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EA Should Include Hard-to-Quantify High-Leverage Causes
Effective altruism was never about only doing the easily quantifiable—quantification merely sets a baseline and flags cases where you're achieving little—so the mindset rightly extends to hard-to-measure, high-leverage causes like AI preparedness, pandemic risk, science funding, and protecting US democracy from the trend toward nationalism; EA is a question and a mindset (like science) rather than a fixed body of answers, requiring judgment rather than pure math.
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William MacAskillEvidence Quote
“effective altruism isn't in itself claiming that to have all of the answers and to say oh this is easy and you just do all of the math it's going to involve judgment it's going to involve investigating things it's more like a question and a mindset”
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:01:50 AM
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