"Every major AI hack ties to Effective Altruism?" — sarcasm flies over EA pattern-matching
suchenzang · x · 2026-09-25
An OSINT post claims Andrew Bird, who hacked his gym using AI, has been Conference Co-Director of Effective Altruism Global since 2015, implying all major AI-related hacks trace to EA. suchenzang sarcastically pushes back: these are coincidences, recency bias and the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon — and even if true, correlation isn't causation.
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