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The Utilitarianism of “Effective Altruists”

Reading Michael Lewis’ fascinating journalistic portrait of the disgraced cryptocurrency wizard Samuel Bankman-Fried, I was surprised to find a discussion of the ethics of abortion. It was taken from a blog the man wrote in his sophomore year at college. Bankman-Fried’s parents are described as utilitarians who “continually wrestled with the tension, in American law…

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