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Every time I hear about anything related to Effective Altruism, it's because people who believe this stuff have done crimes sufficient to make it in to the news.

Are there other contexts they show up where they are not doing crimes, or really non-normative things?




Effective Altruists donate to charities which save lives, etc. They help people to choose effective charities using evidence-based approach, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GiveWell

But that doesn't get into the news. Saving people is boring. Killing people? That gets the clicks.

Suppose you have 1000 people in the movement. 998 well-adjusted people. 1 is a crook who uses movement as a shield. 1 is insane freak.

Of course, you'll hear about the crook and the freak. Well-adjusted people are not newsworthy.




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