Quote of the Day

Like all tumors, this one should be excised: MacAskill’s continued presence at Oxford, in particular, is a nasty, dripping blemish on the face of the entire field of academic philosophy. Unfortunately, the FTX story has become an object lesson in how rarely such ailments are actually addressed at the very top of our society – how freely the cancer of greed and self-dealing has been allowed to spread its tendrils from Oxford to Stanford to MIT to the U.S. Congress, destroying the lives of normal people at every step of the way.

—CoinDesk

Enough of this euphemistic equivocation, tell us how you REALLY feel.

More seriously,  it is clear that the "Philosophy" of Effectve Altruism is, to quote John Kenneth Galbraith, "Engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

H/t Atrios.