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Shinigami eyes flags the account red. Who even is this person
It's like they correctly realized capitalism is a death cult and propagating global suffering, but instead of seeing if anyone else has ever worked out alternatives before them (
) they came up with the brilliant idea to...pick the right careers and make donations? Without any actual material analysis of why things around the world are the way they are. Also apparently they have an algorithm that they say can predict world events or something.
What an amazing prediction, no one else could have possibly seen that one coming, I'm sure.
Apparently a bunch of techbros like Sam Bankman-Fried were heavily involved so that's how you know it's a joke ideology.
There is a certain logic to the original ideas of effective altruism. If you want to make positive change in the world, you will be more able to do so if you are a powerful person.
The problem is you can essentially use it as a justification for endlessly pursuing your own personal power. After all the more powerful you become, the more good you can do! In fact it makes it easy to justify committing immoral acts in the pursuit of power-- think of it from a utilitarian point of view! I am going to do so much good once I'm rich, that it will far out weight the harm I'm doing now. In other words, an okay idea that is used and abused by the greedy and power hungry to convince themselves they aren't bad people.
yeah like some charities are more effective than others, and if you're already an engles maybe it's some kind of better to find some billable hours and pay people to "volunteer" at the soup kitchen rather than do it directly yourself but those guys all went fucking nuts about pascal's wager instead.