I get the sense that these examples of absurd moral calculation stem from a deep fear of uncertainty and having been trained to doubt feeling or intution as a legitimate basis for decision-making. https://twitter.com/qorprate/status/1205345003117174785 …
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Looking back on when I was on the utilitarian EA train, I was a scared perfectionistic kid who wanted never to be wrong and wanted to simplify the complex world around me. Emotional thinking is always labeled as bias, right?
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My motivations to care (about animals, humans, the world, etc.) weren't calculations, but I saw anything less than calculation and hard math as a liability and something that marked me as untrustworthy.
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OFC this led me to have a breakdown because I couldn't figure out how to arbitrarily assign point values to happiness or convert happiness into $.
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But people who are comfortable with this kind of calculation may be doing it more as a display to ward off criticism and perform in a metric-obsessed society than out of genuine belief. Reminds me of @divided_brain and Iain McGilchrist’s book—the shift to a loss of embodiment
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