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It will still go on. He wasn't the only one, but he definitely supercharged funding as of late. I think all the longtermism stuff that has come to prominence r
by sct202 4y ago
It will still go on. He wasn't the only one, but he definitely supercharged funding as of late.
I think all the longtermism stuff that has come to prominence recently is a side-effect of too much money in EA trying to make up new causes that are magically more effective than philanthropy that currently exists.
- prologger 4y agoI mean I really don't get what they're about. Most of what I know about these guys seems to revolve around shuffling money around so it's not clear to me what exactly is effective or altruistic about what they're doing.
- JamesBarney 4y agoTraditional metrics for charities only included efficiency metrics. Then there was a movement that said actually effectiveness is more important than efficiency even though it's harder to measure, and started trying to measure effectiveness (like Givewell, 80000 hours, etc...). It's called effective altruism because it focuses on effective giving(i.e. altruism).
- JamesBarney 4y agoHow much of the actual EA funding is going to longtermist charities vs how much is going to your boring old malaria/infrastructure/de-worming/factory farming initiatives? I always thought the longtermist stuff was mostly because it was an easy way to criticize EA in a way that drove clicks.