everything i like ought to be an EA cause area
:) its a rationalist project basically much philanthropy is not actually very efficient at making the world a better place, you can think of EA as "optimized altruism" which ok that sounds good but what are we optimizing it forhttps://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/introduction-to-effective-altruism/ …
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so there are a bunch of philosophical disputes about this. mostly EA people agreed to disagree and just created a bunch of "cause areas," or things that might be efficient ways to do philanthropy well
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the joke is about the proliferation of these cause areas, and coming up with the most absurd things that one can imagine that would with the right set of assumptions and values be useful ways to do philanthropy
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