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Is that a new kind of McCarthyism?

I also think EA is mostly unhelpful and possibly even dangerous, but it's more effective and honest to criticise actions rather than association.

EA might be better than the unfettered-greed approach of so many of the super-wealthy these days.
It's connected to it directly - EA demands that if you can make huge money it's "altruistic" to do so, because then you could use that money to help more people. It's a set of mental processes that help the ultra-wealthy absolve themselves of the terrible guilt of being ultra-wealthy.
I'm pretty sure it's the other way around. You can't give away lots of money without first earning lots of money.
>Effective altruism is the ideology that permeates OpenAI’s nonprofit board and, broadly speaking, EAs are obsessed with the possibility of human extinction via AI superintelligence.

I thought that was "e/acc" not Effective Altruism (that thing that FTX SBF espoused)

There's a lot of overlap. Sean Carroll did a podcast episode with Will MacAskill, some of it going into how EA kind of leads into "prevent civilisation-ending situations", though I don't remember if they touched on AI specifically.
I'm sure theres some overlap especially between those who espouse one or both philosophies but I think the author might be confusing one for the other.
interesting to read that hpmor was a rationalist recruiting tool. I have very little patience for the entire rationalist movement, but I read and enjoyed it as an entertaining piece of fanfic.
I've heard about the FanFic before, from someone who was super pro-rationlism/strong atheism/logical thinking type, but not that it was a recruiting tool which is very interesting and connects a lot of boxes.
Recruiting tool??? Wow. I mostly enjoyed reading it - but it seemed to be a crackfic, set in an apocalyptic Harry Potter / Revelations / Bizarro World alternate reality. With the not-so-subtle message that rationalism would be quite maladaptive if not malevolent in anything resembling our universe...
It appears that Bloomberg ran such a story this year spring.

I recall I was aware of lesswrong.com when it was still about bayesian stuff and not the hive of basilisk oil salesmen. So, before I stumbled on the fanfic (penned by "Less Wrong"), but for plenty of folks it might have been the other way round.

Is there some sort of sparknotes or summary out there of the effective altruism and e/acc schools that would help catch-up the uninformed?