EA Donor Defends Cold Numbers As A Tool For Valuing People Equally
AndyMasley · x · 2026-09-17
AndyMasley pushes back on the claim that EA's 'effective' framing is a moral ranking: when choosing charities, he ignores specifics of recipients' lives because they don't make anyone more worth saving. In this context, coldly looking at the numbers is a specific, useful tool for valuing people equally.
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