Effective Altruism is the Atheism Plus of the rationality movement. Fight me, you fucks.
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a more general version of the same objection I think
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a bunch of fuckers from Ought coming over and colonizing my Is
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is the concern that it causes people to try to signal their moral goodness at the expense of the movement's integrity?
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the concern is I go to a rationalist meetup and all they want to talk about is the ethics of veganism
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hmm, i don't think EA is competing for brand space with rationality in the same way as A+ and atheism
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no, because it won and A+ lost
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i don't think EA is trying to position itself, or has positioned itself, as a better version of the same thing
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I feel like it's sort of positioned itself as the next logical step
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as a side note, some EAs feel that yudkowskists have been doing inappropriate entryism into their movement
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worth noting that yudkowsky + people around him placed great emphasis on both effectiveness and altruism from the beginning
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