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Can effective altruism be redeemed?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is Utilitarianism a Good Idea?

I see a little bit of tension between two things I've seen from you. On the one hand, you sound like you really have this embrace of moral pluralism. And it seems to me like any systemizing moral theory is going to encourage us to maximize one thing exclusively. If we want to not get into trouble with that, we maybe have to give up on the seductive dream of finding one tidy rule or clear cut thing that we're always just optimizing for.

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