Ben Todd rebuts philosophers' criticisms of effective altruism

Ben Todd, former head of 80,000 Hours, has published a point-by-point rebuttal of philosopher Leif Wenar's critique of effective altruism. He argues that criticizing EA's judgment over the SBF/FTX collapse is unfair, since almost no one publicly called FTX a fraud before its collapse.

2026-10-12 ~ 2026-10-12 · 3 related posts

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