To any of my subscribers, this will be the last article I write on Effective Altruism (EA) for a while, but I felt compelled to write another one in light of recent events. A few months ago, I wrote a defence of EA, mainly aimed at Kathleen Stock’s article on the UnHerd website. Since then, there have been many more critical articles aimed at the EA movement, mainly in the wake of the scandal involving FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried. All of the articles I have read, and there are quite a few at the moment, make the same errors. They conflate Longtermism with EA and misrepresent what the movement is about.
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The Misrepresentation of Effective Altruism
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To any of my subscribers, this will be the last article I write on Effective Altruism (EA) for a while, but I felt compelled to write another one in light of recent events. A few months ago, I wrote a defence of EA, mainly aimed at Kathleen Stock’s article on the UnHerd website. Since then, there have been many more critical articles aimed at the EA movement, mainly in the wake of the scandal involving FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried. All of the articles I have read, and there are quite a few at the moment, make the same errors. They conflate Longtermism with EA and misrepresent what the movement is about.