Affective Old Truant
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I'm an effective altruist mainly reading and boosting posts, but occasionally I'll muse and doodle about #EffectiveAltruism. I take a balanced approach, so will highlight under-represented views—my opinions will no doubt become apparent :)
Congrats to @kyleflaw.com, Seoyeon Bae, Liane Young, and @stysyropoulos.bsky.social on their new article in Political Psychology. "Ideological differences in moral concern reflect circle expansion, not inversion" tests the claim that liberals prioritize strangers over their own communities. cont'd
Disinformation on Meta and TikTok falsely claimed that Spain's border was completely open, sparking a massive surge of up to 72,000 migrants rushing into the Spanish North African enclave of Ceuta. 70 people died.
Fact check: Did disinformation trigger the Ceuta crisis?
More than 70 people died after thousands of migrants tried to cross from Morocco into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta. The crossings have been linked to misleading claims about a recent Spanish Supreme C...
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Across three studies, ingroups remain the top priority across the political spectrum; liberals simply reallocate more toward distant categories than conservatives do. The authors' findings challenge claims of moral inversion. Read the full article: doi.org/10.1111/pops...
Ideological differences in moral concern reflect circle expansion, not inversion
Do liberals prioritize distant others over close relationships, inverting the moral hierarchy? Across three studies, we test this claim directly. Study 1a analyzes a nationally representative U.S. sa...
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It's kind of a weird anomaly that this idea from moral philosophy ended up as an internet meme that normal people argue about. But it makes sense in it's original context, philosophers love thought experiments. The degree to which it is applicable to real life is... debatable.
The School for Moral Ambition has massive potential. Wish I’d had the knowledge and confidence to think like this when I was younger. youtube.com/shorts/4k1VH...
Why I Think you Should Quit your Corporate Job
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i reject the premise that fantasizing about committing atrocities for the greater good is a productive way of doing moral philosophy i refuse to be dragooned into a false dilemma that makes a mockery of agency and treats human beings as ants
I really enjoyed @rutgerbregman.com’s book Moral Ambition which goes into this idea a fair bit
Some liberals have no principles/philosophy and use moral and strategic arguments to emotionally manipulate people in bad faith. They don't actually believe in a lesser evil; it's a shame tactic. Someone with principles would support Sawant because Smith is inside Trump's financial support network
War is sometimes moral. It depends on what it’s trying to accomplish. In this case we’re punishing Russian imperial ambition by aiding Ukraine. This is worthwhile.
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In this week's podcast, we look at the OECD's 2026 Corporate Tax Statistics report, The Taxation & Charities Review Authority confirms IRD's denial of deductions was correct & how a 70% effective marginal tax rate applied on just $2,000 of income. soundcloud.com/user-2622281...
This week the OECD 2026 corporate tax statistics report, how a 70% effective marginal tax rate applied on just $2,000 of income & more
This week, we look at the OECD’s 2026 Corporate Tax Statistics report, The Taxation & Charities Review Authority confirms the Commissioner’s denial of deductions was correct and how a 70% effective ma
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Fuck effective altruism, all my homies hate effective altruism
The new PM must intervene and reunite these families as a matter of urgency. He must then move forward with implementing our wider blueprint for new, humane approach to asylum in the UK 👇
Blueprint to fix the broken asylum system: 200+ refugee groups offer new PM a new way - Asylum Matters
Refugee charities tell new PM Andy Burnham how to build a fairer, more effective, more humane and more affordable asylum system
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All that effective altruism horseshit was a trial run.
Here’s our blueprint for a cheaper, more effective, more humane asylum system. LCN has written to the Prime Minister with 200+ orgs, urging the government to ditch cruel gimmicks in the Immigration and Asylum Bill.
Blueprint to fix the broken asylum system: 200+ refugee groups offer new PM a new way - Asylum Matters
Refugee charities tell new PM Andy Burnham how to build a fairer, more effective, more humane and more affordable asylum system
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you're like "effective altruism is trivial" and then you go see the way people talk about foreign aid
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Go read and learned who funded the "replication crisis," and indirectly some covid crank-ery.
Joe Bak-Coleman@jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 5d agoA must read by @jwlockhart.bsky.social on the money behind open science. He’s spot on that there are some subjects you just can’t touch with typical peer reviewers in #metascience scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...
Tennessee's AG says Zuckerberg saw his own company's research on what Instagram does to teens — and declined to pay for the fix. That's not a bug report. That's a decision. Stop calling it a glitch. www.outlookbusiness.com/news/meta-kn...
Meta Knew Instagram Was Hurting Teens, Says Tennessee Lawsuit – Outlook Business
Meta Platforms faces trial in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday, July 20, 2026, over claims by Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti that Instagram's addictive design caused a youth mental health crisis. T...
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❤️ "The humanitarian crisis in Gaza “haunts” her, she adds. “I’m just doing what I think is, frankly, the Jewish thing to do, which is to value human life and try to contribute to healing the world.”" www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
‘I was born without self-esteem’: Hannah Einbinder on Hacks, her buzzy queer horror – and being Hollywood’s most outspoken star
The Hacks lead was cast in meta-slasher sensation Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma for her ‘deranged physicality’ – but it’s a fitting role for an actor who has made a point of confronting shame a...
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Longtermism is obnoxious on it's own, but combined with EA it produced a particularly odious pseudo-religion. A grubby techno-Catholicism (Seriously, Roko's Basilisk is literally holodeck hell) with religious serial numbers filed off.
"These findings challenge claims of moral inversion and clarify that liberal moral universalism reflects circle expansion, not reversal in the ordering of concern."
Ideological differences in moral concern reflect circle expansion, not inversion
Do liberals prioritize distant others over close relationships, inverting the moral hierarchy? Across three studies, we test this claim directly. Study 1a analyzes a nationally representative U.S. sa...
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Objectivists are straight up black holes of selfishness and if you have any functional conscience you can struggle with it. Longtermism however assures you that you're operating on the scale of millions or billions of years and are stewarding human existence, making you a hero, not a psychopath.
kat made no assertions upstream in this thread about the costs of subsidizing groceries vs giving people direct benefits. FWIW, every dollar congress appropriates for commissaries yields $1.04 in savings to military families. that's better than a direct benefit. bsky.app/profile/eldj...
what the everloving fuck.@eldjee.bsky.social · last wk.how are you defining losing money? in FY25, the DeCA appropriation was $1.57B, commissary sales were $4.83B, and shoppers saved $1.63B. the savings to commissary shoppers exceeded the appropriated operating costs. corp.commissaries.com/sites/defaul...
After some drama surrounding Warren Buffett’s relationship with the Gates Foundation, the Oracle of Omaha decided to forgo his annual donation to the Microsoft founder’s philanthropy and direct funds to his own children’s charitable organizations instead. https://bit.ly/4yQ91jG
Warren Buffett is handing $140 billion to his family's foundations. The way he's doing it reveals how billionaire philanthropy really works | Fortune
People assumed Buffett was avoiding taxes or warehousing the money. Experts say the more telling question is how he's giving it away.
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Still relevant so still reposting it. By giving her your money - be it purchases or subscriptions to watch her shows - you directly help fund anti-trans legislation. By keeping it popular, you keep her relevant and continue to give her voice weight. Because she's rich and wealth is political power
ShardsOfBlue@shardsofblue.com · last yr.Just going to drop this here for anyone who’s tired of having the argument.
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