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Critiquing Effective Altruism (with Michael Nielsen and Ajeya Cotra)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Importance of Decentralization in EA

I think it's the case that like Carrie and Dustin and later Sam Bankman-Fried and a number of people who are also wealthy but smaller. And then those institutions are set up to have a pretty good shot at culturally dominating EA. But I don't think if there were a third major funder, they would pick a slightly different set of people and maybe have a slightly different perspective on things. So it doesn't feel like as much of a community choice to me. That does not necessarily mean market-based. But I certainly prefer decisions made at the edges.

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