tinygrad slams EA: 'any means justify their ends' culture doomed to an SBF-style blowup
mark_k · x · 2026-11-12
George Hotz (tinygrad) publicly criticizes the effective altruism community, arguing that its utilitarian logic — justifying any means for the sake of '10^20 imaginary future people' — inevitably makes too many enemies and ends in blowups like SBF's overleveraged collapse. A pointed entry in the ongoing AI-safety vs. EA culture war.
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