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The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism

Effective Altruism in the Garden of Ends

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Notes on Effective Altruism (EA): https://t.co/tIJQIMbuyf

"The movement, known as E.A. to its practitioners, who themselves are known as E.A.s, takes as its premise that people ought to do good in the most clear-sighted, ambitious, and unsentimental way possible. Among other back-of-the-envelope estimates, E.A.s believe that a life in the developing world can be saved for about four thousand dollars.... See more

Gideon Lewis-Kraus • The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism

Charity is good; there are aspects of the effective altruism movement that are good, but the mandate to maximize it at scale deserves to be questioned and investigated.