From one piece How Effective Altruism Lost Its Way 6 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The problem with these grand ambitions—saving humanity from extinction and enabling our species to reach its full potential millions of years from now—is that they ostensibly justify any cost in the present.
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Diverting attention and resources from global health and poverty is an enormous gamble, as it will make many lives poorer, sicker, and shorter in the name of fending off threats that may or may not materialize.
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The more effective altruism has absorbed itself in saving humanity, the less humanistic it has become.Their words
Strangely enough, as EA becomes more absorbed in the task of saving humanity, the movement is becoming less humanistic.
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korrents.com
A movement that has decided its job is to save humanity is uniquely prone to hubris, dogma and motivated reasoning.Their words
This is a worldview that’s uniquely susceptible to hubris, dogma, and motivated reasoning.
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Unlike other interventions EA has sponsored, there are scant metrics for tracking the success or failure of investments in existential risk mitigation.
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While there are interesting theoretical arguments for these causes, there’s a disconnect between an almost-neurotic focus on hard evidence of effectiveness in some areas of EA and a willingness to accept extremely abstract and conjectural “evidence” in others.