Oh, it's Effective Altruism bros.
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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.
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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/115792320270901533I 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.
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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.
@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.
Cautionary Tales – Grand Theft Automated: How To Save A Trillion Lives
A radical thought experiment transforms the lives of a new breed of philanthropists, as they follow the logic of altruism to extraordinary lengths. The most famous convert to the Effective Altruism movement, Sam Bankman-Fried, is either a humanitarian hero, or a con artist at an astonishing scale, or most bafflingly, both. [Apple] [Spotify] [Stitcher] Further reading The…
Tim Harford (timharford.com)
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@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.
Cautionary Tales – Grand Theft Automated: How To Save A Trillion Lives
A radical thought experiment transforms the lives of a new breed of philanthropists, as they follow the logic of altruism to extraordinary lengths. The most famous convert to the Effective Altruism movement, Sam Bankman-Fried, is either a humanitarian hero, or a con artist at an astonishing scale, or most bafflingly, both. [Apple] [Spotify] [Stitcher] Further reading The…
Tim Harford (timharford.com)
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Time again (it’s never not the right time) to recommend this as required reading:- -
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Time again (it’s never not the right time) to recommend this as required reading:-@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/
