by Dan Shipperin Superorganizers
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Rationality and effective altruism brought us to this:
How could this happen? This is exactly what philosophy is supposed to fix. Ethics is the search for a system of rules that can’t be used by stupid people to do terrible things. lf you are looking for candidate ethical systems that seem least likely to be co-opted to do bad things, it’s reasonable to pick something like effective altruism and rationality.
The ideas behind them are:
- You can use reason and quantitative evidence to figure out what it means to do good.
- You should put that knowledge into practice by doing as much good as you can.
Except, in this case, those principles seem to have failed spectacularly.
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