Prefrontal cortex damage makes people more utilitarian — a joke defense of EAs
kevinnbass · x · 2026-11-03
A viral joke riffing on neuroscience findings that damage to the prefrontal cortex makes people more utilitarian: "we should be kinder to effective altruists — it's not their fault they'd sacrifice their own mother to maximize the happiness of a bunch of shrimp. They're not sociopaths, their prefrontal cortex is just damaged." A classic jab at utilitarian ethics and EA culture.
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