Viral EA Dolphin-vs-Shrimp Claim Was Made Up by Its Own Author

The account known as beffjezos joked that in effective altruism welfare calculations a dolphin's happiness counts 1,000 times more than a shrimp's, sparked by dolphins spotted in San Francisco Bay—then admitted in a reply that he made the whole thing up.

2026-10-28 ~ 2026-10-28 · 2 related posts

• EA lore joke: dolphin hedons are weighed 1000x more than shrimp hedons — beffjezos · 2026-10-28
• 'Dolphin hedons weigh 1000x shrimp hedons' EA meme debunked by its own author: 'I made it up' — beffjezos · 2026-10-28