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Contra the Giving What We Can pledge
Benquo7y7
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Ben_Todd, it seems to me like you're saying both these things:

  • GWWC is very busy and can’t reasonably be expected to write up all or most of the important considerations around things like whether or not to take the GWWC Pledge.

  • Considerations around the pledge are in GWWC's domain, & sensitive, so people should check in with GWWC privately before discussing them publicly, and failing to do so is harmful in expectation.

I'm having a hard time reconciling these. In particular, it seems like if you make both these claims, you're basically saying that... (read more)

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Benjamin_Todd
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I feel like you're straw manning my position. For instance, this: Does not mean:
Effective altruism as the most exciting cause in the world
Benquo10y6
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This is awesome! I'm going to try this out next time I get to explain effective altruism to someone.

(I originally wrote "have to explain," but in the spirit of this article I rewrote it as "get to" before posting.)

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