e/acc leader Beff Jezos calls top Effective Altruists "turbo sociopath cult leaders"
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-18
- e/acc figure beffjezos (Guillaume Verdon) responded to Aella's comparison of Effective Altruists to 1930s Marxists — nice, smart, earnest people, "doesn't mean much."
- His take: only some EAs are like that; the ones at the very top are "turbo sociopath demonic cult leaders."
- The latest flare-up in the long-running e/acc vs. EA rivalry within the AI community.
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