When EA Ambition Means Buying Galaxies and Digital Descendants
abhiadesai · x · 2026-09-29
A jab at the effective altruism community's contradiction: everyone praises ambition—until the ambition is to take over the world, buy galaxies, and spread digital descendants across the universe.
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