benkuhn comments on In Praise of Tribes that Pretend to Try: Counter-"Critique of Effective Altruism" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: benkuhn 02 December 2013 07:38:38PM 2 points [-]

Yes, I noted throughout the post that pretending to actually try gets you farther than following social defaults because it rules out a bunch of ideas that obviously conflict with EA principles. I still think it's quite bad in the sense of adding epistemic inertia.