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Rationality And Its Opposite — Steven Pinker

The Joe Walker Podcast

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Effective Altruism - What Are Your Criticisms?

You've been critical of the effective altruism movement for lurching too far from its global health and development routes towards cause areas like preventing existential catastrophe, an unaligned AI. What are your specific object level critiques of long-termism? You should still work to end to prevent nuclear war or a highly damaging pandemic.

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