EA - [Linkpost] A Response to Rebecca Ackermann’s “Inside Effective Altruism” Editorial by stecas

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: [Linkpost] A Response to Rebecca Ackermann’s “Inside Effective Altruism” Editorial, published by stecas on October 25, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Link to the Google doc. On October 17, 2022, Rebecca Ackermann published an MIT Technology Review editorial entitled “Inside effective altruism, where the far future counts a lot more than the present.” It is a piece on Effective Altruism that contains a number of untrue and misleading claims. In response, I offer a response to it in the form of annotations to the original text and figures. I’m open to corrections/criticism. I also thank Ackermann for the engagement and effort that went into the editorial. I believe it was written in good faith. By my count, there are 13 false and 23 misleading claims. Each is explained with sources in the annotations. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.