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Critiquing Effective Altruism (with Michael Nielsen and Ajeya Cotra)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
How to Be an Effective Funder of Things
Michael Wolraich: I've never been a funder. It is a lot easier to critique something than to come up with an alternative rate. So maybe part of what you're saying is that people taking an EA mindset would just never fund something like this. Like it would just completely miss on these incredible breakthroughs that occurred. But at the same time, you're kind of saying EA's lights by that maximizing kind of principal's own perspective,. Taking some different attitude actually achieves that goal better than trying to pursue it directly would.
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