2024-01-01
Insightful article on the Silicon Valley-style Effective Altruism cult's appropriation & distortion of science to pursue harmful agendas on Capitol Hill, agendas that are not altruistic by any reasonable or socially equitable measure. effectivealtruism https://www.politico.com/...
Politico
How effective altruism, branded by some as a cult obsessed with AI doomsday, influences the White House's, Congress', and think tanks' approach to AI regulation
or rather, it works on the same sort of psychological impulses that have led to millenniarian cults across recorded history 2) For EA to still play an effective and even necessary ...
2023-12-31
Insightful article on the Silicon Valley-style Effective Altruism cult's appropriation & distortion of science to pursue harmful agendas on Capitol Hill, agendas that are not altruistic by any reasonable or socially equitable measure. effectivealtruism https://www.politico.com/...
Politico
How effective altruism, described by some as a cult obsessed with AI doomsday, is influencing White House, Congress, and others' approach toward AI regulation
Effective altruism is increasingly described as a cult. But as the movement's billionaire adherents pour money into D.C. …