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So-called “effective altruism” actually just cuts the global poor out of the conversation entirely. Great piece: dear-humanity.org/effective-al...

dear-humanity.orgEA is worse than traditional philanthropy in the way it excludes we the poor.Effective altruism is worse than traditional philanthropy in the way it excludes the extreme poor in the global south. By Anthony Kalulu @KaluluAnthony | December 3, 2022: —- I have spent the v...

Pete Cunningdamned

@petermcunningham.com

17 Sept

am I crazy or didn't EA start as something closer to, "in terms of bang for the buck, we should probably steer our charity money toward mosquito nets in the developing world"

Faine Greenwood

@faineg.com

Read this: strangecosmos.substack.com/p/the-sad-de...

strangecosmos.substack.comThe sad decline of effective altruismA once wholesome and inspiring movement has become entangled with cults and has lost years chasing dead-end ideas

17/9/26, 1:57 pm1 repost18 likes

Michael Tichy

@emptywrites.bsky.social

18 Sept

It helps to look at EA as a tool for rationalizing really awful and largely racist activities rather than as the strategy for maximizing the impact of philanthropy that it pretends to be

Janne M. Korhonen

@jmkorhonen.fi

18 Sept

Fantastic read, thanks. I always *wanted* to like EA, having had similar-ish thoughts at least since 2001 (and also being emotionally challenged by being an engineer). But every time I looked, there was more suspicious weirdness going on. Hope someone resurrects the good parts!