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Erik Hoel on Effective Altruism, Utilitarianism, and the Repugnant Conclusion

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Morality Is Not a Market, Right?

We should take intuitions seriously as things that have evolved over very long periods of time. The reason you should give locally isn't because you care more about your child than the kid in the poor country who needs the bed net. You can see that your local community center that you've given money to is actually functional rather than dis functional. We ad racism, iis a defensible, self righteous view for a long, long time. It's aoatio to slavry, and so and so it's a little trickier. I want to go back to one thing we talked about, and then i want a transition to the eliezr kowski cause i think it

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