Whenever someone asked the Comet King why he took the weight of the whole world on his shoulders, he’d just said “Somebody has to and no one else will.” (Source 2)
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If some pandemic breaks out that humanity isn’t ready for, mother nature isn’t going to say “well you guys gave it a good shot, so I will suspend the laws of biology for now” – we’re just all going to be dead. Consequentialist ethics is about accepting that fact – accepting that “trying really hard” doesn’t count for anything. (Source)
To me, the core of what EAs gesture at when referring to human agency is represented by the following quotes:
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I think “Reality doesn’t grade on a curve” might originally be from Scott Alexander’s Transhumanist Fables.