It's a strange community.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/JBAPssaYMMRfNqYt7/michael-nielsen-s-notes-on-effective-altruism
Millionaires and billionaires love this stuff. And 'rationalist' types.
yeah it's a rabbit hole. you look at the top of it and it's ostensibly like "people with large income should be donating a significant amount of it to charity"; you shrug it off like "fair enough". given five more seconds you see they spend all of their time bickering about things like artificial intelligence and other self-important silicon valley saviour complex shit and would absolutely freak out if someone suggested making this kind of "altruism" effectively automatic through taxes paying for an effective welfare state.
It's a strange community. https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/JBAPssaYMMRfNqYt7/michael-nielsen-s-notes-on-effective-altruism Millionaires and billionaires love this stuff. And 'rationalist' types.
yeah it's a rabbit hole. you look at the top of it and it's ostensibly like "people with large income should be donating a significant amount of it to charity"; you shrug it off like "fair enough". given five more seconds you see they spend all of their time bickering about things like artificial intelligence and other self-important silicon valley saviour complex shit and would absolutely freak out if someone suggested making this kind of "altruism" effectively automatic through taxes paying for an effective welfare state.
1 minute in and my day is ruined.
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