ben hoffman

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…

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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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