The Power of Now guy is like “i work on this because we have nuclear arsenals that need to be handled well, and that requires spiritual enlightenment” I’m like yo if you want to work on nuke safety do that, or do whatever else you want. No need to justify
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You don’t have to be effective and you don’t have to be an altruist. You don’t need a logical or ethical framework. You don’t need to maximize impact or minimize regret
You can do whatever you want forever for no reason
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there was a brief period where i introduced myself as an "ineffective non-altruist" for exactly this reason lol
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It’s so damaging
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it’s not always bad but it can be really bad when it’s bad
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My brain used to precognitively convert all dollars to a “kill count”, the amount of people I’m effectively killing by not donating it
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