As part of the "What Tauchain can do for us" series I'm introducing Effective Altruism and how through Tauchain we may be able to maximize that effectiveness.
Anyone in the world can be an effective altruist as it only requires a person to care about the world, the future, life, and want to solve the problems in the world which can help decrease "world suck". World suck could be described as what it says, and the less world suck we have, the better, but how do we determine the best way to do this?
Introducing Effective Altruism
Effective Altruists are consequentialist thinkers who care about the world and it's future. The principles of effective altruism are below but make note that these are just the opiniion of the author:
Cause-neutrality: being willing to consider any cause based on how effective it is, rather than giving based on pre-existing “passion” or “connection” to a cause.
Egalitarianism: valuing the well-being of all sentient beings equally.
Consequentialism: taking into account all the consequences of your actions, not just the direct consequences. For example, if you don’t take that job with a nonprofit, would they have just hired someone else instead?
Maximization: trying to do the most good rather than just some good (and accepting that different things do different amounts of good).
How Tauchain may be able to help effective altruists
We hope that Tauchain once running will be able to guarantee consistency of ethical theories. In addition to this, an increased ability to do the processing necessary for consequentialists to arrive at the best decision. This could be who or what organizations to give to, it could include questions about basic income, or AI safety. Perhaps with Tauchain any effective altruist anywhere in the world, from any class, any social status, who has access to a smart phone, will be able to contribute to solving the world's toughest ethical problems. In the future the "What Tauchain can do for us" series will touch on further topics of EA, as well as include other areas of interest where Tauchain could be of high utility.
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