Suppose that a blind person in a first world country wants help paying for a guide dog and/or wants guide dogs for other blind people in first world countries, but has heard of effective altruism. What honest arguments could the blind person use?
Effective altruism doesn’t necessarily imply selflessness in all your actions, but effectiveness in actions that are intended to be altruistic.
If the human race is down to 1000 people, what are the odds that it will continue and do well? I realize this is a nitpick—the argument would be the same if the human race were reduced to a million or ten million.
The argument remains the same even if the odds are very low, because of the high stakes involved.
Comparisons of brain size tells you less than people assume.
Only laypeople make such assumptions, see my other comment.
Effective altruism doesn’t necessarily imply selflessness in all your actions, but effectiveness in actions that are intended to be altruistic.
The argument remains the same even if the odds are very low, because of the high stakes involved.
Only laypeople make such assumptions, see my other comment.