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A critique of effective altruism
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My commment, cross posted in Lesswrong Links are missing here: : http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/j8v/in_praise_of_tribes_that_pretend_to_try/

Disclaimer: I endorse the EA movement and direct an EA/Transhumanist organization, www.IERFH.org

We finally have created the first "inside view" critique of EA.

The critique's main worry would please Hofstadter by being self-referential: Being the first, having taken too long to emerge, thus indicating that EA's (Effective Altruists) are pretending to try instead of actually trying, or else they’d have s... (read more)

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A critique of effective altruism
G_Diego_Vichutilitarian10y0
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Cross posted on Lesswrong discusssion (links are missing here): http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/j8v/in_praise_of_tribes_that_pretend_to_try/

Disclaimer: I endorse the EA movement and direct an EA/Transhumanist organization, www.IERFH.org

We finally have created the first "inside view" critique of EA.

The critique's main worry would please Hofstadter by being self-referential: Being the first, having taken too long to emerge, thus indicating that EA's (Effective Altruists) are pretending to try instead of actually trying, or else they’d have sel... (read more)

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