DylanEvans comments on A critique of effective altruism - Less Wrong

64 Post author: benkuhn 02 December 2013 04:53PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (152)

You are viewing a single comment's thread.

Comment author: DylanEvans 12 December 2013 06:31:34PM 5 points [-]

To my mind, the worst thing about the EA movement are its delusions of grandeur. Both individually and collectively, the EA people I have met display a staggering and quite sickening sense of their own self-importance. They think they are going to change the world, and yet they have almost nothing to show for their efforts except self-congratulatory rhetoric. It would be funny if it wasn't so revolting.

Comment author: homunq 21 December 2013 07:15:16PM 1 point [-]

Upvoted because I think this is a real issue, though I'm far from sure whether I'd put it at "worst".