EA Forum Announces 'Cluelessness Critiques' Essay Competition
DKokotajlo · x · 2026-08-06
The Effective Altruism (EA) Forum announced an essay contest titled 'Cluelessness Critiques Competition' to foster philosophical progress on the topic. The competition encourages participants to explore how altruists should navigate deep uncertainty about long-term future impacts.
Discussions focus on two types of 'constructive responses': an 'internally constructive' approach that seeks an escape hatch within the existing framework to retain confidence, and an 'externally constructive' approach that advocates escaping a potentially failing orientation entirely to assess opportunity costs and new prospects.
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