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SUMMARY:Cluelessness Critiques Competition
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DESCRIPTION:<p>The Effective Altruism Forum\, with prizes funded by Macroscopic Ventures\, is running an essay competition inviting critiques of the "unawareness argument" set out in Anthony DiGiovanni&rsquo\;s sequence The Challenge of Unawareness for Impartial Altruist Action Guidance. DiGiovanni argues that our evidence about the long-run consequences of our actions is too coarse to compare them: impact assessments\, whether precise expected-value estimates or informal best guesses\, should be severely indeterminate\, leaving the impartial altruist with no justified verdict on which action does more good.</p>\n<p>Eligible entries take one of three routes:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Challenge a premise &mdash\; argue that a specific premise (normative\, conceptual\, or empirical) is false or unmotivated.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Challenge the inference &mdash\; grant the premises but deny that the "no reason to prefer any action" conclusion follows.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Offer a constructive response &mdash\; grant the conclusion and say what the impartial altruist should do anyway\, defending an existing proposal (e.g. bracketing or wagering) or an original one.</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p>The strongest entries focus on a single\, clearly identified step of the argument rather than the whole. Length is open\, from roughly 200 to 5\,000 words. Read DiGiovanni&rsquo\;s summary post first to orient your entry.</p>\n<p>Prizes (USD): $2\,500 / $1\,500 / $1\,000 for the top three essays\, plus up to $2\,000 in comment prizes during the discussion week (Week starting August 17th). An outlier prize of up to $50\,000 is on offer for a decisive critique or a genuinely original solution. A $250 referral prize is also available for those cited by a winner as the reason they entered the competition.</p>\n<p>Deadline: 14 August 2026\, 23:59 anywhere on Earth.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Entries are submitted via the form linked from the announcement post. Eligible entries are published on the EA Forum during 17&ndash\;23 August\, with winners announced the week of 24 August. Open to academics\, students\, and anyone else aged 18 and over\; pieces published before the announcement are not eligible. Essay judges: Anthony DiGiovanni\, Andreas Mogensen (Oxford)\, and Jesse Clifton (Macroscopic Ventures).</p>
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