A response to some of the criticisms put forward in the readings from week eight of the Arete Fellowship, highlighting which are more and less persuasive.
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Catastrophic global events are scary - but we know nothing about them, and EA should probably sideline x-risks.
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Effective altruism prioritizes action that leads to immediate concrete, quantifiable results. Sometimes, however, the best option is not always the one that is most ‘cost-effective’ or tangible or immediate.
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The EA community should therefore question the merit of the AI cause area, and in doing so, reassert its commitments to impartiality and equity.
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These are the Executive Summaries of two final reports from a Philanthropy Advisory Fellowship project to research strategy and best practices for funding research in brain science. This research was conducted on behalf of PAF client One Mind.
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By presenting EA as an open dialogue on how to best help others, we can grow the EA community.
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The approach that the EA has adopted runs the detrimental risk of not paying enough attention to a growing concern that can quickly bring about the extinction of the human race.
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As Effective Altruism systematically tackles enduring, complicated issues, intuition may still be a useful tool to lean on.
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Finding a balance between being ideological and practical is an important challenge.
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It's all about the source code.
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An exploration of questions and answers in the field of decision theory.
Read MoreI think Effective Altruists should add a fourth criterion to their trinity of tractability, scale, and neglectedness: permanence.
Read MorePhysicians aren’t where we need them.
Read MoreWe shouldn’t treat morality as a formalized logical system.
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Have a look at HEA member Stephen Casper’s post on what he thinks the most important question to answer is.
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Effective Altruism is philosophically pluralistic, but has certain close ties with utilitarianism and the greatest happiness principle. Here, HEA member Stephen Casper discusses his personal take on the philosophy behind equality and aggregation.
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While Effective Altruism is not defined by utilitarianism, there is a great deal of overlap. Check out HEA member, Stephen Casper’s blog post on utilitarianism.
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In this report, we evaluated interventions to combat the growing opioid epidemic in the United States. We developed a methodology for evaluating interventions based on 3 key criteria: evidence, cost-effectiveness, and scalability. We also created a scoring rubric to simplify our conclusions on the strength of the interventions in each of these 3 areas. We looked at interventions in 5 broad problem areas: pain treatment, opioid supply, addiction treatment, access/referral to treatment, and harm reduction.
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