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Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by imtringued on Saturday February 04, 2023 @06:08AM (#34653538)
Utility can't be one dimensional and it probably isn't linear.

In other words, we would have to treat most situations as unique and then try to find patterns and then the whole rationalism thing goes out of the window.

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Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by ben_w on Saturday February 04, 2023 @07:59AM (#34654111)
Only spherical-rationalism-in-a-vacuum goes out the window.

Unfortunately, and this goes back to my previous point, lots of people (I'm not immune!) mistake taking the first baby step for climbing the whole mountain.

I'm reminded of the joke about a an engineer, a physicist, and a theoretical mathematician who each wake up to a fire in their bedrooms: https://old.reddit.com/r/MathJokes/comments/j8bax6/an_engine...

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