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Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by michaelt on Friday February 03, 2023 @05:01PM (#34648333)
The "10% of lifetime income to charity" pledge is pretty close to Christian tithing, Islamic zakat, and suchlike. Who also claim to be spending donations to help the poorest people in society, and with low waste.

Of course, EA has a bunch of other weird stuff like AI safety, which isn't an idea that's been around for millennia.

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Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by czzr on Friday February 03, 2023 @05:22PM (#34648621)
Well, actually, on AI safety: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem
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Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by lazyasciiart on Friday February 03, 2023 @09:14PM (#34650667)
When you make that juxtaposition, the idea that you must obey ridiculous rules in order to placate an invisible omnipotent being does seem to have religious analogs.
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