Extraordinary claims requires extraordinary evidence, but that evidence is not always provided. I look at two examples of extraordinary claims based on rather less than extraordinary evidence, then draw lessons from this discussion.| Reflective altruism
This post discusses the events at Manifest 2023 and Manifest 2024, which platformed a number of scientific racists.| Reflective altruism
Seven women connected to effective altruism tell TIME they experienced harassment and worse within the community| TIME
EA leaders said they were deceived by the disgraced billionaire. But the red flags around Bankman-Fried were well known| TIME
At the heart of all tragedy, the Greeks saw a phenomenon they called hamartia: a fatal error born of unavoidable ignorance. Combined with a fundamental moral flaw, hamartia inevitably led on to destruction. For the Greeks, humans were cursed not just with mortality of the flesh, but also hamartia-driven mortality of the spirit. Hamartia was the Gods being Divine Jerks, randomly toying with human lives for their own pleasure, through cat-and-mouse games the latter could not hope to win.| ribbonfarm
