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John Wolpert's avatar

Alberto - I found your piece insightful, useful, and not "more of the same" on this topic. Hats off.

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Geoffe's avatar

Love your newsletter. No arguments with your facts, interpretations of them, or the values that underwrite them. I see your work as smart, thought-provoking and important.

I just want to grieve for a second that it is considered almost sort of “laudably realistic” that aiming for benefiting all humans is a bad idea. A naive “sin.”

Even if it’s impossible in practice, even if it will inspire others to criticize us more harshly, even if it means someone else will win in our capitalist incentive structures, even if our attempt at altruism succeeds at nothing but dragging us a little further away from cynicism… it’s got to be better to fail attempting to be of universal service than to succeed at profitably destroying the world, right?

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