My understanding of effective altruism comes from the rationality movement. The impression I got from there is essentially: IF you want to help people (or redu

My understanding of effective altruism comes from the rationality movement. The impression I got from there is essentially: IF you want to help people (or reduce some specific type of suffering) THEN this is the most effective way to do so whereas this article seems to be emphasizing Singer's moral imperative. Honestly, even with my limited exposure to effective altruism, I think they have already answered all these arguments. This is the heroic struggle version of altruism, where the goal is to show how much effort you put into something.