The trouble with attacking effective altruism is that almost any valid critique can be incorporated into the system quite easily. After all, if there's some argument for why EA right now is ineffective, EA's own mandate is to consider the criticism and use it to improve efficiency.
In order to defeat it, you need to contrive something that would be difficult to arrive at if you weren't just looking for some pretext to oppose effective altruism.
That is why I am a proud member of EA's only successful opponent: The Center for Effective Evil. Our latest program is a 1,000,000$ grant to a recently fired Meta Engineer to develop AGI designed to make all his enemies suffer. Hopefully, it interprets that statement to include all life on earth (or the universe [or the multiverse]).
The trouble with attacking effective altruism is that almost any valid critique can be incorporated into the system quite easily. After all, if there's some argument for why EA right now is ineffective, EA's own mandate is to consider the criticism and use it to improve efficiency.
In order to defeat it, you need to contrive something that would be difficult to arrive at if you weren't just looking for some pretext to oppose effective altruism.
That is why I am a proud member of EA's only successful opponent: The Center for Effective Evil. Our latest program is a 1,000,000$ grant to a recently fired Meta Engineer to develop AGI designed to make all his enemies suffer. Hopefully, it interprets that statement to include all life on earth (or the universe [or the multiverse]).
Thanks for this. I've added a link to it in my blog on the topic
https://www.mattball.org/2022/11/lay-off-effective-altruists.html
Note: I think publishing during this time (the holidays) often minimizes readership.