Oh, it's Effective Altruism bros.

Charlie Stross

Oh, it's Effective Altruism bros. In other words, fascist-adjacent grifters who hate the poor and want them to die.

This is a red flag, folks: wherever you see EA boosters, if you scrape away the glossy skin of "altruism" rhetoric you'll find the grinning skull of Nazism underneath.
https://merveilles.town/@lrhodes/115792320270901533

John

@cstross

I once read an interview with an Effective Altruist who said that a potential Skynet was the biggest threat facing humanity, during the hottest year in recorded history while the NAC fluctuated alarmingly, and that was the moment I knew Effective Altruists were idiots.

Quixoticgeek

@johnzajac @cstross I hadn't realised just how fucked up the EA shit had got until I listened to this podcast episode from Cautionary tales. Ye fucking gods, did it make me angry.

https://timharford.com/2025/07/cautionary-tales-grand-theft-automated-how-to-save-a-trillion-lives/

mtconleyuk

@quixoticgeek @johnzajac @cstross
Time again (it’s never not the right time) to recommend this as required reading:-

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-becker/more-everything-forever/9781541619593/

Charlie Stross

@mtconleyuk @quixoticgeek @johnzajac Alternatively, there's this, from 1990, which STILL has relevant things to say 35 years later: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Mambo-Chicken-Transhuman-Condition/dp/0201092581/

Wandering Adventure Party

Oh, it's Effective Altruism bros.