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#effectivealtruism

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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"As I say in the book, Andreessen’s manifesto runs almost entirely on vibes, not logic. I think someone may have told him about the futurist manifesto at some point, and he just sort of liked the general vibe, which is why he paraphrases a part of it. Maybe he learned something about Marinetti and forgot it. Maybe he didn’t care.

I really believe that when you get as rich as some of these guys are, you can just do things that seem like thinking and no one is really going to correct you or tell you things you don’t want to hear. For many of these billionaires, the vibes of fascism, authoritarianism, and colonialism are attractive because they’re fundamentally about creating a fantasy of control."

technologyreview.com/2025/06/1

#AI #AGI #SuperIntelligence #Billionaires #SiliconValley #EffectiveAltruism #Rationalism #Long­Termism #Extropianism #Accelerationism #Futurism #Singularitarianism #Transhumanism

MIT Technology Review · Tech billionaires are making a risky bet with humanity’s futureBy Bryan Gardiner
Katika Kühnreich

Finally updated my #profile at speakerinnen.org :awesome:

Are you looking for a #talk, a #workshop or an #interview on the #socialimpact of #digitalization?

On #ai, #sustainability or #ideologies behind digitalization as #cybernetics, #gamification, #longtermism, or #effectivealtruism?

Why the thoughts and theories of those in power heavily influence societies?

Are you looking for a #workshop on how to really interest people in #computersecurity?

Contact me.

And #boost if you like

Lupposofi

@mojala @ms_eikku Tuo on yksi syy, miksi jostain efektiivisestä altruismista jotkut etsii apua, kun yhteiskunta ei hoida sille kuuluviksi arveltuja tehtäviä, eikä itse pysty millään kalkyloimaan seurauksia.

Tässä yleinen sivu effectivealtruism.org/, tässä suomalainen altruismi.fi/, ja Wikipedian otto suomeksi fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efektiiv, ja maailma-kielellä en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effectiv, ja tiettävästi löytyy nykyään jo kunkin ideologiaan sovitettuja. En tiedä, millä perusteilla tuollaisia hankkeita on missäkin kritisoitu, eikä itselläni ole vielä kantaa niihin.

Hyvän tekeminen missä vain on arvokasta, vaikka sitten rahalla, mutta uusi maailmantilanne Trumppeineen sun muineen sekoittaa päätä, joka ei muutenkaan osaa hyvin laskea (cf. cognitive biases). En tahtoisi niukasta toimeentulosta lahjoittamalla lahjoittaa pelkästään omalletunnolleni tai kuvittelemalleni tulevaisuudelle.

www.effectivealtruism.orgEffective Altruism
#lahjoitus#EffectiveAltruism#auttaminen
Alex Ștefănescu

#EffectiveAltruism folx should work on their reading comprehension.

I got an #AI in 2024 retrospective from 80,000 Hours, an Effective Ventures project (related to EA). In it, they mention that "the o1 language model [developed by OpenAI ][...] has the ability to deliberate about its answers before responding."

The OpenAI o1 release says: "We introduce deliberative alignment, a training paradigm that directly teaches reasoning LLMs [...] safety specifications..."

Quite the leap of faith...

Erwin Rossen 🔸

Trots om sinds vorige maand als vrijwilliger bij te dragen aan het succes van Doneer Effectief als backend ontwikkelaar. Doneer Effectief is een organisatie die 100% van de donaties aan hen door zet naar echt effectieve doelen. Want wist je dat de meest effectieve goede doelen wel 100 keer zoveel impact maken als het gemiddelde? 100 keer! Het is dus zeker de moeite waard om even stil te staan waaraan je doneert!

