The AI industry turns against its favorite philosophy
An ideology built on message boards is now struggling in the boardroom.
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An ideology built on message boards is now struggling in the boardroom.
It’s been a no good, very bad year for Effective Altruism, or “EA” for short, the cultural movement that aims to use “evidence and reason” to figure out the best ways to do the “most good.” One year ago, the EA community was flying high. Its poster boy, a philosopher named William MacAskill, had just published his book “What We Owe the Future,” which makes the case that we should be far more concerned about humanity’s long-term future — thousands, millions, even billions of years from now — than
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