Over the last year, I've written six posts about mistakes in the effective altruism community. I thought it would be helpful to collect them all here:
- Focus more on talent gaps, less on funding gaps
- Don't assume diminishing returns for small charities
- We need to use different rules of thumb to coordinate with the community
- Safe credentials are not always the best way to get career capital
- Working at effective altruist organisations is good for career capital
- Lots of people are analysing replaceability incorrectly
- Why effective altruism is totally wrong
- Probably more people should be aiming to do direct work. In particular, at startups and in less explored cause areas.
- Probably fewer people should be aiming to earn to give.
- When donating, we should be doing more to quickly fund startups.
I count seven bullet points, not six.
Oh, I guess the seventh link isn't you. That probably explains it :).