EA Movement's Arc: "Give Everything to Charity" Then, Rule the AI World Now
wordgrammer · x · 2026-09-18
A tongue-in-cheek take on the effective altruism movement: the author wishes he could join EAs now — when they effectively control the AI world — while skipping the "give everything you own to charity" pledges members were pushed into a decade ago. A snapshot of ambivalence about EA's dominance across leading AI labs.
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