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Cluelessness is Zeno’s paradox for EAs.

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A LessWrong post argues that cluelessness in effective altruism can result from expected-value reasoning becoming disconnected from meaning.

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“Cluelessness can be an artifact of expected-value epistemics disconnecting from meaning. We know that sometimes, when taking the consequentialist stance, we lose meaningfulness.”
LessWrong, 20 Oct 2026, 14:39.

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