EA community slammed for dropping life-saving interventions over optics concerns
EigenGender · x · 2026-09-19
A pointed critique of the effective altruism community: it avoids interventions that could save enormous numbers of lives because of optics concerns, yet ends up with bad optics anyway. The author quotes The West Wing's mosquito gene drive line — the fact that opponents are convinced we'd use it is precisely what makes using it feasible — to illustrate the paradox.
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