Is Effective Altruism Right? #2: Dylan Matthews
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The Importance of Epistemic Hygiene
I think EA means a lot of things to different people and I don't want what I take from it to be the canonical. It's genuinely unusual to try to think probabilistically about sort of hard to quantify weird things in the future. The thing that keeps me motivated in it is the core purpose of trying to disinterestedly further the happiness and well-being of like every human and animal on earth. There really aren't a lot of movements that are about that.
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