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There's some detailed criticism of this article in the comments on the EA forum: > The overwhelmingly thrust of Wenar's article -- from the opening jab about a
by skybrian 3y ago
There's some detailed criticism of this article in the comments on the EA forum:
> The overwhelmingly thrust of Wenar's article -- from the opening jab about asking EAs "how many people they’ve killed", to the conditional I bolded above -- seems to be to frame charitable giving as a morally risky endeavor, in contrast to the implicit safety of just doing nothing and letting people die.
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> (If he just wants to advocate for more GiveDirectly-style anti-paternalistic interventions that "shift our power to them", that seems fine but obviously doesn't justify the other 95% of the article.)
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/cfwxiG8ovaAA9us6t/linkpost-leif-wenar-s-the-deaths-of-effective-altruism https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/cfwxiG8ovaAA9us6t/...
And here's a link to GiveWell's comments on the article (that Wired sent them for review).
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WfBvF7N4Z1VyQcqtQmqJPY59J33IjHKOwVlRH6gTwzM/edit https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WfBvF7N4Z1VyQcqtQmqJPY59...