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it's hard to even spell some of these assumptions out in words but

@Meaningness

has done a better job than anyone i know. stuff like "people are minds. the job of minds is to think real hard. that's how decisions get made. the way to improve your decisions is to think gooder"

also other stuff like peter singer's drowning-child argument. this is a bigger argument than i want to get into but i think it is bad ethics, i think utilitarianism is bad generally, *and* it is a very tempting trap for a particular kind of hyperanalytical person to fall into

Utilitiarianism is an eternalism | Meaningness

meaningness hit me really hard when i first encountered it ~2018 because it clearly articulated what i now consider to be serious philosophical mistakes implicit in the rationalist and EA worldviews. huge breath of fresh air. eg:

meaningness.com

Utilitarianism promises to eliminate ethical uncertainty, but instead replaces a difficult, messy problem with an impossible, tidy one.

one of the dirty secrets of the rat community is that people go insane semi-regularly, like maybe once or twice a year, and i mean full-blown psychotic break i know at least one of these incidents to be tied to rationalist memes interacting poorly with anxiety

there are people in the rat and EA communities who have big "scrupulosity" issues - moral anxiety, having to do the most good thing always or else things are terrible and i'm terrible and etc. interacts very poorly with "AI safety is the most important thing"