EA - The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism | The New Yorker by Joseph Lemien

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism | The New Yorker, published by Joseph Lemien on August 9, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. There appears to be a new profile published in The New Yorker on Will MacAskill, which as it unfolds ends up being as much of a profile of Effective Altruism as of Will MacAskill. Several other people who are well known or impactful in the EA community are mentioned or are interviewed (Julia Wise, Holden Karnofsky, Toby Ord, and others). As far as I am aware, it seems to be one of the biggest pieces about of EA that in the popular press, and The New Yorker is a very well-respected publication. I know that there has been a fair amount of worry, thought, concern, and other feelings about publicity that EA has gotten in the past. How do you all feel about this piece? Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.