new EA cause area: promote male circumcision because infant circumcision might cause autism and because temple grandin says human progress only comes from ASD people
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new EA cause area: eugenics
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related new EA cause area: restart atmospheric nuclear testing to increase background radiation and thereby accelerate the biological development of mankind
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new EA cause area: convince EA enthusiasts to drop the idea of a "cause area" and replace it with the "viable business plan"https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1402207988421513216 …
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new EA cause area: shut down EA as soon as possible and remove any mention of it from history because people are really bad at identifying values to advance outside of like "feed poor people in my city" and what if some crazy value system becomes popular did you think for more th
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Crazy value systems like, "it is bad when people die of malaria" or "I am anti-schistosomiasis" Maybe my definition of EA doesn't match yours, but I have trouble understanding your neutral+mocking/negative opinion on this stuff Not asking you to go object level, just confusedpic.twitter.com/DHxNGyTHTV
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Maybe my naiive "give money to GiveWell instead of 'awareness'" definition of effective altruism is way off?
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i’m fairly certain he is joking to some extent and doesn’t actually disagree with the notion that malaria is probably better than sad puppy awareness or whatever
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I am kind of poking fun at EA tho I have complicated views on the endeavorhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1376856829129412614?s=19 …
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Philip Verheyen's Leg (285/315# Squat) Retweeted elle
I really appreciated elle’s take from a little while back, about not becoming a robotic QALY weirdo. I dunno, certainly things get weird and galaxy brained at the far ends of this stuff, but I do think there are some sort of easy, strictly better choices to make.https://twitter.com/ellegist/status/1389993283380727811 …
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elle @ellegistwe should distinguish between effective altruism (giving cash donations to the most efficient causes) & personal giving (to individuals, or local charities, or donkey sanctuaries, or by volunteering) they require v different mindsets, and to be good it seems essential to do bothShow this thread0 replies 0 retweets 5 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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