Effective Altruism

The cluster focuses on discussions about Effective Altruism (EA), including its principles of maximizing charitable impact, criticisms of it as scammy or misguided, defenses of its concepts, and links to related organizations.

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Sample Comments

drowsspa Jan 14, 2023 View on HN

Wow, effective altruism is still a thing?

benreesman Feb 10, 2024 View on HN

Now ask it about “Effective Altruism”.

poushkar Aug 24, 2018 View on HN

Look into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism

Rzor Nov 19, 2023 View on HN

Try to tell that to the Effective Altruism crowd.

shiroyacha Feb 5, 2023 View on HN

"effective altruism" hurts my ear

ChadNauseam Nov 18, 2025 View on HN

You'll never find a single prominent EA saying that because it's 100% made up. Maybe they'll remark that from an academic perspective it's a consequence of some interpretations of utilitarianism, a topic some EAs are interested in, but no prominent EA has ever actually endorsed or implied the view you put forward.To an EA, what you said is as laughable of a strawman as if someone summarized your beliefs as "it makes no difference if you donate to starving children in

fastball Oct 19, 2024 View on HN

This sounds very Effective Altruism."If you don't put your money towards the things with the most positive impact you're a bad/sad person".

freejazz Feb 3, 2023 View on HN

Effective Altruism has a "make me think whoever is involved in this isn't a grifty scammer weirdo" problem

sn0w_crash Nov 10, 2022 View on HN

Is this effective altruism or ineffective altruism?

williamcotton Nov 13, 2022 View on HN

Do you feel morally superior to Effective Altruists?