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/

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

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

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