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by throw_pm23 1295 days ago
This is like "communism is good, it was just badly implemented".

For a movement that prides itself on being evidence-based, there is a lot of evidence EA is willing to ignore.

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Isn't effective altruism just max_a E[benefit to society | a]?

I don't see how that can be discredited as a personal moral philosophy, even if you don't personally disagree with it.

SBF and FTX fraud doesn't discredit that it's more cost effective to educate people in certain areas than others.

I discredit this philosophy because E[..] cannot be accurately estimated. So it should be P(no harm|a) > 1-eps before anything.