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   Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 22:38:32 JST Anil Dash

   Will be curious to see if business and tech media are willing to admit the role that EA religious extremism plays in the chaos at OpenAI. Starting to seem more and more like the bubble of irrationality surrounding many SV insiders is clashing again with the real world, as when the “VC Qanon” conspiracy thinking has started destroying value at other high-profile companies.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 22:53:04 JST Anil Dash

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     • Rob Fahrni

     @fahrni effective altruism, a cult that many in Silicon Valley, including most of OpenAI’s board, have succumbed to https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/05/why-effective-altruism-and-longtermism-are-toxic-ideologies

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     Rob Fahrni (fahrni@curmudgeon.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 22:53:05 JST Rob Fahrni

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     @anildash Anil, what does EA mean?

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     Dan Wineman (dwineman@xoxo.zone)'s status on Sunday, 19-Nov-2023 23:15:27 JST Dan Wineman

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     @anildash It sure seems like the general public would be a lot less accepting of tech products if they knew about the batshit ideology underpinning so many of them. Yet I’m not aware of this liability being disclosed anywhere.