Effective altruism began, as expensive trouble often does, with a lovely idea, but the lovely idea is not where the story starts. The story starts with a man at a table saying there is something like a ten to twenty-five percent chance that the future goes really, really badly, and at one point a nice…
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Hazard Pay
IT work dwells in non-human abstractions. The problems being solved rarely consider human relevancy. Management tracks with metrics detached from quality. Policies keep workers in compliance yet fail to bring about good results. Removing humanity from daily life creates a challenging dynamic, like an astronaut transported into outer space far from family, home, and everything…