13 Sep 2021 23:50 UTC
92 points
16 comments19 min readEA link

The Base Rate of Longter­mism Is Bad

ColdButtonIssues5 Sep 2022 13:29 UTC
220 points
27 comments7 min readEA link

AGI ruin sce­nar­ios are likely (and dis­junc­tive)

So8res27 Jul 2022 3:24 UTC
53 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Cri­tique of Su­per­in­tel­li­gence Part 5

Fods1213 Dec 2018 5:19 UTC
12 points
2 comments6 min readEA link

Thoughts on “A case against strong longter­mism” (Mas­rani)

MichaelA🔸3 May 2021 14:22 UTC
39 points
33 comments2 min readEA link

Longter­mist slo­gans that need to be retired

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

A tale of 2.5 or­thog­o­nal­ity theses

Arepo1 May 2022 13:53 UTC
140 points
31 comments11 min readEA link

Birds, Brains, Planes, and AI: Against Ap­peals to the Com­plex­ity/​Mys­te­ri­ous­ness/​Effi­ciency of the Brain

kokotajlod18 Jan 2021 12:39 UTC
27 points
2 comments1 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)

No­body’s on the ball on AGI alignment

leopold29 Mar 2023 14:26 UTC
327 points
65 comments9 min readEA link
(www.forourposterity.com)

More global warm­ing might be good to miti­gate the food shocks caused by abrupt sun­light re­duc­tion scenarios

Vasco Grilo🔸29 Apr 2023 8:24 UTC
46 points
39 comments13 min readEA link

[Question] Are you op­ti­mistic about the com­mer­cial­iza­tion of alt pro­teins in 2023 and be­yond?

Eevee🔹29 Apr 2023 22:20 UTC
24 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

We don’t need AGI for an amaz­ing future

Karl von Wendt4 May 2023 12:11 UTC
57 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Epistemics (Part 2: Ex­am­ples) | Reflec­tive Altruism

Eevee🔹19 May 2023 21:28 UTC
34 points
0 comments2 min readEA link
(ineffectivealtruismblog.com)

Change my mind: Ve­ganism en­tails trade-offs, and health is one of the axes

Elizabeth3 Jun 2023 0:12 UTC
126 points
84 comments1 min readEA link

Why Yud­kowsky is wrong about “co­va­lently bonded equiv­a­lents of biol­ogy”

titotal6 Dec 2023 14:09 UTC
29 points
20 comments16 min readEA link
(open.substack.com)

Sav­ing lives in nor­mal times is bet­ter to im­prove the longterm fu­ture than do­ing so in catas­tro­phes?

Vasco Grilo🔸20 Apr 2024 8:37 UTC
11 points
25 comments9 min readEA link

Can a con­flict cause hu­man ex­tinc­tion? Yet again, not on priors

Vasco Grilo🔸19 Jun 2024 16:59 UTC
19 points
2 comments11 min readEA link

Helping an­i­mals or sav­ing hu­man lives in high in­come coun­tries is ar­guably bet­ter than sav­ing hu­man lives in low in­come coun­tries?

Vasco Grilo🔸21 Mar 2024 9:05 UTC
12 points
10 comments12 min readEA link

Utili­tar­i­anism and the re­place­abil­ity of de­sires and attachments

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

Nu­clear win­ter scepticism

Vasco Grilo🔸13 Aug 2023 10:55 UTC
110 points
42 comments10 min readEA link
(www.navalgazing.net)

The Meat Eater Problem

Vasco Grilo🔸17 Jun 2023 6:52 UTC
61 points
1 comment7 min readEA link
(journalofcontroversialideas.org)

[Question] Are we con­fi­dent that su­per­in­tel­li­gent ar­tifi­cial in­tel­li­gence dis­em­pow­er­ing hu­mans would be bad?

Vasco Grilo🔸10 Jun 2023 9:24 UTC
24 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Do you think de­creas­ing the con­sump­tion of an­i­mals is good/​bad? Think again?

Vasco Grilo🔸27 May 2023 8:22 UTC
89 points
41 comments5 min readEA link

Pri­ori­tis­ing an­i­mal welfare over global health and de­vel­op­ment?

