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5: One of the very best things about buying David Gerard a pint is that is so enriches my vocabulary:

...LessWrong rationalists, Effective Altruists etc as disaster chucklefucks

Lesswrong 'Rationalist' is not the same as rational and it seems that all their ponderous logic of priors and maximisation leaves them horribly vulnerable to an elegant argument that turns human beings into lesser beings, untermensch, and ashes.

I was invited-in to meet the Effective Altruists a few years ago: idealist junior civil servants and early-career professionals, lovely, lovely people that I think

andrewducker knows from Cambridge...

Some of them are now becoming senior civil servants and, I think, partner-track professionals.

...And I think they all went cool, then cordially distant, from the EA fundamentalists as their agenda and their values started to show through.

Or maybe hate cults and racists and Nazis are that damn' good at infiltrating and corrupting *any* community founded on ideals but lacking some kind of anchor.

Edited (gramnar) 2022-11-26 11:49 (UTC)

I, for one, have not distanced myself one whit from my beliefs that everyone who is wealthy in global terms has a duty to give to charity, and to do so in a way that has as much positive impact as possible, and I refuse to concede the term to the racists just because Diva has a bee in his bonnet about it.

As with many movements, you hear more about the extreme fringe than you do about those of us who are quietly giving our ten percent and the lives we are saving.

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