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| author | Nicholas Johnson <> | 2025-10-26 00:00:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicholas Johnson <> | 2025-10-26 00:00:00 +0000 |
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diff --git a/content/entry/how-to-maximize-your-positive-impact.md b/content/entry/how-to-maximize-your-positive-impact.md index 4c0fff6..a3e9887 100644 --- a/content/entry/how-to-maximize-your-positive-impact.md +++ b/content/entry/how-to-maximize-your-positive-impact.md @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ For example, EA would recommend getting a job in finance to have more money to g EA wouldn't recommend replacing capitalism with something else because that's not "evidence-based"—any time you're dealing with messy human group behavior, it's not so easy to consistently replicate let alone quantify how much good it does compared to alternatives. The problem with discounting these more [complete](/2023/09/10/individual-vs-collective-advice/ "Journal Entry: Individual vs Collective Advice") solutions is that very few of them are "evidence-based" in the sense of being quantifiable and measurable as EA demands, the "evidence-based" mitigations ultimately don't cut it, and many existing systems aren't really evidence-based anyways. So at some point, we need to take the leap of faith and make our best guess based on everything we know even if there's no hard data to guarantee success. -In my opinion, EA as a philosophy has some interesting ideas, especially relating to [longtermism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longtermism "Wikipedia: Longtermism") and [existential risk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk "Wikipedia: Global Catastrophic Risk"), but what it promotes as an organization and as a movement is too business-friendly. It seems to be a modern version of Andrew Carnegie's [The Gospel of Wealth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gospel_of_Wealth "The Gospel of Wealth"), which emphasizes that the rich (or the fortunate, in the EA context) have a responsibility to use their money wisely to benefit the rest of society, but avoids challenging the underlying economic system which creates these inequalities in the first place. +In my opinion, EA as a philosophy has some interesting ideas, especially relating to [longtermism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longtermism "Wikipedia: Longtermism") and [existential risk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophic_risk "Wikipedia: Global Catastrophic Risk"), but what it promotes as an organization and as a movement is too business-friendly. It seems to be a modern version of Andrew Carnegie's [The Gospel of Wealth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gospel_of_Wealth "Wikipedia: The Gospel of Wealth"), which emphasizes that the rich (or the fortunate, in the EA context) have a responsibility to use their money wisely to benefit the rest of society, but avoids challenging the underlying economic system which creates these inequalities in the first place. ### My Thoughts |