A lab's senior marketer just learned what effective altruism is — from a Claude video
lawhsw · x · 2026-09-29
The author shares an AI-industry anecdote: they recently met a senior marketing person at a lab who only learned what effective altruism was this week — from a Claude video. The author quips that the company is going to make several million dollars at IPO.
A short but telling snapshot of the AI scene: the EA ideology debated for years in core circles isn't universally known even among industry insiders — and it took model-generated video content to fill the gap.
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