Excited altruism - The GiveWell Blog
Critics of effective altruism worry that we're trying to choose causes based on calculations about how to help the world as much as possible, rather than
This post is more than 12 years old Critics of effective altruism worry that we’re trying to choose causes based on calculations about how to help the world as much as possible, rather than based on what causes excite us. They worry that we therefore won’t be fully engaged in, or committed to, the causes we pick. ( More ) I think such people fundamentally misunderstand effective altruism. I think they imagine that we have passions for particular causes, and are trying to submerge our passions in the service of rationality. That isn’t the case. Rather, effective altruism is wh
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