@effectivealtruist.bsky.social
I'm an effective altruist mainly reading and boosting posts, but occasionally I'll muse and doodle about effective altruism. I take a balanced approach, so will highlight under-represented views—my opinions will no doubt become apparent :)
“To understand the tech mindset is to see that the ultimate goal is domination.” Adam Lowenstein reveals the hollowness of the Silicon Valley ideology expounded by tech billionaires from Sam Bankman-Fried to Elon Musk: trib.al/3RTwCWq
09.12.2025 18:00 — 👍 13 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0Bad Products Rarely Sell - Holden Karnofsky on 80 000 Hours
02.11.2025 19:55 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1I'm guessing there's a near-perfect overlap with people who were charmed by Sam Bankman-Fried
09.12.2025 18:09 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 09/
Context: Helen Toner was connected to Open Philanthropy, which is linked to Holden Karnofsky (married to Daniela Amodei, sister of Dario Amodei).
Just weeks before the firing, Toner published an article PRAISING Anthropic while CRITICIZING OpenAI.
me: now I know my memory is bad, but I could've sworn that Sam Altman was the guy who went to prison
Melody: no, that's Sam Bankman-Fried
me: oh... can we put them both in prison?
Melody: we should
AI Shows Unintended Biases - Holden Karnofsky on 80 000 Hours
06.11.2025 01:51 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
A graph of the top individual contributors to the 2024 election, sourced from OpenSecrets. It shows the top 9 contributors. The first 7 are red, from Elon Musk at nearly $300 million, through Timothy Mellon, Miriam Adelson, Richard Uihlein, Kenneth Griffin, Jeffrey Yass and Paul Singer ($67 million). The last 2 are blue. Michael Bloomberg and Dustin Moskovitz ($64 million and $50 million respectively).
Elon Musk contributed $300 million to Republicans in the 2024 election
The top 7 contributors all donated to Republicans, for a total of $1 billion
By contrast, the top 7 Democrat-supporting candidates (had to go down to the 24th biggest contributor to find them) donated 25% of that
One of the most popular versions today of the idea that there can be moral progress is the claim, much in vogue now, that such progress takes the form of what’s often called the expansion of the circle of empathy.
Dustin Moskovitz House Tour: Inside the Luxurious Coral Gables Villa of Facebook’s Co-Founder
When you think of luxurious homes owned by tech giants, you probably imagine sleek, modern designs, cutting-edge technology, and serene surroundings. Dustin Moskovitz, Facebook's co-founder, has taken…
One of the most popular versions today of the idea that there can be moral progress is the claim, much in vogue now, that such progress takes the form of what’s often called the expansion of the circle of empathy.
Dustin Moskovitz (American computer/Internet entrepreneur), net worth $11.10 billion
COULD BUY
Seychelles 🇸🇨, nominal GDP $1.29 billion
'The Moral Circle': A Riveting Expansion of Ethical Concerns | Jeff Sebo's new book considers who matters, what matters, and why. bit.ly/40YLU7Y #Mindfulness #Psychology #Buddhism #Philosoph…
20.11.2025 23:07 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
RC Forward's global health fund. Canadian registered contributions to Give Well charities. Highly effective, only a few thousand dollars to save a life or prevent debilitating disease on average. Matching funds for new donors until end of year.
rcforward.org/2025-giving-...
The Trump administration is trashing the honor, the valor and the service of our armed forces and what they have claimed to stand for since WWII.
His is a pure garbage administration -every level imaginable- on democratic philosophy, personal integrity, and moral decency.
Reprobates to the core.
Screenshot of a post of a women asking for money because she needs to sell a kidney to buy blankets for her children. There's a photo of a woman standing in deep water outside a tent.
Dear anyone tempted to donate to the "Gaza refugee" accounts running GoFundMes here: THEY'RE FAKE, PEOPLE! GAZANS HAVE ALMOST NO INTERNET ACCESS! THEY DON'T NEED MONEY BECAUSE THERE'S NO FOOD/MEDICINE TO BUY! AND NO, WOMEN AREN'T SELLING KIDNEYS TO BUY BLANKETS! (What […]
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It is a skeptical view, I'd say, and perhaps even too optimistic in the end, but it's written by someone who actually knows something about both AI and moral philosophy and is not insane.
07.12.2025 19:44 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Being ambitious is not morally superior to not being ambitious according to many worldviews including Buddhism as I understand it. Like most things it’s complicated.
But it’s essential to me. I might even be hardwired that way, but in any case I have a well developed moral philosophy.
I suppose Sam Bankman Fried got caught defrauding his investors and Sam Altman didn’t.
06.12.2025 08:27 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0instagram is sending me messages about crisis hotlines cause i wrote in whatsapp i want to go skiing but i’m scared about hurting myself. fuck off meta i’m just old and brittle not s*icid*l
05.12.2025 18:33 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
US prosecutors request 12 years in prison for Terraform’s Do Kwon
A sentencing recommendation said that Do Kwon had caused more losses than Sam Bankman-Fried, Alex Mashinsky and Karl Sebastian Greenwood combined.
#crypto #dokwon #sbf
Meta Account Suspensions: Understanding the 2025 AI Moderation Crisis
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The litmus test for autocracy
If he pardons young Sam Bankman-Fried,
you will then have the proof that you need
that democracy’s dead,
and you watched as it bled
to its death, led by corporate greed.
I'm having a crisis of data structure in my #godot game. I need to associate a TON of meta data to each unique instance a scene, and though I can do it in the inspector, that is a CHORE to manage. I'm looking for a clean, scalable way to do this. Using .tres files might work, but it's not great.
06.12.2025 14:35 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0I thought the whole "effective altruism" thing was quantifying everything lol.
But early on I knew all they did was pull numbers out of their asses to justify their decisions and talk about being "rational."
effective altruism dot txt
05.12.2025 02:41 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0one reason could be ambient effective altruism influence — charity must be fully optimized as well
05.12.2025 19:38 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0記事の要約:記事は、効果的利他主義に焦点を当て、GiveWellのCEOであるElie Hassenfeldとのインタビューを通じて、$5,000で1人の命を救うことがどれだけコスト効果が高いかを説明しています。GiveWellは、寄付金を受け取り、それをマラリア予防や子供の死亡率低下などに役立てる慈善団体を支援しています。Hassenfeldは理論的な質問には興味を持たず、数値やデータに基づいたアプローチを重視しています。彼は寄付者に対して、$5,000で1人の命を救うことはお得だと信じるように説得し、透明性を重視しています。GiveWellは
28.03.2024 09:21 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
The episode is hosted by Jacob Goldstein and features several other excellent guests, including Elie Hassenfeld (GiveWell), Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova ("Risky Business" podcast co-hosts).
Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
I recently listened to the What’s your Problem? interview with Elie Hassenfeld and thought ‚wouldn‘t it be awesome if there was a givewell.org for #climate?‘
Turns out there is! Thanks @heatmap.news for giving a shoutout to givinggreen.earth
