The effective altruism cult is an inevitable, metastatic outgrowth of Silicon Valley’s infantile libertarian politics.
These guys never got past utilitarianism in their philosophical development, and effective altruism lets them invent a speculative majority their actions can benefit, at the expense of any minority they choose.
That effective altruism would become entangled with the most successful cryptocurrency criminal in the game isn’t an accident:
THEY ARE THE SAME GRIFT
Danilo /
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2024-03-19 16:12:42
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