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His access to a pool of willing effective altruists was his secret weapon. Sam knew next to nothing about crypto, but he did know how easy it was to steal it. Anyone who started a crypto trading firm would need to trust his employees deeply, as any employee could hit a button and wire the crypto to a personal account without anyone else ever having

we should follow a different decision-making strategy, known as “the maximin rule.” To be precise, rather than choosing the option that is best on average (maximizing expected utility), we should compare the worst outcome under each option, and then choose the option where the worst outcome is as good as possible

As argued above, a sustainable increase in economic growth, properly understood, will boost many plural values in the medium and long runs. To be sure, some people will be worse off, and some values, in the short to medium run, will not be favored. In these respects, aggregation problems do not disappear. Nonetheless, the competing options do not

if your outcome behavior is not the result of any of the population’s motivations or the benefit of that behavior does not outweigh the cost to an alternative motivation, it is unethical.

The final feature relates to distributional objectives, which are central to the

(most famously, the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom