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An entertaining, particularly biting, and horribly shortcoming-riddled statement of the case against EA that nevertheless captures a common set of views: https
by norepicycle 8y ago
An entertaining, particularly biting, and horribly shortcoming-riddled statement of the case against EA that nevertheless captures a common set of views:
https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_elitist_philanthropy_of_so_called_effective_altruism https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_elitist_philanthropy_of_...
(This is the "defective altruism" article.)
Is there a name for a set of views that are correlated with each other in prevalence, in the sense that they occur together more often than could be explained by chance alone? It's similar to the idea of a syndrome in medicine: "opinion syndrome", perhaps?
- balfirevic 8y agoMemeplex maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memeplex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memeplex