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0 pointsstrange_quark1mo ago0 comments

He and SBF are both big into effective altruism, and SBF gave Anthropic their seed funding, so yeah, that checks out.

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There's nothing wrong with effective altruism -- making money to give it away -- it's SBF.

oska1mo ago

Of course there is. The whole thing is a cult, designed to pull in suckers.

Your argument is guilt by association. Association with something that isn't morally wrong, it's just a way to try to spend money on charity in an effective way? You can take a lot of ideas too far and end up with a bad result of course.

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0 pointsstrange_quark1mo ago0 comments

He and SBF are both big into effective altruism, and SBF gave Anthropic their seed funding, so yeah, that checks out.

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esafak1mo ago

There's nothing wrong with effective altruism -- making money to give it away -- it's SBF.

oska1mo ago

Of course there is. The whole thing is a cult, designed to pull in suckers.

cinntaile1mo ago

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