God that’s disgusting. And even if I were to be as entirely self-serving and utilitarian as this person, we need our ecosystem as stable as possible for our own survival. Do these people think we live in a vacuum?
They believe in a version of the Happiness Monster that requires all the happiness in exchange for more happiness trickling down later, so the Happiness Monsters promise. It’s why a core belief of “Effective Altruists” is that climate collapse and environmental decay are irrelevant because they are looking billions of years into the future, where all those billions of years ahead require in the present is that billionaires get even richer, faster, so they can ostensibly build the robot god.
God that’s disgusting. And even if I were to be as entirely self-serving and utilitarian as this person, we need our ecosystem as stable as possible for our own survival. Do these people think we live in a vacuum?
Yes
They believe in a version of the Happiness Monster that requires all the happiness in exchange for more happiness trickling down later, so the Happiness Monsters promise. It’s why a core belief of “Effective Altruists” is that climate collapse and environmental decay are irrelevant because they are looking billions of years into the future, where all those billions of years ahead require in the present is that billionaires get even richer, faster, so they can ostensibly build the robot god.