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Ishaan comments on Effective Altruism from XYZ perspective - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Ishaan 09 July 2015 07:03:18AM *  4 points [-]

Effective Altruism says that all humans have roughly equal intrinsic value and takes necessary steps to gather evidence and quantify the degree to which humans are helped.

Short, but pretty much summarizes the entirety of the appeal for me. Is there even a name for the two perspectives contained in that sentence?

Comment author: Dentin 10 July 2015 07:51:28PM 0 points [-]

I never actually realized that 'all humans have roughly equal intrinsic value' was a core tenet of EA.