Effective Altruism’s obsession with AI safety helps bury bad behavior

@shervin @pmarca: Utilitarianism is bad:

It encourages mortal men to play God at levels of complexity that they can't possibly comprehend.

It should be banned for the greater good

>> “earning to give,” the idea that people like Bankman-Fried should do whatever it takes to make a lot of money so they can give it away. To amass his billions, Bankman-Fried allegedly defrauded his customers, and critics have said his downfall shows that EA is vulnerable to a myopia that allows the ends to justify illegal means. Among EAs themselves, however, the most salient criticism is subtler: that living at the logical extremes of the ideology is impractical and a recipe for misery.

In buddhism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Way middle way is advised for this very reason

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If you'd like to read more about the roots of Effective Altruism, ranging from old mailing lists, LessWrong, bitcoin, cults, AI and the surprising connections to many well known figures in tech, I highly recommend the 7-part Extropia's Childen series from Jon Evans [1]

1. https://aiascendant.substack.com/p/extropias-children-chapte...

This article is such a mess. If you are alleging something, then say it clearly.

Judging by my participation in lesswrong and others, there are both feminists and sexist people, just like all other online forums. People are more free to be sexist online and every close knit online community has fair share of sexists.