Effective altruists and longtermists should be adopting children (opens in new tab)

⚠️ content warning: hypothetical suicidal ideation in the abstract, evopsych nonsense People in the "Effective Altruist" (EA) and longtermist subcultures (and other members of the "rationalist community") like to play this game in which they assign a numerical value to human happiness. They say that happiness can be described on a scale from -100 to 100, where 100 is the theoretical happiest a person can possibly be, -100 is pure suffering, and 0 is neutral. At 0, they say, a person genuinely...