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Critiquing Effective Altruism (with Michael Nielsen and Ajeya Cotra)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Importance of Being EA

I think a more fair question would be, is EA punching way above its weight in the amount of good it's causing? In my case, mostly what I've tried to do is find public goods that nobody else thinks about and work on those. A thing that was very significant for me in making the choice to start working on open science in 2006 full time was that there was nothing like it out there.

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