Lumifer comments on A critique of effective altruism - LessWrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 11 December 2013 06:30:39PM *  0 points [-]

I guess it's mostly a terminology thing. I associate "central planning" with things like the USSR and it was jarring to see an offhand reference to EA being centrally planned.

If we redefine things in terms of external management/control vs. just providing resources without strings attached, I don't know if we disagree much.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 December 2013 07:03:37PM 3 points [-]

In that case, I think I could spend part of the evening hammering out what precisely our differences are, or I could get off LessWrong and do my actual job.

Currently choosing the latter.