Proxies for egoism
Until I was ~16, I used to believe that there was no altruism and that everything anybody does is always for purely egoistical reasons. As far as I can remember, I grew confident of this after hearing an important childhood mentor talk about it. I had also read about the ideas of Max Stirner and had a…
All moral decisions in life are on a heavy-tailed distribution
(epistemic status: Written in the spirit of “strong opinions, weakly held” and in a way that is accessible for people who are new to effective altruism. Also, I am pretty sure this idea isn’t original, but I haven’t seen it written up. So please point me there in case I missed something.) Heavy tails explained…
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