AIFrom mosquito nets to cosmic stakes: an effective altruism satire
A satirical post follows the reasoning from buying mosquito nets to counting hypothetical future lives, until people alive today become a “rounding error.”
TLDR
The post satirizes a chain of reasoning: fund effective charity, extend moral concern to future generations, then imagine so many descendants that protecting them eclipses helping people now. Its narrator shifts from counting “people helped” to preserving a “cosmic endowment,” with AI extinction and nuclear war becoming priorities. A reader sharing it called it a “Perfect presentation” and said they would be sad if it were AI-generated.
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From mosquito nets to cosmic stakes: an effective altruism satire
A satirical post follows the reasoning from buying mosquito nets to counting hypothetical future lives, until people alive today become a “rounding error.”