Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
My own experience is the opposite of this. I feel like I would have been a significantly worse person without the influence of EA ideology. https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1725958636529480155
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0xen 🎩
@0xen
what's your take on this kind of rhetoric?
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Blake Burgess
@trinitek
I'm wary of people who self-label as effective altruists, but I ignore Balaji.
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Connor McCormick
@nor
when did balaji switch from trying to make sense to trying to make viral memes? I used to massively respect his playful approach to ideas
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@bias
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
It reminds me of when the US set a ceiling for the number of bits in cryptographic keys in the name of national defense. That didn’t last very long (thanks to Phil Zimmerman). We still have some remnants of that today:
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a1z2
@a1z2
Strikes me that the philosophy of EA rhymes more so with capitalism’s defense of billionaires: that individuals have a right to amass insane amounts of wealth because they know how to allocate capital and will donate to philanthropy. Both are morally ambivalent to the means of how the capital is acquired.
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Ben 🟪
@benersing
Exactly as you said: rhetoric. Sure some people claim their EA views make them not self interested (ironically this is done for self interested purposes), but EA as a principal doesn't say it replaces human self interest. EA isn't even a new concept tbh. Just new branding and adoption by SV.
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