kungfuhobbit
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Science and philosophy enthusiast
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The EA literature is missing an elevator-pitch.
As a first approximation, Id suggest:
EA is a diligent approach to charity and ethical goals
Typical interests:
• Global poverty
• Animal suffering
• Existential risks
• Earning to give
Characteristics:
• Focuses on consequences
• Maximises the good done per unit of time/money
• Impartial to location and future generations
• Attentive to opportunity costs
• Often measures benefits
• ITN framework:
— Importance eg number of lives saved, amount of suffering decreased
— Tractability: additional resources will greatly address the issue
— Neglectedness: few other people are working on the problem
https://kungfuhobbit.medium.com/effective-altruism-64ec03b00636
I suppose the maximalist aim could legitimately depend on an empirical result that maximalism achieves the best results all things considered.
imo, "Identity Veganism" has shortcomings.
Common vegan practice today is not the best pursuit of its actual ethical aims.
Veganism as a rough rule of thumb may function as a useful mental health salve for some people.
But enforcing sharp demarcations with indignation is unjustifiable in light of arbitrariness and various moral uncertainties.
A more holistic, consequentialistic, sentiocentric reducetarianism (that is more consequentialistic) might better track veganism’s underlying aims.
But it would still face foundational philosophical problems.
https://kungfuhobbit.medium.com/animal-ethics-36027802b457#0882