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William MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Moral Progress, and Cultural Innovation
Conversations with Tyler
The Humans Are Better Than the Aliens
In your moral theory the humans being better than the aliens, it's kind of a toss up. And this notion that you can't actually escape some pre existing degree of partiality in the normative framework seems to re surface. I think it would e a mistake to favour the humans by like ten thousand to one. Supposing you could do some very risky thing that could like, wipe out both, 50 50 chance of wiping out both aliens and humans, but 50 % chance of saving the humans? Then i'm like, no, don't do that thing. Would i give some extra weight to human originating civilization? All things considered,. now you're superinfluential. Does that mean
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