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mattparlmer [planet and tulip emoji] [verified] @mattparlmer · 3h This piece on the moral problems with effective altruism in the limit by @ben_r_hoffman is very much worth reading given recent events (and likely near future event as well) benjaminrosshoffman.com/against-respon… [link card excerpt] 1. When people take responsibility for something, they try to control it. So, universal responsibility implies an attempt at universal control. 2. Maximizing control has destructive effects: • An adversarial stance towards other agents. • Decision paralysis. 3. These failures are not accidental, but baked into the structure of control-seeking. We need a practical moral philosophy to describe strategies that generalize better, and that benefit from the existence of other benevolent agents rather than treating them primarily as threats.
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Tweet by @mattparlmer recommending Ben Hoffman's essay on moral problems with effective altruism in the limit, with the essay's three-point summary shown as a card.