Mitchell_Porter comments on Social Impact, Effective Altruism, and Motivated Cognition - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 08 June 2013 06:21:42AM *  1 point [-]

I’m not aware of any overt public discussion of [this issue].

Katja's recent post?

ETA: It's not the same issue, I didn't read either of you properly. But perhaps the same ballpark.

Comment author: JonahSinick 08 June 2013 06:35:37AM 0 points [-]

Can you elaborate? I don't immediately see the connection with effective altruists being motivated to believe that the activities that they engage in are of higher relative value than they are.