“What ‘Effective Altruism’ Means to Me” by Richard Y Chappell

This is a link post. I previously included a link to this as part of my trilogy on anti-philanthropic misdirection, but a commenter asked me to post the full text here for the automated audio conversion. Apologies to anyone who has already read it. As I wrote in ‘Why Not Effective Altruism?’, I find the extreme hostility towards effective altruism from some quarters to be rather baffling. Group evaluations can be vexing: perhaps what the critics have in mind when they hate on EA has little or no overlap with what I have in mind when I support it? It's hard to know without getting into details, which the critics rarely do. So here are some concrete claims that I think are true and important. If you disagree with any of them, I’d be curious to hear which ones, and why! What I think: It's good and virtuous to [...] ---Outline:(00:53) What I think:(10:40) Things I don’t think(11:53) Conclusion: Beware of StereotypesThe original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: June 14th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/WQn6c2BTqjYsRwZnQ/what-effective-altruism-means-to-me --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.