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In a since deleted thread on another site, I wrote

For the OG effective altruists, it’s imperative to rebrand the kooky ultra-utilitarianists as something else. TESCREAL is the term adopted by their opponents.

Looks like great minds think alike! The EA's need to up their google juice so people searching for the term find malaria nets, not FTX. Good luck on that, Scott!

The HN comments are ok, with this hilarious sentence

I go to LessWrong, ACX, and sometimes EA meetups. Why? Mainly because it's like the HackerNews comment section but in person.

What's the German term for a recommendation that's the exact opposite?

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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

here is that HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38457770

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 year ago

It's worth to look at the track record of utilitarianism:

Jeremy Bentham, often regarded as the founder of classical utilitarianism, almost 300 years ago, was arguing in favor of women's rights, decriminalization of homosexuality, abolition of slavery, animal welfare, prison reform.

lol (I'm not saying they are not good causes they are, but a bit of history on the effectiveness of this is missing).