If you're not donating, it's not effective altruism, it's just sparkling philosophy
davidmanheim · x · 2026-11-09
Risk researcher David Manheim quips: if you're not donating money to solve problems, it's not effective altruism — it's just sparkling philosophy.
A one-line jab at the EA community's tendency toward theorizing over action, with obvious resonance for the increasingly talk-heavy AI safety discourse.
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