My own experience is the opposite of this. I feel like I would have been a significantly worse person without the influence of EA ideology.

My own experience is the opposite of this. I feel like I would have been a significantly worse person without the influence of EA ideology.

https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1725958636529480155

Did you not want to make the world a better place before being exposed to EA ideology?

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I did, but the whole "you can literally save a human life for the same price as a business class flight ticket" thing was mindblowing and raised its importance in my mind by a lot

Totally but that’s not a big ideological shift. That’s just realizing the level of impact you can have. If you never knew that then it doesn’t make you a worse person.

If I did not realize my potential level of impact on others, I would have invested more into myself instead. In turn, given how human psychology works, I would have acquired much less of an identity around helping others.

I think there is something visceral about seeing a precise estimate of the raw exchange rate between money and saving a specific number of people that I could never have gotten just from vanilla 00s era "you can change the world" rhetoric