Affective Old Truant
@effectivealtruist.bsky.social
I'm an effective altruist mainly reading and boosting posts, but occasionally I'll muse and doodle about #EffectiveAltruism. I take a balanced approach, so will highlight under-represented views—my opinions will no doubt become apparent :)
![Demsas raised over $4 million before starting the magazine.[6] This was venture-capital funding, resulting in a $20 million valuation. The funders include Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz; former Enron trader and current Meta energy and data center strategist John Arnold; a Pritzker family](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2hhz3iikioelixxe73cdxxuu/bafkreigj75lgrj7x5cqrgc2fuzx3u7pmbwnsecwoymzeetm2vx6xcww4ly)
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how did I not spot that relentless data centre shill Andy Masley is funded by the Effective Altruists and calls himself one specifically Coefficient Giving, previously known as Open Philanthropy, bankrolled by Dustin Moskovitz cite: his front page lol truly, fucking data centres everywhere […]
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Is the reason that these so-called pro Palestinians went after Dolly is because she's a capitalist? Well I'm sorry to tell you someone smart with her money was much more effective in helping people around her, than Mackenzie Scott's plan to enrich charities with zero accountability
*reading Everything More Forever to my spouse before bed* me: “…interviewed by ezra klein” her: *groans* me “Open Philanthropy is mostly funded through the fortune of Dustin Moskovitz, one of the co-founders of Facebook..” her: 😤😤😤 ALL THESE PEOPLE HAVE THE WITCH’S NIPPLE 😤😤😤
Governor DeSantis champions a groundbreaking approach to welfare that connects churches and charities directly with those in need, claiming it's a more effective solution than traditional government programs. Learn more here #FL #EconomicEmpowerment #CommunityAssistance #CitizenPortal
DeSantis highlights care portal and TANF changes as alternatives to traditional welfare
Governor described a state care portal that connects churches and charities with clients and said recent TANF changes direct support through partners rather than unrestricted cash, which he argued better helps families.
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La connexion dont parle Timnit Gebru avec les "TESCREAL bozos" est une bonne occasion de découvrir le cluster idéologique qu'elle a éclairé avec @xriskology.bsky.social --> aeon.co/essays/why-l...
Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays
It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity’s future. It’s now richly funded and increasingly dangerous
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TESCREAL stands for : 🚀🎇 Transhumanism, 🚀🎇 Extropianism, 🚀🎇Singularitarianism, 🚀🎇 Cosmism, 🚀🎇 Rationalism, 🚀🎇Effective Altruism, and 🚀🎇 Longtermism.
I have friends who are EA or EA adjacent, and my impression is that the longtermism + existential risk thing sucked all the air out of the room, and there's been a push to get back to basics. But it's not exactly my universe!
if you buy that effective altruism stuff, this is what the result should look like (I don't)
Amie Gillingham@aimkag.bsky.social · 2d agoShe could have been a billionaire. She actively chose not to be. This is the Way.
But I'd also like to point out that the company that says you can have a business of 100 people doing the work of 1,000, credited 24 people in the production of this one report. So I'll continue to take their bombastic claims on their tech's capabilities with a large serving of salt. (22/22)
It seem Leopold Aschenbrenner really loves Amodei. At Holden Karnofsky & Daniela Amodei's wedding, guests were asked to read Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action and donate to GiveWell instead of bringing gifts. so...
We should uplift the living who deserve it but one thing you absolutely cannot say about Miss Parton was that she wasn't given her flowers while she was still around. She has been the go-to example of actual effective altruism and ethical celebrity for over a decade by everyone but the bigots.
And here I thought it was "interesting" that Daniela Amodei, also co-founder of Anthropic and Dario Amodei's sister was married to Holden Karnofsky, who ran (one of?) the biggest Effective Altruism funds, Open Philanthropy. Which, of course, produces a lot of ideology around AI
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El reino de Dios está en vosotros - Audiolibro completo (León Tolstói) | Parte 1 de 2
Adquiere el libro físico aquí: https://amzn.to/4huGB8Y EL REINO DE DIOS ESTÁ EN VOSOTROS El reino de Dios está en vosotros, de León Tolstói, es una de las obras más profundas y provocadoras del pensamiento del célebre escritor ruso. Publicado originalmente en 1894, el libro presenta una reflexión radical sobre el cristianismo, la moral, la violencia y la responsabilidad individual, cuestionando las instituciones religiosas y políticas que, según Tolstói, se han alejado de las enseñanzas esenciales de Jesucristo. A través de un análisis filosófico y espiritual, Tolstói sostiene que el verdadero sentido del cristianismo no reside en los dogmas ni en los rituales, sino en la práctica consciente del amor, la compasión y la resistencia a la violencia. El autor examina el poder del Estado, la guerra, las estructuras sociales y la obediencia, defendiendo la idea de que la transformación de la sociedad comienza con una transformación interior del individuo. Con un mensaje que trasciende su época, El reino de Dios está en vosotros continúa invitando al lector a cuestionar sus propias convicciones y a reflexionar sobre la libertad, la conciencia y la búsqueda de una vida guiada por principios éticos. Una obra fundamental para quienes desean explorar el pensamiento de Tolstói y las profundas relaciones entre espiritualidad, filosofía, pacifismo y justicia social.
