Columbia Professor Uses Watchmen's Ozymandias to Explain Effective Altruism

Columbia professor Vishal Misra shared tweets arguing that Ozymandias from the comic Watchmen embodies the prototypical logic of effective altruism—existential risk and utilitarian arithmetic—while clarifying the comic did not cause the EA movement.

2026-09-25 ~ 2026-09-25 · 2 related posts

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