A philosophical and social movement that uses evidence and reasoning to determine the most effective ways to benefit others, criticized here for rationalist absolutism and annoying adherents.
"Later I made a joke about effective altruist guys and longtermism and he dragged me into this absurd debate about whether ea is good or not, and kept asking me shit like 'yes or no, is the effective altruist organisation bad?' and I'd tell him he was narrowing me into a dumb absolutist corner but ul"
"If I didn't misremember she was from that same 'rationalist' circle of effective altruist dweebs that derive from a forum run by fanfiction author Eliezer Yudkowsky"
"It's no longer utilitarian in both senses of the word, which is funny because tech bro effective altruists pride themselves with utilitarianism, it's a Rube Goldberg machine, or better yet, a casino."