Fiona Robertson: The EA cult at the heart of silicon valley is just the culmination of the whole ethos, which is based on such a failed understanding of systems, humanity, value, purpose, ethics and people. They're only open about it now because they've amassed enough power they think they're untouchable.

The EA cult at the heart of silicon valley is just the culmination of the whole ethos, which is based on such a failed understanding of systems, humanity, value, purpose, ethics and people. They're only open about it now because they've amassed enough power they think they're untouchable.

Like… at some point you'll believe those of us who tell you that silicon valley's values are inextricably interwoven with eugenics, and that this isn't a new development, but merely a louder one. newrepublic.com/article/1804...

The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisconewrepublic.com If Balaji Srinivasan is any guide, then the Silicon Valley plutocrats are definitely not okay.

It’s gonna be really funny when they find out they’re not untouchable — they’re delicious. #EatTheRich

🤞🤞🤞

(although I have to put my standard #CompostTheRich alternative out there)

if you like your steak marbled

Sweartagod I thought you meant Electeonic Arts for a second.

It may also be cultural.... societies based on a caste system.

Because there's nothing so evil as... altruism?

If you think they’re actually talking about altruism, I have an AI Turk to sell you

Discourse I'm happy I'm missing, I guess.

“effective altruism” is as much of a misnomer as “military intelligence” is

There may have been an altruistic drive in there somewhere early on, but the 'effective' approach quickly turned it into "I should have all the money and power to make whatever decisions I personally think are best, acquired by courting the richest and most venal billionaires in the world"

at some point EA got taken over by people who think Proust is a type of beer and thus have very strange ideas about both altruism and how to measure efficacy

Genuinely, it’s better if you are

I wish I could go back in time to when I wasn’t aware of this guy.

I’m sorry. The hazards of tech adjacency:(

Many such discourses

yeah and north korea’s a democratic republic — what’s wrong with that?

You're clearly fighting an Internet Battle I'm not aware of.

since you’re posting about thing you’re not aware of, that tracks

This might help you. www.wired.com/story/deaths...

The Deaths of Effective Altruismwww.wired.com Sam Bankman-Fried is finally facing punishment. Let’s also put his ruinous philosophy on trial.

The article about Balaji doesn't mention EA. I think EA was a bit more confusing and there were different factions - some were more in the 'donate more to good causes' givewell camp, then factions way more in the rationalist, transhumanism, extropism camps.

There's a good series critiquing Balaji's whole network state thing: theblockchainsocialist.com/category/pod...

Overthrowing The Network State Archives - The Blockchain Socialisttheblockchainsocialist.com

They use the word altruism the way the national socialists used the word socialism.

The hubris of being amongst the greatest beneficiaries of openness (people, capital, knowledge, legal) and not understanding what keeps the pinnacle so very high. It’s going to be a long, long fall from the heights of that pinnacle.

Reading this quickly and I couldn’t remember that part of the show. Then I remembered it’s a literal place. #drunkskeet

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