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Sam Bankman-Fried, Effective Altruism, and the Question of Complicity
- PaulHoule 4y agoEA, together with "longtermism" and "rationalism" is a dangerous social movement similar to Scientology. I didn't know whether to LMFAO or cry the other day when I saw a post at less wrong that was mildly skeptical about the thesis that the "singularity is nigh" and thus needed a trigger warning at the top. Spam the agenda with enough irrelevant trolley problems and it accomplishes nothing but blunting people's moral sensibilities. It reminds me of the part in Ron Hubbard's History of Man where he says how odd it is the that the "preclear" thinks that events in his current life are more important that the events from trillions of years ago that are "remembered" under hypnosis.
- karmakaze 4y agoI wasn't familial with Effective ultruism before FTX. To me is sounds like someone made the observation of a path that some have unconsciously taken to 'do good' in a big way. By making this path explicit, it could fall into the trap of Goodhart's law making an intermediate an immediate goal.