Dude, who even knows.

12th December 2022

Post reblogged from Spirit Becoming a Stranger to Itself with 310 notes

triviallytrue:

thosearentcrimes:

reddragdiva:

you may have heard that the Effective Altruists spent the charity money on buying literally a frickin’ castle.

as the most mathematically effective way, of course, to ensure the happiness of 10^54 hypothetical future human emulations

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-grift-brothers/

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well, that’s completely incorrect and very misleading

they spent the charity money on buying two frickin’ castles.

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/pbe8x4AQDqftQoaT5/espr-should-return-the-ftx-funded-chateau
https://www.irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/ftx-krypto-burza-bankman-fried-kryptomeny_2212060500_sto

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hello, sincere EAs who work very hard to make the world a better place!

ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated

a second semi-secret luxury real estate acquisition has struck the Effective Altruism movement

fun fact, I know someone who knew the person who is running this thing, who is presumably about to discover why a former “luxury hotel” housed in a 17th century mansion in the middle of nowhere was selling for “only” 4 million EUR

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I hope one of the GiveWell employees that spent years trying to figure out how to do the most good with the least money stabs this dude with a knife

I know I’ve been saying the next frontier is a return to smaller, distributed power centers in a way that might resemble feudal manorialism, but this and the VDare castle are really on the nose

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  7. 18electrons said: the ENTIRE comments section on that EAforums post is full of just. straight up justifying the castle. no one’s like ‘hey you morons what do you think you’re doing’ without getting downvoted to hell. geoff miller himself (ofc evopsych!!!) and dustin moskovitz and everyone are just having a grand old time chatting about how it’s obviously the only reasonable purchase to make
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