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Please don't conflate effective altruism with SBF/FTX. Although SBF was a major donor to EA organizations, they were not party to his fraud and EAs do not gener
by fwipsy 4y ago
Please don't conflate effective altruism with SBF/FTX. Although SBF was a major donor to EA organizations, they were not party to his fraud and EAs do not generally approve of doing unethical things "for the greater good."(Citation: Point #5 here: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/open-thread-250 https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/open-thread-250)
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- raverbashing 4y agoIt's hard to believe people taking multi-million $donations have no association with FTX. The box is still to be opened on that side, but I don't doubt we might find something soon
- jasonhansel 4y ago> they were not party to his fraud That remains to be seen. The investigation is ongoing, and for my part I suspect that more people in EA will be implicated.
- boeingUH60 4y agoAlameda got seed money (>$100 million) from two rich EA proponents: Skype co-founder Jann Tallinn and Luke Ding...at a steep interest rate of 43%. https://www.semafor.com/article/12/07/2022/charity-money-launched-sam-bankman-frieds-empire https://www.semafor.com/article/12/07/2022/charity-money-lau...
- ralph84 4y agoWhen the most famous advocate of your philosophy is the perpetrator of one of the biggest frauds in history, the conflation is unavoidable. EA will have to rebrand.
- unmole 4y ago[flagged]