You have to separate effective altruism (mosquito nets are a better use of funds than "raising awareness") from effective altruism (the only thing that matters is ensuring that we have a galaxy-spanning civilization of a quadrillion quadrillion people in the year 5000).

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Exactly, and now people are reacting (as we should be) to such a swing - which is particularly shocking given that 2025 was a year of immense crisis in the global aid sector due to Trump and Musk executing USAID.

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The core problem w/ EA today is that most of the *money* in the ecosystem has pivoted from "mosquito nets are an efficient way to fight malaria and sleeping sickness" to "quadrillions of future lives depend on me becoming a trillionaire," even if most of the people are still doing the former.

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I’m a huge fan of American Pragmatism but the criticism that ok well how do you tell which effects are better is hard

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"There is every reason to believe that if the polls are accurate and Michael Whatley goes down to ignominious defeat, Trump will in fact attempt to take revenge on North Carolina’s voters and political leaders. He thinks he’s entitled and that when you’re president, they let you do it."

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