
Is Effective Altruism Right? #2: Dylan Matthews
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The Importance of Morality in the Future
Long-termism is an offshoot or development of EA philosophy that encourages people to think about considering in their calculus for moral good, the people who are yet to be born. "There is like an eschatological aspect to it that is kind of hard to avoid," he says. It's interesting if you take the center of gravity of EA in different corners of the constellation and then take them to the extreme, you get kind of different branches.
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