The Deaths of Effective Altruism
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The Deaths of Effective Altruism
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Re: The Deaths of Effective Altruism
#2The author is Leif Wenar, Professor of Philosophy (as well as Humanities, Political Science, and Law) at Stanford.
He’s the author of the book Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World (about which Peter Singer wrote: “Philosophers rarely write big books that could change the world, but Blood Oil is such a book.”)
Wenar studied philosophy at Harvard with John Rawls and Robert Nozick, and was Karl Popper’s research assistant.
Re: The Deaths of Effective Altruism
#3I think the author's criticism of EA would be more, uh, effective, if they summarized their main arguments in a few short paragraphs. The article is way too long.