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Ego comments on Intentional Insights and the Effective Altruism Movement – Q & A - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 02 January 2016 07:43PM

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Comment author: Ego 19 January 2016 01:44:00AM 0 points [-]

EA doesn't do that kind of thing.

Ipse dixit and motivated reasoning.

Why not just be absolutely anonymous?

Comment author: RichardKennaway 19 January 2016 07:41:18AM 1 point [-]

Why not just be absolutely anonymous?

Accountability matters.

Comment author: Ego 19 January 2016 01:23:59PM *  1 point [-]

Accountability matters.

Being public does not provide accountability. Is Zuckerberg being held accountable for the Newark schools debacle? No. People are saying, "At least he tried."

Here's the thing.... We understand the idea of creative destruction in other realms but fail to see it when our attention is attracted, like a bull to the red cape, to the people who are suffering in the destruction phase. Propping up a dysfunctional system is worse than letting it fail and rebuilding entirely.