How is he ethically challenged? This looks like an accusation that doesn't have merit
As a brand it's tainted. You might argue unfairly, but that's never mattered in "public brand perception" before.
This is a joke of an article. It shows a few incidental deaths while ignoring the total number of saved lives due to EA. It literally points to ~2 incidental deaths while Give Well saves ~300k lives. Its remarkably ignorant.
Is there a word for this kind of fallacy? Cherry picking sounds too Reddit-coded.
In short, Effective Altruism says you don't engage in charity until you have sufficient means to actually make a difference. Basically, you leverage capitalism to accumulate enough wealth to actually be able to solve a big problem, then you go all in on solving that problem. Sounds great right?
In the real world these people never accumulate enough wealth to actually start solving problems. Even when they become billionaires. In practice it is a convenient excuse to act like the most depraved capitalist while still pretending to sit on the high horse and talk down to people who simply try to help with the means available to them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQZWMmINqxo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S54GrXDjokg
https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/a-mirror-for-tech-br...
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-problem-with-effectiv...
In practice, it can be used as a fully-general counterargument to supporting most charities, since decisively and completely solving problems in this space is rare. It’s harder to split a problem into component parts than it is to throw up one’s hands and say, “well, this isn’t tractable.”
> You can only throw up your hands and say "this isn't tractable" if tractability is 0, i.e. the charity doesn't help at all, no matter how much money you spend on it.
Even I don’t believe this. You’ve gone too far in the other direction and made tractability a useless metric.