The effective altruism cult is an inevitable, metastatic outgrowth of Silicon Valley’s infantile libertarian politics.
These guys never got past utilitarianism in their philosophical development, and effective altruism lets them invent a speculative majority their actions can benefit, at the expense of any minority they choose.
That effective altruism would become entangled with the most successful cryptocurrency criminal in the game isn’t an accident:
In particular, the supposed intellectual rigor ("measuring impact") that GiveWell supposedly provides turns out to be a load of BS. The signature cause of the EA movement, deworming, has been roundly debunked, yet orgs like GiveWell refuse to acknowledge the change.
Have the silicon valley masters in their ivory towers become so cynical of us plebes, that they’ve fundamentally lost trust in the collective intelligence of us as a species?
They seem to think so, because how I read their manifesto is that we’d be safer as subjects to a new machine god instead? 🤔
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