Ben Todd: the day EA stops being weird is the day it dies
ben_j_todd · x · 2026-10-02
In a follow-up on the EA narrative debate, Ben Todd argues that effective altruism's entire purpose is finding neglected ways of doing good — which are the most effective precisely because everyone else overlooks them. The day EA stops being weird is the day it dies.
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