[nyeah]

Lots of people and organizations make charitable donations. Often that's done in the name of some ideology. Always they claim they're doing good, not throwing the money away.

None of this is new. What may be new is branding those traditional claims as a unique insight.

Even the terrible behavior and frightening sophistry of some high-profile proponents is really nothing groundbreaking. We've seen it before in other movements.

[Viliam1234]

> Always they claim they're doing good, not throwing the money away.

And the core idea of Effective Altruism is to actually verify those claims.