In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruism
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In a since deleted thread on another site, I wrote

For the OG effective altruists, it’s imperative to rebrand the kooky ultra-utilitarianists as something else. TESCREAL is the term adopted by their opponents.

Looks like great minds think alike! The EA’s need to up their google juice so people searching for the term find malaria nets, not FTX. Good luck on that, Scott!

The HN comments are ok, with this hilarious sentence

I go to LessWrong, ACX, and sometimes EA meetups. Why? Mainly because it’s like the HackerNews comment section but in person.

What’s the German term for a recommendation that’s the exact opposite?

  • @EvinceoEnglish
    16•10 months ago

    Wrote this right on the SSC reddit:

    Couldn’t a very similar argument be made in favor of the Catholic Church though? After all they’ve founded thousands of hospitals and such. They’re very big on charitable giving. Are people unfair by judging the Catholic Church mostly on its religious doctrine and political activism instead of its charitable works?

    • @GorillasAreForEatingEnglish
      7•10 months ago

      And like the Catholic Church, they have sexual assault scandals