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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Wow, effective altruism is still a thing?
Now ask it about “Effective Altruism”.
Look into https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism
Try to tell that to the Effective Altruism crowd.
"effective altruism" hurts my ear
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
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".
Effective Altruism has a "make me think whoever is involved in this isn't a grifty scammer weirdo" problem
Is this effective altruism or ineffective altruism?
Do you feel morally superior to Effective Altruists?