Vasco Grilo🔸13 May 2023 9:03 UTC
112 points
50 comments18 min readEA link

Find­ing bugs in GiveWell’s top charities

Vasco Grilo🔸23 Jan 2023 16:49 UTC
46 points
14 comments6 min readEA link

Ex­ag­ger­at­ing the risks (Part 13: Ord on Biorisk)

Vasco Grilo🔸31 Dec 2023 8:45 UTC
57 points
18 comments13 min readEA link
(ineffectivealtruismblog.com)

In­ter­na­tional risk of food in­se­cu­rity and mass mor­tal­ity in a run­away global warm­ing scenario

Vasco Grilo🔸2 Sep 2023 7:28 UTC
15 points
2 comments6 min readEA link
(www.sciencedirect.com)

So­nia Ben Oua­grham-Gorm­ley on Bar­ri­ers to Bioweapons

Vasco Grilo🔸15 Feb 2024 17:58 UTC
21 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(hearthisidea.com)

Famine deaths due to the cli­matic effects of nu­clear war

Vasco Grilo🔸14 Oct 2023 12:05 UTC
40 points
21 comments66 min readEA link

Cri­tique of “Com­pre­hen­sive ev­i­dence im­plies a higher so­cial cost of CO2”

Vasco Grilo🔸19 Aug 2023 8:49 UTC
30 points
0 comments7 min readEA link
(daviddfriedman.substack.com)

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

At­ten­tion on AI X-Risk Likely Hasn’t Dis­tracted from Cur­rent Harms from AI

Erich_Grunewald 🔸21 Dec 2023 17:24 UTC
189 points
13 comments1 min readEA link
(www.erichgrunewald.com)

Con­cepts of ex­is­ten­tial catastrophe

Vasco Grilo🔸15 Apr 2024 17:16 UTC
11 points
1 comment8 min readEA link
(globalprioritiesinstitute.org)

Can a war cause hu­man ex­tinc­tion? Once again, not on priors

Vasco Grilo🔸25 Jan 2024 7:56 UTC
67 points
29 comments18 min readEA link

Can a ter­ror­ist at­tack cause hu­man ex­tinc­tion? Not on priors

Vasco Grilo🔸2 Dec 2023 8:20 UTC
43 points
9 comments15 min readEA link

Re­sponse to re­cent crit­i­cisms of EA “longter­mist” thinking

kbog6 Jan 2020 4:31 UTC
27 points
46 comments11 min readEA link

Against im­mor­tal­ity?

Owen Cotton-Barratt28 Apr 2022 11:51 UTC
110 points
40 comments3 min readEA link

There’s Lots More To Do

Jeff Kaufman 🔸29 May 2019 19:58 UTC
134 points
30 comments2 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)

Cri­tique of Su­per­in­tel­li­gence Part 1

Fods1213 Dec 2018 5:10 UTC
22 points
13 comments8 min readEA link

Cri­tique of Su­per­in­tel­li­gence Part 4

Fods1213 Dec 2018 5:14 UTC
4 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Why EAs are skep­ti­cal about AI Safety

Lukas Trötzmüller🔸18 Jul 2022 19:01 UTC
290 points
31 comments29 min readEA link

Why I’m skep­ti­cal of moral cir­cle ex­pan­sion as a cause area

Question Mark14 Jul 2022 20:29 UTC
18 points
5 comments3 min readEA link

Vot­ing re­form seems over­rated

Nathan_Barnard10 Apr 2021 0:35 UTC
12 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] What are the lead­ing cri­tiques of “longter­mism” and re­lated concepts

AlasdairGives30 May 2020 10:54 UTC
47 points
27 comments1 min readEA link

Were the Great Tragedies of His­tory “Mere Rip­ples”?

philosophytorres8 Feb 2021 14:56 UTC
−9 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Cash trans­fers are not nec­es­sar­ily wealth transfers

BenHoffman1 Dec 2017 23:35 UTC
17 points
12 comments12 min readEA link

Reflec­tion—Growth and the case against ran­domista de­vel­op­ment—EA Fo­rum

Joanna Picetti28 Jul 2022 23:38 UTC
−16 points
3 comments4 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

Marginal Aid and Effec­tive Altruism

TomDrake30 Mar 2023 20:31 UTC
39 points
14 comments2 min readEA link

Are we already past the precipice?

Dem0sthenes10 Aug 2022 4:01 UTC
1 point
5 comments2 min readEA link

Strong Longter­mism, Ir­refutabil­ity, and Mo­ral Progress

ben_chugg26 Dec 2020 19:44 UTC
60 points
99 comments11 min readEA link

My ar­gu­ment against AGI

cveres12 Oct 2022 6:32 UTC
2 points
29 comments3 min readEA link

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

Longter­mism and Uncertainty

Wahhab Baldwin26 Sep 2022 16:21 UTC
7 points
2 comments3 min readEA link

How to think about an un­cer­tain fu­ture: les­sons from other sec­tors & mis­takes of longter­mist EAs

weeatquince5 Sep 2020 12:51 UTC
63 points
31 comments14 min readEA link

Defec­tive Altru­ism ar­ti­cle in Cur­rent Af­fairs Magazine

ukc1001422 Sep 2022 13:27 UTC
13 points
7 comments2 min readEA link

Sum­mary: Against the Sin­gu­lar­ity Hy­poth­e­sis (David Thorstad)

