[HN Gopher] Effective Altruists Use Threats and Harassment to Si...
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       Effective Altruists Use Threats and Harassment to Silence Their
       Critics
        
       Author : konmok
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2025-11-30 21:50 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | Trasmatta wrote:
       | Turns out you can justify all sorts of reprehensible behavior
       | when you convince yourself it's for "the greater good"
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       | They learned the wrong lesson from Death Note
        
       | konmok wrote:
       | I find this really frustrating because I like the idea of "make a
       | lot of money, then give most of it away to make the world better
       | for everyone". But it seems like most of the people who proudly
       | call themselves "effective altruists" are just heartless tech
       | bros that toss their money into useless AGI cults.
        
       | Arnt wrote:
       | Didn't that book suggest that a single building used 20% of the
       | water in South America? Amazingly sloppy.
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       | I really do think that people should be careful about what they
       | say in public and measure their words. And further, I think that
       | the author of that book ought to be silent on that particular
       | subject.
        
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