[Avicebron]

Because it's sociopathic at its core, I don't have time to pull up the HN back and forth where it was debated during the FTX stuff

but basically it comes across as, "I am willing to sacrifice others (but not myself) to achieve my goals because I know better."

[gruez]

>but basically it comes across as, "I am willing to sacrifice others (but not myself) to achieve my goals because I know better."

Since money is fungible but finite, basically any sort of donation decision involves sacrificing someone. Donating to fund malaria nets when you'd otherwise have funded your local little league team means you're in effect, sacrificing the local little league team. Moreover, by donating their own money, they're by definition "sacrificing myself".

[int_19h]

This line of thinking (and EA in general) taken to its logical conclusion results in stuff like LW's famous "moral dilemma" about torturing someone for 50 years being justifiable if it prevents sufficiently many people from the discomfort of having a speck in their eye.