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Matt Reardon @Mjreard · 16h Self-gaslighting in EA is pretty crazy. Like honest to god hardcore committed EAs will write long treatises about how "EA neglects politics because it's too marginalist" and "We must reform EA from its risk-it-all benthamite utilitarianism" and then you look for the canonical pieces establishing the anti-politics take or the benthamite take and there's literally nothing, just pieces saying we should stop being those things
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
A single tweet critiquing effective altruism community discourse as self-gaslighting, arguing that internal reform critiques of EA target strawman positions ('anti-politics,' 'benthamite utilitarianism') with no canonical source actually establishing them.