• JohnBierce@awful.systems
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    8 months ago

    How delightfully ineffective

    (Seriously, what has Effective Altruism ever accomplished beyond buying castles?)

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      8 months ago

      The “malaria nets” side of it has done legitimate good, because they didn’t try to reinvent the wheel from scratch, stuck to actual science and existing, well performing charitable organisations.

      global poverty still gets a good portion of the EA funding, but is slowly falling out of the movement because it’s boring to discuss and you can’t make any dubiously effective startups out of it.