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Critiquing Effective Altruism (with Michael Nielsen and Ajeya Cotra)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Is Celebrating a Child's Birthday Legible?
Ajaya: I think legibility is a really good topic to turn to. In your essay, Michael, you talk about questions like, is celebrating a child's birthday legible? Or would an effective altruist say that we should do that? Ajaya: The argument for Rotary Club is actually ex ante the most good somebody could do. As opposed to there are a lot of random ways that it could be the most good someone does.
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