
Jamil Zaki: The Hopeful Skeptic
Into the Magic Shop
The Challenges of Effective Altruism
effective altruism is very attractive to the ultra wealthy class in that they're quote-unquote trying to be most fair. I would say it's led to pretty lazy thinking including about thinking there's this assumption that well emotions are irrational and silly, he says. The what I would call fetishizing of pure reason is old and interesting and often really clearly misguided because of course reasoning itself is motivated by the conclusions that we want to arrive at.
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