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Critiquing Effective Altruism (with Michael Nielsen and Ajeya Cotra)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Disagreement With EA

I don't think about disagreements. I'm not answering your question at all. I'm trying to refuse to answer it and that just feels ungenerous. We get into packets with you or phasing answer that's fine. It seems like EA is kind of a foreign way of looking at things to you. There's some purview that rejects that way ofLooking at things. That's the kind of thing that I find very motivating" "On many occasions I've been struggling to make an argument that a J has thought much more deeply than I have about many of these issues," he adds.

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