wordgrammer: calling EA 'just utilitarianism' is like calling woke 'just Sartre'
wordgrammer · x · 2026-09-18
wordgrammer pushes back on the common take that effective altruism is "just utilitarianism."
His analogy: it's the same error as saying woke is just Sartre's idea that "existence precedes essence" — that man is thrown into the world and only discovers purpose later through self-determination. The point is that such "it's just X" reductions flatten out real intellectual differences.
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