EA - 'Why not effective altruism?' - Richard Y. Chappell by Pablo

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: 'Why not effective altruism?' - Richard Y. Chappell, published by Pablo on November 22, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.Forthcoming in Public Affairs Quarterly:Effective altruism sounds so innocuous - who could possibly be opposed to doing good, more effectively? Yet it has inspired significant backlash in recent years. This paper addresses some common misconceptions, and argues that the core "beneficentric" ideas of effective altruism are both excellent and widely neglected. Reasonable people may disagree on details of implementation, but all should share the basic goals or values underlying effective altruism.Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org