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Critiquing Effective Altruism (with Michael Nielsen and Ajeya Cotra)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Disproportionality of EA's

The people who are doing the most good in the world are disproportionately EA's but not a majority EA. I feel like if you ask the first question without having to stipulate that they didn't benefit from it, a ton of for-profit companies would count. If you took it seriously that animals have moral standing and there's so many more of them than there are humans, then the set of people who could possibly be doing the mostgood has shrunk a lot.

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