Banteg's greentext nails the EA logic slide: from mosquito nets to donating for the next 500 million years
jefrankle · x · 2026-09-18
- Banteg retells the classic effective altruism logic slide in greentext form: start with spreadsheet-optimized mosquito net donations, then because "future people matter too," keep extending the horizon—500 years, 5000 years, 500 million years—until the math makes any present-day act feel woefully inadequate.
- Reposted by vsiv joking that the "perfect presentation" would be sad if AI-generated. A self-aware AI-community meme about EA/longtermism reasoning.
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