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Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by senderista on Friday February 03, 2023 @09:35PM (#34650790)
What’s wrong with fraud if it has positive expected utility? At least if you’re an avowed act utilitarian like SBF.
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Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by bglazer on Friday February 03, 2023 @10:35PM (#34651175)
Second order effects; good luck raising money once your fraud is exposed.
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Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by ben_w on Saturday February 04, 2023 @05:00AM (#34653227)
Even with a cold calculations of utility, fraud has the same effect as defection in the Prisoner's Dilemma, and reality is an IPD not a single round, and the winning strategy for that is tit-for-tat.
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Re:Effective Altruism Has a Toxic Culture of Sexual Harassme... by HDThoreaun on Saturday February 04, 2023 @12:04PM (#34655963)
Second and third order effects that result in living in a society that embraces fraud. If you're able to completely cover it up it's a different story, but that's a very dangerous bet to make.
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