JonahSinick comments on Social Impact, Effective Altruism, and Motivated Cognition - Less Wrong
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I agree that people say such things all the time. What I haven't seen very much is
On the latter point, I find certain principles from your How To Actually Change Your Mind sequence to be highly relevant and significant, but I don't remember having seen explicit application of these principles to "assessing the relative social impact of different effective altruism interventions" in the public domain.
I wrote a post which is related, except that I thought different people might be more or less influenced by different biases and didn't identify one in particular as the most relevant.
Yes, I vaguely remember having seen this — good point.