#DoneerEffectief#EffectiefAltruisme#EffectiveAltruism
Peter Nimmo

#Charity news- an investigation into an #EffectiveAltruism group which set up a centre which #OxfordUniversity has now closed down. They had bought a castle (now up for sale), but donors included Sam Bankman- Fried's collapsed #FTX #cryptocurrency company, and had to give the money back. The Charity Commission "is quite used to charities being run by well-meaning incompetents, and Effective Ventures certainly reaches that bar"- @davidgerard at davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2
gov.uk/government/publications

Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain · Crypto is going back: Ethereum front-runner charged, Coinbase looking to re-enact 2022 crash, Uniswap responds to SEC, the not-Telegram Open Network, WyomingMaybe Coinbase can be the next stupid CeFi firm.
Paris Marx

In this week’s roundup, the couple who’ve made themselves the face of pronatalism keep their kids in a freezing home (they say by choice) and slap them to teach them right from wrong because they saw tigers paw their cubs in the wild.

Plus, Google’s AI fail, Kenyan workers write letter to Joe Biden, and more!

disconnect.blog/roundup-pronat

Disconnect · Roundup: Pronatalists who defend hitting kidsRead to the end for Elon Musk potentially revealing another of his burner accounts on Twitter
#tech#ai#pronatalism
Karthik Srinivasan

Good riddance to what was a colossal waste of money, energy, resources, and any sane person's time, intellect, and attention. To even call these as exploratory projects is a disservice to human endeavor.

"Future of humanity", it seems. These guys can't even predict their next bowel movement, but somehow prognosticate about the long term future of humanity, singularity blah blah. This is what "philosophy" has come to with silicon valley and its money power: demented behavior is incentivized, douchery is rationalized, while reason is jettisoned.

theguardian.com/technology/202

The Guardian · ‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity InstituteBy Andrew Anthony
#Longtermism#EffectiveAltruism#Futurism
Toni Aittoniemi

Well worth a read: As our interconnectivity profilates and technological provess multiplies, so does belief in #magic.

It’s not just new-age hippies & faith-healers anymore, it’s silicon valley #postrationalism and #effectivealtruism going along with the #manifesting & #occult, up to even rooting for Julius Evola’s fascist magic & #traditionalism (a favourite of Russia’s Aleksandr Dugin)

Sure, if you know it’s just self-hypnosis. But record shows that slips away easy😓

aeon.co/essays/how-the-interne

AeonHow the internet became the modern purveyor of ancient magic | Aeon EssaysBending a mysterious world to your will was the goal of esoteric practices. Now it’s the unashamed aim of the tech titans
anubis2814
#effectivealtruism is the believe that doing harm now, in the quest for improving things that will cause greater good later evens itself out. Its not new #Stalin believed that if he ran the workers into the ground in a few decades they have a fully automated utopia that Marx had talked about as the outcome of industrialization, and that included sending nearly 3% of the nation to the gulags. Its not #altruism, it doesn't save futre lives in the long term it just creates a cycle of trauma that ensures no one is mentally healthy and that's assuming the effective altruists actually does anything to save future lives.
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Jürgen Hubert

And this is really the black, rotting heart of the #EffectiveAltruism movement: It is nothing more than excuse to plunder the present for a highly hypothetical distant future.

Look, I am not saying that humanity won't ever spread out among the stars, assuming that we survive the present crisis - though I bet it won't be during these bastards' lifetimes (since the needed tech is nowhere available). However, if the actual goal is "more Mozarts and more Einsteins", then they could do far more for this _right now_.

Both Mozart and Einstein grew up in relatively privileged families who made it possible for their scions to follow their passions. In contrast, the Capitalist system that both Bezos and Musk encourage grinds most of the people working in it - especially at the lower ends - into the dust, creating a vast overworked and underpaid underclass.

How is human ingenuity supposed to prosper under these situations? How can a new Mozart or Einstein arise if their parents struggle to make ends meet as a part of the vast supply chains Bezos and Musk are commanding?

If they don't take care of the people living right now, then why should we trust the ideology of these bastards to encourage the growth of the human spirit in the future?

They are NOT humanity's saviors - but merely an expression of the sickness of our times.

#Capitalism
finance.yahoo.com/news/jeff-be

Yahoo Finance · Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’By Steve Mollman
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