Sam Bankman-Fried exposes the moral conceit of effective altruism
For tech CEOs, the suckers of the present come second to people of the technocratic future.
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For tech CEOs, the suckers of the present come second to people of the technocratic future.
Over the past decade the philanthropic ideology of Effective Altruism has grown massively both in attracting funds and in influencing young people to try to make as much money as they can and give most of it away. But a series of catastrophic financial hustles in the world of cryptocurrency has brought EA heightened attention and started to expose its dangers.
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