To be clear, he is factually incorrect about that claim. I never seriously considered calling it that.
One of the major points of effective altruism in my mind was that it isn’t only utilitarians who should care about doing more good rather than less, and not only consequentialists either. All theories that agree saving 10 lives is substantially more important than saving 1 life should care about effectiveness in our moral actions and could benefit from quantifying such things. I thought it was a great shame that effectiveness was usually only discussed re utilitarianism and I wanted to change that.
To be clear, he is factually incorrect about that claim. I never seriously considered calling it that.
One of the major points of effective altruism in my mind was that it isn’t only utilitarians who should care about doing more good rather than less, and not only consequentialists either. All theories that agree saving 10 lives is substantially more important than saving 1 life should care about effectiveness in our moral actions and could benefit from quantifying such things. I thought it was a great shame that effectiveness was usually only discussed re utilitarianism and I wanted to change that.