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

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• The effective altruism movement combines an unusually abstract, low-empiricism style of moral reasoning with a strong imperative to act on its conclusions. VRVenkatesh Rao17 Sept 2026
• 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 2023
• Effective altruism is deeply utilitarian in practice, whatever its members say about not being utilitarians. ÉTÉmile P. Torres19 Oct 2021
• The best opportunities to do good are the ones almost nobody is paying attention to. HKHolden Karnofsky2 Feb 2022
• Libertarianism has nothing against voluntary altruism and every reason to want it as effective as possible, so a libertarian can support and practise Effective Altruism. PSPeter Singer2 Sept 2026

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