EA belongs at the margins of moral concern, not as everyone's default ethics
austinc3301 · x · 2026-10-13
austinc3301 argues that effective altruism operates at the margins of moral concern, focused on neglected opportunities like shrimp welfare, and therefore makes little sense as a default moral framework for everyone — in a sane world almost nobody would be an EA, since ordinary moral triage already works well. It frames the Claude debate: marginal ethics shouldn't be universal defaults.
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