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This should give you the context to understand where this came from: https://archive.is/2023.03.07-152406/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-03-07/eff
by nberkman 4y ago
This should give you the context to understand where this came from: https://archive.is/2023.03.07-152406/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-03-07/effective-altruism-s-problems-go-beyond-sam-bankman-fried%23xj4y7vzkg https://archive.is/2023.03.07-152406/https://www.bloomberg.c...
- polygamous_bat 4y agoThank you for the link! Very little about the "rationalists" subculture made sense to me until someone proposed that a significant chunk of it may be based on deflection: there are so much real pain in the world today that it might be convenient to be able to ignore all of that and worry about a non-existent issue.