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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

AI-Industrial-Complex grift is fine as long as it sufficiently relates to the AI doom from the TREACLES. (Though TechTakes may be more suitable.)

This is sneer club, not debate club. Unless it's amusing debate.

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EA is becoming a cult? It must be wokeism fault (x.com)
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[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Because they’re the wealthy or at least believe in wealth’s ability to do good. A basic interpretation of EA would say that you should start a company, and maximize profit even at the expense of worker compensation so you have more to give to charity

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They approximate by forming private companies that they then talk about as if they're 501(c)3 charities and pay accordingly, or less - see our friends such as Kat Woods at Nonlinear here for a previous worked example.