To be effective requires power. Therefore, the most altruistic strategy is to acquire all the power. This argument has seemingly convinced a lot of people, or perhaps they just wanted power anyway and now have an excuse too.
Effective altruism boils down to rationalization for getting as much power and money now, because you have vague utopic vision for long time after. And your future vision of theoretical good excuses abuses now.
There is a reason it is popular among people like Sam Bankman Friedman.
"This genocide will clear the way for us to have more land for the 'Chosen People' which will free up time to work on hard problems like preventing genocide"
That's the logic loop of the Effective Altruism gang.
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[ 0.28 ms ] story [ 13.0 ms ] threadThat is a better link for the story than the current (alt: https://xxcancel.com/brianchau57/status/2099580981271318606).
It was previously submitted but was quickly flagged out. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704132
There is a reason it is popular among people like Sam Bankman Friedman.
That's the logic loop of the Effective Altruism gang.
1. Do what you want
2. ???
3. Do good