You may have heard that the principals of the collapsed FTX crypto exchange were into Effective Altruism.
Let me explain what Effective Altruism is:
* Some charities are more effective than others, and you should donate to the more effective ones.
yeah, sounds obvious and sensible
* As a first-worlder, you are basically rich, even if you don’t feel like it, and you therefore have an ethical obligation to contribute to those who aren’t - almost certainly more than you do now.
this is pretty sound reasoning actually, I can get behind this
* Therefore, we can and should stack-rank every charitable initiative in the world according to an objective numerical scoring system,
wait what
* and clearly the most cost-effective initiative possible for all of humanity is donating to fight the prospect of unfriendly artificial intelligence,,
what the
* and oh look, we just happen to have a charity for that precise purpose right here! WHAT ARE THE ODDS,,,,
fuckin