The Importance of Getting Proximate to the Issue

The concept of effective altruism is a tool for thinking, but when taken to the extreme it can cause mass harm. The knock on this long term is stuff is again, it can really justify like megalomaniac asshole behavior now for some future good. It can feed people with big egos and messiah complexes and make those even bigger. But if Elon Musk can say, I don't care about my people in my life and my employees, I care about going to Mars because I think climate change is real,. And if the earth gets too hot, I want humanity to continue.