alt Hacker NewsThey must be "effective" "altruists".
The only way to do good is to first do all the bad and consolidate power, so you can then use all that power to do good, pinkie promise!
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mcmcmc • yesterday at 6:48 PM
Seems you’ve rustled some jimmies. I’ve always thought effective altruism was a nice way to rationalize insatiable greed.
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watwut • yesterday at 6:47 PM
I noticed the same thing about effective altruism. Its fans are really good at convincing themselves the most self-serving action amd goals are noble pursuits.
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Centigonal • yesterday at 7:57 PM
Effective Altruism isn't very different from Randian objectivism.
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jmknoll • today at 1:17 AM
Yeah, just like Stalin!
I've been to one EA meetup and it wasn't my thing but this seems nothing like the discussions I had. It's where I found out about GiveDirectly.
The biggest issue for me was the AGI/ASI doomerism. But then again, fast-forward five or six years and we've got "unaligned" AI agents blindly following reward functions...