Effective Altruism lets people appear both rational and moral and is the ultimate ego trip.

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• Effective altruism demands hard evidence of effectiveness in some of its causes while accepting abstract conjecture in others, and never justifies the split. MJMatt Johnson21 Dec 2023similar wording
• Effective altruism is deeply utilitarian in practice, whatever its members say about not being utilitarians. ÉTÉmile P. Torres19 Oct 2021similar wording
• The best opportunities to do good are the ones almost nobody is paying attention to. HKHolden Karnofsky2 Feb 2022similar wording
• Effective altruism's work on the far future is not a bait and switch hiding behind its work on global health; both halves are worth defending. SAScott Alexander28 Nov 2023similar wording
• A world where altruists followed expected-value estimates would be one where nearly all of them helped distant strangers instead of the people around them, and that world would be worse. HKHolden Karnofsky18 Aug 2011similar wording

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