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Can effective altruism be redeemed?
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
The Future-Proof Idea of Moral Progress Isn't a Category Error
I think another way to read this ambivalence is to read it as an indicator that this whole endeavor of sciencey maximizing for ethics is kind of a category mistake. I've tried to lay out a vision for moral progress that doesn't rely on moral realism. The idea of future-proof ethics is trying to get ahead of what we would think if we were wiser and did more reflection, which is different from finding an objective moral truth. It's just me living with the contradictions.
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