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,” and was on to talk about it. He brought up various of the points above, and also talked about the trolley problem and Peter Singer’s “child drowning in a pond” thought experiment, and used it all to say that if you’re an EA, you have to accept the repugnant conclusion, because you’re a utilitarian.
I should admit that some EAs genuinely do bite this sort of bullet. Some EAs worry that if panpsychism is real and every subatomic particle has consciousness, then the whole universe could be suffering. Will MacAskill, one of the leaders of EA, does sort-of accept the repugnant conclusion.
Every moral system ends up in weird places if you follow it off a cliff. Kantian deontology says that, so if you know the location of a nuclear bomb and a terrorist asks you where it is, you have to tell him. Perhaps you reject the “never lie” rule, but any form of deontology will have strict rules – that’s what deontology means. A rule like “thou shalt not kill,” for instance.
And, yes, if all of our money went to those things, that would probably be bad. But since the total EA budget is– roughly what the US military spends every two weeks, and a tiny fraction of the amount of money spent on charity worldwide – we’re quite a long way away from that.
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