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Can effective altruism be redeemed?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

EA and Utilitarianism Are Not the Same Thing

A few smart guys like Will McCaskill and some others at Oxford especially who wanted to help the world. They realized basically that the charity world could use more utilitarian style thinking. But then they over corrected and started bringing that utilitarian mindset to everything. "I don't think utilitarianism doing the most good as all there is to ethics"

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