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I believe in ineffective altruism, meaning that I'd nuke all y'all to give my rabbit 10 more minutes of happiness
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korrents.com
Effective Altruism lets people appear both rational and moral and is the ultimate ego trip.Their words
Effective Altruism lets you appear rational and moral - the ultimate ego trip.
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An Immense WorldTheir words
This is a funny, heartfelt, and (perhaps overly) thorough book. It will gleefully send you down rabbit holes
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I think that you owe it to in that moral contract to your good employees to fire the weak people. And they're not bad people. They may be really smart. They are not effective in your organization. They are not taking hills.
15 December 2025
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That's a really intelligent way place to land because what they will do is woo you with their enthusiasm and then take you down a rabbit hole where you will spend years of your life and have nothing to show.
21 December 2023
From one piece How Effective Altruism Lost Its Way 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
The more effective altruism has absorbed itself in saving humanity, the less humanistic it has become.Their words
Strangely enough, as EA becomes more absorbed in the task of saving humanity, the movement is becoming less humanistic.
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While there are interesting theoretical arguments for these causes, there’s a disconnect between an almost-neurotic focus on hard evidence of effectiveness in some areas of EA and a willingness to accept extremely abstract and conjectural “evidence” in others.
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28 November 2023
From one piece In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruism 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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These skewed priorities are the exact problem that effective altruism exists to solve - or the exact inefficiency that effective altruism exists to exploit, if you prefer that framing.
In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruismastralcodexten.com
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EA has done a great job working on this (see list of accomplishments above), and I think the AI and x-risk people have just as much to be proud of as the global health and animal welfare people.
In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruismastralcodexten.com
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I think EA’s track record of accomplishments vs. scandals is as good as any of them, maybe better.
In Continued Defense Of Effective Altruismastralcodexten.com
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Without sufficient caution, we may irreversibly lose control of autonomous AI systems, rendering human intervention ineffective. Large-scale cybercrime, social manipulation, and other harms could escalate rapidly. This unchecked AI advancement could culminate in a large-scale loss of life and the biosphere, and the marginalization or extinction of humanity.
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In particular, most EA careers and most careers to do with AI are competitive as fuck.
19 October 2021
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korrents.com
Effective altruism is deeply utilitarian in practice, whatever its members say about not being utilitarians.Their words
The fact is that the EA movement is deeply utilitarian, at least in practice, and indeed, before it decided upon a name, the movement’s early members, including Ord, seriously considered calling it the ‘effective utilitarian community’.
1 August 2020
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CompliceTheir words
(Complice is my favorite app for making lists of what I want to do today.) This helps me recover quickly from unintentionally going down rabbit holes.
22 December 2017
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