Founded in 2005 and lauded by Silicon Valley, the Nick Bostrom’s centre for studying existential risk warned about AI but also gave rise to cultish ideas such as effective altruism
Philosophy Tube have a great video about Effective Altruism. It was some time ago that I watched, but iirc, EA is just “let us do unregulated capitalism at our own benefit, because in the future trillions and trillions of humans are going to benefit from it. Don’t mind the planet being destroyed now, and the billions of humans suffering now, everything would be cool in future. Trust me bro.”
That’s only “longtermism”. EA as introduced by Peter Singer in “the life you can save” is an incredibly sincere and well founded philosophy of charity.
Philosophy Tube have a great video about Effective Altruism. It was some time ago that I watched, but iirc, EA is just “let us do unregulated capitalism at our own benefit, because in the future trillions and trillions of humans are going to benefit from it. Don’t mind the planet being destroyed now, and the billions of humans suffering now, everything would be cool in future. Trust me bro.”
God they just rebranded trickle-down-economics
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That’s only “longtermism”. EA as introduced by Peter Singer in “the life you can save” is an incredibly sincere and well founded philosophy of charity.