Kurzgesagt quietly scrubbed its William MacAskill book promo after FTX/EA backlash
beffjezos · x · 2026-10-13
- Louis Anslow flags that after the FTX implosion and scrutiny of Effective Altruism, YouTube channel Kurzgesagt removed its end-screen promo for EA leader William MacAskill's book What We Owe the Future; the clip was archived.
- beffjezos comments that "EA dark money funding Doomer psyops" is a recurring pattern.
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