Cluelessness Critiques Week: Discussion Thread

This week is Cluelessness Critiques Week on the EA Forum. 

We'll be publishing eligible entries^[1] to the Cluelessness Critiques Essay Competition on the Forum for discussion. 

The comment competition

While the essays are being judged, we'd love for this event to kick off more valuable discussion of Anthony's Sequence, and the problems for impartial altruists it raises (for a refresher, read this summary). 

To help with this goal, we're hosting a comment competition throughout the week. The best comments, according to me, @Anthony DiGiovanni 🔸 and @Will Aldred, will be awarded in multiples of $100, up to a total of $2000^[2]. 

We're looking in particular for comments that:

• Show a deep understanding of Anthony's sequence and the problem of unawareness,
• And advance the conversation, by introducing further considerations, clarifying key points, making a new critique. 

We may also award comments simply because they are very helpful for the discussion - i.e. comments that clear up a persistent confusion. 

Awards will look like this:

How to use this discussion thread:

This is a place to post any questions or comments you have after reading the sequence, or the competition entries. This could be in the form of:

• Clarification questions. If something confused you, it probably confused someone else.
• Statements that you'd like to debate with others. Consider adding a poll to your comment if you are making a bold statement.
• Quick arguments, even scrappy ones, that another commenter could disagree with or take further. 

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   I.e., those that engage with Anthony's sequence, and offer a critique or solution. I'll also refrain from publishing some of the more unreadable (because AI-generated) pieces, since they won't be interesting to the Forum audience. 

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   Same caveats here as listed in the disclaimer section here. Additionally, we may award less than the total $2000 if we don't find enough comments that we consider worth awarding. Note also that we will endeavour to award comments throughout the week, but some awards may be given the week after.