BrienneYudkowsky comments on Four Focus Areas of Effective Altruism - Less Wrong

40 Post author: lukeprog 09 July 2013 12:59AM

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Comment author: lukeprog 08 July 2013 05:51:57AM 2 points [-]

On Facebook, Eliezer suggested an alternate name for practitioners of effective altruism: "Ravenclaw Gryffindors."

Elizabeth Synclair replied: "What? Clearly any effective altruist worth their salt is a Ravenpuff."

(To explain: Hogwarts Houses.)

Comment author: BrienneYudkowsky 18 July 2013 05:01:16AM 2 points [-]

Robby Bensinger cleverly expended upon this, describing the various motivations for effective altruism as "slytherfuzzies", "ravenfuzzies", "gryffinfuzzies ", and "hufflefuzzies".