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Critiquing Effective Altruism (with Michael Nielsen and Ajeya Cotra)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The Selection Bias in Charity Giving
I suspect there's an extreme selection bias going on over the people you hang out with. A lot of EAs are just like, well, give well, sort of thought pretty hard about it, and here's their conclusion, and I give money there. They're not thinking much harder at all than somebody who decides to give to the Red Cross or whatever. And that's just both parties doing a modest amount of online research before they picked what charity to donate to.
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