It’s not a strawman, I linked to an actual website. No, those people don’t call themselves Effective Altruists, but they are engaged in altruism and are trying to be effective. EA is an outcome, not a process, and the EA movement has no patent on it. Yes, it’s a weakman, in that I deliberately chose an obviously ineffective charity. But my opinion of the rest of the EA movement is not much higher. The comparison is neither bed nets nor deworming—according to GiveWell’s top ranked charity, it’s sending money unmonitored, and hoping against 60 years of experience that this actually improves things rather than just being a leaky bucket.
it’s sending money unmonitored, and hoping against 60 years of experience that this actually improves things rather than just being a leaky bucket.
There not much experience with sending money directly. Most of aid spending traditional went to big organisations and not to individual people in form of money.
It’s not a strawman, I linked to an actual website. No, those people don’t call themselves Effective Altruists, but they are engaged in altruism and are trying to be effective. EA is an outcome, not a process, and the EA movement has no patent on it. Yes, it’s a weakman, in that I deliberately chose an obviously ineffective charity. But my opinion of the rest of the EA movement is not much higher. The comparison is neither bed nets nor deworming—according to GiveWell’s top ranked charity, it’s sending money unmonitored, and hoping against 60 years of experience that this actually improves things rather than just being a leaky bucket.
There not much experience with sending money directly. Most of aid spending traditional went to big organisations and not to individual people in form of money.