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Personally I find "Effective Altruist" and "Firm" to be incongruous. Wouldn't you run a nonprofit if you were some kind of altruist?
by eli_gottlieb 18d ago
Personally I find "Effective Altruist" and "Firm" to be incongruous. Wouldn't you run a nonprofit if you were some kind of altruist?
- skew-aberration 18d agoTo be effective requires power. Therefore, the most altruistic strategy is to acquire all the power. This argument has seemingly convinced a lot of people, or perhaps they just wanted power anyway and now have an excuse too.
- expedition32 18d agoAbsolute power corrupts. Many such pedophile rabbi cases.
- watwut 18d agoEffective altruism boils down to rationalization for getting as much power and money now, because you have vague utopic vision for long time after. And your future vision of theoretical good excuses abuses now. There is a reason it is popular among people like Sam Bankman Friedman.
- cyanydeez 18d agoIt's a belief that you can light a match in a house filled with methane in the dark so you can escape...