eli_sennesh comments on Taking Effective Altruism Seriously - Less Wrong

2 Post author: Salemicus 07 June 2015 06:59AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 07 June 2015 02:40:37PM 2 points [-]

Does that not create a bit of a problem, then, given that capitalism is one of the best things that humanity came up with during the last few centuries?

Comment author: [deleted] 07 June 2015 06:59:43PM 1 point [-]

I don't take that as given, particularly since taking such a statement as given tends to involve packing all the nice things about modernity into the word "capitalism" while simultaneously shoving all the nasty consequences of capitalism into some other word.