• Frittiert@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      So why don’t we look after people if we have the means?

      Who has the means? Why don’t they share and use their wealth to really help people and create progress?

      And why do we let them act this way?

    • mohKohn@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      the specific people are all (with the exception of Sam Altmann) grifters. they are

      1. guy whose sub imploded at the titanic
        2 Sam Altman, head of OpenAI (which went from charity to a wing of Microsoft).
      2. Sam Bankman Freid’s brother, who was talking about buying an island to carry “effective altruists” through an extinction-level event.

      It pisses me off that these are the first EA adjacent people that are broadly well-known, rather than Givewell and 80,000 hours, who are actually doing good work.

  • Saganastic@kbin.social
    02·
    1 year ago

    You can be passionate about technological advancement and also be concerned about rent prices, funding for schools, and climate change. Let people solve the problems they’re able to solve.