banteg's EA greentext sparks debate: from mosquito nets to 500-million-year futures
banteg · x · 2026-09-18
banteg retells in greentext form how someone drifts into effective altruism: from spreadsheet-optimized mosquito-net donations, through "future people matter too," all the way to caring about humanity 500 million years out — logic getting weirder at each step.
lexnode, amplifying the post, calls EA "an insane cult," says SBF showed the danger of empowering such people, and notes many non-EA crypto folks also think in EV+/EV- terms while ignoring obvious externalities.
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