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What is "Effective Altruism" but a sexy re-branding of the principles and behaviours that religions and other cultural vessels have attempted to imbue in people
by Waterluvian 3y ago
What is "Effective Altruism" but a sexy re-branding of the principles and behaviours that religions and other cultural vessels have attempted to imbue in people for thousands of years now?
If your goal is truly to do good, it's really not that hard. If your goal is to feel good, that usually requires these kinds of wrappers, and with them will come the charlatans that sense opportunity in exploiting your insecurities.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoThis is not fair to the core idea of EA. There are LOTS of ways to do good in the world, and sure, religion and various other cultural vessels encourage us to pursue them. The original idea behind EA was to provide a way to choose between different ways of doing good. The fact that you wanted to and were going to "do good" was assumed.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoReligion really does not focus on maximizing good at all. They are overwhelmingly kantian, focusing more on rules that keep your community strong whereas EA has a much larger focus on causes outside your community.