Lumifer comments on Taking Effective Altruism Seriously - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 07 June 2015 02:29:14AM 7 points [-]

it massively restricts EA's maximum effectiveness

It's not that simple. Implementation of radical outside-of-Overton policies requires not only the willingness to do so. You need to have sufficient power to say "We will do this and the rest of the world can go jump into the lake".

EA is very very VERY far away from such an amount of power.

(That is a good thing)