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Re:Effective Altruism Is about Getting Rich with a Clean Con... by chrchang523 on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:13PM (#33708876)
People are not forced to treat EA as an all-or-nothing package. If some of their claims are more convincing than others, and acceptance of only the more-convincing claims leads to SBF-like behavior with much-higher-than-background probability, it is important to strengthen some arguments, and/or withdraw community support for ideas that are currently too unsafe in practice.
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Re:Effective Altruism Is about Getting Rich with a Clean Con... by eddsh1994 on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @01:16PM (#33708909)
I agree with this. I think there are two sides of EA - the futurist utilitarian viewpoint and the rational QALY/$ viewpoint. I'm a believer of the latter, but do worry because this is boring (malaria nets and deworming) the former is the only one people hear of or see even if it's a minority group.
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