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Re:The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad? by blitzar on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @05:27AM (#33621038)
SBF gave $40 million - 800,000 mosquito nets to candidates in politcal races.

Surely 800,000 mosquito nets is "more effective" than 800,000 robo calls and shitty campaign ads with a moron at the end saying "I'm Joe Blow, and I endorse this bullshit"

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Re:The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad? by FeepingCreature on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @06:51AM (#33621713)
This doesn't seem evidence that EA is bad so much that SBF was a bad effective altruist?
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Re:The good delusion: has effective altruism broken bad? by skinnymuch on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @08:58AM (#33622954)
The problem is EA community rallied around SBF while he was doing this stuff publicly.
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