As Peter Singer would argue the way many liberal causes operate will never be "up stream" enough to make real change. Empathy not enough
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I've heard the argument that one should not rely on charities for doing good bc of their ineffectiveness compared to market approach.
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The trick is to get people's self-interests to align with doing good for whatever one is trying to do. Create incentives & market solves it.
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But of course, we also know how it is with govt trying to create well-meaning incentives... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect …
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1)Yes. You can give a homeless man $ everyday and he'll remain homeless. But change the system that makes him homeless and problem is solved
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2) see Paul Farmer "structural violence"
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3) But capitalism will/can never be aligned with ending poverty. Not set up for it. Capital flows up not down
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Isn't effective altruism a large tent, where this organization also lives
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I'm referring to LA rationalist/LW types who strongly self-label that, not people who one might include under the term.
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Could it be that the effective altruism movement is mainly about virtue signaling ?
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If you wanna do that interpretation, then try
@primalpoly's angle: http://infoproc.blogspot.se/2016/08/geoffrey-miller-on-virtue-signalling.html … tho the slides have disappeared?!
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EA also includes 80000 hours - hugely upstream.
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