Shrimp Welfare Project co-founder rebuts The Economist's portrayal of the EA community
nitarshan · x · 2026-10-05
A longtime Effective Altruist and co-founder of the Shrimp Welfare Project — the group most often cited as evidence that "EAs have lost their minds" — published a rare thread pushing back on The Economist's portrayal of the EA community after reading it for 20 years. He argues the piece turns virtues like "taking moral commitments seriously" and "weighing evidence explicitly while correcting for biases" into alleged flaws. Countering stereotypes of EAs as young, elite-school, eccentric polyamorists, he offers his own profile: mid-40s, Mexican, raised in a conservative mid-sized city, married with two kids.
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