Oxford schließt Institut des von Elon Musk unterstützten Philosophen

Good. This form of “effective altruism” is simply a branch of utilitarianism tailored to justify the actions and morals of the rich and powerful. By focusing on vague long term goals and the not-yet born (who, conveniently, don’t exist yet and are a blank canvas to project they ideas on), they justify their immorality and lack of empathy in the present. Those links to eugenics, racism, desire for panopticons and surveillance, rejection of democracy, …, are not an aberration either. They fit in neatly with this notion that those deserving few with loads of money and power should be the ones deciding the future, as only they can look at the long term. Everyone else should just shut up, stop taxing them and let them get on with it.

And if, in the process, they conveniently ignore the problems of everyone else while they secure ever bigger pieces of the pie for themselves, then that doesn’t matter because they have “calculated” that, on the balance, they will have been a benefit to humanity at some vague point in the far future. That’s all this is: reputation laundering for oligarchs.