On: Effective Altruism and Its Future

[skrebbel]

I think there’s a huge survival bias that the people who do good for status are all over the media and people who don’t, aren’t.

[blacksmithgu → skrebbel]

There is definite survivorship bias; I suspect it's so strong that virtually all "do-gooding" you see on social media is for gaining status. It makes me extremely cynical of charities; perhaps just trying to do good "in the small" for the people around you is the best that one can do.

[skrebbel → blacksmithgu]

The corollary to your observation is that the do-gooding you don't see on social media is likely not for gaining status. Does that also make you extremely cynical of charities?

[blacksmithgu → skrebbel]

I messed up the wording on the above comment - I'm only skeptical of all the "performative charity" that you see on social medial.