Benquo

• Benquo 15 Dec 2016 0:28 UTC

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  in reply to: Benjamin_Todd’s comment on: Con­tra the Giv­ing What We Can pledge

  Ben_Todd, it seems to me like you’re saying both these things:

  • GWWC is very busy and can’t reasonably be expected to write up all or most of the important considerations around things like whether or not to take the GWWC Pledge.

  • Considerations around the pledge are in GWWC’s domain, & sensitive, so people should check in with GWWC privately before discussing them publicly, and failing to do so is harmful in expectation.

  I’m having a hard time reconciling these. In particular, it seems like if you make both these claims, you’re basically saying that EAs shouldn’t publicly criticize the pledge without GWWC’s permission because that undercuts GWWC’s goals. That seems very surprising to me. Am I misunderstanding you?

• Benquo 26 Sep 2014 12:41 UTC

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  on: Effec­tive al­tru­ism as the most ex­cit­ing cause in the world

  This is awesome! I’m going to try this out next time I get to explain effective altruism to someone.

  (I originally wrote “have to explain,” but in the spirit of this article I rewrote it as “get to” before posting.)