
Is Effective Altruism Right? #7: Jonathan Ben-Menachem
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The Alternate History of EA
I feel like I usually would think of the story I'd often heard about from individual people who are sympathetic to EA or just for my own understanding of it was, you know, I listened to Peter Singer talk about the necessity of helping people. And so I had to think of well what's the most effective way to do that and I stumbled upon RCTs. Yeah, I honestly a weak point of my article is I don't actually know the chronology there I'm making the assumption in the way that you're just laying it out right. We use the term philanthropic capital describing this philanthropic initiatives as a large charitable organizations or extremely wealthy individual actors. The concept of philanthrop capitalists
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