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Critiquing Effective Altruism (with Michael Nielsen and Ajeya Cotra)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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EA and Philanthropy

EA is not the only pocket of philanthropy that has a kind of like thought through worldview. The typical funder or grant maker spends significantly more energy trying to think about what do we fund within the areas that we're in and often maybe for historical reasons don't have as much flexibility to rethink or think from first principles about the particular areas. HHMI Howard Hughes Medical Institute in particular feels to me like it has a distinctive point of view as a science funder.

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