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Effective Altruism, Global Poverty, and Systemic Change — Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues

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Key
gabriel2019systemic
Authors
Gabriel, Iason; McElwee, Brian
Issued
2019
Type
chapter
Container
Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publisher place
Oxford
Pages
99-114
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Claims

  1. Gabriel and McElwee argue that EA's focus on global poverty has favoured high-confidence, narrowly focused interventions while likely neglecting medium-confidence systemic change interventions that may have greater expected impact, due to a preference for political neutrality.
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