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What We Owe the Future (eBook) by William MacAskill only $1.99 (Reg $19.99) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09N3D7QSQ?smid=&th=1&linkCode=ll2&tag=bluesky0d2-20
📣 New Podcast! "El reino de Dios está en vosotros - Audiolibro completo (León Tolstói) | Parte 2 de 2" on @Spreaker #character #classics #conscience #discipline #eternal #ethics #greek #logic #mind #morality #philosophy #reason #reflection #roman #self_control #stoicism #thought #truth #virtue
El reino de Dios está en vosotros - Audiolibro completo (León Tolstói) | Parte 2 de 2
Adquiere el libro físico aquí: https://amzn.to/4huGB8Y EL REINO DE DIOS ESTÁ EN VOSOTROS El reino de Dios está en vosotros, de León Tolstói, es una de las obras más profundas y provocadoras del pensamiento del célebre escritor ruso. Publicado originalmente en 1894, el libro presenta una reflexión radical sobre el cristianismo, la moral, la violencia y la responsabilidad individual, cuestionando las instituciones religiosas y políticas que, según Tolstói, se han alejado de las enseñanzas esenciales de Jesucristo. A través de un análisis filosófico y espiritual, Tolstói sostiene que el verdadero sentido del cristianismo no reside en los dogmas ni en los rituales, sino en la práctica consciente del amor, la compasión y la resistencia a la violencia. El autor examina el poder del Estado, la guerra, las estructuras sociales y la obediencia, defendiendo la idea de que la transformación de la sociedad comienza con una transformación interior del individuo. Con un mensaje que trasciende su época, El reino de Dios está en vosotros continúa invitando al lector a cuestionar sus propias convicciones y a reflexionar sobre la libertad, la conciencia y la búsqueda de una vida guiada por principios éticos. Una obra fundamental para quienes desean explorar el pensamiento de Tolstói y las profundas relaciones entre espiritualidad, filosofía, pacifismo y justicia social.
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Beyond that: her ex, William MacAskill, is himself a famous philosopher in the EA movement that they likely despise. Just fractally wrong and sexist and incurious.
Philosophy Mondays post in the Universal Moral Core series. Principle 2 "Accept the responsibility that comes from power" continuations.com/universal-mo...
Universal Moral Core Principle 2
The second principle in my proposed Universal Moral Core (UMC) is as follows: Accept the responsibility that comes from power. This principle is inspired by the great font of philosophical wisdom that...
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🌍⏳ Lo que le debemos al futuro (2023) de William MacAskill es un viaje filosófico y práctico para pensar a lo grande: ¿cómo influye lo que hacemos hoy en el mañana de millones? 🤔💥 Ética, acción y futuro en juego. #FilosofíaDelFuturo #PensarALargoPlazo #LecturaQueHacePensar 📘🌱
lol of course Peter Singer is the first signatory
Jonathan W. Gray@elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 6d agoThere’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.
40 billion dollar Hedge fund for AI projects run by a guy in his twenties was on the verge of doing what got Sam Bankman Fried sent to prison because he was borrowing 4 times as much money as he had on hand. When AI stocks dipped after China showed they were making chips, he got margin called
here's an excerpt of my undergrad thesis from 2018 where I'm hating on race realism as part of a critique of the concept of speciesism, which was coincidentally (and ironically) popularized by race realism defender and enjoyer, Peter Singer.
having a good hair day which is to say I look like that one courtroom sketch of sam bankman-fried lol
Listened to Going Infinite, Michael Lewis’ book on FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried. Rather shocked that Lewis does not even utter the word “psychopathy” even once. It’s right there in front of you.
"These findings challenge claims of moral inversion and clarify that liberal moral universalism reflects circle expansion, not reversal in the ordering of concern."
Ideological differences in moral concern reflect circle expansion, not inversion
Do liberals prioritize distant others over close relationships, inverting the moral hierarchy? Across three studies, we test this claim directly. Study 1a analyzes a nationally representative U.S. sa...
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I was confused because when you said "longtermism is eugenic," I thought that you were making an unironic argument that longtermism is good because it is eugenic, which is what the longtermists say. And this paper is arguing no its not because its dysgenic.
Congrats to @kyleflaw.com, Seoyeon Bae, Liane Young, and @stysyropoulos.bsky.social on their new article in Political Psychology. "Ideological differences in moral concern reflect circle expansion, not inversion" tests the claim that liberals prioritize strangers over their own communities. cont'd
