"Effective altruism" is neither.
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"How do we know the police killing of yet another black man was racist?" Particularly special alongside "wanking on about AI torturing us all is too a valid use of resources"
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Never heard of these people til now, and I've decided from reading that thread that I... am not impressed. At all.
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The same people who introduced me to LessWrong also introduced me to Effective Altruism. I avoided the latter after seeing the former. Looks like I got that call right.
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I hate saying "i hate altruism" when im actually talking about these sorts of people who treat the real world like a bunch of statistics, so ty for giving me an approximate word/phrase to describe Specifically the kind of people i hate
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Technocratic tinkerers
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It is 1) meant to make people talk themselves out of being charitable or generous to something "suboptimal", which conveniently everything seems to be, and 2) direct their money towards the LessWrong cult's quest to avoid future punishment by vengeful AI forces
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The "true believers" who care about the second part, wacky as they are, are probably a minority at this point - the first part is driving things. These people are a perversion of philosophy and altruism who directly prey on naive earnest people on the autism spectrum. The WORST.
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Very great that the very first reply is talking about how a runaway AI takeover, a complete fantasy situation, is more dangerous than cops killing people. Sephiroth summoning meteor would be more dangerous as well but that's not going to happen either. This is pure fantasy.
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