On: The evolution of effective altruism

[Quartzium]

>Effective altruism originates from the intention to rationally approach the obvious question, how to do the most good in the world.

Rationality tends to fail spectacularly when basing it on wrong assumptions. Which are subtly made.

[Loquebantur → Quartzium]

If so, why don't you point them out explicitly?

It's pretty wild how people denounce the very possibility of approaching that question rationally, while doing so in an obviously irrational way.

[Quartzium → Loquebantur]

My point was not against rationality, rather to other necessary aspects which are, again, subtly ignored, or improperly dealt with. Filling in the gaps when you do not know what you do not know can be a dangerous thing.