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Critiquing Effective Altruism (with Michael Nielsen and Ajeya Cotra)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Importance of Maximizing Utility

Jay Parini: If you don't believe that there's an objectively right answer to what's good, then why is one sense of what's good winning out over the others? He says part of him feels more like she could benefit from more mental resources than other parts of me. Parini: I think it's that most of the other impulses I have toward doing good in other ways or other notions of the good are much less developed intellectually and verbalized.

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