Having read both the HN section on this and the substack post itself, I’ve still not come away from the concept of ‘effective altruism’ feeling any type of way other than “wow, this is just the same sociopathic narcissism that billionaire ‘philanthropy’ was before it, just with an added dash of techbro Manson family energy, isn’t it?”
When you have to make continued defenses for your ivy league money cult when said ivy league money cult keeps fumbling bags and shitting on the potential good name of the technology they claim to care about, it’s not the best of looks
Having read both the HN section on this and the substack post itself, I’ve still not come away from the concept of ‘effective altruism’ feeling any type of way other than “wow, this is just the same sociopathic narcissism that billionaire ‘philanthropy’ was before it, just with an added dash of techbro Manson family energy, isn’t it?”
When you have to make continued defenses for your ivy league money cult when said ivy league money cult keeps fumbling bags and shitting on the potential good name of the technology they claim to care about, it’s not the best of looks