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Adam Becker finds utilitarian approaches to ethics and the world appealing to people with an engineering mindset and some kinds of scientific mindset.

Adam Becker · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026

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“I mean, I think that there is something very appealing about a utilitarian approach to ethics and the world from this sort of engineering mindset and scientific mindset, even certain kinds of scientific mindsets, definitely an engineering mindset.”
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