Effective Altruism is evil
Effective Altruism is a totalizing, evil philosophy. This essay walks through why.
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Effective Altruism is a totalizing, evil philosophy. This essay walks through why.
Everything got worse after 2010 for one reason: markets stopped selling us things we value and started optimizing the dopamine system itself. Goodhart's Law at civilizational scale — the diagnosis, the receipts, and the only way out.