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Effective Altruism's Implicit Epistemology — EA Forum

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Note: This post primarily examines the informal epistemic norms which govern EA. Consequently, it's mostly a work of sociology rather than philosoph…

Cross-posted from The Violet Hour. Note: This post primarily examines the informal epistemic norms which govern EA. Consequently, it's mostly a work of sociology rather than philosophy. These informal norms are fleshed out in Section 4, and I’ll briefly state them here.[1] If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing with made up numbers. Speculative reasoning is worth doing. Our explicit, subjective credences are approximately accurate enough, most of the time, even in crazy domains, for it to be worth treating those credences as a salient input into action. When arguments lead us to…

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