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Well if he ever feels inclined to study the effects of it properly, all he needs to do is try to re-enter and get detained by ICE. Though depending on how bad it gets in the US in the near future, that might be a one-way trip.

(Deutschland by Rammstein Intensifies)

All correct.

The only other things to add is that "Effective Altruism m" started as asking the question "what charity or charitable causes should you donate money to for the greatest positive effect in the world?" and because lonely terminally online people in the tech industry got hyperfixated on the answer evolved from "mosquito nets and access to drinking water" to that belief outlined in the previous comment.

The other thing is "timeless-decisions" which is where you should consider the far future impact of EVERY decision you make because all these little day-to-day decisions (what to eat, how to dress, your hobbies, how much you sleep, etc.) will have a "butterfly effect" on the lives of future people and whether the super AI that eventually comes will judge you to be a good person to be rewarded or a bad person to be punished.

It's basically Calvinism for Tech-bros where God is an AI.

Behind The Bastards has done a four-part podcast on an offshoot of the Rationalists called the Zizians who were recently directly involved in that stabbing and shootout with the border patrol agent in Canada.

Also, a lot of Tech-Bros are into Rationalism like Musk, Zucc, Theil, and Sergey Brin. Basically, everyone who was at Trump's inauguration thinks that his appalling actions justify the ends because it gives them the money to make the god AI to ensure they survive the impending judgement day and collapse of civilization.

Some other German brand then? BMW? Mercedes?

Then do something about your mad king, else your inaction speaks volumes.

How does that saying go... "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

Untap artifact everytime the current US administration doorsteps a country for eggs.

Seize the German Tesla factory and hand it over to VW.

Show musk that the bite of his orange lapdog has consequences.

(Cyberpunk sting plays)

Sam you can't "effective altruism" a way of making people not using the general purpose AI tools you designed to "cure cancer" to make silly memes or saucy images.

If you wanted to cure cancer, you should have made an AI start up focused on curing cancer. But no, you had to buy into that "Rationalism" logic-circle-wankfest and now you're disappointed when people aren't making the "correct" timeless-decisions and "optimising for the future" because they're regular people that spend their free time touching grass and hang around in person and not debating pointless logic thought experiments with strangers on niche Internet forums.

Sounds like a suit for the strong German unions.

Vice believes making a serious article about a nonsensical "movement" will generate enough outrage clicks to save their ailing business.

WHY (Bang) WON'T (Bang) YOU (Bang) DIE!?! (click click click) Why won't you die?!?

Because behind this mask Mr. McCready is an idea, and ideas are bulletproof!