The Pentagon has its eye on the leading AI company, which this week softened its ban on military use.

  • Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    Effective altruism is just capitalism camoflauge, it’s also just really bad at being camoflauge

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      10 months ago

      helps you get a lot of community support and publicity during startup and then you don’t have to give a damn about them once you take off

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Effective altruism could work if the calculation of “amount of good” an action creates wasn’t performed by the person performing that action.

      E.g. I feel I’m doing a lot of good buying this $30m penthouse in the Bahamas.