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The Threat Response to Effective Altruism (opens the original)
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The most foundational moral belief of the vast majority of people is that they, personally, are good. Maybe not great, certainly not the best, but good. A straightforward implication of this fact is that the obligation framing of Effective Altruism is counterproductive and arguably self-defeating.I recently re-watched Ajeya Cotra’s classic Intro to Effective Altruism talk. It’s fantastic, even if guilt-oriented in a way my version of that talk wouldn’t be. Early on, she drops the line “I couldn’
What Are We Doing? (opens the original)
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Welfare as a Terminal Value (opens the original)
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Terminal vs. instrumental valueA terminal value is something you want for its own sake—not as a means to something else, but as an end in itself. An instrumental value, by contrast, is something you want because it gets you closer to a terminal value.1Money is a classic instrumental value. Almost no one wants money for its own sake. They want what money buys, or the security and options it provides. Trace that chain far enough—security, options, comfort, freedom from worry—and you event
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