4 ms·

Does Time’s readership have any clue about Effective Altruism?

• eddsh1994 4y ago
  After SBF and FTX, yes
• TacticalCoder 4y ago
  Well there's this high profile in the EA community who happened to have its name tied to FTX not just for being SBF's guru but also for being on the FTX payroll in FTX's early days. But not only that: it gets better for he happen to have bought a mansion in the UK, supposedly for EA, with $15m of stolen money SBF gave him. (mansion which may be clawed back, I sure do hope it is). The dude is a teacher at some fancy uni in the UK. Tells me all I need to know about EA and the kind of people higher up the echelons there. It's obviously highly manipulative and I'm not surprised at all to see manipulative gurus misappropriating money and using their manipulative tactics to prey on women. P.S: as he altruistically given back the mansion acquired with stolen money?
  • throwanem 4y ago
    No, see, it's actually very complicated and difficult to maintain an optimal environment for thinking up new ways to mitigate the existential risk posed by an AI that has a .0001% chance to be invented ten million years from now, so really from a standpoint of perfect altruism Bostrom has to keep the mansion.
• 1shooner 4y ago
  I think this may be a bit of a HN bubble. I can't imagine most people have a need for a social or philosophical framework for their philanthropic identity.