{"id":568258,"date":"2023-11-24T21:54:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T02:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=568258"},"modified":"2023-11-24T21:59:57","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T02:59:57","slug":"people-who-try-to-do-the-most-good-are-the-ones-who-actually-end-up-doing-the-more-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/24\/people-who-try-to-do-the-most-good-are-the-ones-who-actually-end-up-doing-the-more-harm\/","title":{"rendered":"People who try to do the most \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good\u00e2\u20ac\u009d are the ones who actually end up doing the more harm?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anti altruism\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 especially \u00e2\u20ac\u0153effective altruism\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Same goes with utilitarians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Better to be a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153deontic libertarian\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (TALEB)\u00e2\u20ac\u201d a duty based libertarian, minimum outside interference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The whole ftx blowup and Sam Bankman Fried fiasco (Going Infinite)\u00e2\u20ac\u201d mostly to blame the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153effective altruists\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trust Bill Gates or anyone rallying to try to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153save the planet\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or \u00e2\u20ac\u0153humanity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or whatever. Same goes with vegans on an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ethical\u00e2\u20ac\u009d mission. Or notions of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153reducing suffering\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My theory:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To increase human grandeur, we must actually do the opposite and *increase* suffering?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let us also not forget \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Sam Bankman Fried was a vegan!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-jetpack-videopress jetpack-videopress-player\" style=\"\" >\n\t\t\t<div class=\"jetpack-videopress-player__wrapper\"> <iframe title=\"VideoPress Video Player\" aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='1180' height='664' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/Zs6rv8HQ?cover=1&amp;autoPlay=1&amp;controls=1&amp;loop=1&amp;muted=1&amp;persistVolume=0&amp;playsinline=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata&amp;useAverageColor=1&amp;hd=0' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write'><\/iframe><script src='https:\/\/v0.wordpress.com\/js\/next\/videopress-iframe.js?m=1770107250'><\/script><\/div>\n\t\t\t<figcaption>Fun Thoughts<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti altruism\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 especially \u00e2\u20ac\u0153effective altruism\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Same goes with utilitarians. Better to be a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153deontic libertarian\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (TALEB)\u00e2\u20ac\u201d a duty based libertarian, minimum outside interference. The whole ftx blowup and Sam Bankman Fried fiasco (Going Infinite)\u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568258"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568272,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568258\/revisions\/568272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}