Wittgenstein as the mirror image of an Effective Altruist: give your fortune to the richest
birchlse · x · 2026-09-25
A witty observation framing Wittgenstein as the mirror image of an Effective Altruist: since all money corrupts the soul, his duty was to give it away to the richest people he knew — his own siblings — minimizing its marginal corrupting effect. A neat inversion of the EA utility-maximization logic with strong share value in the AI/EA community.
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