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# The Deaths of Effective Altruism
- URL: https://werd.io/the-deaths-of-effective-altruism/
- Published: 2024-03-27T13:38:49.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-27T13:38:49.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: NotableLinks, #Import 2025-06-13 09:20

"This is a stranger story of how some small-time philosophers captured some big-bet billionaires, who in turn captured the philosophers—and how the two groups spun themselves into an opulent vortex that has sucked up thousands of bright minds worldwide."

This jumped out to me:

"If you’re earning-to-give, you should maximize your wealth. And if you think each moment should be optimized for profit, you’ll never choose to spend resources on boring grown-up things like auditors and a chief financial officer. For SBF, good-for-me-now and good-for-everyone-always started to merge into one."

It's absolutely bankrupt thinking - and at the same time, absolutely rife. This isn't how we make the world better for everyone. But plenty of people have tricked themselves (and/or the people around them) into thinking it is. [#Technology](https://werd.io/tag/Technology)

\[[Link](https://www.wired.com/story/deaths-of-effective-altruism/)\]