How does the Effective Altruist community respond to critics? With threats and harassment. Even people who still call themselves "Effective Altruists" are afraid to openly criticize the community.
I mean, not to tar any groups with a broad brush, but like, if I had to be criticized by any one person, I’d prefer to be criticized by DAIR rather than EAs, because the EAs hang around the Rationalists, and the Rationalists birthed the Zizians, and those folks have murders attributed to them. Like, at least with Dr. Gebru I can be reasonably sure that no one’s gonna come at me with a katana.
T Kamal in the comments:
I don’t think Torres or Gebru have dismissed the consequences of global heating like Nick Bostrom and Kelsey Piper, or casually called for bombing China and letting something replace humanity like Yud https://www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/eliezer-yudkowskys-long-history-of