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Effective Altruism is not a reinvention of logical positivism. Perhaps you mean rationalism (in the internet-rationalist sense; there are others) which is clos
by gjm11 4y ago
Effective Altruism is not a reinvention of logical positivism.
Perhaps you mean rationalism (in the internet-rationalist sense; there are others) which is closely associated with EA but not at all the same thing, and is somewhat like logical positivism.
- astrange 4y agoI will believe people claiming these are different things when the EAs stop talking about AI ending the world and other things they read in SF novels and go back to malaria nets.
- gjm11 4y agoGiveWell's recommended charities are all doing health interventions in poor countries. The largest category in Good Ventures's grants, by more than 2x, is "global health and development". Malaria nets and the like are, in fact, most of what EAs are doing. Those things are less controversial and exciting to talk about than (say) whether there's a real danger of AI wrecking the world, so if you focus on what's talked about in the EA Forum or something then you will get a misleading impression.