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A challenge for any mutual aid platform will be privacy, surveillance, and ethics — building in safety to protect the most vulnerable communities.

However, most people in first world countries are in this situation of opportunity to do extreme good in exchange for a relatively small sacrifice, but most don't do it, mainly due to ignorance of a tractable way in which to do it.

Will MacAskill • Doing Good: A Conversation with William MacAskill (Episode #228)

the question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being?... The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes... "

Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832)

Jeremy Bentham on the suffering of non-human animals

If: your outcome behavior is not the result of any of the population’s motivations or the benefit of your outcome behavior or an intervention to produce it does not outweigh the cost to an alternative motivation or you are unwilling to publicly describe and take responsibility for the outcome behavior or intervention it is unethical.

Matt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change

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“self-interested behavior is learned behavior, and people learn it by studying economics and business.”

Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life

Properly understood, the difference principle is concerned not just with the distribution of income and wealth, but with the concentration of economic power and control, and with the extent to which people have opportunities for self-respect, including through work.

Daniel Chandler • Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society

anyone who is confident of the effectiveness of their algorithm should be happy to demonstrate that effectiveness in a fair and rigorous test.

Tim Harford • The Data Detective

Caroline sensed, rightly, that her departure alerted Jane Street to an alarming new threat. Jane Street and the other high-frequency trading firms had been fishing for traders in the same ponds as Will MacAskill and the other Oxford philosophers fished for effective altruists. People able to calculate the expected value of complicated financial gam