I’m not sure why one would optimize your charitable donations for QALYs/utilons if your goal wasn’t improving the world. If you care about acquiring warm fuzzies, and donating to marginally improve the world is a means toward that end, then EA doesn’t seem to affect you much, except by potentially guilting you into no longer considering lesser causes virtuous in the sense that creates warm fuzzies for you.
except by potentially guilting you into no longer considering lesser causes virtuous in the sense that creates warm fuzzies for you.
For me the idea of EA just made those lesser causes not generate fuzzies anymore, no guilt involved. It’s difficult to enjoy a delusion you’re conscious of.
I’m not sure why one would optimize your charitable donations for QALYs/utilons if your goal wasn’t improving the world. If you care about acquiring warm fuzzies, and donating to marginally improve the world is a means toward that end, then EA doesn’t seem to affect you much, except by potentially guilting you into no longer considering lesser causes virtuous in the sense that creates warm fuzzies for you.
For me the idea of EA just made those lesser causes not generate fuzzies anymore, no guilt involved. It’s difficult to enjoy a delusion you’re conscious of.