I’d be doing less good with my life if I hadn’t heard of effective altruism
The principles have given me a great framework to think about things, and a community to motivate me to keep being rigorous about it!
However, I’ve become a lot more worried about relying on consequentialist calculations and I’ve ended up being a bit more virtues ethics-y as a result. I am not sure I’m not good for the world—it’s possible if I tried to have less impact I would have more confidence I’m not net negative? The perils of working in AI!
The principles have given me a great framework to think about things, and a community to motivate me to keep being rigorous about it!
However, I’ve become a lot more worried about relying on consequentialist calculations and I’ve ended up being a bit more virtues ethics-y as a result. I am not sure I’m not good for the world—it’s possible if I tried to have less impact I would have more confidence I’m not net negative? The perils of working in AI!