SBF is and I think always has ben a con artist, masquerading as a clumsy nerd genius and using the EA trend was a coup de maître, but this is beside the point.

SBF is and I think always has ben a con artist, masquerading as a clumsy nerd genius and using the EA trend was a coup de maître, but this is beside the point. Really effective altruism should not focus on money or medicine, but on power. Power imbalance is and always has been the main culprit behind all other kind of inequalities. But there is an issue, contrary to money/wealth, power is zero sum, and is much less fungible. Charity does not work with power, quite the opposite in practice.