Climate MigrantAttending my first EAGx Conference in Stockholm, where the food is vegan and for me this is a Paradise, because I don't have to ask what I can eat and what I can't.
Usona HomaranoIt always amazes me that #EffectiveAltruism started as stuff like fighting disease in the developing world and has been hijacked to mean "give money to build and enslave God."
Pauline von HellermannThank you for these! Have read the first two and am by now well and truly embarrassed.. I even knew of these AI doomers inside AI world hyping its dangers to “up it” (though hadn’t realised they were linked to #effectivealtruism); i just didn’t fully compute that Soares was one of those and was gullible because it was Novara Media..
Really enjoying your posts, by the way
Philip C JamesIt's funny how those ultra-long-term decisions always seem to benefit the Tech Bro oligarchs & billionaires and their increasing wealth today as well, allegedly, as the intended beneficiaries - the notional humungous swarms of human beings who will have colonised the Cosmos in the far future, but never we, the ordinary people, who are alive around us today.
#USpol #UKpol #Trump #GOP #MAGA
#Thiel #Musk #Palantir #SpaceX #TwitteX
#EffectiveAltruism #EA
https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-the-dangerous-myth-of-neutral-technology/?utm_campaign=968afe29-39e7-45b6-a2e0-e403e0d51196&utm_source=1234589
Sasha Akhavi“This thing I know, only bigger,” and especially, “Me, only bigger” is as close as hypercapitalists get to understanding scale. It’s what Joshua DiCaglio calls “synecdoche,” the false idea that you can impose something at scale without fundamentally changing the thing itself. It’s how “#EffectiveAltruism” and “#longtermism” can base themselves in overcoming the “saliency problem” of large effects happening far from here yet ignore, say, the cost of burning tokens and water on #AI. 2/2
Raccoon🇺🇸🏳️🌈“I like that sentence and think it’s true.” is a phrase that still lives rent-free in my head. Every time it repeats, #NickBostrom sounds more like a moron.
To repeat a #MichelleObama quote which also lives rent free in my head, "These people are not that smart."
Remember that every time someone in charge claims to be the end-all be-all of anything, or tries to talk outside of their field of actual experience, especially when the #philosophy guy all the rich kids like starts talking about #genetics like he knows shit. 
ElectricMuscleFishRE: https://mstdn.science/@ChemicalEyeGuy/116363252099350048
The people running #bigtech and #ai believe in ludicrous #antihuman philosophies like #effectivealtruism and #longtermism. The sooner they're out of power the better because we're at the edge of being too late.
danaReading Adam Becker's "More Everything Forever," I'm periodically muttering, "These people are fucking nuts."
Sean BalaReview of "Moral Ambition" (3 stars): This Could Have Been a TED Talk...
iweinIf like me, you have been confused by your mixed feelings about #EffectiveAltruism, this is a great read.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-problem-with-effective-altruism
"Both Marxism and effective altruism claim that they have figured out the true way to make the world a better place. And both Marxism and effective altruism flatter their adherents into thinking that this gives them a key role in a movement that will prove to have world-historical importance."
Imho, #buddhism solves these problems naturally. What do you think?