Nicholas Kruus🔸27 Mar 2024 13:48 UTC
63 points
10 comments5 min readEA link

A case against strong longtermism

vadmas15 Dec 2020 20:56 UTC
68 points
79 comments1 min readEA link

Prov­ing too much: A re­sponse to the EA forum

vadmas15 Feb 2021 19:00 UTC
24 points
7 comments1 min readEA link

How the an­i­mal move­ment could do even more good

Tobias_Baumann28 Feb 2022 23:10 UTC
80 points
1 comment7 min readEA link
(centerforreducingsuffering.org)

Against longtermism

Brian Lui11 Aug 2022 5:37 UTC
38 points
30 comments6 min readEA link

Searle vs Bostrom: cru­cial con­sid­er­a­tions for EA AI work?

Forumite13 Jul 2022 10:18 UTC
11 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Three Bi­ases That Made Me Believe in AI Risk

beth​13 Feb 2019 23:22 UTC
41 points
20 comments3 min readEA link

(Cross­post) Is Effec­tive Altru­ism just a gi­ant meme?

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

The rea­son­able­ness of spe­cial concerns

jwt29 Aug 2022 0:10 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readEA link

Re­sponse to Tor­res’ ‘The Case Against Longter­mism’

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

AI Risk is like Ter­mi­na­tor; Stop Say­ing it’s Not

skluug8 Mar 2022 19:17 UTC
189 points
43 comments10 min readEA link
(skluug.substack.com)

An epistemic cri­tique of longtermism

Nathan_Barnard10 Jul 2022 10:59 UTC
12 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

Thoughts on Émile P. Tor­res’ new ar­ti­cle, ‘Un­der­stand­ing “longter­mism”: Why this sud­denly in­fluen­tial philos­o­phy is so toxic’?

Atsina22 Aug 2022 9:13 UTC
8 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Is the Far Fu­ture Ir­rele­vant for Mo­ral De­ci­sion-Mak­ing?

Tristan D1 Oct 2024 7:42 UTC
35 points
31 comments2 min readEA link
(www.sciencedirect.com)

Why this isn’t the “most im­por­tant cen­tury”

Arjun Khemani27 Jul 2022 15:27 UTC
2 points
2 comments5 min readEA link
(arjunkhemani.com)

Com­ments on Ernest Davis’s com­ments on Bostrom’s Superintelligence

Giles24 Jan 2015 4:40 UTC
2 points
8 comments9 min readEA link

A Re­sponse to OpenPhil’s R&D Model

Anthony Repetto3 Aug 2022 23:31 UTC
5 points
2 comments3 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)

A re­sponse to Matthews on AI Risk

RyanCarey11 Aug 2015 12:58 UTC
11 points
16 comments6 min readEA link

Con­cerns with Longtermism

Wahhab Baldwin16 Sep 2022 5:37 UTC
13 points
9 comments3 min readEA link

Against pre­dic­tion markets

Denise_Melchin12 May 2018 12:08 UTC
25 points
20 comments4 min readEA link

Linkpost—Beyond Hyper­an­thro­po­mor­phism: Or, why fears of AI are not even wrong, and how to make them real

Locke24 Aug 2022 16:24 UTC
−4 points
3 comments2 min readEA link
(studio.ribbonfarm.com)

Raphaël Millière on the Limits of Deep Learn­ing and AI x-risk skepticism

Michaël Trazzi24 Jun 2022 18:33 UTC
20 points
0 comments4 min readEA link
(theinsideview.ai)

Hob­bit Manifesto

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

Spec­u­la­tive sce­nar­ios for cli­mate-caused ex­is­ten­tial catastrophes

vincentzh27 Jan 2023 17:01 UTC
26 points
2 comments4 min readEA link

Editable “Im­por­tant, Tractable, Ne­glected” cri­tiques review

DirectedEvolution11 Feb 2023 4:01 UTC
10 points
2 comments1 min readEA link
(forum.effectivealtruism.org)

There can be highly ne­glected solu­tions to less-ne­glected problems

Linda Linsefors10 Feb 2023 20:08 UTC
211 points
35 comments3 min readEA link

For Longter­mism, Em­ploy an Earth-Based Morality

Wahhab Baldwin26 Sep 2022 18:57 UTC
−3 points
0 comments2 min readEA link

On Mike Berkow­itz’s 80k Podcast

Timothy_Liptrot21 Apr 2021 1:53 UTC
16 points
10 comments4 min readEA link
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