>They remind me of the "Effective Altruism" crowd who get completely wound up in these hypothetical logical thought exercises and end up coming to insane conclu

>They remind me of the "Effective Altruism" crowd who get completely wound up in these hypothetical logical thought exercises and end up coming to insane conclusions that they feel trapped in because they got there using pure logic I have read Effective Altruists like that. But I also remember seeing a lot of money donated to a bunch of really decent sounding causes because someone spent 5 minutes asking themselves what they wanted their donation to maximise, decided on "Lives saved" and figured out who is doing the best at that.