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The Criticism (EA Cause Areas) tag covers posts that criticize popular claims about the importance of a given cause area, or an idea within that area. They don't have to be critical of the area as a whole — just one or more popular ideas related to the area.

We also have "criticism" tags for specific EA orgs and for the EA movement more generally.

Posts tagged Criticism (EA Cause Areas)

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83How much EA analysis of AI safety as a cause area exists?Q

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124Effective Altruism is an Ideology, not (just) a Question

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85The Fermi Paradox has not been dissolved

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80Critical Review of 'The Precipice': A Reassessment of the Risks of AI and Pandemics

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62Possible misconceptions about (strong) longtermism

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59The Epistemic Challenge to Longtermism (Tarsney, 2020)

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58RCTs in Development Economics, Their Critics and Their Evolution (Ogden, 2020) [linkpost]

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40Against GDP as a metric for timelines and takeoff speeds

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28Julia Galef and Angus Deaton: podcast discussion of RCT issues (excerpts)

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25Birds, Brains, Planes, and AI: Against Appeals to the Complexity/Mysteriousness/Efficiency of the Brain

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23Voting reform seems overrated

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22[Link] "The AI Timelines Scam"

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20Critique of Superintelligence Part 1

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15Response to recent criticisms of EA "longtermist" thinking

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11Re. Longtermism: A response to the EA forum (part 2)

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