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If you could go back in time and tell the 2001 version of me that the President's allies are talking on national news about shrimp consciousness, I would have laughed out loud. (Until you told me who the President was, of course.) Not only that, but you have the New York Post talking about Effective Altruists' sex lives, and op-eds debating EA philosophy in top blogs and the Washington Post.

— Noah Smith
2w ago

These were the predecessors of Effective Altruism. That term didn't exist back then, but the worldview did—these systems are all variants of utilitarianism, a starry-eyed moral calculus invented by Jeremy Bentham two hundred years ago. By the way, Bentham also invented the Panopticon, a prison concept that is the model for today's surveillance capitalism.

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