Occasionally, apparent coldness to immediate suffering: I’ve only seen this a bit, but even one example could be enough to put someone off for good.
I would really like to ban the term “rounding error”.
I haven’t come across this yet… is it what I think it is?
Yep.
It seems pretty easy to optimise for consequentialist impact and still be more virtuous and principled than most people.
Maybe EA can lead to bad moral licensing effects in some people.
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I would really like to ban the term “rounding error”.
I haven’t come across this yet… is it what I think it is?
Yep.
It seems pretty easy to optimise for consequentialist impact and still be more virtuous and principled than most people.
Maybe EA can lead to bad moral licensing effects in some people.