This article affected me a lot when I first read it (in 2015 or so), and is/was a nontrivial part of what I considered “effective altruism” to mean. Skimming it again, I think it might be a little oversimplified, and has a bit of a rhetorical move that I don’t love of conflating “what the world is like’ vs “what I want the world to be like.”
Still, I think this article was strong at the time, and I think it is still strong now.
This article affected me a lot when I first read it (in 2015 or so), and is/was a nontrivial part of what I considered “effective altruism” to mean. Skimming it again, I think it might be a little oversimplified, and has a bit of a rhetorical move that I don’t love of conflating “what the world is like’ vs “what I want the world to be like.”
Still, I think this article was strong at the time, and I think it is still strong now.
Seconded. This describes it’s effect on me as well.
Can you elaborate on where or how it conflates the ‘is’ and the ‘ought’?